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The 7 Stupidest Things That Make People Proud
Some people pat themselves on the back for the strangest things. You know, people who think liking one band makes them a superior human being to someone who likes another band. Or people who think being able to copy and paste a quote from Douglas Adams into their signature makes them a profound thinker.
Or people who are proud of this kind of crap:
#7. Not Liking Something Popular
There are some people who think proclaiming that Justin Bieber sucks is the freshest, most daring opinion since not liking sliced bread.
A lot of popular things suck, I'm not arguing with that. But there's no reason to be smug and pat yourself on the back for hating a popular thing, whether it sucks or not.
Outside of North Korea, everything popular has a huge backlash made up of people who genuinely don't like it and are put off by the hype, as well as anticonformist rebels who have to do the opposite of what the majority is doing, whatever it is. So your contrary opinion doesn't put you in an elite Clever People's Club, but probably numbers you among millions of like-minded folks.
In fact I think one of the eHarmony compatibility questions is about whether you hated this scene or not.
It's easy to see someone get lauded for ripping into some pop culture phenomenon and think that all it takes is a negative opinion and some swears for people to find your ranting fresh and compelling. People think that they can just say something like, "Twilight is full of fucking homo sissy vampires!" and others will be either scandalized or excited by their refreshing and clever truth-telling.
What they don't notice is that all the good ranters provide much more than just shouting "I DON'T LIKE IT" really loudly. A good ranter makes accurate, insightful observations the average person would have missed, like in the Plinkett Star Wars prequel reviews. Millions of people can (and do) whine about how the acting was wooden and how Jar Jar was awful, but only the Plinkett guys could point out specifics about how the movies didn't have a protagonist or that there was way too much dialogue about a trade dispute.
Plinkett also offered his viewers pizza rolls. That's called being considerate.
People didn't put a whole hour of time into watching their Episode 1 review just because Plinkett dared to insult Star Wars, but because they did it really well and pointed out things we never thought of or couldn't put into words. The average Phantom Menace-despising person has no reason to pat themselves on the back for making comments as incisive as "That line about sand was very bad!"
Even worse, what if you later find out you are wrong? Maybe the thing is actually pretty good and you misunderstood something or didn't get it. Ten years from now when you finally get it, you will want to put a bag over your head when you remember how proud you were.
After seven years of calling out the lies in Batman Begins, Calvin learns it was not a documentary.
I'm not saying you should feel bad in any way about hating Katy Perry or FarmVille -- those are valid and probably correct opinions. There's just no reason to be any more proud of it than there is to be proud of not sticking your finger in the electric socket this morning.
#6. Being "Cynical"
When you are a kid, in most cases the world is bright and sunny, mom and dad are the best, Santa Claus is real, nobody dies even in movies, etc. The next stage of life is when all these illusions start getting shattered. That wasn't really Mickey Mouse, that was just a Disney employee in a suit. Some of the other kids don't have a mom, or a dad, or are scared of them. The pony you got doesn't talk, it just eats and poops.
"Dad, I think this one's retarded."
So when you're an adolescent, you tend to think you have finally gotten to the bottom of things. For years you had been living a lie, but now this -- all these negative things, all these clouds behind silver linings -- this is the reality behind the facade. A mature, observant person (like you) is therefore someone who can see the negative (or "realistic") side of everything. Someone who sees positive things is clearly behind you, at the innocent child stage.
But life doesn't stop there. As you grow into an adult, you find out it's not a simple two-step process of positive illusion then negative reality, but more like the Frogurt routine from The Simpsons. When you're a kid, you think owning a puppy will be all sunshine and roses. Then as you get older and take responsibility, you realize it's a lot of poop and barking. But then, after a while, you find out all the poop and barking doesn't matter when he loves you just the same no matter what stupid mistakes you've made. Then you realize you didn't know how much it would hurt when you lost him. Then you get a free Frogurt from the vet. But then the Frogurt contains potassium benzoate.
(That's bad.)
There is no final answer. Observant, curious people keep finding out more and more about everything in life, both good and bad, because life is fucking complex. The person who stops at stage 2, decides they've figured out "the real story" and stops looking has their curiosity stunted at adolescence.
People pride themselves on being cynical because they think it makes them street-smart and sharp-eyed, able to see the truth behind everyone's bullshit. If it's a matter of being skeptical, and always thinking and asking questions, that's not a bad thing.
But a real wise person of the world keeps looking for all the angles -- curse or Frogurt, cloud or silver lining. They look for all sides of the story instead of assuming there are only two. Being proud that you are able to jump to a negative answer quickly -- that's just something most people figure out by turning 14.
Why not just be proud of turning 14? It's an achievement of sorts in a world full of reckless drivers and unattended table saws.
#5. Not Being Shocked at Things
You see this everywhere. Someone posts a video of a child being run over by a bus, people respond with shock and horror at this awful thing and eventually some guy feels the need to tell everyone that it didn't faze him at all and he didn't even stop drinking his Mountain Dew. He totally sees worse things than that over on 4chan every day, but he totally understands why sheltered people like you might have weaker stomachs.
These are people who equate shock with weakness, visualizing a bunch of people who have to fan their faces and reach for their smelling salts. This kind of thing happens all the time, they think. If you delicate people have a fainting spell every time you see something mildly disturbing, why, you must be fainting all the time. How can you even function?
"We never should have let him watch that scene where Mufasa dies!"
Well, when we're talking about a child being beaten or killed, or dead bodies being defiled, that kind of thing should not happen all the time. Maybe it does, but the only way anything is going to get done about it is if people react with surprise and revulsion that someone would allow or accept this, or, in a word, are "shocked." Shock means you don't just calmly expect a child to be beaten on video with the same attitude you expect the bus every morning.
If you accept that this sort of thing just happens and your first thought is pride at not having reacted to it, you're not tough and worldly. You're a self-centered ass. You're thinking, "How does this make me feel?" while other people were thinking about what the person in the video was feeling.
I like to refer to this as "Trumpian" behavior.
Incidentally, people who are shocked can also be obnoxiously self-centered when most of their conversation is about how outraged and self-righteous they feel, getting on a soapbox and arguing heroically against imaginary people in their head who are defending the bad thing. What you're going for here, as a decent human being, is some kind of reaction that's about the person in trouble and not mostly about you.
I know people can't control how they feel, and some people really might feel nothing due to a variety of reasons, but it's not about the initial reaction, it's about whether they're going to walk into a discussion about another person's horrific incident and act like the most important thing they can contribute is to inform people how they themselves personally didn't react to it. I think it's safe to say someone who really needs to let you know that is an ass.
#4. Offending/Confusing Other People
When I was an editor on my high school newspaper, I had an ongoing contest with the editor of the sports section as to how many people we could offend every month. See, like many teenagers, we were familiar with cases of people saying something controversial and stirring up a shitstorm. Sometimes these people were bravely speaking truth to power and their comments started a public dialogue on something important, and sometimes the media just pretended like that was the case.
Like when that guy made up a study about vaccines causing autism.
We totally bought into that and assumed that every time you offended a bunch of people, it was a sign that you'd really "hit a nerve" and said something that was difficult to hear, but important. You'd made people face some taboo they were afraid of.
This is the kind of thinking that makes people blurt out things like, "Adolf Hitler dead baby Lady Gaga rape anus Abu Ghraib menstrual blood" or create a LOLcat macro incorporating all those things or whatever. Then when people tell you it is gross or tasteless, you applaud yourself for really pushing people out of their comfort zone. If they got mad at you, it really showed you were right somehow, because you'd hit too close to home or something.
"I'll have you know my mother had an anus! You brought up some very painful memories!"
But seriously, it is not hard to offend people, and it doesn't take any skill. There is nothing narrow-minded about being offended by stupid and horrible things, or by simple rudeness. There's a push to make people ashamed of being offended by anything, as if it reflects on how delicate you are, as opposed to just having a sense of right and wrong. That's the only way you wouldn't be offended by things -- if you had no sense of right and wrong. Being offended is just a name for your response to wrong things.
Someone who offends you hasn't "got" you or "won." What they said, and why, matters. They don't get a free pass on being scrutinized on any of that just because they got a certain reaction.
If you say something truthful and important, be proud of that. You should be proud of doing the right thing, not of how many people it upsets.


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I simply would like to take this opportunity and applaud the Jefferson County Development Authority for its research and advocacy supporting the reduction in county impact fees and also extend, "A......
I actually {gasp} agree with Major on this one. The Jefferson County Commission has increased it's budget every year by the amount it is legally allowed to. In a true era of spending cuts, the County's budget would be less, it wouldn't need to be higher.
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Breakfast is the biggest part of the name bed and breakfast, so it is no surprise that Richmond's premier bed and breakfast was asked to participate in the Real Richmond Food Tour of the historic Fan District on Saturday July 9. So, what did Mike prepare for the tour ticketholders?
First, a tasting sample of one of his newest first courses: the Lilly P. The Lilly P is a creamy, layered, not too sweet starter consisting of one layer of fresh strawberries combined with Greek yogurt (the pink part) topped with a layer of basil white chocolate mousse (the green part), garnished with flavored whipped cream and chopped pistachios. Recipe.
Second, a tasting sample of one of his entrees an ebel skiever stuffed with marinated fresh peaches with maple syrup on the side. Ebel Skievers, small stuffed Danish pancakes, require a special pan – one of the many tools in Mike's closet. They can be stuffed with jams, preserves, fresh fruit, cheese – and, yes, even chocolate!
The wonderful aspect of these tours hosted by Maureen Egan and Susan Winecki is that you get a taste of culture, a taste of history, and a taste of Richmond's best food! Tour Info. Future tours will visit Shockoe (the Bottom or the Slip), the Museum District, both sides of Broad, and other little explored parts of Richmond. Add these tours to your list; you won't be disappointed!
Tour comment: "When can I move in?" But, you don't have to move in, simply make a reservation for an overnight stay and a hearty gourmet breakfast awaits you in the morning! Enjoy!
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Ball State Sports Link: A Second Chance - Joel Cox
By Josh Blessing & Chris Kosinski | Ball State Sports Link
Life is full of obstacles. How we answer back from personal adversity is key to how we write the story of our lives.
For Ball State Football's Joel Cox, his story is defined by his second chance.
"Hard work has really paid off me," Cox said. "I know there are a lot of kids out there just as talented as me. It's crazy how evertyhing works out, but it worked out better for me. A door closed, but another opened."
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Louie Turco was working on the Bell Aircraft assembly line in the early 1950s, saving up enough money to chase his dream. He wanted to open his own hot-dog stand, in the grand tradition of Ted's, so he began scouring sites in the area. He finally found his spot, on Grand Island Boulevard at the foot of Sheridan Drive.
But Turco also wanted a gimmick, to lure customers to that end of Sheridan Drive.
"So he came up with the idea of the foot-long hot dog," his son Angelo said Thursday. "Nobody had them. Coney Island didn't start serving them until years later."
Louis Turco, a pioneer in the local fast-food world, died Wednesday night in his Las Vegas home after a brief illness. He was 84.
While other hot-dog purveyors actually were on to the idea of the foot-long before Turco, he played a big role in popularizing it, particularly in Western New York.
The only problem with Turco's dining concept was that he couldn't find anyone who made foot-long hot dogs. He found a company, Hy-Grade, to make them, although it took another 30 years until someone started baking the foot-long roll. "You could always tell the old-time customers, because they still ordered their foot-longs on a short roll," Angelo Turco said.
His father opened the first Louie's Foot-Long Hot Dogs in 1951, running the business for 58 years before his retirement in 2009.
Louie's had as many as five sites, but now has two, the original on Grand Island Boulevard and the Elmwood-Hodge site in the Elmwood Village, which sustained extensive damage in a February fire. Angelo Turco said he plans to reopen that site in late June.
Louie Turco had a few secrets to his formula for operating a hot-dog stand. First, the french fries had to be cut by hand, the root beer had to be homemade, and the food had to be cooked to order, not beforehand.
More important was the personal touch.
Working the front counter, Turco often would make a fast friend by greeting a customer with "Hi, cuz." Some customers didn't even realize that he called most everyone "cuz"; sometimes, when he wasn't there, customers would ask another employee to tell Turco that "cuz" had come in.
"So many times you go to a fast-food restaurant and people don't address you," he told The Buffalo News in 2005. "They don't care about you." Referring to the term "cuz," he added, "It's made people feel closer to me. People say, 'He's related to Louie.' "
That's a lesson that he passed on to his son Angelo and to other local fast-food entrepreneurs.
"He always said, 'Ange, you have to get your rest at night, and you have to be at your store,' " his son recalled. "If you look at any successful mom-and-pop operation, the owner is always there."
When Louie Turco no longer could provide the personal service he prided himself on, he retired, in the fall of 2009, at age 81. "Right after we closed for the season, he put his arm around me and said, 'I'm done,' " his son recalled. "He handed me the hot-dog fork and said, 'It's all yours.' "
Born on June 15, 1928, Turco grew up on Buffalo's West Side. He honed his sales skills by shining shoes, including those worn by the waiters at Lorenzo's, an Italian restaurant on Pearl Street, where he soon became a waiter.
Drafted into the U.S. Army in 1944, he served briefly as a cook, before being honorably discharged because of poor vision.
Turco later graduated from the Louis Hotel and Culinary Institute in Chicago in 1946, before returning to Buffalo, his family said.
His wife of 54 years, Josephine Argentieri Turco, died in 2003.
Surviving are two daughters, Deborah and Maureen; three sons, Louis Jr., George and Angelo; and two sisters, Marie Botticello and Jean Pagano.
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ELKINS - Davis Health System (DHS) will join the national movement "Go Red For Women" to raise awareness to fight heart disease, the number one killer of women.
DHS looks forward to participating this year in National Wear Red Day on Friday, which will mark the 10-year anniversary of this nationwide campaign.
"We are proud that employees are making the commitment to Go Red because it's important we raise awareness in our own community about cardiovascular disease, and how women often experience unique symptoms," said Marjory Moses, Community Health educator. "Only one in five women believes that heart disease is her most significant health threat. More deadly than all forms of cancer combined, heart disease continues to claim the lives of nearly 500,000 American women each year."
DHS will continue to celebrate "Heart Month" throughout February with a host of activities related to heart health. Heart Month will be kicked off with a National Wear Red Day.
In an effort to empower all adults to take charge of their heart health, Dr. David Tingler will lead a public educational seminar called "Change of Heart." The free seminar will be held at 6 p.m. Feb. 13, in the DMH cafeteria overflow room. Several other health professionals will join Dr. Tingler in a discussion about risks, medications, diet and other ways to improve heart health. Reserving a seat is recommended.
Other activities DHS will sponsor include a free Healthy Heart Screen from 7:30 a.m. to 9 a.m. Feb. 14 at HomePlus in Elkins. A finger stick screening will be available for people to check their blood cholesterol and blood sugar levels.
Blood pressure checks will also be conducted. Appointments are not necessary; however, overnight fasting is recommended.
In addition, the community can also expect to see informational displays about Heart Health throughout the various DHS entities during February.
The American Heart Association Go Red For Women is a national movement that empowers women to work together to wipe out heart disease. Funds raised by Go Red For Women allow the American Heart Association to help women by offering educational programs, increasing women's understanding about their risk for heart disease and support research to discover scientific knowledge about heart health.
For more information please call 304-637-3139 or visit www.goredforwomen.org to learn more.


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A mother who reported her 9-year-old autistic son missing was arrested after authorities located the boy inside a bedroom in the family's cockroach-infested apartment.
The Sacramento Sheriff's Department said Christina Milligan had called 911 on Sunday to make the report.
When authorities arrived to the home on the 7200 block of French Road in the Florin area, they found a cockroach-infested apartment, with food, trash and soiled diapers on the floor.
The boy was found inside a bedroom with clothes soaked in urine.
Milligan was charged with misdemeanor child endangerment, deputies said.
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MACON, Ga. – The Stetson men's soccer team gave up an early goal to Georgia Southern in the first game of the 2013 Mercer Classic, and the Hatters never recovered. The Eagles (2-2-0) went on to top the Hatters (1-2-1) by a score of 3-0 on Friday in Macon, Ga.
Eric Dinka got things started for Georgia Southern, scoring in the 11th minute to give the Eagles the early 1-0 lead. Witt Carlisle was credited with the assist after flicking a pass on past the Stetson defense to Dinka.
The Hatters fell further behind late in the first half when Emmanuel Raji found the back of the net with less than five minutes remaining. David Vargas sent a low cross into the box that Raji was able to one-time past Stetson goalkeeper Andreas Schnabl to give the Eagles a two goal advantage heading into the break.
The match became essentially out of reach for Stetson when Georgia Southern scored off of a free kick in the 74th minute. Hunter Norton connected from just outside the box to give the Eagles a 3-0 lead in the second half.
Georgia Southern was able to cruise from there, as a Stetson red card led to the Eagles' final goal, and the Hatters were forced to play a man down for the second straight contest.
Stetson was only outshot 15-13 for the game, and actually recorded three more corner kicks than the Eagles (8-5).
Schnabl finished with six saves in the loss, while Georgia Southern goalkeeper Neal Bates finished with five stops for the Eagles.
Stetson will continue play at the Mercer Classic on Sunday, taking on Winthrop at 1:00 p.m. in Macon.


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text: Erectile dysfunction (ED) is a very common disorder that affects up to half the male population over the age of 40. As one might expect, the degree of severity of ED can range from minimal in younger age groups to severe dysfunction in older age groups. Generally, ED is defined as a difficulty in attaining and maintaining an erection sufficient for satisfactory penetrative intercourse. Unfortunately, despite aggressive marketing by pharmaceutical companies to both physicians and patients, most men never receive treatment. The causes of ED can be multifactorial, but generally are divided into 3 categories: those resulting from vascular causes, such as high blood pressure and atherosclerosis (hardening of the arteries); neurogenic causes, such as spinal cord injuries; and psychogenic causes, such as chronic depression. Of course, some causes such as diabetes can damage both nerves and blood vessels, leading to both neurogenic and vasculogenic ED. Medications, such as beta blockers used to treat high blood pressure, will often exacerbate underlying ED. Patients should consult with their doctors about changing their medications so that their underlying condition can be treated effectively while minimizing side effects such as ED. Finally, it should be noted that one of the most common and most reversible causes of ED is tobacco smoking. Studies have shown that moderate to severe ED is two times more common among smokers than non-smokers. Cessation of smoking can often result in improvement of erections within a week. Among male multiple myeloma patients, recent anecdotal reports are revealing an even greater prevalence in this select population. The causes are not known, but undoubtedly include the impact of the underlying myeloma, with changes in hormone levels, and the effects of various new treatments, including such drugs as thalidomide. Thalidomide can cause a side effect known as neuropathy, which typically leads to problems of sensation that can range from numbness to muscle cramping and pain. However, men taking thalidomide generally do not report problems of penile sensation, but rather can experience difficulty attaining and maintaining erections. Fortunately, a variety of treatment options exist for the treatment of ED. The relatively recent introduction of a new class of medications known as PDE5 inhibitors (Viagra®, Levitra®, Cialis®) has transformed ED from a condition that was difficult to treat, to one that is more often treatable. PDE5 is an enzyme that effectively causes the erectile bodies inside the penis to contract and therefore precludes a normal erection. Thus, by inhibiting PDE5, the erectile chambers can dilate and engorge with blood to allow for a complete erection. Viagra is probably the best-known PDE5 inhibitor since it was the first drug of this class to be launched. Patients should take this medication preferably on an empty stomach since food will impair its absorption. The peak time of action is roughly 2 hours after taking the drug, so a man will need to anticipate his sexual activity. Similarly, Levitra also has a peak time of action at approximately 2 hours after taking the drug. However, unlike Viagra, a full stomach will not impair absorption of Levitra. The most recent PDE5 inhibitor introduced is Cialis, which remains effective for up to 36 hours. This means that, with sexual stimulation, a man can have an erection anytime within the 36-hour window. Indeed, all of these medications require some form of arousal or foreplay for an erection to be achieved. As with all mediations, PDE5 inhibitors can occasionally cause side effects, including nasal congestion, visual changes, and rarely, muscle aches. Because the PDE5 inhibitors are systemic drugs, patients should check with their doctors about both drug interactions and other medical considerations. For myeloma patients, underlying kidney impairment will require appropriate dose adjustment. Prior to the introduction of PDE5 inhibitors, the treatment of ED was more limited. Many of these older treatments are still useful, however, since some men cannot tolerate the newer oral drugs or may need some form of combination treatment. Caverject® is a medication that is injected directly into the side of the mid-shaft of the penis through a very fine needle. Muse® is a similar medication that is inserted via a small pellet into the urethral meatus, the small opening at the tip of the penis through which urine exits. Another option is the vacuum erection device, or VED. This method creates a vacuum with a plastic cylinder that is placed around the penis such that blood is drawn into the erectile chambers and trapped to cause an erection. There is a variety of other older methods that may offer benefits to patients who cannot tolerate the newer treatments. The good news for patients is that there is a wide range of treatment options for ED. Patients should feel comfortable discussing this issue with their physicians and have confidence that very likely there is a medication that will alleviate this condition.


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Alexei V. Heringer of Planned Futures Financial Group in Amherst achieved membership in the Million Dollar Round Table in his third year of practice. The round table is an international organization whose members comprise the top financial professionals in each country.
Leadership Niagara announced its 2013 annual awards honorees: Leader of the Year, the Rev. Joseph L. Levesque, president of Niagara University; Organization of the Year, Western New York Regional Council; Distinguished Alumnus, William J. Watson; and Emerging Leader, Tasha LeFevre. The awards luncheon will be held at 11:30 a.m. April 26 at the Conference and Event Center Niagara Falls, 101 Old Falls St., Niagara Falls. For reservations, email Tracy Shattuck at email@example.com
People Inc. promoted Nicole Galley to recruitment and hiring administrator in the agency's Human Resources Department. Galley holds a bachelor's degree in business administration and certification as a Professional in Human Resources.
Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney promoted Maureen T. Bass, a bankruptcy and insolvency attorney, to shareholder. The firm has offices in Buffalo, California, Delaware, Florida, New Jersey, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Washington, D.C.
IPLogic Inc., an advanced technology and communications solutions provider, appointed Kim Super, Kathleen Schubach and Shannon O'Grady senior territory representatives. Super will oversee new business development for Unified Communications and Data Center solutions sales throughout the company's upstate New York region. Schubach will oversee client account management and new business development of Unified Communications and Data Center solutions throughout the Western New York region. O'Grady will oversee new business development for Unified Communications and Data Center solutions throughout the upstate New York region.
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Nesco Resource, a provider of staffing services and HR solutions with more than 60 offices throughout the United States, was named to Inavero's 2013 Best of Staffing list of award winners, presented in partnership with CareerBuilder. This year's list identifies Nesco Resource as one of the best staffing agencies for companies and job candidates to call when they are in need. Less than 1 percent of all staffing agencies in North America receive the Best of Staffing award for service excellence.
Noco, a family-owned and locally operated company, has teamed up with the Buffalo Sabres as the official natural gas supplier for the 2013 season. Noco is also a member of the "green team" as part of the Sabres Blue & Gold Make Green initiative. This marks Noco's second year as a sponsor with the Buffalo Sabres. In addition, Noco's iconic green and orange logo is featured at center ice in First Niagara Center.


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This comprehensive program on multiple myeloma was presented as a Friday satellite symposium preceding the 53rd American Society of Hematology Annual Meeting. In this interactive, case-based didactic program, expert faculty members discuss evolving data in the optimal management of patients with multiple myeloma—from diagnosis to treatment.
We were happy to be able to bring you the symposium live from San Diego, California. The presentation began at 6:30 PM Pacific Time on Friday, December 09, 2011.


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UNICEF/UN Volunteers: Volunteering for behavioural change in Egypt
25 October 2011
Well, I am one of those. I have been a national United Nations Volunteer (UNV), on a desk, with office hours, in UNICEF Egypt's Communication for Development (C4D) section for a little over two years now.
Over those past two years I have been involved in a number of different projects ranging from behavioral change responses to the Avian Influenza and the H1N1 influenza pandemic in 2010 to the emergency response in Salloum in the wake of the Libyan revolution (March 2011) assisting UNICEF Egypt's team in providing relief efforts and psychosocial support to displaced children and families on the Egyptian-Libyan borders. Apart from emergency responses, I have been involved in a few more long-term projects promoting healthy lifestyles, hygienic practices and cooperation among Kindergarten children as well as primary school children and their families as well as building the capacities of government and civil society counterparts in the field of C4D.
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JEFFERSON CITY–Missouri hunters who pursue doves, teal and other early-migrating birds will find this year's seasons for those species pretty much the same as last year.
At its meeting in West Plains May 27, the Missouri Conservation Commission approved the following early migratory bird seasons:
• Sora and Virginia rails: Sept. 1 through Nov. 9 (70 days), limits 25 daily and 25 in possession. (Combined total for both species.)
• Wilson's (common) snipe: Sept. 1 through Dec. 16 (107 days) limits 8 daily and 16 in possession.
• American woodcock: Oct. 15 through Nov. 28 (45 days), limits 3 daily and 6 in possession.
• Mourning doves, Eurasian collared doves and white-winged doves: Sept. 1 through Nov. 9 (70 days), limits 15 daily and 30 in possession. (Combined total for all three species.)
• Blue-winged teal, green-winged teal and cinnamon teal: Sept. 10-25 (16 days); limits 4 daily and 8 in possession. (Combined total for all three species.)
Additional details about early migratory bird hunting regulations will be published in the 2011 Migratory Bird Hunting Digest. The publication will be available from hunting permit vendors later this summer and online at www.mdc.mo.gov.
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hey every body what is your favorit song? my favorit song is face down by red jumpsiut appratise
and I know I've posted in this thread before but oh well... I would say The good life and Break both by Three Days Grace
Love... is just a different kind of pain.
My favorite song would be Wrong number from DBSK
and If We ever meet again by timberland
YOU LISTEN TO DBSK TOO?!?!?!?!I LOVE THEM WITH A FUCKEN PASSION!!!!!MY FAVE SONG BY THEM: PURPLE LINE!!!!!<3ilovedebbie<3
wake up by coheed and cambria or snuff by slipnot =)
<*RAWR!!!!!! means i love u in dinosaur*>
never shout never"jane doe"
tommarow not garuteed so take what you want while u still can
Im right 85% who cares about the other 25
my favorit song is deep forest by fukai mori
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|M and I
|T and I (with J photo-bombing)
|Z, me, and T (the hat fell right over my face the second the picture was taken)
|And how could we forget the many trays of jello shots?
|M and I
|T and I (with J photo-bombing)
|Z, me, and T (the hat fell right over my face the second the picture was taken)
|And how could we forget the many trays of jello shots?
Ha ha I want to see the hidden pics LOL! Love all the green and festivities!
How fun! So nice to see you and M together :)
You look like you had such a great time, and better late than never to celebrate!! Xo
oh lady, i was in vegas this weekend so most of my pictures need to stay "hidden". glad you had fun! (i had to skip st. patty's day this year, because it was the day before the marathon...but next year i say trays of jello shots are a MUST)
I love how you did the green in the black and white pics! SO COOL!
I don't really celebrate besides wearing green.
Haha, a week isn't too bad. Also I'm digging the black and white with the green.
Love how you did the pics! And omg jello shots... the death of me! Looks like you had fun!
I just posted about St. Patty's day too, so don't feel bad!
I LOVE St. Patty's day!!!!! Cute pics and those jello shots make my mouth water. I love any reason to day drink. Glad you're back! Happy Tuesday!
how fun that you got to continue the celebration!
I think the Irish would be very, very proud that your town continues to celebrate well after saint Patrick's day. It looks like you had a blast!
Loving all that green!
And I agree with some of the other comments - I'd love to see the "un-blogworthy" picture haha!
Happy Tuesday, girl!
So, given that my last name is McAuley...I am kind of Irish. Growing up, St. Patrick's day was just as big of a deal in our family as Christmas was. We would have HUGE celebrations with our whole extended family- everyone would fly in, we'd break out the guitars and the baby grands and there would be Irish music with everyone singing. This year I was recovering from surgery so I didn't go :( but I suppose I just have next year to look forward to!!!!
Your pictures look so fun! Love the green.
LOVE the green photo effect, I wonder if I can do that with iPhoto. You look so cute in all your photos!
We also had an irish parade this past weekend, it was fun to prolong the celebrating :)
I was wondering why you were tweeting so many st pattys day things this past Saturday. Looks like a fun weekend!
You just made me realize that I have never once tried a jello shot. What is WRONG with me? I have partied so much in my life that I'm appalled at this. Must remedy that.
Mine was pretty fun...I bar hopped but was happily DD for once.
Looks like fun!
This is St. Patricks Day done right....I love it.
Great pics! I love the B&W with green. :)
Super cute pics!
fun! you look lovely in green :)
better late than never, right?
I can't really drink anymore, but day drinking works, since I get to sleep it off! Gotta love jello shots!!
I love St. Patty's Day! My brother has a huge party, which is perfect because he lives out in the burbs, and Chicago gets CRAZY each year!
I think I celebrated by reading more papers. Yay, so much fun. ._.
Haha, I wonder why they did it a week late? Oh well - it just spreads out the celebrations! I like what you did with your photos!


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NL Central Smackdown: Shortstops
2nd Basemen | Poll
We march on around the diamond. Today it's the double play partner of yesterday's vote. The Cubs so far have the 2nd best first basemen and second basemen in the division. Can Ryan Theriot keep the streak going? Answer - no!
Your scrap-tastic contenders after the jump....
UPDATE: Thanks to you wonderful readers, it was brought to my attention to check Tejada's projections since he revealed his true age. His WARP-3 three year projection is updated in the chart and went down from 4.13 to 3.2. I'd still rate him first though even though he now drops behind Hardy and Wilson in the WARP-3 projections.
|3-Year Warp-3 Average
|3 Year Warp-3 Projection
|Rob's Ranking
|Ryan Theriot
|2.6 (2 years)
|J.J. Hardy
|Cesar Izturis
|Miguel Tejada
|Alex Gonzalez
|Jeff Keppinger
|1.9 (2 years)
|Jack Wilson
The Justification: This one gets a bit difficult as the Reds muck up my little chart. They're going to do that a few times in this series. Alex Gonzalez is signed through 2009 with about $11 million owed to him between this year and next, plus a 2010 mutual option for $6 million. He also has a fractured left knee and a player currently playing in his place who is probably better than him. I'd dismiss Gonzalez altogether if it wasn't for the fact that he's got a contract to justify and has Dusty Baker as his manager. So what to do? Well I included them both in the chart above and if it was just Keppinger, I'd easily rank him third ahead of Jack Wilson and possibly second ahead of JJ Hardy.If it was just Gonzalez, I'd push him behind Jack Wilson for fourth (who's brilliant glovework makes up a lot for his deficient bat). Overall though, I'm guessing they share the playing time and I think the composite of the two is a just a bit better than Wilson for the three spot.
As for the rest of the rankings, Tejada still gets the nod as the top spot. He probably won't stay at shortstop for much longer or with the Astros, but stanozolol rises to the top with this weak competition. Hardy's twenty-plus homer potential and 26 years of age give him the two spot in my rankings. You can flip the three/four spots between Wilson and the Reds shortstops however you wish. I don't expect Ryan Theriot to last the season as the Cubs shortstop, either because of a trade or Ronny Cedeno taking over the job. He's only saved by the presence of Cesar's ghost in the division from being a bottom, which seems like a place Cesar is very comfortable occupying.
There's another poll for you guys to fill out below this and I'll leave the old polls open until we finish this.
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The tabs are awesome.
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Wow, I had Jack Wilson second. I really like good defense.
Off Topic - Soriano
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So where do we see the poll results without waiting? Maybe I'm an idiot (let me restate that. I AM an idiot. Maybe this is attributable to me being an idiot,) but I can't find it.
Theriot Shift
How long before we see the "Theriot Shift"?
- 3 Infielders on the right side of the infield
- RF guards the line, in close
- CF plays short right-center
- LF plays CF
This would compeletely negate The Riot as an offensive factor.
Last night -- brutal hitting conditions -- and the teams combined for 17 runs and bucketful of hits. Pretty impressive.
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Riot does occasionally pull the ball. Also, since he's a singles hitter, he's more likely to try to hit the ball where they ain't than the lefty sluggers who usually get a shift (or Andruw Jones). So if they shifted on him, he'd probably try to pull one, even if that meant hitting a lot of Murton Choppers. The bunting would be a factor too.
Okay, I get that you're not being serious; you're pointing out the fact that Riot hits the ball to the right side a lot, and not always very hard. When it ceases to be the best approach for him I'll start criticizing him too. As of right now, with his career homeruns in single digits, I'd tell him to keep swinging for short right.
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If we're looking at this from a who has the most value to a GM over the next 3 years stand point, then I think I rank it this way:
JJ Hardy
Jeff Keppinger
Miguel Tejada
Ryan Theriot
Alex Gonzalez
Jack Wilson
Cesar Izturis
Izturis just has no value at this point. He doesn't even have the range he used to. Tejada, I think, is going to see his production continue to drop off, though Houston's park may help him a bit, and he's very, very expensive. Wilson and Gonzalez may both be better than Theriot to varying degrees, but they are both really overpaid, too. JJ Hardy takes the cake for best combination of talent, potential, and cheapness (or did he get a long term deal this winter?). Keppinger looks like a quality hitter, though we'll see whether he's a legit shortstop. Theriot goes ahead of the expensive mediocre players in my book simply because his salary doesn't prevent you from improving the club elsewhere and he provides acceptable defense, and, who knows, maybe he'll hit a little and steal some bases.
If we're not looking much at price or age, then the list goes pretty much how Rob G. has it.
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Were those 3-year future projection done for Tejada when we thought he was 31, or now that we know he is at least 33? Just curious if that was factored in...
Re: Tejada's Age
Nate Silver re-ran PECOTA after Tejada's age revelation came to light:
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"What is thees?"
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There is alot of Homer voting, so far on the poll Theriot ranks ahead of Wilson, and almost at Hardy. Or maybe everyone thinks Theriot plays better defense than he really does. Wilson and Hardy are much better defensively.
Thinking of the other rankings, this is probably our weakest position (maybe CF is weaker, but I think another Cub ghost saves us from the bottom on that one.........)
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Yeah... voters are being kind to Theriot. Interestingly, if this poll was for utility player, I'd rank Theriot a lot higher. He's much more valuable as a utility player.
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I am no good at this game. I think I just like defense too much.
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From your link:
"MVP voters in the National League must have realized this when they gave the award in 2007 to a base-stealing shortstop with an OBP below .350."
If that is satire, it's brilliant. Otherwise -- to call Rollins a "base-stealing SS with an OBP below .350" conveniently leaves out his 28 doubles, 20 triples and 30 HR.
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That is a simplification, but Rollins probably should have been beaten in the MVP vote by his teammate Utley, or a few other guys around the league. But voters like flashy players, especially flashy shortstops.
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I think you can similarly argue that voters find that kind of offense from a SS to be very valuable.
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And at least Rollins is a legit SS, whereas Ramirez has yet to play decent defense.
In additionally, the above average defense from Rollins at short surely helped the Phils more than Holliday's average defense in left field. Still, I think Utley outperformed him, since Utley's not so shabby a defender at second base. Too bad for Chase he missed that time with the hand injury, or he would've been a shoe-in. Then again, he looks to be on-pace to make an even better bid at the award this year. Especially since I really believe the Cards will eventually suck badly enough to take Pujols out of consideration.
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I can see where you wouldn't have Rollins winning it, but I don't see how Hanley had a much better season. They were pretty much even in most all categories. Ramirez had the edge in Doubles, BA, OBP, and SB. Rollins had the edge in Runs, Triples, RBI, SLG, and SB%. I wouldn't have put either of them first. But around the 3-5 area I would have put Rollins ahead of Ramirez because he a) played on a winning team, and b) plays much better defense. Rollins was 3rd in fielding percentage behind Vizquel and Tulowitski; Ramirez was 20th in MLB. The only SS who had a lower zone rating than Ramirez was Jeter. There was talk of moving him to center for good reason, he is awful out there.
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OK, who voted for Izturis? Dusty, is that you?
micah owings (ARZ) is f'n awesome...
owings...the pitcher...pinch hit homer.
.421 on the year (8 for 19) with his first homer.
lucky guy...
...wait...not so lucky...so skilled.
last year: 60ab 20h 4hr 7 doubles (.333 avg)
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hell, forget the pitchers.
there's bench bats and even regulars who wish they could hit like owings has so far.
we might be dealing with the first pitcher in a long time who will have a legit point about having extra worth because of his bat come arb/FA time if he keeps up even a fraction of what he's doing.
79ab 28h 8doubles 1triple 5hr (3bb 20k, .354avg)
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owings had a statistically insignificant but interesting company in "pitchers with 4hr in first 2 season".
jim rooker who hit all 4 of his homers in his 2nd year with a .281/.300 avg/ob% who played in the 70s.
the other guy was some guy who didn't last long as a pitcher named 'ruth'.
rick ankiel eat your heart out.
Re: Minor League info
interesting to say the least.
i'd be upset, too, if i was mateo.
it seems like they dont have a plan for him if they're shuffling him that much this early.
it's obvious he has things to work on, but he needs to actually work with someone steady rather than making 3 adjustments and 3 new sets of faces all within a month.
he's got a career to think about and its in the cub's hands. if they dont spell out something for him that he buys i imagine he could be traded for peanuts pretty damn soon. its not like hendry is known for being a career wrecker dealing with fringe guys who are on the downside of their value and blocked legitimately by others.
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j.buchanan with a nice start...5ip 2h 1bb 3k, 0r/er
zobrist with 2HR and a double through 8
heyward 0-4 :(
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Soler likely to return Sunday, Maddon says
Right now, I'd like to see the Mets first, Giants 2nd.
I believe that since most of the team from last years' NLCS is on the squad this year, they will really amp their game up even more to kick their ass in payback for 2015.
The Giants just do not have the depth in years past, and I think all things equal - and at Wrigley - they could handle them.
I do not want to see the Cards, period. Or their fans, media, or Joe Buck.
I don't want to play Braves in the first round. Any friggin team in the league can win 3 of 5..I hate the first round. Furthermore, I wanted to play the Marlins in 2003 and the Mets over Dodgers last year.
With that said in reverse order:
3. Cardinals: It will be devastating to lose in the first round, but even worse to their main rival. It is increased incentive for the Cardinals, especially after last year. Cards would have nothing to lose, Cubs have everything to lose.
2. Giants: Rotation in the playoffs scare me a bit, but what a lousy team.
1. Mets--because of the losses in the rotation
2. Giants--because they're not the team they were BUT they maybe have bullshit even-year magic?
3. Cardinals--because rivalry and not making the playoffs hurts them more than losing in the NLDS plus getting eliminated by them in the playoffs would make for horrible sports commentary next throughout next season.
Who's asking?
CLE/DET rained out last night already, possible rain-outs in New York (vs. Baltimore), Boston(vs. Toronto) and Philly(vs. Mets) this weekend too.
Not only games involving playoff spots that would need to be played, but any that involve home field advantage.
I got the first one! Second one I'm not even sure what even/odd betting is.
any opponent preference for NLDS?
Mets are down to 1 great pitcher instead of 4. Syndegaard may pitch Sunday which means if Mets win the WC game, he'd be set up for Game 1. There's a chance they clinch a spot by Sunday so he'd pitch the WC and then we'd probably get Colon for Game 1. They've certainly had the hottest bats over the last week and month out of the WC options.
A couple of Cub related puzzles.
Can't teach height and thinness
Hopefully Pirates don't call up A. Lincoln.
j.buchanan going friday...should be...baseball...or something like it.
Wow. I didn't know they could do that.
Nice for Willson, not so much for Addy.
Game is officially called...also officially a tie.
Stats count, no make-up date of course.
Yeah -- seeing the weather -- I hope KB and Rizz are inside, wrapped in blankets and drinking hot chocolate.


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SEIU Officials, Santa Clara County Face Class-Action Lawsuit for Violating Employees' Rights
Relying on landmark Knox Supreme Court decision, county employees seek to end automatic dues deduction for union politics
San Jose, CA (December 3, 2014) – Two Santa Clara Valley Medical Center employees have filed a federal class-action lawsuit against a local union and the county that seeks to expand public employees' right to refrain from paying union dues used for union politics.
With free legal assistance from National Right to Work Foundation-provided staff attorneys, San Jose-area county employees Jeffrey Lum and Andrew Li filed the lawsuit with the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California's San Jose Division.
Lum and Li are not formal union members in the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 521. Because California does not have a Right to Work law, workers can be required to pay union dues or fees as a condition of employment. However, nonmember workers have the right to refrain from paying for union boss politics and many other activities not related to bargaining with their employer.
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The big news for 2017 is the addition of an SR Turbo model that features a new 1.6-liter direct injection turbocharged engine that generates a maximum of 188 horsepower at 5,600 rpm and 177 lb.-ft. of torque between 1,600 and 5,200 rpm. This represents an increase of 64 hp and 52 lb.-ft. of torque over the 2017 Sentra SR trim's 1.8-liter engine.
Honda has released pricing information as well as specifications for the all-new 2017 Civic Hatchback. Based on the same vehicle architecture as the coupe and sedan, the latest configuration in the tenth generation of Honda's longest-running nameplate goes on sale September 26th.
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quote: Using High ISO numbers are not in themselves detrimental to image quality. You have to compare overall image quality.
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quote: So what you term a 'slow' f2.8 may not in fact be slow at all in the system.
quote: What f-stop of the lens does directly effect is depth of field control. F2.8 should give a pretty good depth of field range.
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The daffodil has long been a sign of spring, and, thanks to the American Cancer Society, it's also long been a symbol of hope for cancer patients.
But unlike the perennial's annual bloom, this will be the Daffodil Days campaign's last year.
East Central Division income development representative Lisa Koncz said the daffodil sale was the American Cancer Society's longest-running campaign, and several factors led to the national office's decision to discontinue it.
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(From left to right) Jenee Delerme, Alexis Petre and Paige Jodon, all in sixth grade at Foot of Ten Elementary School, hold statues from the American Cancer Society with Linda Jodon, the daffodil coordinator and a teacher, on Thursday.
She said only three of 15 divisions still participated, and even though Pennsylvania was the most successful state - with Blair County coming in second in the country only to Pittsburgh - organization executives thought it would be better to function as one unit and work on shared projects, like Relay For Life and Making Strides Against Breast Cancer.
"I'd rather sunset [the program] in its glory," she said, adding that Blair County raised $148,000 last year, with $135,000 coming from school efforts.
One of the hardest hit participants is Foot of Ten Elementary's teachers and students, who have been ranked No. 1 nationally among school sellers for years.
Fifth-grade teacher and Daffodil Days coordinator Linda Jodon said Foot of Ten has raised more than $200,000 since it began participating in the campaign about 20 years ago.
"Right now, I'm just kind of in a state of shock," she said. "We're all going to feel a great loss because we always look forward to this, year after year."
Jodon said teachers and parents often begin planning for the next year as soon as the campaign ends. In 2012, Foot of Ten participants sold around 29,000 flowers and raised almost $32,000.
She said the campaign is a group effort, with students incentivized to sell so they can be rewarded with ribbons, a pizza party or a field trip and with teachers willing to "put themselves out there in a silly way" for their students.
This year teachers banded together to perform their version of Carly Rae Jepsen's chart-topping, and often-parodied, song "Call Me Maybe," which they titled "Sell Me Baby." Teachers adorned in yellow gathered around microphones at an assembly, singing: "And all the other schools try to chase me, we're daffodils, so sell me baby."
She said this year's goal is 20,000 daffodils, although she expects the students will surpass it like they do every year and retain the Bob Bundy Trophy, awarded to the top-selling Blair County school in memory of the Foot of Ten teacher who was involved in Daffodil Days for years before he died of cancer more than a decade ago.
School campaign coordinator Tom Bradley said he's sad to see the program ending, but he thought a lot of projects run their course.
"My attitude is that it's nice that we're ending this on a high note," Bradley said, because less participation from other states and other factors would have led to a price increase eventually.
Over time, the labor-intensive program may have become cost prohibitive, Koncz said.
Bradley said he's glad he stayed with the program as long as he did, and schools in the area were able to be so successful.
Amy Geer, the campaign's logistics coordinator, said after 20 years' work, she'd have preferred the campaign end "after they made a major step in finding a cure for cancer" but said she's going to keep working with the American Cancer Society on other projects.
Koncz said with this being the last year, participants can help the program "go out with a bang," and she hopes to hold a celebration at its end.
Jodon said students and teachers always will have memories they'd made.
"It's always going to be in our thoughts," Jodon said, adding that the school also has a daffodil garden. "And I'm sure we'll come up with some other fundraiser."
The final campaign is to begin March 18 and end March 24.
Mirror Staff Writer Kelly Cernetich is at 946-7520.


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A Benedictine monk from Kenosha County is accused of trying to kidnap a 14-year-old girl in Illinois.
Police in Antioch, Ill., said Thomas Chmura, 57, has been charged with attempted child abduction and disorderly conduct. Investigators said Chmura tried to lure the girl into his car on Thursday night.
Authorities said the girl was not hurt, and she ran home.
Chmura told police during an interview that he had offered rides to as many as 10 teenage girls during the past six weeks, but they all turned him down.
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A large swollen and quite possibly infected testicle which appears purpley/red in nature. Perhaps caused by the Mrs finding out about "the affair" or due to obscure sexual positions in which the safety of the testicular area may become impaired.
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A code word often used to indicate when the person that is the topic of conversation is close by.
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Person who has their head in the ground, they are unaware of things/people around them. They will come across as narrow minded, impatient, rude and arrogant.
That guy was a beetroot!
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A person who's face has turned a red/purple because they are embarrassed, 'beetroot' is usually shouted when someone does something embarrassing and try's to pass it off.
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Beetroot was struck down by the fury of the "dark sin".
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Knute Buehler, Republican Party and Independent Party nominee for Oregon secretary of state, announced proposed reforms Thursday to improve the office's auditing functions and to improve the Public Employee Retirement System.
Buehler, a Bend resident, was joined by state Rep. Jason Conger, R-Bend, who is leading the fight to reform PERS in the Legislature.
"The secretary of state is beholden only to the citizens of Oregon and should ensure all agencies are efficient, programs meet benchmarks, and point out when counties, cities and public programs are in danger of insolvency," Buehler said. "One of the most pressing financial issues in need of reform is the Public Employee Retirement System, and I intend to introduce and advocate for those reforms."
Conger added, "PERS is one of the largest cost drivers in our state. It is draining critical resources that could be spent in our classrooms and protecting our communities. We need leaders like Knute Buehler who are willing to take on this difficult issue and protect the essential services that Oregonians depend on."
On audits, Buehler said he will work closely with the Legislature to use audits to improve the budgeting process for state agencies as well as assist with the implementation of the new outcome based budgeting approach. He also pledged a more rigorous approach to reviewing and monitoring local government audits.
"Unfortunately, under (Democrat incumbent) Kate Brown, the office has let far too many audits sit on the shelf," Buehler said, pointing out examples like the cities of Molalla, Oakridge and Creswell.
Among his PERS reforms, Buehler said he will propose and advocate for eliminating the practice of "double dipping," capping the cost of living adjustment, and reducing the guaranteed rate of return to six percent. Buehler also pledged to not join PERS and thus eliminate any conflict of interest.
"The reform of Oregon's public employees retirement system is one of the most pressing financial issues facing the state. It impacts every level of government," Buehler said. "The increased costs lead to fewer teachers in our classrooms, fewer police in our neighborhoods, and reduce services across all sectors of government."
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The Secretary of State has the power and the responsibility to audit all state agencies and programs and look for ways to improve efficiency, performance, and value. The Secretary of State is beholden only to the citizens of Oregon and should ensure all agencies are efficient, programs meet benchmarks, and point out when counties, cities and public programs are in danger of insolvency.
As our Secretary of State, Knute Buehler will make the position a leader in getting more out of our tax dollars by helping to those who need it most. He will push to increase audits and make agencies accountable to taxpayers – freeing up funds for critical programs like schools, law enforcement, and families in need.
1. Require all major agencies to complete audits
Knute will make sure that all major state agencies are doing their statutorily mandated annual internal audits. He will also increase performance based auditing of state agencies so that Oregonians get the biggest bang for their tax dollars.
2. Use audits to assist the Legislature with budgeting
Completing an audit is only the first step. If it sits on a shelf, it doesn't do any good. As Secretary of State, Knute will provide the Legislature's Ways and Means Committee with meaningful performance based audit information to help them develop agency budgets.
3. Work with the Governor to implement outcome based budgeting
Senate Bill 676 (2012) changed the way Oregon is supposed to build a budget. The bill requires a new outcome based budgeting approach. Knute will work cooperatively with the Governor to facilitate the implementation of this approach and to ensure the Legislature has the audit information needed to successfully and prudently build a state budget.
4. Review, monitor and provide feedback on local government audits
The Secretary of State's office is tasked with reviewing the annual audits that local governments must complete. Unfortunately, under Kate Brown, the office has let far too many audits sit on the shelf. City of Molalla, City of Oakridge, City of Creswell, LaPine Soil and Water District, and the Clackamas River Water District have all had problems over the past 18 months that were indicated in their audits. Yet the Secretary of State failed to sound the alarm.
Knute will protect taxpayers and ratepayers by making sure local government audits are reviewed and assistance is provided where appropriate.
5. Track the performance of the Governor's health and education initiatives
Healthcare and education make up nearly 75 percent of the Oregon budget. It is imperative that new initiatives in those areas are tracked closely to make sure Oregonians are getting the best bang for their buck. As a physician, board member at St. Charles Medical Center and former board member at OSU Cascades, Knute is in a unique position to track these budgets because he understands and has experience in these areas.


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Legal Aspects of HIV/AIDS: A Guide for Policy and Law Reform
Lance Gable
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Katharina Gamharter
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Wayne State University Law School Research Paper No. 08-24
This book provides a wide-ranging assessment of laws and policies that impact HIV and AIDS. It shows how laws and regulations can either underpin or undermine good public health programs and responsible personal behaviors. Spanning 65 distinct legal topics, the authors demonstrate the scope and breadth of laws through a comparative law analysis. The book begins with a long section on public health laws, covering efforts to track the spread of the disease through testing and screening for HIV infections and AIDS; to deter transmission through prevention, prophylaxis, and partner notification; and to assist those infected through treatment. Next the authors address legal protection against discrimination across multiple areas of society including work, education, and health services. Subsequent chapters cover a variety of relevant topics including disclosure of HIV status, clinical research, access to information, and access to medicines. The legal issues facing several at-risk populations are specifically addressed in discrete chapters on women, children, men who have sex with men, sex workers, and injecting drug users.
The Guide is intended to be of practical use for legal reform to support effective action against HIV/AIDS. We seek to alert those working on AIDS strategies and projects to opportunities for legal and policy reform and to provide them with tools to tackle the job effectively. To achieve this, we adopted the following format for each topic: first, we identify the specific issue or issues raised by the topic, and we follow that with a discussion of the pertinent legal and policy considerations. Then we give at least one good practice example (often providing actual statutory language), and follow that up with a list of key references.
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The entire Bomber Jacket collection is beautiful- rich, dark brown pebbled leather. The card box provides easy 3x5 "to do" cards at hand for your daily notes and call backs. While I am an avid user of technology, I still like paper and notes at my desk for certain reminders. Perfect add on to the desk blotter which will hold these cards under the flip side rails.
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I bought this for my husband as one of his Christmas gifts. He already had a few of the Bomber Jacket pieces and was thrilled with this as he also uses the 3 x 5 cards all the time.The finish is beatiful and very functional... a quality we have come to appreciate in all our Levenger purchases. Which are numerous to say the least! I would highly recommend this to even my most discerning friends.
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Access starting point: Bus first to Epagny and then on to Moléson-Village
Point of arrival: La Maison du Gruyère in Pringy
Hiking time: 02:00 h
Physical fitness: easy
Difficulty: easy
Difference in elevation: 430 m
Culmination point: 1'150 m
Season: May - October
Gastronomy: Moléson-Village, Pringy
The peak of Moléson rises proud and mighty to the sky, as if it were standing guard over the entire valley. The theme hike begins at the foot of the giant, in the center of the village named after the mountain. This hike takes a close look at the mysteries of cheese making. There are two hiking alternatives to choose from. One hike takes you through les Reybes (described here), the other through la Provêta. The tour begins at information panel 10 (Tafel 10), which belongs to the the cheese-dairy Fromagerie d'alpage de Moléson-Village. The route leads past panels 11 through 20, down to Pringy, and ends at the Maison du Gruyère (Tafel 1 / panel 1). Authentic alpine huts and magnificent forests are passed en route.
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State posts insurance rate comparisons
A complete list of home and auto insurance rates statewide has been compiled and released by Hawaii Insurance Commissioner Gordon Ito for the first time.
Home and condominium owners and renters may use the list of premium rates from all insurance companies to help compare options offered for the same coverage, a news release said.
The comparison tables show rates for homes and condominiums of different construction types, such as double-wall or single-wall construction, in various parts of the state.
The guide and comparison rates may be found at www.hawaii.gov/dcca/home_rates.
Last year, the Legislature and Gov. Neil Abercrombie passed a law requiring all homeowners' insurance companies to provide premium information for consumers to compare. State law already required such information for motor vehicle insurance.
Kahoolawe waters to open for trolling
The waters around Kahoolawe will be open for trolling Saturday and Sunday, the Kaho'olawe Island Reserve Commission has announced.
The waters around the reserve also will be open March 16 and 17.
All vessel operators interested in trolling around the island must register annually with the commission before entering the reserve. Registered vessels also are required to file a catch report with the commission, whether fish are caught or not.
There is a $25 permitting fee for the registration.
Access to the reserve is restricted because of the presence of unexploded ordnance and for the protection of marine life.
To register or for more information, contact Dean Tokishi at 243-5889, send email to email@example.com or go online to kahoolawe.hawaii.gov. Registration packets are available at the state Division of Boating and Recreation, 210 Imi Kala St., Suite 205 in Wailuku.
Mayor, officials to appear in Kihei
Mayor Alan Arakawa will hold a "County on Your Corner" from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. Saturday at the Lipoa Street Farmer's Market.
Joining Arakawa will be Managing Director Keith Regan, the mayor's Chief of Staff Herman Andaya, Department of Parks & Recreation Deputy Director Brianne Savage and the mayor's Executive Assistants John Buck and Zeke Kalua.
In addition, Maui County fire officials will provide information and applications for free smoke detectors as part of the Fire Prevention Bureau's Smoke Alarm Maui program. The smoke detectors will be available for display at the event and qualified applicants may have the devices installed at a later date free of charge by a licensed electrician under the supervision of Fire Department personnel.
"County on Your Corner" is scheduled in a different location each month so that residents can interact with county officials to address issues.
The farmers market will be held at 95 Lipoa Street in Kihei. For more information, call 270-8222.


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A boater is missing after reporting chest pain while sailing off Port Canaveral.
The United States Coast Guard will continue searching Thursday for Patrick Cornelias, 59, who reported heart trouble Wednesday.
Cornelias, of Delaware, radioed for help at 8 a.m. from his 42-foot sailboat "Agaya," saying he had chest pains and a tingling sensation in his left arm.
A rescue helicopter and a response boat found the man's sailboat, but Cornelias was not on board.
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Former Pirates closer Stan Belinda will get a chance to be reacquainted with the Bucs and the big leagues in three weeks when the team visits Altoona for an exhibition game against the Curve.
The March 30 exhibition at Peoples Natural Gas Field will be broadcast on Fox 8 TV locally, and Belinda will handle the color commentary alongside Curve play-by-play man Mike Passanisi. The game is sold out, although standing-room only tickets do remain.
"I'm excited to see these guys, even if it is an exhibition," Belinda, who lives in Alexandria, said by phone Wednesday night. "It's a good chance for the people in Altoona and the surrounding areas to see the Pirates."
Belinda has done color commentary on about 10 Curve games over the past decade, including the Stephen Strasburg visit to Altoona in 2010. He never envisioned doing broadcast work during his major league playing days, but living in the region made him a good fit when the Curve broadcast some games on TV in the early 2000s.
"It's been fun and exciting getting that adrenaline rush," Belinda said of doing broadcast work. "It's a little bit different adrenaline rush, getting over that fear of making a mistake."
Belinda pitched for the Pirates from 1989-93 and earned the closer job. He's largely remembered by many fans as the pitcher who gave up the infamous game-winning hit to Atlanta's Francisco Cabrera that scored Sid Bream in Game 7 of the 1992 National League Championship Series.
That game conjures up painful memories for Pirates fans, in large part because the organization hasn't had a winning season since that 1992 campaign.
Belinda, 46, said he doesn't hear from many fans bringing up the game and added, "People that are affiliated with baseball that remember that game, they'll bring it up to me in a good way."
Usually the only time he hears about the 1992 game, he added, is when the media bring it up.
"That one game didn't sour me on being a Pirate, absolutely not," Belinda said. "I grew up a Pirates fan. My dad and my family were Pirates fans, and I was growing up listening to Bob Prince on the radio. It was a fun time for me."
Belinda last pitched in the major leagues, ironically enough, for the Braves in 2000. He said he attends Curve games occasionally and has four daughters and one son who are involved in sports.
He enjoys bringing his children to the ballpark so they can see how professional athletes conduct themselves and go about their jobs, and he's looking forward to his kids getting to see that from the big leaguers during the Pirates exhibition game.
His knowledge of the Curve and Pirates organizations make him a natural fit to do color commentary on the game.
"Certainly being a former Pirates pitcher and closer and being in the area, he obviously knows and still follows the Pirates a good bit and is also at our ballpark a good bit," Curve general manager Rob Egan said.
"He can bring you that inside angle, that player's angle. Even though he was a pitcher, he can bring what a hitter's thinking in certain situations."


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