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MUNCY - While some brought coats and folding chairs as they waited in line for the holiday's best deals Thursday, others were in it for the long haul, bringing tents, camping stoves and portable DVD players.
Anthony Sims, of Toledo, Ohio, was one of those who decided to not take any chances with getting the season's deals as he set up camp outside Best Buy at about 7:30 p.m. Wednesday. Sims along with his sons and in-laws have been doing so for the past few years.
"It's become a fun tradition," Sims said.
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Hasohn Harris, Connection Business Group Sales Associate, squeezes his way through crowded isles as he holds the "end of line" sign.
He admitted that Wednesday night's sleep wasn't the best he's ever had, as they made a tent to cover them as they slept in lawn chairs.
Sims said it especially was difficult because of the cold temperatures.
"I used to hunt with my dad so I'm used to being cold but it was very cold last night," he said.
But it would all be worth it once he had the opportunity to get his hands on a laptop, television and a blu-ray DVD player.
But while Sims and his family may have been some of the earliest in the area, they weren't the only ones looking for sales on Thanksgiving.
Bill Holmes, of Linden, had his turkey dinner around noon so he could get in line at 1 p.m. at Toys R Us.
He was looking for a Nintendo Wii U, and his goal was to "get in and get out."
Amber Lepley, of Williamsport, who was second in line, added that when shopping during the busiest shopping day of the season that everyone should have a plan.
"Know what you want before you get in there," she said, "so you don't get distracted."
While Sims had books and frisbees to pass the time during his stay at Best Buy, Holmes had a DVD player that he shared with those beside him in line.
"It's something to look at besides a watch," he noted.
Like Holmes, those at the front of the line at Target had early lunches to make sure they were done before the sales started.
"If you want to get what you want, you have to be the first however many people," said Todd Noll, of Milton.
For one group of friends who were waiting to get into Sears, they go around to different area stores throughout the night.
"We usually carry around the fliers all the time," said Amy Jacobs, of Hughesville.
But like most that were waiting in front of area stores before they opened, Lisa Gardner, of Muncy, said it's more about the experience than the actual shopping.
"The excitement. It's the raw excitement of being there," she said.
"The savings are OK but it's more of a tradition and experience," Holmes added.


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Salem teacher quits amid allegations
Investigated for alleged relationship with female high school student, 17
August 23, 2013
SALEM — The Salem school board met in special session Friday and accepted the resignation of a now former high school teacher investigated for an alleged inappropriate relationship with a 17-year-ol......
Repeated "willful insubordination" is not an offense someone can be fired for? At the end of next year, if he is hired elsewhere, when Bratten said, "the results the same. He's not here" that would be inaccurate--the results are Not the same.
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OMG, he walked? Well, it wasn't for the lack of the police doing their job, they had the biological evidence. The juvenile won't turn against him. So my question is this...what about her parents? It can't be this easy for him to walk away from this, can it?
I agree with you questioner...the result is by far...not the same. Let's hope this incident follows him wherever he goes.
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Batten's remark about the cooperation between the school and police, is a little far fetched..There are kids bullied in that school everyday that they turn a blind eye to and allow it to continue..this situation was wrong and the teacher walked. The parents should have some responsibility to see him arrested and tried after all she was still a minor!!
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Are u kidding me! As soon as the phrase "biological evidence was present" was said, the school should of fired him. Good ole buddy system is now in our schools. What a black eye.
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This is just another example of how there are people in the position of authority that have the trust of the kids who cannot be trusted themselves. This individual was even one who preached morals to his students and put himself up on a pedestal, who would have guessed he was such a terrible person on the inside. Im sure his wife and family are just embarrassed, and I feel for them for having to go through what they have because of his selfish act.
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Good ol' buddy system? By law, there are procedures that must be followed. The police and school followed those procedures properly. If they had not, it's possible that instead of "walking" he'd still be up there teaching our kids on a technicality.
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the sad part is this has happened before in our school system.and not that long ago.
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OSU, an honest question: Repeated "willful insubordination" is not an offense someone can be fired for?
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That's just disturbing!! It's obvious what's going on here. This creep has this girl wrapped around his finger, maybe even paying her to keep her mouth shut. This has to be frustrating for her dad. Det. Talbert is very good at what he does, you just think something criminal would apply.
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Questioner,sure it is. I'm not saying he should or shouldn't have been fired. Thats not up for me to decide because I (and none of you) were in on the investigation. All I'm saying is that the police and school have to follow the proper procedures or some lawyer would have found a loophole and he would still be teaching in Salem. The agreement they came up with was to let him resign, because in actually, it's like a firing--the state will never let him teach in Ohio again.
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This guy isn't exactly "walking away". He just lost his pension. With this incident on file, he won't be getting hired in another school district anytime soon.
They can't prosecute him because if he is charged and takes the case to trial, he may actually get acquitted if the girl is not cooperating as a witness...that means he would probably get re-instated.
The school board accepting a resignation rather than firing him is far more resolute. He has no legal grounds to get his job back after he resigns. On the other hand, if he is fired he can fight it in court for a long time.
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Just to clarify, I'm not suggesting he has legitimate grounds to fight an employment termination, I'm just saying our screwed up system of civil litigation would provide ample opportunity for him to cost the tax payers a lot of money on attorney fees, and, you never know, there is always some slim chance he would get his job back for some odd reason.
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I know this to be a fact. Regardless of how this story has been spun and how it ended in such epic failure. This school board can only be grateful for one thing...they caught a huge break...simply because it wasn't a child of mine!
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to 'look' at and/or into something.
" have a geez at that chicks head" LOL
de Jessii MB 14 avril 2009
To "shoot" tiny drops of spit out of your mouth. This is done by contracting the gland that secretes saliva.
Did you just geez on me?
de SykO 18 septembre 2003
slang scottish word for give
geez at baw ya jobby
de fannypad 29 mai 2004
Geez is short for geezer. Geezer is an old person, usually a man. When you are shortening up a sentence (and trying to sound hip) you say geez, not geezer.
"Look at that geez over on the bench!"
de MsLi 10 septembre 2005
building up saliva in the salivary glands using some stimulus, like sour food or yawning, and then pressing the tongue upon the glands, causing the saliva to shoot out, usually at an impressive distance.
I geezed in amandas drink.
de All knowing. 31 octobre 2009
Legendary myth creature that is seen in Longwood, Florida. It is known for hardcore, rocking ability and beautiful, sexy structure. Unbeatable, it is known to kick anyone's ass whenever it wants. When it approaches females, it would sent off unique pheromone that makes them want to attach their body to it's reproductive body organ.
"Sorry I couldn't be there yesterday. Geez kicked my ass."
"Dude, look at Geez. He has three girls dry humping him."
"Dude, look at Geez. He has three girls dry humping him."
de Nahhh 6 mars 2008
Short for the old nerdy saying "gee-whiz." Gee-whiz is an exclamitory word.
Geez Susie, how did you get a black eye?
de Randy Bonjour 19 juin 2006


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An acronym for Punch A Witch In The CUnt Day, an obscure holiday that celebrates the departure of a nasty slag co-worker that said she was a witch. Can be celebrated anytime you feel like just as long as the nasty bitch is gone.
Fucking bitch, I'm so fucking glad that lyin' nasty pig is gone.
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I sat in my office in stunned silence. Anxiety squeezed my heart, and tears filled my eyes. I was being let go from the job that I loved passionately for more than seven years. In a moment, with one sentence, my world fell in.
Gone would be the clients I had grown to love and care for. Gone would be the co-workers and friends who were an important part of my life and had, in some ways, become a support system for me.
As I walked to my car this past Jan. 20, the wind seemed colder, and the sky darker. I felt so alone. I sat in my car for 30 minutes and cried. I don't remember driving home; I don't remember the conversation I had with my wife. I only remember experiencing the feeling of great loss.
I went into a period of grief that lasted almost three months. Feelings of failure and loss wrapped around me like a heavy shroud. Fear and self-doubt took root in my heart. I was 53 years old. Who is ever going to hire me? Yes, I had a master's degree in counseling, but I graduated a couple of years before the rules changed, and now most places are looking for people with a license in counseling. To pursue licensing would cost thousands of dollars.
I applied for unemployment, and began my search for work. Soon I was receiving rejection email after rejection email stating that, while I had great credentials, someone else ended up being a "better fit." I had two interviews that had gone well, but both fell through.
I read books on being positive and thinking like a winner. I tried having an upbeat attitude, looking for the silver lining. Some well-meaning friends even reminded me that God was in charge and he had a plan, and that whenever he closes a door he opens a window. But honestly, it seemed like he was slamming windows on my fingers again and again.
After six months, I needed to report to unemployment to recertify my claim by submitting a job search form indicating that I was indeed looking for work. I also needed to sit through a video that was intended to encourage and enlighten me on new ways to find work. Unfortunately, I was already doing all of the things suggested.
I was also instructed to speak with one of the job counselors. When I was called, I asked the counselor, holding back tears, what she could do to help me. She told me to just keep looking, and broaden my search to include jobs similar to what I was trained to do. But again, I was doing that.
It has been close to 11 months now and I am still looking for work. There are times that I feel hopeless, and I have a new concern that, as we approach the "fiscal cliff," my unemployment will come to an end on Dec. 31. But being out of a job has also reminded me of a great gift.
During this time, my family has been a great encouragement. Also, my friends from my former job and friends from my past didn't disappear, but have been an amazing support. They keep in contact with me continually and they are there for me whenever I need a listening ear.
So if there is a silver lining in the emotional ups and downs of the past year, it is the treasure of unconditional love I have experienced from so many people. I am both humbled and blessed.


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If you smell like shit, you might be a deadneck.
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a term similar to necrofilia. when one recieves oral from a corpse, usually from an orifice other than the mouth. i.e. a slit in the throat, or an eye socket. claimed to feel better than that if recieving from a living creature
i aint gonna shell out money for a hooker when i could go to the cemetary and get some dead neck for free
by Angry Titan April 16, 2008
A person who is southern at heart with a big city kick. Cowboys from hell. Covered in tattoos, riding harleys, listening to metal, and having a good time. A deadneck sees no color and respects all race and creed.
Those guys are deadneck to the bone.
by roosterDNR414 February 25, 2010
Based on the term "redneck", "deadneck" refers to a stupid, non-thinking person, as in "dead from the neck up".
"You mean you've never voted in any election, deadneck?"
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Mod-Pac Corp.'s profits more than doubled to their strongest level in three years as the Buffalo specialty printing firm's sales hit an all-time high during the fourth quarter.
The strong performance during the final three months of last year pushed Mod-Pac's stock up 4.6 percent, or 32 cents, to $7.35 – higher than the $7.20 per share that the Keane family has offered as part of its bid to take the company private.
"We had a very strong second half of 2012," said Daniel G. Keane, Mod-Pac's president and chief executive officer, who is spearheading the acquisition bid with his father, Kevin, who serves as the company's chairman.
While the strong rebound in Mod-Pac's business and the resulting jump in its share price cast doubt on whether the Keanes' offer will be high enough to gain acceptance from the committee of independent Mod-Pac directors that is reviewing the offer, neither the company nor the Keanes offered any comments Wednesday about the buyout bid.
Mod-Pac said only that the board committee, which is made up of three directors and headed by former Acme Electric Co. Chief Executive Robert J. McKenna, is continuing to review the offer but has not made a final decision on what the company's response to the proposal should be. The company said it has spent about $200,000 on its review of the acquisition offer, which it received Oct. 29.
The Keanes' offer was a 31 percent premium on the share price at the time it was made public in late October, but the shares jumped immediately following the disclosure of the bid and have hovered between $6.70 and $7.03 since late November. Wednesday was the first time the shares closed above the $7.20 buyout price.
Daniel Keane said Mod-Pac's fourth-quarter strength stemmed from a nearly 19 percent jump in sales of its custom folding cartons, which account for about three-quarters of its total revenues. He said Mod-Pac has been able to gain more business from some of its bigger customers, while sales have started to ramp up from some new customers that the company has added during the last year or so.
Those higher sales, coupled with continued efforts to hold the line on expenses, helped Mod-Pac significantly improve its profitability, with its operating profit margin more than doubling to just under 10 percent.
"We've benefited from operating leverage as we've increased sales," Keane said during a conference call. He said the company's Elmwood Avenue factory is operating at between 70 percent and 80 percent of its capacity.
Mod-Pac's profits jumped to $1.04 million, or 31 cents per share, which was more than double the $410,000, or 12 cents per share, the company earned a year ago. It was the company's strongest quarterly profit since the fourth quarter of 2009.
The company's sales rose by 14 percent to a record $16.5 million from $14.4 million a year ago, fueled by the strong growth in its custom folding carton business and a 5 percent increase in stock packaging revenues. Sales of Mod-Pac's personalized print products rose by 1 percent.
Still, Keane warned that Mod-Pac's sales, which increased by 11 percent during the second half of last year, may not continue to rise at that pace.
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6 Tips for Turning Awful Fan Fiction into a Best Seller
There's a salacious book atop The New York Times Best-Seller List, and hold on to your shocked outrage -- it's about two people having consensual sex! If you guessed that I'm talking about the BDSM romance Fifty Shades of Grey, congratulations on being able to bring life into this world. But for the gentlemen, I'll explain.
The Fifty Shades trilogy began as erotic fan fiction entitled Master of the Universe. If that made you think of Skeletor magically separating He-Man and Prince Adam for some disturbing self-exploration, you'd be understandably wrong, but overstandably creepy.
No, Master of the Universe was actually a story about a couple in Seattle named Edward and Bella that the book's publishers want you to know was totally not at all about Twilight. OK, it was at first, but in a stroke of cynical genius, the publisher decided to disguise the horny fan fiction as an original universe using a new title and the least amount of effort possible. By the time it saw print as Fifty Shades of Grey, it was a totally different novel about virginal college grad Anastasia Steele and her rich seducer Christian Grey. The characters even have different names.
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Preposterously dissimilar, when you really look at it.
Success did not come without controversy for the author, E.L. James. The fan fiction community vilified her, both for making money off a labor of love and for writing a second draft of her work. Critical review of Fifty Shades of Grey divides cleanly into women who love it, women who hate it, women who want to put way too much thought into whether it's feminist and men trying to figure out why anyone cares.
What all of these debates miss is the main point: James wrote a successful book by accident, propelled blindly by that nameless, universal desire to see famous characters bone. And hey, readers liked it! Only a Grinch would begrudge her that success, and that Grinch would then be sodomized against his will by the Cat in the Hat in the groundbreaking slash fiction Butter Battle Tales: One for All the Butter (Healing the Rift).
I interned briefly as a reader at a literary agency, meaning I read hundreds of submissions -- or rather, I read several submissions wearing hundreds of masks. And I'm going to share what I learned with you: Literary agencies are brimming with intelligent, beautiful women, and nobody comes into the office more than two days a week. I recommend you join one immediately.
I'll also tell you how to jump on this lusty women's fiction phenomenon that the media are treating like Harlequin romances haven't been popular for decades now. Below are six tips for marrying your personal eroticism to someone else's copyright for fun and profit.
Although we can't prove there aren't temple garments in Fifty Shades without reading it.
#6. This Is Going to Sound Crazy, But ... Sex With Monsters
Every day at the literary agency I would open two dozen letters that explained how the story of the new girl in town who is fascinated with a mysterious, brooding bad boy was different from Twilight because he wasn't a vampire; he was a demon.
In my weeks as a reader, I learned to appreciate the otherworldly pain of such inhuman creatures as angels, aliens, faeries, Wayne Newton, half-bloods, hunky Frankensteins, werewolves, dhampirs, sexy mummies, mermen, skinwalkers, surprisingly few ghosts and the Wandering Jew. However, women do not like sex with trolls, zombies or robots.
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Which would be understandable if they hadn't eroticized Frankenstein.
I still don't know what half-bloods are, but I'm pretty sure it's not racist.
Let's take a look at a typical revelation scene:
Tears ran down Emma's face as her crying eyes beheld Darren's perfect features in the full moonlight. Something was different about him. He seemed ... more alive. More powerful. As though he were somehow stronger at night. She shook off the thought tearfully. No, no that was foolish. That was impossible. That was foolishly impossible!! She was imagining these things because she couldn't play games of the heart anymore. Did he even have a heart?
"Why?" she asked tearfully, "Why do you hate me? I don't understand your distance!" She looked at him, though it ached to behold his dark beauty.
"It's not dat," his voice broke in reply.
She paused. For the first time since he had saved her from being mangled in a bowling alley pinsetter, he sounded vulnerable. "There's sumptin I nevah told yiz. Sumptin ... I tink youse already knows."
Emma's lip trembled tearfully. She had suspected! But it had been crazy to think -- dare she say it ...? She had to. For anything could happen tonight.
"You're a djinn, right? One of the 28 endless born of the world at the back of the North Wind?"
"Nah," he shook his head. "It's woise'n dat. But if yiz really love me ..."
Oh, but she did!
"... you'll accept me as I am. I'm a monster, Emma. Not even human. I'm ..." A tear ran down his lovely, perfect face. "I'm from Staten Island."
Emma threw back her head and howled with despair for their love, deep into the night.
There's obviously a market for clammy mer-sex, but there's also such a thing as ringing the metaphor bell too hard. James' best move was making the monster internal. Her Christian Grey isn't just your average kinky Seattle billionaire, he's also a poison in the life of everyone he meets. He's complicated, which we know, because the book tells us so. And he might not have a black heart, but it's hard to tell when it's buried under 49 darker shades of asshole.
So before you commit your story to werewolf breath, take a look around you, and you might just find a monster lurking in the closet, probably wearing a gimp hood and nipple clamps hooked up to a nine-volt battery. I call mine Mom. But don't worry! He's not actually my mother.
#5. Give Your Characters Decent Names
The shame is that most paranormal romance authors are better writers than Twilight author Stephenie Meyer and have been revising their books since before she ever put pen to paper. I really enjoyed reading some of those pitches, because good writing stands independent of the audience.
But only Meyer is a kajillionaire now, and one good reason is that she gave her monster-lover a completely normal name. Twilight got published while better twins of it flopped stillborn out of the womb of vampire fuck fiction because Edward Cullen is a real name, and Bella Swan is almost one.
Here are some common protagonist names so you can avoid them at all costs. A good rule of thumb is to not choose a name that stupid people think makes their babies sound special.
Sorry, that last one might be a porn star name. Anyway, you see the pattern: Either distort a normal name, or pull something out of the Bronze Age and combine it with an attribute.
Now for some love interest names. See if you can guess which monster is which:
You can still use Victor, but only if he's a normal person without any special powers. Again, look what Twilight and Fifty Shades of Grey did. Edward's a neutral name, and Cullen's Irish, so according to the Book of Romantic Imagery Name Games (BoRING), he's literally "Volvo-driving-nice-guy Who-believes-sex-will-destroy-you."
See? No pressure. Teens can feel perfectly safe with this eerie centenarian who hangs around high schools trawling for strange. They can fling themselves at him all they want, and he'll put the brakes on -- not because he doesn't lust after you, girl, but because he loves you so much that he has to watch out for you.
The protagonist, Bella Swan, has a BoRING name, too: "Beautiful Former-ugly-duckling."
E.L. James did the same thing but for a college grad, now sexually active and deep into her bad boy phase. Anastasia Steele is "Lost-nobility Resilience."
Her lover, Christian Grey, is an older man whose actions may say "I'm a frightening creep," but look at his BoRING aptronym: "Redeemable-sinner Of-ambiguous-morality."
The BoRING formula always works. Why do you think I use the pen name "Brendan McGinley"? Because my real name, Thunder-Rex Pussysmasher, doesn't speak to my poetic nature.
#4. He Should Be Disgustingly Rich
I don't want you to think a woman's interest wanders if a guy runs out of money. You and I know that's not true even if Kanye West, Los Angeles and our ex-girlfriends prove otherwise. But somebody needs to tell all these women who write erotica that they're misogynist, because 70 percent of their fantasy men are dipped in gold, crusted with diamonds and think a pony is a customary third-date gift.
Compare this with men's erotic fantasy, in which 100 percent of women don't have enough funds to pay for a large sausage pizza.
Don't be mistaken -- the protagonist never needs the guy's money. In these books, it's not how successful he is, so long as he's more successful than her. It makes romance difficult for female Fortune 500 executives -- though such companies do have much higher rates of vampires per capita. The point is, his being rich is a test. His wealth exists for her to not need or care about, so she falls for him as a person (in order to deserve his fantastic wealth). Yeah, it's totally screwed up.
For many of these authors, a perfect date is discovering that a cloven-hoofed host has not taken undue advantage of her drunken state, but rather, lain her sweetly in bed and sent his butler on a midnight run to fetch m'lady fresh designer garments.
Lilith woke up. She woke up just before noon. When Lilith woke up, she yawned, and Lilith saw that she was lying under a white-tiger-fur comforter after drinking too much Chateau Lafite. The sun was streaming onto the duvet, which is a name for the top blanket, guys.
Rubbing Lilith's eyes, Lilith looked around the room, where she saw her clothes from last night hung with great care along the seams so they wouldn't wrinkle on a hangar, and the hangar was on a rail in the closet, and the closet door was open so she could see them.
"I trust mademoiselle slept well?" Lilith recognized the voice belonging to Bubastis, the butler with the strange, foreign, sexless accent. "I had the liberty of putting you in some very expensive pajamas with my eyes closed when you quite understandably fell asleep last night after not drinking too much, which would have been unlike you."
Lilith turned to Bubastis' doctorly voice, and yawned happily. "O, Bubastis! I had the strangest and most realistic dream about making sex."
"I understand that is quite common here at Shadowholme Manor, Miss Virtue. Lord Blaze regrets that he was unable to join you for breakfast, as he must go negotiate an end to war, but he has instructed me to make you breakfast."
And so saying, Bubastis presented her with poached rhino brains on waffles made from a grain that only grows in Elysium. Yum-O!
There's really no way to dial down being disgustingly wealthy, so James does the opposite: She shoots the moon and goes full-on billionaire. Anastasia Steele is in it for the sex, but it's nice to know there's an end-of-year bonus for taming a jerk with your charms.


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An inverty is a penis that has grown inside the abdomen (inverted) rather than out it is a rare deformity it happens mostly where mothers have been exposed to DDT or even agent orange.
The kids all teased Lucas for having a vagina but really it was an inverty.
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tell people what your favorie caracter from naruto is
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Hinata is denitatly my favorite and her cousin Neji is my secon favorite.
i like them and there power but i like the nine tailed fox more i like naruto how he has the nine tailed fox in him
With both of their ninja powers being so cool, their skills developing at the same pace, and their personalities complementing each other as well as they do; just think about what a perfect team/ couple Naruto & Hinata would make. Not to motion the fact that Hinata already loves Naruto with all her heart, and I'm sure she would love to be married to the man who is destin to become hokaga some day.
the baby would be awesome
Man Naruto you have your nijia powers, you're destin to be hokaga someday, and best of all you have a really seet and incredibly cute girl totaly love sick over you are such a such a lucky guy.
I agree I'm sure their childeren would be extreamly talented and powerful.
no one elsei am nothing. i am betsuni
cris you are a jew lol ^_^ i mean darkfire
She is so cute.
i think so to
I was wondering do you know what Hinata's cell phone or home phone number is?
Dude? Still trying to get her number, huh?...Wait, does she even use a phone? Likes headphones... A lot.
*sob sob*I miss him so much.... Likes headphones... A lot.
he is awesome
Hinta is my favorite character from the show and itachi is my favorite villian
My favorite characters are:Neji,Hinata,Sasuke,and Sakura.
Definetly Sasuke.
Hinata is my favorite and Sasuke's older brother Itachi is my favorite villian from Naruto.
"blood isnt enough..."
my fav character from naruto is hinata,naruto,akamaru and always sasuki
what the heck are u guys talking abt? (talking to rossiu and murasametal)
naruto and hinata do make a good couple
I have 2 Favorites character and their both the Uchia Brothers
do you mean saska and itachi cause theres another one that is revealed at the very end of the series, but you know no spoilers...... Screw it its Tobi he was the uchia who gave his eye to kakashi and later abandoned the village cause you know its hard being cut in half and was rebilt by that puppet guy of the akaski putting a mask on to be tobi and the secret leader of the akaski"Lord please forgive us for the truspasses that we are about to commit!!" - Dead Leaves, #777
Your wrong. Tobi was Madara Uchiha and he was not their brother. Obito gave his eye to Kakashi right before he died.
Naruto, Minato (4th Hokage) and Hinata
i like kakashi hatake and zabuza. they would have to be my favorite characters since they cemented the series for me.
'' It hard for me to reach god form.. but i must keeep fighting to survive HUZZAH!''
i like zabuza's sword, i want to hear more about suigetsu to find out more about his relationship with zabuza and kisame.
'' It hard for me to reach god form.. but i must keeep fighting to survive HUZZAH!''
those are my favorite
i love it when he gets angry ! hehe .....clara <3 x.
Neji Naruto and Hinata are mylovly reason for naruto includin Rock Lee kakasi.....
< Where do the years go >
Takashi was my favorite naruto character.
1. Naruto 2. Hinata 3. gaara 4.kakashi 5 minato 6. Kushina
7.Kiba 8. Sakura 9. Yamato 10. Iruka 11. kILLER B LAST 12 Tsunadi.
"i shall return by gen mac aruther"
HINATA is my most absolute faviroute Naruto character. The it would be Shikamaru beacuse we are excatly the same taking things really slow and finding alot stuff a DRAG.


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For the past few months, my dad and I have been having a series of arguments over whether rap has any musical value. He thinks it has no value whatsoever, and I think it can be one of the most poetic and moving genres of music there is. I eventually got fed up with all this arguing and decided to make him a rap CD for Christmas to try and persuade him that perhaps rap did have some redeeming value. He hasn't touched it since, but that's another thing altogether (and, truth be told, he did enjoy the persuasive piece I wrote to accompany it). The series of lively discussions got me thinking about rap and it's bad "rap" – no pun intended.
Over the 30-plus years it has existed, rap has gained a reputation for being, as my dad would say, "prison music." And sometimes this is true – if you listen to Scarface or an N.W.A CD, you'll hear that rap has a strong connection to the streets. However, not all rap promotes guns and violence, or degrades women. In fact, there is plenty of rap that contains a positive message – just listen to "Keep Ya Head Up," a song by 2Pac that sends an uplifting message to women everywhere. Rappers and rap groups like A Tribe Called Quest and KRS-One have flourished as MCs with a socially conscious message. It may have a reputation for violence, but rap is so much more.
Rap has roots in Africa, but also in many other places. Its deepest roots go back to the Griots of West Africa, who would tell stories using a rhythmic delivery. Listening to rap, you can hear hints of old slave spirituals, the blues music of the early 1900s, as well as Jamaican "toasting," which is chanting and talking over a beat. Rap first rose to prominence in the 1970s in New York City. Block parties around this time became popular, and DJs were hired to provide entertainment for the event, often playing funk and soul music. Eventually, DJs began to extend tracks using turntables, and when rapping was put into the song to fill in the breaks, hip-hop music was born.
Rap has always had a strong connection to the streets and urban life. "The Message," a song by Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, is a tale of the strain of ghetto life and its effects, and is possibly the best rap song ever made. With many artists basing their music around harsh, gritty street narratives (see Scarface), rap has gained a reputation for promoting violence, drugs, demeaning women and pretty much every bad thing imaginable. Many a parent treats rap as if it were polio – debilitating and harmful to impressionable young minds. But rap isn't all big bad wolf – much of it is a form of criticism, almost a running commentary on the issues present in today's society. Public Enemy made a career of exposing the problems with urban life, with songs like "Night of the Living Baseheads," "Rebel Without a Pause" and "Fight The Power." I believe rap is, in its purest form, poetry – perhaps with more cursing and grittier topics, but poetry nonetheless. Listen to a song by Lupe Fiasco or Common – you'll find their music rife with metaphors and other literary devices. Not only that, but rappers like KRS-One – a Bronx legend – have campaigned to stop violence in hip-hop. For all the bad press it gets, perhaps this nasty reputation is a little undeserved.
Not all rap is the rap you hear on the radio. Not every rap artist brags about doing a drive-by or materialism and their fancy bling (though granted, I do enjoy a Meek Mill song or a Rick Ross song once in a while). Rap isn't just about that. Rap can be about change, or the problems with the world today, or the struggles of poverty and crime. Rap is something much more; a vehicle for the frustrations of everyday life, and a way to express feelings.
For those of you who believe in my dad's point of view, I'd like to recommend two rap CDs that might open your mind to the possibility … and maybe even change it, if only just a little:
"Raising Hell" by Run DMC: The hard-hitting beats with a heavy drum background, together with the band's fusion of rock and hip-hop was a game changer. Key cuts: "Walk This Way," "Peter Piper," "My Adidas."
"Paid in Full" by Eric B. and Rakim: With perhaps the best MC ever on the mic in Rakim, and Eric B. DJing, this is truly a classic. When it was released, Rakim's flow and delivery changed the way rappers rap. Key cuts: "Paid in Full," "Eric B. is President," "I Know You Got Soul."
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I found on YouTube a prequel for the episode, as well. I assume that it is the same one on the BBC's website, but since I'm in the US I'm blocked from viewing it on that site,.
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2014 INDOOR TRACK & FIELD (So.): Competed in five meets … clocked a season-fast 5000m run time of 19:10.05 at the Hillsdale "Wide-Track" Classic (Feb. 8) … posted a season-best 3000m run time of 10:49.53 at the Ball State Quadrangular (Feb. 21).
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When Israeli singer Chava Alberstein produced a documentary film on 20th-century Yiddish poets in 1995 (Too Early to Be Quiet, Too Late to Sing), the writers' stories provoked Alberstein to set some of their poems to music. The results are gathered on The Well , with vocals by Alberstein and music performed by the Klezmatics. The compositions reflect Alberstein's wide range of influences, from klezmer and traditional Jewish music to French chanson, German cabaret, American folk, and Middle Eastern styles all popping up.
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OnceWinner of eight 2012 Tony Awards including Best Musical, Once is a truly original Broadway experience. Featuring an impressive ensemble of actor/musicians who play their own instruments onstage, ONCE tells the enchanting tale of a Dublin street musician who's about to give up on his dream when a beautiful young woman takes a sudden interest in his haunting love songs. As the chemistry between them grows, his music soars to powerful new heights... but their unlikely connection turns out to be deeper and more complex than your everyday romance. Emotionally captivating and theatrically breathtaking, Once draws you in from the very first note and never lets go.03/11/2014 - 03/16/2014Benedum Center, 237 7th St., Pittsburgh, PAwebsite | map
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Behind the Notes - Ravel's BoleroConductor Leonard Slatkin explains and the PSO demonstrates details inside The Sorcerer's Apprentice and four Ravel works that demonstrate Ravel's penchant for traditional dance forms. On the second half, hear these complete works including Ravel's Bolero and Dukas' The Sorcerer's Apprentice which tells the story of a student who uses magical spells he hasn't yet learned to control.03/15/2014Time: 8:00 pmHeinz Hall, 600 Penn Ave., Pittsburgh, PAwebsite | map
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Juilliard BaroqueDistinguished members of faculty of the Juilliard Historical Performance program are individually award-winning recitalists, Grammy-nominated recording artists, soloists, and/or principals with every major international early music ensemble. Here they join together in a virtuoso conversation of brilliant German trio and solo sonatas by G.F. Handel, both C.P.E. and his father J.S. Bach, and the mysterious and wonderful 17th-century Czech composer Jan Dismas Zelenka.03/15/2014Time: 8:00 pmSynod Hall, 125 N. Craig St, Pittsburgh, PAwebsite | map
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Thallion Pharmaceuticals said today it terminated a collaboration with LFB Biotechnologies to develop two monoclonal antibodies against Shiga toxin-producing E. coli (STEC) infections, and launched a strategic review that could result in the company being sold or merged with a partner.
"Despite our strong collaboration, an internal pipeline prioritization necessitated a reallocation of our resources," Guillaume Bologna, LFB's executive vp for development & business development, said in a statement. LFB, which racked up €432.4 million ($578.3 million) in 2011 revenues, focuses on immunology, intensive care, and hemostasis treatments, and 60% of LFB products are indicated for rare diseases.
Thallion said it took back rights to its Shigamabs® program, including all data, materials, and know-how developed by and for LFB during a collaboration launched two years ago this month. The company also hired an undisclosed "leading healthcare-specialized investment banking group" to conduct the review.
"Thallion has not established a definitive timeline to complete its review and will be assessing all available alternatives within the next few months," the company said.
Under the companies' development and commercialization agreement, Thallion granted LFB an exclusive license for the commercial rights to Shigamabs in Europe, South America, and other "territories of strategic interest to LFB," including Russia, Turkey, China, South Korea, and unspecified Northern African countries. Thallion retained commercial rights for the rest of world, including North America.
Thallion was eligible for up to €95 million (about $127.2 million) from LFB—including a €1.5 million ($2 million) up-front payment, funding for substantially all future clinical development costs, and payments for Shigamabs tied to development, approval, and commercial sales milestones. Thallion was also eligible to receive tiered, double-digit royalties based on product sales in all the LFB territories.
With the end of the agreement, Canadian-owned Thallion loses out on future quarterly payments from LFB—an affiliate of the Laboratoire français du Fractionnement et des Biotechnologies of Les Ulis, France—while incurring all remaining costs associated with completion of the SHIGATEC Phase II clinical study. LFB will pay for all outstanding and accrued costs related to product manufacturing.
The separate announcements on the LFB collaboration and strategic review come less than five months after Thallion predicted its cash would allow it to sustain itself for a year or more: "The company believes that its cash position will be sufficient to finance its operations and capital requirements for at least the next twelve months."
According to its third-quarter 2012 results, released October 5, 2012, the company boosted its available liquidity 22% from $8.5 million to more than $10.4 million, and its working capital by 61% from $6.3 million to $10.2 million as of August 31, 2012 compared with November 30, 2011. The increases reflect both unspecified LFB payments and in large measure, immediate cash proceeds of nearly $3.9 million, from Thallion selling Caprion Proteomics to an affiliate of private equity firm Chicago Growth Partners.
That Caprion deal also allowed Thallion to record net earnings of more than $3.7 million or 12 cents a share in the third quarter of 2012, and net earnings of about $2.2 million or 7 cents ashare for the nine months ending August 31, 2012.
Excluding that one-shot gain, Thallion finished Q3 2012 in the red, losing $711,782 or 2 cents a share in the third quarter, a slight improvement from the $870,583 or 3 cents-a-share net loss of Q3 2011. For the nine months ending Aug. 31, 2012, Thallion lost nearly $2.3 million or 7 cents a share, somewhat better than the third-quarter 2011 net loss of about $2.7 million or 8 cents a share.
At the time, Thallion blamed the losses on reduced R&D spending (and thus LFB subsidies) due to completion of the core Phase II SHIGATEC clinical study in January 2012, as well as foreign currency fluctuations. In May 2012, Thallion trumpeted topline results showing that Shigamabs met its primary endpoint of safety and tolerability in a STEC-infected pediatric population.
Collaboration and licensing revenues during Q3 2012 fell by more than half, to $234,743 from $772,335 a year earlier. For the nine months ending August 31, those revenues dropped by about half, to about $1.4 million from $2.6 million for Q1–3 2011.
Caprion provides biomarker discovery and other proteomics services to biopharmas that as of last year included GlaxoSmithKline, Johnson & Johnson, and Merck & Co. Thallion also stood to receive within 15 months $583,000 held in escrow, plus unspecified additional cash if Caprion achieved undisclosed fiscal 2012 revenue and gross margin targets; no announcement had been made on whether those targets were met.
By December 2012, however, Thallion delisted itself from the Toronto Stock Exchange, opting instead to list its shares on the TSX Venture Exchange. The decision came six months after TSX began a review of whether Thallion was meeting the exchange's continued listing requirements.
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Guns are just objects, but minds can be evil
January 19, 2013
Editor: Over the years, my dad would tell us about his school year days. Caught between a great depression and a great war, many men didn't receive a great education....
Anyone who collects social security, medicare, drives on public roads, attends public schools, depends upon fire and ambulance services, checks into a public hospital, including theVA hospital, PX, or any other government-run facility IS a socialist whether they care to admit it or not. THOSE are all socialist programs. Any farmer receiving a subsidy of any kind from Uncle Sam has NO right to complain about socialism. If you want a purely capitalist society where the government has no investment in the common good, check out Somalia. Go there and come back and tell us all how you liked it.
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Good thoughts - the comments are idiotic though... So for everyone who blames liberalism (is it liberal to seek to control out-of-control maniacs with assault rifles?) forgets that even if every home were armed to the teeth, the tyrannical government they would be trying to defend themselves against would be the US Military - the National Guard - members of our own family. Don't you think the idea of a "militia" is a little out of date? Honestly, give it a rest. Guns in and of themselves are not the problem, it's true, but FEAR is, and it causes more people to buy more guns and ammo,, more stockpiled food and survival gear than is rational. Then they justify it by saying it's God's holy way, bashing a few liberals (who also fought tooth and nail in the trenches for the right to BE liberal and proud of it) and somehow believing themselves to be patriotic. Goodness is not a conservative or liberal quality. Common sense is something anyone can have - even Republicans.
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Liberalism promoting failure. And THAT, they are doing a great job on.
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Socialism and communism has NEVER succeeded. And Liberals never learn!
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The socialists who started chipping away at America over a century ago have finally gotten what they wanted, a secular socialist America. They call good evil, and evil good. Many cultures down through history have gone down this path. The so-called "gun problem" has NOTHING to do with guns. It has EVERYTHING to do with America's socialistic moral collapse.
If you want to read how it finally ends, and all nations on this path come to a bad end:
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For some reason, part of the last sentence of my previous post wasn't included, even though it should have been within the character limit.
Those who disagree with indisputable facts are foolish.
Even the vice-president has publicly stated that nothing can be done to enforce gun regulatins that are already on the books. Arrests can't be prosecuted because of a lack of MAN POWER, according to Joe Biden! There is no logical reason to criminalize those who own legally obtained guns.
We do need to prosecute and PUNISH those who misuse firearms and break existing laws.
We also need to face this. The liberal "social experiement" that began in the late 60s has failed. It has crated a society just like so many others that have failed throughout history. How many times does failure have to be proven before people learn??
Go ahead and disagree... IF you can offer PROOF or FACTS that support disarming law abiding citizens as a way to stop murderers.
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Bonnie & Clyde, Al Capone and many others have had access to multiple rounds. They did not shoot up schools because that behavior wasn't "trending". Criminals knew that they would be punished, most likely by death, for their actions. It is only since violence has become socially acceptable as entertainment, criminals get better care and housing than most taxpayers, and social programs teach everything EXCEPT responsibility for one's own actions, that mass shootings have become more common.
When there were guns in the cloakrooms at schools, there were no mass shootings simply to grab the "fame" of violence for entertainment!
Here are FACTS:
Gun control leads to tyranny.
Socialist "republics" are controlled by an elite few (tyranny).
Gun control has NEVER eliminated evil or mental illness from any society.
Most mass shootings happen in "gun free zones" because that's where unprotected victims are. Those who disagree with
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Does W.Va. need to 'move on' from coal?
February 2, 2013
Editor, The Jan. 28 editorial in The Intermountain merits a response, as I watched the Obama inaugural address and did not hear him say anything about coal....
Poor on the left are lacking common sense if they think this is not going to 'quadruple' their electricity bills. Obama even 'admitted' his war on coal would do that to you all. Keep believing lies; that will get you nonthinkers right where Obama wants you; little useable minions.
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The architectural concept and interior design are the work of Zermatt artist Heinz Julen. He designed lamps, couches, beds and free standing bathtubs with views of the Matterhorn for the hotel. In the wellness annexe the indoor rim flow pool seems to extend boundlessly towards the outside. Here the hand of artist Julen is once again noticeable in the fresh and surprising composition of material, colour and light.
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The University of Baltimore's Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation (CEI) is hosting its inaugural "Rise to the Challenge" Idea Competition. The competition is open to all UB students currently enrolled and in good standing. Finalists will compete live at the "Rise to the Challenge" Idea Competition, held in the Wright Theater in the UB Student Center, 21 W. Mt. Royal Ave.
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For Competitive Santas, Practice and Porridge Are Key
In Hong Kong, Contestants Train for Winter Games; 10-Day Boot Camp
HONG KONG—In a frosty town in Sweden, nearly 5,000 miles from their subtropical home, Hong Kong's Santas have emerged as a red-suited force to be reckoned with.
They eat porridge better than the world's top Santas. They ride a mechanical reindeer and push a sled with the best. For the past four years, Hong Kong entrants in the Santa Winter Games have finished in the medals.
Santa's Winter Games
Participants from all over the world flock to Gällivare, Sweden, every year to compete in the Santa Winter Games.
The secret to the Hong Kong Santas' success is a combination of solid financial backing, strategic planning and a 10-day Santa boot camp. To practice for the sled-racing event, they imported a Swedish sled but added wheels to the runners to account for Hong Kong's lack of snow.
The Santa Winter Games—which pit competitors from around the globe in five events—have been held in Gällivare, Sweden, since 2003.
In 2009, Hong Kong's first-ever entrant, Santa Jim Chan, shocked spectators and the professional Santa community by taking the top spot in the competition. And since then, "it's always more Santas from Hong Kong," said Santa Winter Games organizer Mathias Svalenström.
Christians make up only about 10% of Hong Kong's population, but Christmas is a big deal in the former British colony. Many Hong Kong residents treat the holiday as a family event, giving gifts and eating meals together much as they do on Lunar New Year a month or so later.
Hong Kong's skyline is lighted up with a riot of green and red holiday displays. The city's tightly packed shopping districts, where storefront rents are among the highest in the world, are awash in Christmas displays and sales. Children visit shopping-mall Santas.
It isn't surprising that in a city where real estate is a powerful force, the key backer of Hong Kong's Santas is its biggest property developer, Sun Hung Kai Properties Ltd. SUHJY 0.62 % Julia Fong, the company's assistant promotions manager, said she couldn't disclose the Santa-related budget but said it was "very generous."
Each year, Hong Kong's Santa emissary to the Santa Winter Games, selected after a qualifier event at one of Sun Hung Kai's malls, participates in a 10-day boot camp to prepare for the big day. Training kicks off with a meeting with Hong Kong's Santa entrants from previous years to discuss tips on mastering the unfamiliar skills required to win the competition.
"Previous Santas tell us the porridge in Sweden is very sticky and hot…it's much stickier than congee," said Ms. Fong, referencing the rice porridge popular in Asia. The team adjusted its recipe accordingly. To prepare for the sack race, Santas jump around in empty rice bags.
This year, Hong Kong's entrant was Ho Wing-Leong, a 130-pound, 21-year-old magician who goes by the name Santa Rainbow. Mr. Ho, who got his Santa start as a volunteer in homes for the elderly, wears a red suit decorated with the hearts and spades of playing cards and a hat resembling a crown with reindeer antlers.
Brothers Raymond and Thomas Kwok, who control Sun Hung Kai, built Hong Kong's three tallest towers. The top floor of the third-highest is a church. They also constructed the world's first replica of Noah's Ark built to biblical specifications, including 67 pairs of fiberglass animals. These days the two brothers are fighting corruption charges in Hong Kong.
Most countries send only their chosen Santa to the competition in Gällivare, a mining town of some 8,500 inhabitants located about 60 miles north of the Arctic Circle. This year, the Hong Kong delegation included its three previous Santa competition entrants and a photographer who doubled as an English-language interpreter for the Cantonese speakers.
Mr. Ho said he was initially intimidated by the competitors, including Santas from the Netherlands, Estonia and Sweden, who looked as if "they lived in a forest and had their own deer." The solution was simply to "work harder," he said.
Hong Kong's delegation embraced the Swedish crowd, making balloon animals for the children, despite temperatures as low as 12 degrees Fahrenheit. At one point the Hong Kong team got separated from the rest of the international Santa delegation because they were socializing in Gällivare's town square.
"For me that's a good thing, but for the schedule it's not," said the contest organizer Mr. Svalenström, manager of the Gällivare Tourism Office.
Paradise Yamamoto, Japan's Santa and the only other contestant from Asia, said the Hong Kong Santas' style stood out as very "fancy, pop, flashy."
"All the rest are pretty normal Santas…if you can say that," Mr. Svalenström said.
Hong Kong's choice of a young, thin Santa, "shows they were thinking about winning," said Santa Paradise, who celebrated his 50th birthday at the Arctic event. A rotund, older Santa wouldn't fare well in events that require you to run on ice or handle reindeer, he said. "You feel like you're risking your life sometimes."
On game day, Santa Rainbow got off to a rough start in the reindeer riding contest. The mechanical beast bucked him off in a few seconds.
But he quickly recovered. Mr. Ho won the porridge-eating contest in a dramatic photo finish. Besides practicing on Swedish-style porridge, he had studied a video from a previous competition of his Japanese rival, who has long dominated the event. "Maybe I shouldn't have put it on YouTube," Mr. Yamamoto said.
Hong Kong's Santas pulled out all the stops in the Santa Karaoke competition, the final event and the only one in which the entire delegation was allowed to join its contestant.
The team danced, played instruments and performed magic tricks at a frenetic pace while Santa Rainbow sang a collection of customized, sometimes nonsensical English and Cantonese verses to the tune of "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer." One line came out: "Merry Christmas in your eye!"
Ultimately, Mr. Ho finished second, falling just shy of the gold, won by the Netherlands' Santa entrant for the second year in a row. Japan's Santa Paradise came in fourth.
Sun Hung Kai's Ms. Fong attributed the repeat victory to reports of the Dutch rival's robust training regimen. "He is really taking it very, very seriously," she said.
— Eva Tam and Juro Osawa contributed to this article.


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January 22, 2014
Dear students,
This week we celebrate MLK Days of Engagement. As I reflect on the words of Martin Luther King, Jr., I am reminded of how far we have come in our struggle toward respect for the dignity of all people and also how much work there is still left to be done — work that can and should be undertaken here at Marquette.
As I write this, it strikes me that respect comes in many forms: Respect for oneself and the responsibility each of you has to make choices that keep you safe and healthy. Respect for your peers, which means treating others with dignity, watching out for your fellow students and stepping in when others are potentially in harm's way — whether that be from drug and alcohol use to academic dishonesty to harassment of any kind. Bystander Intervention Training can help empower you to know when and how to help your friends. More than 500 students have been trained to date, and I encourage all of you to get involved. On a broader level, we expect that each and every one of our students respects what this university stands for, takes those messages of respect to heart, and acts in ways that demonstrate cura personalis both on and off campus.
Providing each of you with the academic, spiritual and emotional support you need to succeed is at the heart of all that we do here at Marquette. I'd like to call your attention to just a few of the programs and services available during the upcoming semester:
Don't forget about the resources of Recreational Sports to enhance your physical wellness, Student Educational Services for tutoring and academic pursuits, and the Career Services Center as you prepare for internships and employment.
The Marquette community, including all the staff in Student Affairs, is here to support you and to help you make the most of your college experience. If you have any questions about the services or opportunities available, please visit the Division of Student Affairs website. If you can't find what you are looking for, you can always call our central office at 414-288-7206 for assistance.
Dr. L. Christopher Miller
Vice President for Student Affairs
Diversity advocates