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Power Failure: Alternative energy policies are costing West Virginians
March 4, 2013
State officials should not be in the business of picking winners and losers in the private sector, particularly when they use West Virginians' hard-earned money to do so....
The governor has put out this so-called news story as a way to circumvent the democratic process in WV. He is very good at this practice. To encourage ALL alternatively fueled vehicles is the point of the legislation, for the governor to pick one over all the others is disingenuous in my humble opinion. Electric cars are the future, EV's powered by the sun is even better, how good is that?
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More uninformed, uneducated tea party rhetoric from the Journal's editor.
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eff Herholdt, director of the state Division of Energy, said the state agency is doing all it can to help continue to promote coal as a fuel of the future -- for the nation and the rest of the world.
In a new five-year energy plan made public last week, the division pledged to "advocate the importance of retaining coal-powered electric generation to ensure the continuation of affordable electricity to residential, commercial, and industrial users."
Herholdt assured coal industry officials that the state's "alternative energy portfolio" requirement would have very little impact on coal production or use.
"This is not bringing in the other energy sources," Herholdt said. "We're not <co >incentivizing renewables with this portfolio."
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Herholdt said that many other states are saying they won't want coal-fired power, and having an "alternative portfolio" standard on the books is as much as public relations effort by the state as anything else.
"It would be easy for us to say we do not want renewables," he said. "But the road ahead for us is difficult. It would certainly help if we could show we are appreciative of other energy sources.
"Everybody is taking a shot at coal," he said. "We're trying to be appreciative of everyone's concerns."
Later, in an interview, Herholdt again emphasized that the program is not aimed at reducing coal use or even at tackling climate change -- a problem most of the world's experts say is caused by human activities like burning coal and needs to be urgently addressed.
"We're the only state that has an alternative portfolio standard that would be met with 100 percent coal," Herholdt said. "There's a lot of paranoia out there
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windmills pump water, wind turbines create eletricity. one turbine creates enough juice to power 1200 homes. my step-son is in charge of the Pinnacle wind farm in Mineral county.the only negative about it, the power is sent(bought) to Maryland. WV has the turbines, but not the juice.
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That documentary is available right on youtube. Just google it and get some other info besides the same story. Get past the first ten minutes and you won't deny you have come away w/more knowledge on the subject. Maybe it's knowledge than you wish you had, but knowledge is power, and strength and that's what we need right now.
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Another right wing corporate prostitute who like good all Mitch ought to look t omove to China. Sending our subsidized coal to China so multinational corporations rape our land and cheat our citizens is treason. Why do Repugnuts hate America. We have subsidized coal far too long. Support wind and solar that is the future
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Dear Rev Cracker:
Have you lost your marbles?
Take your meds.
Sincerely wishing you a speedy recovery,
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Hmmm....has anyone seen the documentary, "Fuel" by Josh Tickell? It's lengthy, over 2 hours, but I disagree that everything is the left's fault. There's always another side......And there's always such an argument being made over whose fault it is, that still, we refuse utilize the natural resources efficently, right under our very noses.
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"West Virginia still has significant untapped wind power potential."
We have a lot of untapped power potential that is not being tapped. There are numerous lawsuits against proposed and built wind power farms for many different reasons across WV.
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Across the country, renewable energy standards have driven economic investment and created jobs.
For example, Kansas saw $3 billion in private investment in wind power due in part to their renewable energy standard. West Virginia still has significant untapped wind power potential.
Also, with long-term fixed rate pricing, wind power acts as a hedge against the often volatile fossil fuel markets.
Creating a diverse state and national generation portfolio simply makes smart economic sense.
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RevGramCracker,Squirmy,Crispies,Toast or what ever you call yourself, do you really think your new "tact" is believable?
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And please explain, because I guess I'm too below the IQ factor to comprehend it all, but why is it so expensive to do the right things? Live the most healthy way? Make the best decisions in our everyday living for the environment and ourselves? People cannot afford to be healthy. We are hamstrung. Seriously, how many average people can afford solar panels? Electric cars? Even "green" foods at the high end at the grocery store? We are our own worst enemies. It's sad.
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But then you have old Joe in the paper yesterday advising folks to do their part, and act responsibly, get solar panels installed on their homes, etc. Give me strength.......
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encouragement to electric cars "bad" but coal filed electric power plants "good" - pick a position that does not spin me around like a top please. It is obvious we as a society need to move to 21st century power solutions that do not destroy the enviornment in the process.
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It's the backward attitudes, such as the one expressed in this editorial, that are keeping WV from attracting more and better paying jobs.
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Taxes are at an historical low.
Regulations are usually a response to business-caused problems.
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I know that I am having trouble breathing under the weight of all the government regulations and taxation!
It would seem that the U.S. economy (creating jobs for struggling families) is having the same breathing trouble...
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Thanks for your comments, Beep and Hilltop. It is good to have a couple of thinking people on here.
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Let's see. Should we continue to subsidize the coal industry until no one can breathe, or should we opt for survival and start to wean ourselves off of 19th century power sources? Should we trust our future to the short-term profit-driven coal industry, or should we take control of our own future? Decisions, decisions...
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geothermal heating and cooling systems work if installed correctly. Does Morgan county have a performance clause in their contract? Seems the installer forgot to include the cable to retrive the pump.
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"Combined with federal policy intended to shut down coal-fired power plants," No, these policies are designed to give us all clean air to breathe. "Everyone who uses electricity will be affected." Everyone who inhales daily will be healthier.
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Fossil fuels have been subsidized by the taxpayers for years. It is time users paid the freight.
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"Combined with federal policy intended to shut down coal-fired power plants," No, these policies are designed to give us all clean air to breathe. "Everyone who uses electricity will be affected." Everyone who inhales daily will be healthier.
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"And we certainly ought not to be biting the hand that feeds so many of us in the process." Well, it's too late for that. They have chomped the taxpayers' hands too many times.
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Canton South 35, West Branch 23
BELOIT - West Branch closed the gap on Canton South to six points early in the fourth quarter but could not hold defensively as the Wildcats prevailed 35-23 handing the Warriors their first league loss.
For West Branch Troy James was 4-for-8 passing for 60 yards including a 26-yard touchdown to Kip DeShields. James added 54 yards on 11 carries.
Brenden Wells had 99 yards on 18 carries. Bo Utley had 14 tackles and a sack.
For South, Josh Lyon was 23-of-27 for 262 yards and three touchdowns.
West Branch (3-4, 3-1 NBC) plays Friday at Louisville.
South Range 55, Mineral Ridge 20
CANFIELD - South Range's Robbie Stoffer went 8-of-11 for 169 yards and threw four touchdowns to help the Raiders to a 55-20 win over Mineral Ridge. Stoffer also had 67 yards on 10 carries and a touchdown run.
Robbie Seman had four catches for 97 yards and two touchdowns. David McCabe had 89 yards rushing on seven carries.
South Range (5-2, 4-0 ITCL Tier 1) plays Friday at Springfield.
Springfield 27, Lisbon 6
LISBON - Springfield's Hunter Snyder had 146 yards on 20 carries and three touchdown runs to lead the Tigers to a 27-6 win over Lisbon Friday.
Snyder also went 8-of-11 for 100 yards passing.
For Lisbon, Zak Leko had 106 yards on 19 carries including a touchdown.
Springfield (3-4, 2-2 ITCL Tier 1) hosts South Range Friday.
Lisbon (2-5, 1-3 ITCL Tier 1) travels to Mineral Ridge.
Western Reserve 56, Sebring 14
SEBRING - Western Reserve scored 34 first-quarter points and dropped Sebring 56-14 Friday. Nick Allison went 11-of-18 for 218 yards and three touchdowns. Alex Dahler had 89 yards on five carries including a 62-yard touchdown run. Tim Cooper, Dan Rosati and Parker Warren all had receiving touchdowns, and Dan Zilke returned a fumble 34 yards for a score. Evan Nesbitt had 66 yards on four carries with a score.
For Sebring, Josh Hurford had a 13-yard touchdown run. Zack Wagner finished with 112 yards on 10 carries. Dylan Mick also had 64 yards on 11 carries and a touchdown.
Western Reserve (5-2, 4-0 ITCL Tier 2) hosts a showdown with rival Southern Friday.
Sebring (0-7, 0-4 ITCL Tier 2) hosts Leetonia.
Other area scores:
Marlington 27, Minerva 10
Carrollton 21, Louisville 0
East Palestine 30, Jackson-Milton 14
Beaver Local 21, Struthers 14
East 19, Canfield 0
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Richard Barrett was the founder and leader of the Nationalist Movement, a white supremacist organization based in Learned, Mississippi. He was found murdered in his Mississippi home on April 22, 2010.
Since Barret's death, a small group of his followers have continued to publish the Nationalist Movement magazine, All The Way. The group's current headquarters is in Wisconsin.
While the Nationalist Movement has never enjoyed significant influence on the far right ‒ due in part to Barrett's reluctance to share the spotlight ‒ it has been able to attract a steady (if small) number of aggressive skinheads. An attorney and tireless promoter, Barrett was best known for staging well-publicized rallies, often following legal actions that upheld the group's free speech rights. He drew repeatedly large crowds of counter-protestors, some of whom responded violently.
In the mid-1990s Barrett extended his legal battles to the Internet arena, successfully waging a campaign to have Web pages characterizing members of his Nationalist Movement as "haters" taken down. In the last few years of his life, he began to pursue First Amendment lawsuits, often related to Nationalist Movement rallies. One such suit, which challenged the York, Pennsylvania, public assembly ordinance, led to a judgment in favor of the Nationalist Movement.
Richard Barrett was raised in New York City and East Orange, New Jersey. His account of his childhood suggests that he learned bigotry at an early age:
It was not the cold blizzard of 1949, but the pounding hailstorm of Puerto Rican, Negro and Jewish immigrants upon our community which made that winter so severe....A massive influx of foreign-born suddenly...rent the neighborhood apart....In no time at all, one could hear Yiddish more than English spoken in many public places.... Kidnappings and murders were mentioned in hushed whispers, chilling us all to the bone.
He attended nearby Rutgers University, then served in the Vietnam War with the United States Army. A partisan of the American South, particularly Mississippi ("Mississippians were endowed with an unconquerable anti-communist spirit because they had to perennially guard against a takeover by Negroes...."), he moved to the Magnolia State in 1966. He later received a law degree from Memphis State University in Tennessee.
Once in Mississippi, he began organizing anti-integrationist, anti-civil rights and a variety of "patriotic" and pro-white "heritage" events. For more than a decade, he organized an annual dinner honoring white male athletes called "Spirit of America." The gathering enjoyed the support of United States congressmen, governors and local politicians as late as 1984 (long after Barrett's racist views were publicly known), in part because he was successful in promoting the event as a celebration of civic values.
Having achieved local notoriety, he ran for governor of Mississippi in 1979, but received only two percent of the vote and finished last among six candidates. Three years later, he self-published a 435-page autobiography, The Commission, which the Nationalist Web site called the "textbook blueprint on Nationalism." The book's jacket went further, declaring it "the most important book of our time" and stating that Barrett was "a man whose name will be written in lightning across the pages of American history." Despite his self-mythification and purple style, Barrett's basic ideas were clear -- he advocated the "resettlement" of "those who were once citizens" to "Puerto Rico, Mexico, Israel, the Orient and Africa." Contending that non-whites, especially blacks, were inferior ("the Negro race... possess[es] no creativity of its own [and] pulls the vitality away from civilization"), he also advocated sterilization and abortions of the "unfit."
In 1984, Barrett again ran unsuccessfully for office in Mississippi, placing second with 9,500 votes in a United States Congressional race. He described the campaign, in which he ran against three black candidates, as a choice between "the cotton boll and three lumps of coal." While still based in Mississippi, in 1987, he served as the attorney for the Forsyth County Defense League, a group formed in Georgia to defend members of the local Ku Klux Klan who were charged with violence against civil rights marchers. The following year, in January, he led a parade of 65 demonstrators, of whom 40 were robed Klansmen, through Forsyth County. Law enforcement estimated that only about 12 of the members were local residents, a ratio that reflects Barrett's practice of importing non-local activists to demonstrate about local issues (Forsyth County was nearly all white, and black community leaders had recently led marches for integration). During the event, Barrett and other white supremacists signed "The Forsyth County Covenant," a 12-point document that argued, among other things, that "America's heritage as a free, white, Christian, English-speaking democracy . . . must be advanced" and that "all efforts to make us a bi-lingual, bi-sexual or bi-racial society must be defeated."
Barrett returned to Georgia that summer to help lead a white power demonstration at the Democratic National Convention in Atlanta, along with veteran racist agitators Ed Fields (founder of the National States Rights Party) and the now-deceased J.B. Stoner (former chairman of Fields's group). The march was stopped by policemen when they feared that hostile counter-demonstrators could turn violent. Barrett also began cultivating skinheads in 1988, hosting a "Warrior Weekend" of paramilitary training in December at his home. While the Jackson Clarion-Ledger reported that a picture of Martin Luther King Jr. was used as the target for rifle practice, only a few teenagers attended, and the training turned out to be in the use of .22-caliber weapons.
Forsyth County attempted to prevent Barrett from marching again in 1989 by insisting on a $100 fee for a parade permit. Barrett sued, ultimately arguing successfully -- and memorably -- before the Supreme Court that the county had obstructed his right to free speech. (He had pledged to question black justice Clarence Thomas's fitness to sit on the court if Thomas had questioned him. "The day will come when there will be only Americans on American courts," he said he would have told the justice. While Thomas maintained his customary silence, Barrett's fevered rhetoric drew repeated rebukes from the other justices.) Later in 1989, Barrett demonstrated in Atlanta against the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, claiming that he would lead 1,000 marchers through the city. He was able to rally only seven supporters, but attracted 1,500 counterdemonstrators -- largely because his grandiose claims led civil rights leaders to view the event as a bellwether for the city's black community. Some of these demonstrators attacked the National Guardsmen and Atlanta police officers who were attempting to maintain order.
In the same vein, he twice attempted to rally support for the Los Angeles Police Department officers who beat Rodney King, stating that he felt "safer because there are men like the 'Gallant L.A. Four.'" His first rally, in June 1992, one month after the officers were acquitted, drew six followers and 300 counterdemonstrators to City Hall in Simi Valley, California (where the trial was held), and was halted when Barrett and the police were pelted with soda cans. His second attempt, three months later, was similarly a fiasco -- he attracted one supporter, 150 counterdemonstrators and 300 police officers. When asked where his supporters were, Barrett sounded defiant. "Let them ask how many people were on the back of Paul Revere's horse," he said. "I don't know. But I know he had a message of freedom."
Barrett's efforts during this time were not solely devoted to legal battles and public demonstrations. Along with publishing his monthly newsletter, All the Way, he also created a television show called "Airlink," consisting of 34 half-hour videos to be broadcast on public access channels. The program often featured interviews with far-right figures discussing subjects like neo-Nazism, immigration and the skinhead movement. Barrett claimed that, at its peak, "Airlink" appeared on 30 stations nationwide.
Another Barrett rally fizzled in 1994 when he traveled to Boston to hold an anti-gay demonstration in May after a veterans committee chose to cancel its annual St. Patrick's Day parade rather than include gay groups. Staging his appearance in South Boston, an area riven by racial tension since the busing riots of the 1970s, he again failed to attract local support. Along with 14 followers, and surrounded by 800 police officers, he marched for a mere 15 minutes along a Boston sidewalk (having been denied a parade permit). He then delivered a 45-minute address and returned home. "We did what we said we were going to do," he insisted. "We broke the ban on the Bill of Rights. You can call Richard Barrett the civil rights leader of the country."
Back in Mississippi, Barrett spearheaded a movement to support Byron de la Beckwith (now deceased), who was convicted in February 1994 for the 1963 killing of Medgar Evers, a regional leader of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Barrett collected 4,000 signatures demanding that Mississippi Governor Kirk Fordyce pardon Beckwith, whom Barrett called "the prisoner of an affirmative-action jury," but the governor refused to meet with Barrett.
Undaunted, in September 1994, Barrett, along with members of the Ku Klux Klan, led a march in Alabama calling for Beckwith's pardon. The two dozen marchers also rallied in support of Hulond Humphries, the principal of Randolph County High School, who had been fired for threatening to cancel the senior prom if mixed-race couples attended.
On July 4, 2000, Barrett led an "Independence From Affirmative Action Day" march through Morristown, New Jersey. The unsurprising results: he and eight followers paraded down the streets in front of 300 counterdemonstrators. Police protected Barrett from members of the crowd who attempted to cross the barricades and attack him. At an appearance in Morristown the following year, two alleged followers damaged his sound equipment, resulting in an altercation. The Nationalist Movement's Web site posted photographs of Barrett wrestling with one of the men over the caption: "Single-handedly walloped anarchist Matthew Sheard, who had attacked the podium."
Over the years, Barrett repeatedly denounced other white supremacists, particularly those who advocated "lone wolf" guerrilla tactics and condemned the type of public activism in which Barrett specialized. He assailed Tom Metzger of White Aryan Resistance, for example, and engaged in a long-running feud with Alex Curtis, then the leading Internet advocate of such tactics. Curtis's arrest in November 2000, and subsequent imprisonment for civil rights violations, did not seem to lessen Barrett's antagonism; the Nationalist Movement's newsletter included several articles insulting and ridiculing Curtis -- suggesting that he should apologize for "following the path of communism" -- in its April 2001 edition.
Barrett also focused on legal issues. By threatening legal action, he was successful in having more than two-dozen Web pages that characterized members of his Nationalist Movement as "haters" removed from the Web sites of colleges, organizations, and state and local law enforcement agencies.
In 2007, Barrett and the Nationalist Movement won a lawsuit against the City of York, Pennsylvania over its public assembly permit law after the group was asked to submit an application and fees to hold a 2002 rally. The court declared much of the city's permit law to be in violation of the First Amendment, and ruled in favor of the Nationalist Movement. The City of York paid out $48,000 to the Nationalist Movement as a direct result of the decision. Barrett filed similar lawsuits against other cities.
On April 22, 2010, Richard Barrett was found murdered in his home in Pearl, Mississippi. An autopsy showed that Barrett suffered multiple stab wounds, blunt force trauma to the head, and severe burns on one third of his body. Vincent McGee, a neighbor whom Barrett had hired to do yard work, has been charged with capital murder, robbery, and arson in relation to Barrett's death. Authorities have charged three other people connected to McGee as accessories after the fact: Tina McGee, Vincent McGee's mother; Alfred Lewis, her boyfriend; and Michael Dent, Vincent McGee's friend. Authorities maintain that the alleged crime was not racially motivated.
McGee, currently imprisoned, is a repeat offender, and has served two separate jail sentences for assaulting a police officer and grand larceny. McGee has made statements claiming that he was not aware that Barrett was a white supremacist prior to the alleged murder, and that the violence occurred after Barrett propositioned McGee to perform a sexual act. The prosecution will reportedly seek a sentence of life without parole in lieu of the death penalty. McGee's trial is expected to begin in August, 2011.


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Costars Kaitlin Olson and Rob McElhenney welcomed their first child, son Axel Lee McElhenney, at 12:52 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 1 at their California home, they tell PEOPLE exclusively. He weighed in at 8 lbs., 7 oz.
"I went into labor at the Phillies/Dodgers game on Tuesday night," says Olson. "As soon as Ryan Howard hit a three-run home run, we felt comfortable leaving to go have our baby. We love him like crazy, even though he made us miss the second half of the game."
The couple, who married in Sept. 2008 in Malibu, announced the pregnancy in March.
"Rob and I are so excited it's stupid," Olson, 35, said at the time. "The last couple years have been pretty amazing for us and just when we thought things couldn't get any better, the greatest little thing in the world happened! We're totally beside ourselves."
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She and her husband Brent have been chosen to adopt a beautiful baby boy. He was born on September 1- 15 weeks early. He was 1 lb 12 oz when he was born. They are both thrilled and humbled at this new adventure, but because they weren't exactly planning this adoption, they are in need of some help.
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When a person is attracted to someone their eyes go all strange when they look at them.
People may not realise they are doing this but it is apparent to everyone else.
People may not realise they are doing this but it is apparent to everyone else.
"Look at Tom, he's gone all googly eyed over Hetty"
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When someone has a lazy eye or is cross eyed.
Mr. Cafiero is googly eyed.
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When a girl is persuaded to perform oral sex on a dude after he hath affixed a googly eye to each his testicles. A ball with a googly eye affixed to it is known as a "googly eyeball."
It is widely rumored that Angelina was googly-eyed by Brad on their third date. Apparently, she was "pleasantly surprised."
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5 Movies Fixed With Just One Word
I like to challenge myself in terms of creativity, to make sure my mind stays sharp. One of the ways I do this is by looking at films and figuring out how I can improve upon them. "How can I creatively fix this film," I'll ask myself.
I also like to challenge myself in terms of laziness, to make sure my mind never gets too uppity. To that end, I looked at a bunch of movies that are out right now and tried to figure out how to fix them by doing the least amount of work possible. "How can I improve this film by only changing one word in the title?"
#5. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
A woman with a dragon tattoo (Rooney Mara), solves mysteries with a guy (Daniel Craig), in the snow, and there's a lot of nudity, but not the kind that you feel good about seeing.
Becomes ...
If you had asked me if I wanted to see a movie where a tattooed woman covered in piercings solves murder mysteries with the help of a Star Wars planet full of dragons, I would ask you how you'd gotten a hold of my boner's dream journal.
#4. We Bought a Zoo
A Google Image Search of this movie's title brings up the following image from TheFilmStage:
Sure, both of those actors are in the movie, but holy crap that's the most misleading image for a film about zoos I've ever seen. Based on that image, I'd say this movie was about Jason Bourne going after the whole government while Scarlett Johansson challenges the tissue and hand lotion industries to compete with the impossible demand that her scantily clad appearance will surely create. Instead, the movie is about Matt Damon buying a zoo and it looks like something wacky happens with a porcupine. You should see this if that sounds like the kind of movie you're into, but why would it be?
Also, every poster for this movie leads with "From the director of Jerry Maguire." That doesn't mean you didn't make Elizabethtown, Cameron Crowe. Nothing will ever mean that.
Becomes ...
Boom! I don't even care if this is the stupidest thing I've ever done, I would really like to see another Zoolander movie. I don't know what Scarlett Johansson would do, but even if her involvement doesn't extend beyond that image of her on the poster, I'd still call it a win.
#3. War Horse
Here's what I hate about every trailer for this movie: They always lead off with "The inspiring story of a horse you simply won't believe" or "Follow the unbelievable journey." Really, trailer? Because I've seen movies where horses talked. Like, right at the people riding them, and I totally bought it. Is your thing any more unbelievable than that? Mr. Ed raised the bar for incredible horse stuff about 50 years ago, so maybe pump the brakes before you start throwing "unbelievable" around.
Becomes ...
I didn't even change a word, I just organized them better. This one would be about horses fighting each other! Benedict Cumberbatch could still be in it, because he rules, but I don't imagine there's a lot of room for any other human characters. Certainly not in the script I put together (a series of drawings of horses riding in tanks).


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RENO, Nev. - The four-peat was not meant to be.
The three-time defending state champion Wolverines looked sharp early in their Division I-A state semifinal volleyball match against Chaparral on Friday, winning the first set 25-15 and leading for much of the second.
But the day belonged to the Cowboys, as the No. 2 seed out of the South heated up midway through the second game and never cooled off en route to the victory in four sets, 15-25, 25-21, 25-20, 25-20.
Chaparral went on to lose in straight sets in the state final against South Tahoe, which Truckee defeated in all three meetings this season.
"Isn't that ironic? But that's the beauty of coaching high school sports. Those things are just so unpredictable," said Truckee head coach Erika Murphy. "It's about the energy and the moment of the day."
While Chaparral gained confidence as the match wore on, Truckee didn't help its own cause, as it committed a number of uncharacteristic errors down the stretch.
"I don't think Chaparral did anything different except they started playing a little bit more aggressively," said Murphy, whose Wolverines entered the state tournament as the No. 1 Northern seed after defeating South Tahoe for the regional title. "We went from 90 percent serving in the first set to 60-something percent in the second. So I think what happened was we kind of started to unravel. That part was a bummer to watch, because you could see it kind of escalate.
"It's a mindset. Sometimes it's not the best team that wins; it's just the best team that day."
Chaparral senior outside hitter Jaeda Allen, at 6 foot 2 with perhaps the most powerful kill shot in the Division I-A, took control of the match after the second set. She finished with 28 kills, repeatedly blasting shots over Truckee's outsized block.
"We've been struggling with that all season," Murphy said of Truckee's lack of height in the front row. "We don't have the block that we had last year. We knew that going in, and we knew we just had to dig better. Jaeda Allen definitely was over our block by about 12 inches."
Truckee's own big hitters held their own, as junior outside hitter Mackenzie Redner tallied 24 kills while senior Mel Jones, whom Murphy named her Player of the Match, had 16 kills. But the Cowboys used their height, as well as 21 digs by libero Cheyenne Huntsman, to increasingly deny the Truckee attempts over the final three sets.
The Wolverines were on their game at the start. They took their first lead at 4-3 in the opening set and never trailed after as Redner and Jones began connecting with hard kills, and senior libero Kestlie Stefanelli dug balls in the back row. Jones tapped a ball softly over the Cheyenne block to seal the 10-point Truckee victory.
The second set remained tight early before the Wolverines edged ahead by a three-point margin midway through, at 14-11. Allen and the Cowboys were just beginning to find their groove, however, as they tied the score at 15-all, gained the lead at 19-18 and outscored Truckee 6-3 to the finish.
Momentum had clearly shifted. By the end of the second set, the Wolverines began to struggle in normally strong facets of their game. Communication broke down and serves started falling short or sailing long. On several occasions, Truckee players misjudged a Cheyenne serve thought to be long and let it fall as a point.
Despite their struggles, the Wolverines never relented.
They kept Game 3 close through the first eight points, as the teams shared six ties and traded five lead changes. Cheyenne took over the lead for good at 8-7 as Allen began driving home kills with regularity, and Truckee found it tougher to find holes in the Cowboys' defense.
"I thought that our serving was good when they did get in there, and it was disruptive. But it wasn't disruptive enough," Murphy said. "The setter, all she had to do was simply push the ball outside."
The final game remained close throughout as the Wolverines scrapped to keep their state title hopes alive. The game featured 11 ties and four lead changes, the last one when Cheyenne pulled ahead, 15-14. The Cowboys outscored the Wolverines 9-6 from there to cement the win.
"In the beginning they looked nervous," Cheyenne head coach Jay Renneker said of his players. "But once they figured it out and settled down, they played great. They (the Wolverines) challenged us the whole way though."
Senior setter Gabby Moretti tallied 45 assists, 10 digs and two service aces for the Wolverines, while Chelsea Mohun and Lauren Peak each recorded two kills, and Stefanelli and Redner each had 15 digs.
For the Cowboys, who posted a final record of 24-14 on the season, Rita Mesa-Mola finished with 14 kills, Katie Oliveira had 51 assists and Huntsman had nine aces.
The Wolverines were riding a 14-match winning streak entering state, dating back to a Sept. 22 loss to International of San Francisco. They finished the year 23-10 overall.
After being eliminated, Murphy said the Wolverines were pulling for the Vikings to win the state championship match, which they did in dominant fashion, 25-15, 25-21, 25-12, a day after upsetting top-seeded Faith Lutheran in the semifinal.
"I was excited for South Tahoe. Our team was rooting for South Tahoe once we got knocked out. I was really proud of the girls for that," Murphy said. "Their mentality was, 'If it's not going to be us, it might as well be South Tahoe.'"


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ALBANY – Democrats, riding the coattails of President Obama's comfortable victory among New York voters as they did four years ago, appear in preliminary results to have retaken control of the State Senate.
But, Albany being Albany, it doesn't mean Democrats will actually run the 63-member chamber come January, even if the 33 seats they tentatively claimed Tuesday hold in the final tally.
The Capitol, long known for its dysfunction, now find itself entering another one of its uncertain phases – which could last weeks or months – as election lawyers will now begin the work of challenging paper ballots in two still-uncertain races in the Hudson Valley. And, as significantly, discussions were already under way by Senate Republicans on how to maintain some semblance of power by recruiting four renegade Democratic lawmakers who two years ago broke to form their own independent caucus.
"If it becomes a mathematical impossibility for there to be more Republicans in raw numbers than Democrats, then I think a coalition is in the Senate's and the state's best interest," said Sen. Patrick M. Gallivan, R-Elma, who handily won re-election Tuesday.
Democrats dismissed the GOP claims as fading bluster and said that in the end, they will be able to make deals with the four breakaway Senate Democrats – despite harsh verbal attacks they leveled against them in the last two years – to get them to rejoin their ranks to take Senate control.
"Sure, we'd gladly welcome them back," said Sen. Michael N. Gianaris, D-Queens, who heads the Senate Democratic Campaign Committee.
Overnight in Albany, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo's much-touted description of the Capitol as the home of a new breed of cooperation, and results, has become murky and potentially bumpy – a potential thorn for a governor eyeing a possible White House run in four years.
Uncertain is what the four breakaway Democrats of the Independent Democratic Caucus will do. The group's leader, Sen. Jeffrey D. Klein, D-Bronx, wasn't doing interviews Wednesday, and the group put out a brief statement saying New York needs a "strong, stable government."
Unofficial results show, for now, Democrats with 33 seats in what will be a 63-member Senate in January; it will take 32 votes to pass a bill.
Wednesday, Democrats were gleeful about the Senate results. They were badly outspent by Senate Republicans and had no real campaign help from Cuomo. Since taking office two years ago, Cuomo regularly has praised the GOP-controlled Senate for working with him on key fiscal and policy areas.
Republicans, meanwhile, were conceding nothing. Lawyers on both sides prepared to recount machine votes from Tuesday, as well as – in the case of a contested seat in the Hudson Valley that a Democratic newcomer is leading by only 139 votes – counting nearly 8,000 paper ballots that can't even be opened for two weeks as a result of later deadlines for receipt of absentee ballots because of Superstorm Sandy.
That district, stretching from Montgomery County all the way down to Ulster County, was created this year by Senate Republicans as a new 63rd seat, specifically to give the GOP an edge in the elections over the present 62-member chamber.
For the governor, a takeover by more-left-leaning Democrats would present a major challenge to his ability to maintain the fiscally moderate stance he enjoyed with Republicans.
Cuomo, who endorsed Republican Sen. Steve Saland, a Poughkeepsie Republican trailing in unofficial results, has been criticized by some Democrats for abandoning his party to help Republicans. They point as chief evidence to his willingness to break his 2010 campaign pledge to veto any legislative lines drawn during this year's redistricting process, which was controlled by Republicans in the Senate, unless done so by an independent panel.
If Saland does lose – he was trailing his Democratic opponent by 1,600 votes Wednesday – it would mean three of four Senate Republicans who broke party ranks last year to support Cuomo's legislation to legalize same-sex marriage will not return to Albany in January. The only one who will: Sen. Mark J. Grisanti of Buffalo, who handily won Tuesday. Less than a year ago, Grisanti was considered by many at the Capitol as the Senate's most vulnerable Republican.
One Senate Democrat who opposed the gay marriage law, Ruben Diaz Sr. of the Bronx, called Saland's showing "an embarrassing defeat" for Cuomo.
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Senate Deputy Majority Leader Thomas W. Libous, R-Binghamton, said he believes that the GOP "will have a hand" in controlling the Senate come January.
Will that mean help from Democrats? "It might. It might not. It could very well mean there will be a very strong coalition working relationship with members of the other side of the aisle," Libous said. "I don't think there's anything wrong with that. That could be historic and very positive."
Libous said that there are no assurances from any Democrats, and no negotiations yet under way, about forming a coalition.
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"In an unprecedented fashion, voters in this state delivered a mandate that they want a Democratic Senate to advance a progressive agenda in this state, and I would hope that anyone elected [Tuesday] night as a Democrat would pay attention to that clear choice of the people they represent," Gianaris said.
Democrats said the Republicans got what they deserved for pushing through what they called a gerrymandered set of Senate district boundaries this year after promising reform groups to leave the process to an independent panel.
"The chicanery of the Republicans going back on their word to do independent redistricting blew up in their face," said Sen. Timothy M. Kennedy, D-Buffalo.
Kennedy dismissed GOP claims that a Democratic-run Senate will ignore many upstate issues, as was often the case when the party ran the chamber in 2009 and 2010.
"The Republicans have done a masterful job at the politics of demonizing the Democratic conference," Kennedy said.
Noting that the Democrats picked up a Rochester seat now held by a Republican, Kennedy said that upstate will not be ignored. "Upstate will absolutely have a strong voice, if not a stronger voice, than they've ever had in the New York State Senate."
But Gallivan said that if the Republicans don't have the numbers after all the votes are counted, deals should be made.
"If there needs to be some sort of coalition to make sure there remains a balance in the Senate, so be it," he said. "We'll have to do the best we can to work together."
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CHARLES TOWN - By the time the first firefighters arrived on the scene of a house fire on Quail Run Road last week, the structure was fully involved. While the couple inside was able to flee unharmed, they did so with nothing but the clothes they were wearing.
"There was one room in the back where the Christmas tree was and presents, and we were able to get some of the presents to the backyard and save them from the fire. The rest was a total loss," Ed Hannon, deputy director of the Jefferson County Emergency Services Agency, said at the scene of the fire.
Firefighters from Jefferson County, Loudoun County, Va., and Clarke County, Va., were involved in battling the blaze, although the home was left in cinders.
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Firefighters were able to save Christmas presents, but little else, when fire destroyed a home in Quail Run Nov. 28. Now, a pair of local residents are working to collect donations to assist the couple who lost everything.
"It was a couple who lived there, and they are engaged to be married," said Nicole Dorsey, whose husband was a firefighter on the scene.
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February 12, 2013, 06:47 PM
Read that "the" could no longer be used in the trust name (per 2 months ago). Anyone know if this is fact or just more drama?
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February 12, 2013, 07:49 PM
Since it has to be engraved, why would anyone what a useless word in the name?
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February 12, 2013, 07:49 PM
What is the source of that information? If BATFE, what circular, ruling, etc.?
Sounds like the rumor mill to me, but then BATFE has been known for some arbitrary rulilngs. If you have a serious inquiry (e.g. you have already set up a trust with "the" in the name), call or write them. If just checking a rumor, forget it.
Lee Roder
February 13, 2013, 07:43 PM
My Form 4 was finally returned last October with the article THE whited out. Instead of "The Roder Trust" as I submitted on the form, my form was returned with "Roder Trust", but at least the stamp was affixed
Prince Yamato
February 13, 2013, 07:56 PM
My form 4 got kicked back to my dealer because the atf had an issue with the the dealer using "the" in their name.
It's not rumor. The ATF is going after definite articles now.
February 13, 2013, 10:57 PM
Mine got kicked back 2 weeks ago. But was approved after striking through and initialing
February 14, 2013, 09:20 AM
Wow. I'm speechless. What possible difference can it make?
February 14, 2013, 09:21 AM
Interesting, thanks guys.
February 15, 2013, 08:32 PM
Can you end it with a preposition?
Prince Yamato
February 17, 2013, 12:47 AM
What possible difference can it make?
It makes all the difference. Or as the ATF likes to say, "It makes all difference."
February 17, 2013, 01:56 AM
Talk about screwball things to toe the line over.
Since I've never set up an NFA trust before, I don't know the procedure. But if it's like many other trusts the legal documents drawing it up can't be changed willy-nilly.
Or are NFA trusts self directed implied trusts, that "get created" by the BATFE paperwork? So it gets the name with the handmade corrections because that's what's written down?
February 17, 2013, 05:38 AM
I would get Blacks Law Dictionary and look up the word " the ".
You really have no idea the amount of words we use everyday that in the legal world may have 75 meanings. Such as the word "Person".
We sign things all the time and really have no idea the legal meaning that can be applied to them.
I found this out when looking up the word "is" that one of our elected guys used at one time.
It has been said to me before that Attorney is french for word twister.
February 17, 2013, 12:03 PM
Can you end it with a preposition?
The ATF probably wouldn't care...but Grammar Girl would be horrified.
So has the ATF become bored with abusing our Second Amendment rights and are now going after the First?
February 17, 2013, 12:17 PM
Really?! I mean isn't there better thing to do over there.
February 24, 2013, 03:35 PM
It was probably my fault - my trust name has the word "the" in it, three times-
"The blessed trust of the noble ninjas of the golden dawn"
Sorry guys :-(
February 24, 2013, 11:24 PM
"The Cesiumsponge Trust" and "Cesiumsponge Trust" are two different trusts. "The" makes a difference. It's also weird to refer to your trust as the The Cesiumsponge Trust because that's not the same as referring it as the Cesiumsponge Trust.
When I had my lawyer set up my trust years ago, he made it a point not to use the word "The" in the title of my trust. I suspect there is a legal reason for it but never bothered to inquire. I think you can restate the trust but you can't change the name of your trust or you've just formed a new entity. The trust name better be the same on all your Form 4's.
Hopefully one of the legal eagles comes along and enlightens us to the possible reasons this action has been taking place lately.
February 25, 2013, 12:19 AM
I'm submitting 3 SBR Form 1s Monday. My paper bank checks just came in Friday's mail. Had not used one in 8+ years.
Trust says "This revokable living trust shall be known as the [lower case] Xxxxxxxxx RLT. [Capitalized]".
Name to be stamped is "Xxxxxxxxx RLT". In this case RLT is the actual name not an abbreviation of the name.
We shall see . . .
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With over 20,000 dead and millions displaced and homeless due to the recent devastating earthquakes and tsunamis, volunteers are being deployed to help deliver relief and prevent crisis in Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Maldives, Thailand and other neighbouring countries.
United Nations volunteers in Sri Lanka, Indonesia and India are on their way to help assess the situation and provide more information on damage, needs and priorities of the affected countries.
National UN volunteers in India are being tapped by the Indian government and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) to assist in providing emergency relief materials for Sri Lanka, the country most devastated by the calamity.
Indian UN volunteers are also being considered as a potential resource to support the Government of Maldives, on a longer-term basis, to address both emergency relief and recovery planning. Most of these volunteers are trained and experienced in disaster preparedness, mitigation and response. They have provided valued services in other disasters such as the Sri Lanka floods in early 2004.
Volunteers from other international agencies such as the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Cresent (IFRC) and Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) have begun to evacuate survivors, dispense first aid and provide tents, blankets, water and food within the affected countries.
In the Indonesian island of Sumatra, local Red Cross volunteers and soldiers are combing coastal districts and digging into the rubble of destroyed houses to look for survivors and retrieve the dead.
"We are working 24 hours to get people out," said Red Cross worker Tamin Faisil in Banda Aceh on Sumatra.
The International Federation today plans to send medical supplies for 100,000 people into Sri Lanka, from Copenhagen, Denmark.
MSF is sending additional emergency aid workers to South Asia over the coming days. Additional medical teams will be leaving with a cargo of drugs, medical supplies, water and sanitation materials, as well as high calorie dry rations and other materials needed by survivors.
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The Philip Barbour High School boys' and girls' cross country teams, along with other individual runners throughout the area, will be competing in the state cross country meet Saturday at Cabell Midland High School.
The Lady Colts, who captured the regional title last week at Frankfort, are favored to repeat as state champions.
"I feel we have a good chance of winning it again," Philip Barbour coach Missy Kaiser said. "We have to run our best race if we want to do it though."
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Philip Barbour's Scott Nesland will look to lead the Colts at Saturday's state meet.
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The Lady Colts' Brianna Waybright will enter Saturday's meet ranked third in the state.
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The Tigers' Austin Hamrick is the lone runner competing for EHS at this year's state meet.
Philip Barbour returns all but one runner from last year's title team. Brianna Waybright, Allison Villers, Marrisa Long, Katie Mahoney, Haley Truman, Nicole Holliday and Anna Farling will all be looking to bring home gold again.
The top runners in Class AA-A are St. Mary's Maggie Drazba, Frankfort's Katie Jan and Philip Barbour's Brianna Waybright.
The Philip Barbour boys' team will also look to repeat as state champs after finishing second at the regional meet last week.
The Colts return all but two runners as Scott Nesland, Trey Furby, Andrew Phillips, Dustin Williams and Joey Anglin are all back this season.
Trevor Matko and Tyler Baldwin will join the group in Philip Barbour's title quest.
"The boys have come on strong late in the season," Kaiser said. "We have a good chance to win, but have to have our best race."
Tucker County's Ashley Cassidy, who placed seventh at the regional meet, will also be among competitors in Class AA-A.
In Class AAA, Elkins High School will send just one runner in Austin Hamrick, who placed third at the regional meet at Davis & Elkins College.
Buckhannon-Upshur will send two girls to the meet as Gillian Ross and Laura Dean will compete.
Ross placed eighth, while Dean finished 10th at the regional meet last week.


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Note: This is the second of a series of posts of African American Quakers talking about Quaker faith and AFSC's significance in their faith journey. Phil Lord is the rising clerk of AFSC's Board. He offers here a stirring message about the spiritual grounding and foundation of the organization. - Lucy
Surrendered and trusting hearts
For me, the miracle of Quakerism is that a humble and unexceptional group of people have the audacity to sit together in silence, believing and waiting to hear from God. Our coming together is not just to meditate, relax the senses, or clear our minds. In spite of appearances, it is not just an opportunity for reflection and sharing observations about the gifts and personal challenges of life. Meeting for worship is not just a conversation among those with messages for the edification of those who remain silent. The silence shapes the words of the messages and often touches our hearts without them.
For me, Quaker meeting for worship is each of these things, and yet it is much more profound than all of them put together. It is waiting, expectant waiting. It is a meeting of individuals who gather in anticipation of the movement of the Spirit. God does not always "trouble the waters," but we know from experience that at precious moments, the Spirit calls and leads and hopefully carries us into transformation, not so much to be better persons but to do, as Friends of Jesus do, the will of God. The evidence of our faith is the testimony to our experience. The proof of the Quaker faith's efficacy is that we come together, seeking, again and again.
On such occasions, within uncluttered meetinghouse walls, we are sometimes dramatically, but often imperceptibly, moved toward a new clarity that is part of what we call Continuing Revelation.
Continuing Revelation builds on and fulfills what was understood as truth before, a truth that now seems somewhat incomplete as it is taken forward in a new direction. Such revelation is affirmed in the unity of those who come together trying to be open to the voice of the Spirit. For beyond the wisdom embedded in religious traditions or the time-tested authority of a Holy Book is the living and interpretive power of the Spirit who encounters, invites, and even compels us through our experience of life itself. I have faith that nothing is more powerful or more simply true for me than this Word, brought forth time and again, from epoch to epoch, by the repeated gathering of surrendered and trusting hearts seeking to bear witness to the Light that has already come into the world.
Continuing Revelation is more than a transcendent experience coming down from unseen heights. It is also immanent in our daily encounters with each other as spiritual beings seeking to "answer that of God" by responding to the divinity that dwells within each human heart. It speaks to us even before we hear the words the stranger utters and invites us to respond in love. For the law and the prophets of every spiritual tradition seem summed up, as the Bible says, not only in the holy invitation to love God but equally in the admonition to love our neighbor as ourselves.
Continuing Revelation taught us that slavery was wrong even when, for many Friends, it was socially and religiously acceptable. Later on, in the movement for women's suffrage, it taught us that gender is a source of human integrity and not a justification for political oppression and dehumanizing social restraint. And day by day, we are learning that love can still be sacred love regardless of whom it joins together.
On the other hand, I think it is easy for us to believe that the spiritual experience is reproducible, that a revelation or a leading, once given, is ours to hold on to and manipulate as we choose, that its results can be packaged or appropriated and even taken on the road with authenticity.
Our collective ego can mislead us into believing that our testimonies to equality or peace are logical constructs or principles that we can apply for our own use and use for the education of others. After all, why keep traveling up to Mt. Sinai when the stone tablets are all you need?
Even more insidious is the feeling of specialness such an experience of revelation can confer, as if we are the only ones the Spirit has touched and as if our way, which we call Quaker process, is the best way for anyone to move the world forward.
Our egos can even bring us to the point where we believe that those who live in constant fear of senseless violence cannot teach us about peace or those who willingly risk their status and even their lives to break past oppressive social barriers cannot teach us about equality.
Our testimony to equality will become an historical relic if we do not maintain it as a contemporary prophetic witness in our churches and meetinghouses. I believe that in faith and in fact, all of our testimonies are only ours if we live into them, renew them day by day, and humbly seek to be the student of the Spirit in all of Her forms—human and nonhuman—rather than aspire to become the teachers of the world.
AFSC as Quaker Witness
The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) expands the reach and scope of Quaker witness and its process of revelation. Rooted and directed from the depths of Quaker worship by its governing bodies, AFSC is the corporate expression of a collective spiritual experience. It is a "meeting for worship to do business," the business of working in partnership with others to encourage peace with justice in the world. It is a contemporary "holy experiment" conducted "cheerfully over the earth," affirming and supporting peace with human dignity in more places and among more peoples than one Friend or one church or monthly meeting could ever meet.
AFSC, at its best, is not just a charity for those who are suffering, or even primarily an ambassador for Quaker Testimonies. At its very best, AFSC is a vehicle and conduit for mutual transformation and Continuing Revelation. It can link the individual Friend and her local worshipping community to the turmoil and expanse of a challenging and emerging world. It helps those of us who are privileged to view our sometimes naïve and self-serving convictions through the skeptical lens of the oppressed. It helps those who are suffering to know that in spite of the darkness and the brutality all around us, there is still compassion in the world and it will help us all to overcome.
We must go out as well as within
I was not personally present, but just before I became a Board member in 1991, AFSC's Board experienced a "gathered meeting" with a spiritual power and a tested unity that I have heard recounted in awe by participants decades later.
At that meeting, the Board decided that it could not comply with the government demand that employers refuse to hire the otherwise qualified strangers and visitors among us. Instead of becoming an agency of immigration enforcement, AFSC assumed the organizational and economic risk of civil disobedience. In so doing, it not only advocated for the human rights of undocumented immigrants; AFSC and its officers personally and voluntarily assumed the legal jeopardy of anti-immigrant oppression.
The decision gave a new swagger to our staff, who could enter a room of activists and immigrants not just as servants or pseudo-saviors, but as part of an organization willing to engage in courageous partnership with the oppressed. I felt part of this when I first became an Assistant Clerk of AFSC, and I was warned of the personal risk I was taking. I was told that as an officer I might have to sacrifice and be personally punished for continuing this witness. I counted the cost with my family, and for the years of my AFSC service, I considered it a privilege to walk with those who suffered because of their status. Over time, the actions of this witness outran its Guide and was abandoned, but for two decades the Light of faith in the equality of human beings never burned brighter on behalf of Friends.
This is the power of Continuing Revelation. This is the gift of Friends to the world and the opportunity graciously given by the oppressed of the world to Friends: to allow our accompaniment, to trust our caring, to teach us their own truth from the perspective of their experience.
For me, Quakerism at its best is not a monastic experience. Our faith was formed in the crucible of suffering and religious oppression and continues to be defined and nurtured by that experience.
Like the rich man's camel struggling to get through the proverbial needle's eye, the Kingdom of God is not so easily revealed to us behind the invisible walls of secluded suburbs or the concrete barriers of gated communities. Our seeking is rooted not only in silence but also in engagement. We must go out as well as within.
If we reach out to the world, the still small voice we hear emerging from our re-centered consciousness can resonate with the cries of the oppressed.
This is what "answering that of God" means to me. This is the work of the Spirit, continuing to move over our collective hearts, like the primordial waters, bringing forth healing and revealing the sacredness and beauty of God's creation.


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Some sites pay cash. Others let you choose a gift card (Coles/Myer, Woolworths/Caltex, Amazon, iTunes, Bunnings, etc). All the details will be on the site (look for FAQ or Help).
Survey panels to which I belong include (in order of preference):
- Pure Profile: This is my favourite, and I always earn $300 per year here. Pure Profile pays you 5c-20c even if you are screened out of a survey. Each time you log in, click 'Nextbutton' to see what surveys and other offers are available. You will qualify for more surveys if you can log in and check the NextButton more than once a day. The surveys will be more relevant if you regularly check whether there are more questions to be answered about your preferences and interests (sometimes called 'profile categories').
- Australian Meal Panel: For Australians only. When asked for the 5 digit pin, enter 86127. Do a 3-minute survey about food two or three times per month, and receive $2 each time, plus $3 if you send in supermarket receipts. In other words, you could sometimes earn up to $15 per month. You will be paid in cash or via PayPal.
- Your Voice: For Australians only. I have occasionally earned $50-$70 for a single survey here, but the smaller ones also add up to a decent amount. I recently earned $20 by doing an interesting survey about travel, TV programmes and other topics.
Genealogists for Families members with some spare time may find surveys a good way to fund extra Kiva loans - or to earn money for more birth, death and marriage certificates!


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5 Simple Things That Every Bad Cook Does Wrong
#2. Going Crazy With the Seasoning
What New Cooks Tend to Do
"Look, buddy, I've watched cooking shows enough to know that the secret is in the seasoning. How much to put on, as well as the quantity of different spices. KFC makes the best chicken in the world, and their tagline is that they use '11 different herbs and spices.' So it's all about the complex chemistry of combining all of those different flavors."
OK, first of all, you need to see someone about your KFC problem. You're obviously in the throes of a debilitating depression, and you can't let that go unchecked. Second ...
"You're being punished, young lady. Now you sit on the ground and eat that KFC and think about what you did!"
Why That's a Bad Idea
This is one area where the college kid who only has salt, pepper and some garlic powder is at an advantage. When you start cooking seriously, you'll be tempted to buy a whole rack full of spices because you want to take that shit to the next level. But for the most part, this is all about restraint.
Now obviously some dishes are going to have a ton of spices -- nobody wants chili that's just meat and beans soaking in hot water. But when you're talking about the general preparation of dishes, it's a pretty agreed upon philosophy among chefs that good ingredients should be the focus. The seasoning is only there to accent and enhance the flavor of your centerpiece. If I'm paying $15 for a thick New York strip, I want to taste the steak -- not 40 cents' worth of seasoning that was already in my cabinet. If you get good at the cooking part, and buy good meat, you shouldn't have to season the hell out of it.
"And you can really bring out the flavor with my patented pork icing."
When looking up recipes online, I have a pretty solid rule of thumb that has never failed me: If the chef starts talking about marinading an already expensive piece of meat, I start to worry. I won't write him off just yet, because a good marinade can be awesome if used properly. But if they then start talking about five or six different spices to throw onto it after that, it's time to find another source. Unless they're a well known, proven, trusted name in cooking, chances are they're putting too much shit on it, and they're about to ruin a meal that represents several hours of time at your job in order to buy.
Of course, it's not always about just the seasoning. You can fuck up a dish just as badly by trying to make it too complex, piling lots of other foods on top. Watch this clip from Kitchen Nightmares where Gordon Ramsay encounters an entire staff of Michelin-trained chefs in a dying restaurant, devoid of customers:
They are serving high-end ingredients like lobster, but ruining it by covering it with sauces and pasta and other bullshit. It doesn't need it -- combining five good flavors often just creates one bland one. Let me put it this way: Take a hot porn star and throw a cheerleader outfit on her, and it looks great. Or maybe a Catwoman type of latex suit. Or any one of a hundred fetish outfits that come to mind. But put them all on her at the same time, and she just turns into a coat rack. What I'm saying is that cooking is exactly like porn in every way.
I'm not good with analogies. Don't put lots of shit on expensive meat.
While you're at it, don't just jam a fork through raw meat and then point at it and smile like a fucking idiot.
But the hardest habit to break, and the most difficult lesson to accept, is when you learn that you are ...
#1. Fucking With It Too Much
What New Cooks Tend to Do
Has it been on one side too long? It has, hasn't it? I can hear it sizzling like crazy -- it has to be burning. Should I flip it? I'm going to flip it. No, wait, it can't be burning because it's only been on there for like 20 seconds. I should leave it alone. But I can't. Listen to that thing! There's no way it's not burnt. I have to flip it right now. Here I go.
Shit, it hasn't even lost its pink yet.
"Fuck it, it'll have to do. Here."
Why That's a Bad Idea
One of the coolest things to watch, even if you're not a fan of or don't even understand baseball, is an outfielder's reaction and motion the second the ball comes off of the bat. Just from the sound of the contact, the trajectory and the speed, he can make NASA-level calculations in a fraction of a second and position himself within inches of where that ball will land, 200 feet before it gets there. Of course, he's not a rocket scientist, and he's not psychic. He has just played so many games that it's become instinct.
That same type of second nature reaction is something you'll pick up the more you cook. You'll be able to hear a change in the way a piece of fish sizzles when its texture changes after a few minutes in a hot pan. You'll be able to tell from sight if a piece of chicken is overcooked by the way the meat draws back from the bone. Without a timer and without opening the oven door, you'll be able to tell how much longer your cake has to bake just by the smell. But until you get to that level, just like the baseball player, you have to learn the fundamentals, and don't fucking deviate from it, or you'll be playing for the Houston Astros.
"I don't know what to do with these! Vegetables make me explode with rage!"
If you're pan searing a steak, and the recipe says to let it sit on high heat for five minutes per side, don't lift that motherfucker up to see if it's burning. Every time you do, you're screwing up the time it needs to do its thing. You're removing heat, which forces it to rebuild its momentum, and now it's fighting an uphill battle to get a simple sear.
Have you ever tried to pan fry chicken, and when you ran a spatula or tongs under it, it was stuck to the bottom of the pan? If you've properly lubricated the pan, then chances are that you didn't catch the chicken too late -- you're actually more likely to have caught it too early. Sounds crazy, doesn't it? But top chefs tell us that this is natural, and once the breading has cooked long enough, it releases from the pan on its own, and you're then free to flip it.
So leave that shit alone. Let it cook. That doesn't mean to walk away from it. Stay and listen to the sounds it makes while it's cooking. They change from minute to minute, and knowing those will improve your timing and your reaction to necessary adjustments, and make you an overall better chef. Notice the change in smells. The way it softly coerces you to stab your loved ones. The way it constantly urges you to put your dick in the bubbling oil.
"The ham told me about your dirty little secret. You must be cleansed."
I ... I have to go. I suddenly got hungry for Fuck Muffins.
John has a Twitter. Because sometimes a dude just has to fucking FLIP OUT and type one-liners.
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INCLINE VILLAGE, Nev. — Eighteen high school students in the Washoe County School District have been named semifinalists in the 2013 National Merit Scholarship Program. They are among approximately 16,000 scholars nationwide who now have the opportunity to continue competing for $32 million in college scholarships to be awarded next spring.
"We are so proud of our scholars as they serve as wonderful models for their student peers," said WCSD Chief School Accountability Officer Paul LaMarca. "We look forward to learning of their accomplishments as they move on to post-secondary education."
The semifinalists from the Washoe County School District are:
• Emma Beebe, Galena High School
• Jordan Jones, Incline High School
• Ginetta Sagan, Incline High School
• Nicholas Cleymaet, McQueen High School
• Brent Bremer, Reno High School
• Gregory Foster, Reno High School
• Jackson Hart, Reno High School
• Emily Meany, Reno High School
• Lila Murphy, Reno High School
• Anna Nason, Reno High School
• John O'Neill, Reno High School
• Chase Taylor, Reno High School
• Kylie Woodman, Reno High School
• Robert Wagner, Spanish Springs High School
• Christian Foster, Wooster High School
• Emily Gadbois, Wooster High School
• Gordon Perkins, Wooster High School
• Andy Shao, Wooster High School
These students were among 1.5 million high school juniors from across the country who entered the 2013 National Merit Scholarship Program by taking the Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test, which served as an initial screen of program entrants. The 16,000 highest-scoring students, who represent less than one percent of U.S. high school seniors, were named semifinalists.
In order to move forward in the competition for the scholarships, each student and their high school must submit a detailed application in which they provide information about the student's academic record, participation in school and community activities, demonstrated leadership abilities, and honors and awards received.
Each semifinalist must have an outstanding academic record throughout high school, be recommended and endorsed by a high school official, write an essay, and earn SAT scores that confirm the student's earlier performance on the qualifying test.
Based upon these submissions, the National Merit Scholarship Corporation will choose approximately 15,000 finalists who will be named in February. These finalists will compete for 2,500 National Merit Scholarships ($2,500 each), about 1,000 corporate-sponsored awards, and 4,800 college-sponsored National Merit Scholarships ($500-$2,000).


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Category: Gourmet Nights
April 26, 2011
On Saturday23rd April Ultimate Splendor Competition Winner Gill Bell and her guest from Markse by-the -Sea enjoyed a day out on Chapters Hotel & Restaurant. Her day began at The House, Yarm with lunch for 2, then a personal £200 shopping spree with 50% discount. Next stop, Contemporary salon in Stokesley for a cut and blow dry for 2. To finish off her day they enjoyed a Gourmet Night Package at Chapters Hotel & Restaurant which includes dinner, bed, breakfast & a bottle of Prosecco in their room. A great time was had by both of them. For more information on future events and competitions join our mailing list. (more…)
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Whats On North East recently joined us at Chapters for one of our "Gourmet Nights".
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Formerly a coaching inn, the hotel dates back some 250 years and its Gourmet Nights – which include an evening meal, overnight stay and breakfast – sounded the perfect way to unwind and relax.
Arriving in the reception area we were greeted by the manager and he instantly made us feel very welcome. First we headed to our room – and what a lovely touch, sparkling wine on ice with petit fours.
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I was watching "Horton Hears A Who" the other night just out of the blue, and happened onto a very interesting scene, Horton was having an "Anime" moment. I thought the scene was really quite funny, and done really great. Next time you watch it, look for that scene.
it was really ridiculous! kinda pissed me off! but w/e it made lil kids laugh so its ok
~Nan Kuru Nai-Sah~
I thought it was pretty funny.
it's like a mix of older style anime and newer style of funny.
Is life reality or is it a mirror image of what you want it to be?


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Ewaliko, Reinhardt shine in Polynesian all-star game
February 2, 2013 - Robert Collias
Their team lost 14-0, but Baldwin High School seniors Keelan Ewaliko and Abraham Reinhardt represented well in the Polynesian All-American Classic in La Mirada, Calif.
The game was two weeks ago, but I finally rounded up the statistics from Team Black's shutout victory over Team White.
Ewaliko, perhaps taking his last snaps as a quarterback, was 4-for-19 passing for 45 yards as the University of Hawaii commit struggled to connect with receivers after just two practices. He did find Kahuku's Johnson Kawehena on a 39-yard reception, however.
It was rushing where Ewaliko excelled — he had 80 yards on 13 carries, with a long gain of 17 yards. The rest of Team White combined for minus-1 yard on seven carries, including two totes for zero yards by Kahuku standout Aofaga Wily.
Reinhardt, who has an invited walk-on offer from UH, had a team-high five tackles and grabbed an interception.
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There's no doubt now that when Infiniti launched the previous Infiniti M sedan, they missed the mark.
Even the Infiniti team will tell you that. Likely off the record (no official quotes), but they recognize that the old M didn't quite live up to their expectations in the market place.
Not that it wasn't a nice sedan because it was in just about every area you'd want a luxury ride to be. In fact, I raved over the previous M when it launched as a breath of fresh air to the "usual" when it comes to luxury cars.
Trouble is, the old M just didn't have that "wow" factor to distinguish it in the highly competitive luxury segment to entice buyers to get in.
You recognized it when you saw it, but it was kinda…just there.
There really wasn't anything about the design that was all that different from everything else on the road in the luxury segment. Well, aside from that Infiniti badge, which if you're in the market for a luxury sedan might not be enough to steer you away from brands like Mercedes-Benz or Lexus.
Clearly, Infiniti's learned from its mistakes because the new 2011 M has just about as much of that "wow" factor you can pack in a luxury sedan.
It all starts with a striking new exterior design, which makes it hard not to want to peek inside even if you're not a fan of Infiniti. The 2011 model features some of the styling cues in the new G37 sedan – just in a much more bolder way than its smaller sibling.
Case in point: The guy who stopped me during my test drive and asked if he could take a picture of the car. "I wanted to send it to my wife," he said. "She's looking to buy a new car. This is hot."
Building on some of the design elements of the previous M with it long, low hood and high rear deck, the new M stands longer, wider and lower than the previous model, which gives it a sportier stance.
Other exterior design elements include distinctive fenders, the signature Infiniti grille and crystal-look headlight clusters, large aluminum-alloy wheels, and the unique trunk design that is as much functional as it is cool to look at in that it works like a spoiler for improved aerodynamics.
Infiniti M37 and M56 models equipped with the optional sport package feature a unique front fascia, dark finish grille, dark headlight housings and 20-inch wheels and tires.
One of my Facebook (FB) friends responded to a photo I posted of the new M that the sedan looks like a "Maxima on steroids." Probably not exactly how I would describe it, but I definitely get his point when considering how aggressive the styling cues are on the new model.
Infiniti calls it the "gesture" of the brand, which now is a guiding principal when designing Infiniti vehicles.
Inside, the new M builds on the kind of details that have become a benchmark in the luxury segment set by Infiniti (love their interiors) with details like handcrafted wood accents, an instrument panel that features cool electroluminescent gauges, and the classic Infiniti analog clock.
Nothing short of the "future" when it comes to technology, the new M features BSI (Blind Spot Intervention), the world's first system that helps the driver return the vehicle back toward the center of the lane away from a vehicle in the blind spot area.
Infiniti's available Premium Bose Audio system has also been enhanced. There's also a system called Active Noise Control that uses sound to delete sound, to reduce engine noise in the cabinet. A feature called Eco Pedal provides driver feedback to encourage fuel efficient driving behavior.
Standard technology equipment includes Bluetooth, push button start and a rear view monitor.
There's probably no clearer indication of the M's revival, however, than when you press the push button start, shift into drive mode and press the gas.
It's easy to lose sight of the fact that you're actually in a sedan and not an all-out sports car. Infiniti went to great lengths to improve the M's performance attributes with everything from a more powerful engine to the rear suspension.
Engine options include a 3.7-liter V6 with 330 horsepower and 270 lb-ft. of torque and a 5.6-liter V8 with 420 horsepower and 400-lb-ft. of torque that feels like a luxury sedan packed inside a rocket ship when you hit the gas.
Rear-wheel drive is standard on the sedan, but Infiniti's all-wheel-drive system is available on both models as well.
Truth is, though, after driving both the M37 (V6) and M56 (V8) model, you find that the V6 is more than enough power — unless you're shooting for bragging rights at the next outing with your boys. The 330 horsepower is a boost of 25 HPs over the previous V6 and will satisfy any weekend urge to break away for some adventure.
It all kinda makes you want to get in now, huh?
Sticker: $46,250 (M37 base)
Standard 330 HP V6
Enhanced Bose Audio System
Blind Spot Intervention technology
Marcus Amick is a national automotive writer and analyst with a focus on the automotive lifestyle.