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CLEMSON - Despite Tajh Boyd replicating plenty of his on-field success his senior year that he produced in 2012, his NFL draft stock has taken a tumble this spring via multiple scouts and draft analysts compared to his potential first-round status a year ago.
ESPN draft analyst Mel Kiper Jr., the network's most well-known personality on the subject, doesn't disagree.
"I'd say fifth or sixth round right now for Tajh Boyd," Kiper said during Thursday's teleconference with reporters. "I look at the height factor. (Boyd's listed at 6 foot and 3/4 inches.) Some inconsistency."
After becoming the 2012 ACC Player of the Year, Boyd returned to Clemson for his senior year, and brought the Tigers back to another 11-2 record with extremely similar individual statistics in 2013, though Clemson again could not beat Florida State or South Carolina.
Kiper pointed to the skill players surrounding Boyd: receiver DeAndre Hopkins and running back Andre Ellington in 2012, and receivers Sammy Watkins and Martavis Bryant and left tackle in Brandon Thomas the past two years.
"I think all those things helped him and assisted him," Kiper said.
"A Day 3 quarterback who certainly will play in the NFL, as a backup hopefully for a lot of years. As a starter? Debatable."
Top five talents
Rivals South Carolina and Clemson are looking at producing two of the first five players chosen May 8 at the 2014 NFL Draft.
For defensive end Jadeveon Clowney, Kiper believes the Gamecocks' star will go either No. 1 overall to the Houston Texans or No. 3 to the Jacksonville Jaguars.
"Both teams in the AFC South, and both need to get pressure on (Indianapolis Colts quarterback) Andrew Luck," Kiper said. "He would have been the No. 1 pick obviously, if he had the great year, which he did not have for a variety of reasons, and we'd probably need 20 minutes to get into that.
"I think the fact that he was concerned about getting hurt, had that cheap shot against him in the North Carolina game, kind of all contributed to that. But he's No. 1 on my Big Board, a lot of teams still have him No. 1, but I think he goes 1 to Houston or 3 to Jacksonville. Or maybe St. Louis wants to move out of 2 - somebody may trade up to get him."
Meanwhile, Kiper currently projects Watkins, the Tigers' All-American receiver, to the Oakland Raiders with the fifth selection.
Shaw, Gamecocks take
Whereas Boyd is looking at a late-round pick, his South Carolina counterpart might not be so lucky.
"I think Connor Shaw is a late-rounder or priority free agent who's a gutty competitor, and he wins," Kiper said. "Steve Spurrier has nothing but great things to say about him, and there's a reason for it."
Shaw went 27-5 as South Carolina's quarterback. Like Boyd (32-8), Shaw is his school's all-time wins leader - and was a perfect 17-0 at Williams-Brice Stadium.
"He just went out there and laid it on the line every week. Those kids respected him, he was a natural leader just based on how tough he was and how gritty he was," Kiper said. "If you had him as a career backup, I think you'd be in pretty decent shape."
I don't know about a starter in the NFL."
Kiper ran down a few other Gamecocks prospects.
"Bruce Ellington, the receiver, big-play guy, versatile athlete, of course played basketball there," Kiper said. "Made a lot of big catches for South Carolina. Think he could be in the third-round discussion very easily."
"Kelcy Quarles, the defensive tackle, I think after it's all said and done, he's an early to mid second-round pick, who's going to get some late first-round consideration. I think he's a guy gaining a lot of momentum as we move into the month of February."
"Victor Hampton, the corner, I was a little surprised he came out, but you look at where he could figure, third or fourth round."
"Quarles is the guy after Clowney, and Ellington, that are going to be guys that get a lot of positive commentary. (Chaz) Sutton as well, the defensive end, as a fourth-round pick."
Thomas a 'Pro Bowl guard'
Bryant and cornerback Bashaud Breeland received more fanfare for their decisions to move on from Clemson, but it's a Tigers senior Kiper's got his eye on following Watkins in the team's pecking order.
"I think Brandon Thomas is a second- or third-round (option)," Kiper said. "Because he was a left tackle who played well, and did a good job at the Senior Bowl practices. He could play as guard, and be a great guard, a Pro Bowl guard. I think second round for Brandon Thomas."
Kiper pegged both Breeland and Bryant for the third or fourth rounds.
Clemson wide receiver Sammy Watkins scores a touchdown reception over Georgia Techs D.J. White during the first half of a game on Nov. 14, 2013, at Memorial Stadium in Clemson. (AP Photo/ Richard Shiro)×


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President Obama's Speech Gets Mixed Reaction
More people sold on diplomacy than military action
President Barack Obama said diplomacy has "the potential to remove the threat of chemical weapons" in Syria without the use of force.
But in a televised speech to the nation Tuesday, Obama said the U.S. military will be ready to strike. The president plans to keep the pressure on Syrian President Bashar Assad so that he will comply with a Russian plan and turn over chemical weapons.
Syrian Americans said they were not convinced that a military strike would solve the problems in their homeland. They are also not sure who is to blame for the use of deadly chemicals on entire neighborhoods.
Simon Safar, of Santa Barbara, said his family near Damascus believes the enemy is not the regime, but the extremists fighting against them in a civil war.
He said the people of Syria don't want the U.S. to use force.
Many people walking around Santa Barbara after the speech said they didn't watch or listen to the speech, but they had strong opinions.
They don't believe that the president can promise there will no boots on the ground once action is taken.
Many favor the President's willingness to try alternatives before using force.
Congress won't vote on the matter right away.
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This educational outreach program is designed to inform 6th to 8th grade students about public works in an engaging, interactive, and entertaining way! The straightforward, contemporary curriculum integrates school subjects like social studies, language arts, science, math, and art into the study of important public works topics. This program teaches middle school students about the many fields that comprise public works, shows how public works improves every community's quality of life, and explores various public works careers.
The program has three key goals: to educate students about the role of public works in their everyday lives, pique interest in public works as a potential career path, and provide teachers and public works professionals alike with well-developed lesson plans. It aims to give students a deeper knowledge of five public works areas: construction, parks and recreation, traffic and transportation, water and wastewater, and solid waste, so that they will appreciate the work that goes into running a community.
Training Package consists of:
One Instructor's Guide and CD-ROM Resource; 25 copies of the Student Almanac; and 25 copies of Mystery of the Night Vandals.
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Whether you're a public works professional called to make a career day presentation or a middle school teacher seeking fresh, fully-prepared curriculum, this guide meets your needs. Accessible and all-inclusive, it contains flexible lesson plans filled with inventive activities, brief lecture outlines and discussion lead-ins, and background information on each topic, cutting time and making outside research and preparation virtually unnecessary for every presenter! Best of all, these accommodating plans will fit 30-, 45-, and 60-minute class periods, and for expanded lessons, each chapter contains ideas for "Extension & Enrichment"! The Resource CD-ROM contains all the worksheets, handouts, and charts for each lesson, as well as materials mentioned in the "Extension & Enrichment" portions. From bingo cards to word puzzles and public works statistics to letter templates to supplementary photographs, this CD-ROM supplies all the entertaining and informative extras you need to round out your presentation!
Can only be purchased as a component of the training package.
Student Almanac
Each of the seven chapters in this colorful, comprehensive almanac concentrates on a different aspect of public works, ranging from a general overview of the field to a focused discussion of traffic and transportation to an exploration of public works careers. Timelines, job descriptions, and introductory information on public works help orient students. The photos, illustrations, and factual "Did You Know?" featurettes will engage students from the start! Perfect for use in conjunction with the Instructor's Guide, this book can also be used for a stand-alone lesson or as a resource for individual students.
Mystery of the Night Vandals
This suspenseful story will keep students guessing as 7th graders Joshua and Ernesto race to find out who's behind the vandalism in Lakeside, Illinois before their Academic Decathlon! As the boys juggle their investigation with study sessions for the community section of the competition, they learn the impact of vandalism and the ways in which public works strengthen and maintain a community. Students collect clues about the Night Vandals and knowledge about public works along with the characters, learning in a fun, creative way. The novel concludes with a 10-question "Mystery Vandal Quiz" which encourages students to demonstrate what they learn.


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New Year's Resolutions help at Kings Beach Library
Stop by to find books/movies on yoga, computers, healthful cooking, money management, learning a language, and more. If you can imagine it, the Kings Beach Library staff can find a resource to support it.
Their computer series continues on Thurs. Jan. 24 with Doug Greenwood of Alpensoftware. This month's theme is "Web Browsers Explained." Learn about different browsers and expand your knowledge of Internet searching.
Placer Adult Literacy Service is a free and confidential program geared to help adults better their reading skills. Work one-on-one with a reading coach at your convenience. Call the Kings Beach Library to find out about how this program can help strengthen reading skills.
Preschool Storytime is now on Tuesdays, 10:30-11 a.m. Join in songs, nursery rhymes, books and more. Kings Beach Library is located at 301 Secline St. in Kings Beach. Call 530-546-2021 for information.
Buy jewelry to support Wolverine Booster Club
The Truckee Wolverine Booster Club is partnering with Mary Meier to host a catalog party of Silpada Jewelry. Purchase high quality jewelry for your Valentine and 25 percent of your purchase will benefit students at Truckee High School. Party is open until Jan. 31. Check out the catalog at http://mysilpada.com/sites/public/content/jewelry/index.jsf or contact Mary Meier at 408-710-0187.
The Truckee Wolverine Booster Club also has Truckee Football state championship photographs for sale at www.truckeeboosters.org. You can own a piece of history with a picture of the team after win No. 36 (3-peat picture) or after winning the fourth state championship in a row (4-peat picture). All funds raised benefit the students of Truckee High School.
North Tahoe School to host National Geographic Bee
For the 25th year, the National Geographic Society is holding the National Geographic Bee for students in the fifth through eighth grades in thousands of schools across the United States. The 2013 Bee is sponsored by Google and will take place at North Tahoe School on Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2013. Twelve students will compete in front of their peers to determine the North Tahoe School winner, who will advance to the next level of competition through a written examination to determine state competitors. All school winners are eligible to win the national championship and its first prize, a $25,000 college scholarship, at the national competition May 20-22, 2013 in Washington, D.C.
Truckee High School announces Poetry Out Loud contest rescheduled
Truckee High School announces a school contest for Poetry Out Loud: National Recitation Contest. The competition, presented in partnership with the Placer Arts Council, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Poetry Foundation, is part of a national program that encourages high school students to learn about great poetry through memorization, performance, and competition. On Jan. 24 at 2 p.m. (originally Jan. 23 at 3:30 p.m.) at the THS auditorium, more than 15 students from Truckee High School will participate. The winner of this competition will advance to the regional Poetry Out Loud contest. The California State champion will advance to the Poetry Out Loud National Finals on April 29-30, 2013 in Washington, D.C., where $50,000 in awards and school stipends will be distributed. Attendance is free and open to the public. For further information, call Patrick Mooney at 530-582-2600, ext. 3307.
Truckee High School Band Telethon Jan. 26
On Saturday, Jan. 26, 3-9 p.m., the Truckee High School Band will hold their 13th Annual Telethon. Telethon is a fun-filled variety show hosted by band members and broadcast live on local cable channel 6 and 24 and streaming live at www.ttctv.org. The event raises funds to support music in the school, including the purchase and repair of instruments, scholarships to music camps, and band tour - a four-day event where the band plays at veterans homes, children's hospitals, senior centers, and elementary schools in the Truckee-Tahoe area as well as Reno and Sacramento. Donations to the band can be made during the Telethon by calling 530-582-2777 or by going to www.thsbands.com. Donations greater than $25 are eligible for a prize and allow the donator to challenge students to perform live during the event. All donations are tax deductible.
Extended Dates for Dining for Schools Deals
Several North Tahoe and Truckee restaurants honor Excellence in Education's Dining for Schools cards during the extended period through March 28 including Dining Room at the Lodge at Sugar Bowl, Graham's at Squaw Valley, Jake's on the Lake, Pizza on the Hill, Rainbow Lodge, Rosie's Cafe, Rocker@Squaw, Sandy's Pub at Squaw Creek, Six Peaks Grille at Squaw Creek, Sunnyside, Summit Restaurant at Soda Springs, The Lodge at Tahoe Donner, The Soule Domain and West Shore Cafe.
Dining for Schools cards are good for 50 percent off entrees, cost $50 each and entitle the purchaser to unlimited use April 7 through June 13, 2013 and the extended period. Purchase one at Porters Sports Truckee, Save Mart (Truckee and Tahoe City) and Safeway (Truckee and Kings Beach), Mountain Hardware and www.ExinEd.org. Call 530-550-7984 or visit www.ExinEd.org for inquiries.
Dads in Drag Fundraiser
Complimentary food, drink specials, live music by the King Steppers, a beautiful location at the Big Water Grille, and the best entertainment you'll find in Incline Village on Tuesday, Feb. 5. It's the annual Dads in Drag Fashion Show, a fundraiser for the Kings Beach Parents' Co-op. Take part in the Retro Prom Theme by coming dressed for the prom of your favorite era from the 1950s to the present - and beyond. The fun starts at 7 p.m. and continues until 10 p.m., with a silent auction and the not-to-be-missed fashion show. Cost is $50 per person or $90 per couple. Contact the Kings Beach Parents Co-op for more information and tickets at 530-546-7519, www.kingsbeachparentscoop.org.
Squaw/Alpine Pledges $25,000
to Truckee River Watershed Council
In 2012, Squaw Valley and Alpine Meadows pledged $25,000 in financial support for the restoration and protection work of the Truckee River Watershed Council (TRWC). This pledge will be fulfilled by payments of $5,000 a year for five years.
"The Truckee River Watershed Council plays an important role in restoring and protecting the creeks, meadows, and wildlife habitat of our area," said Andy Wirth, President and CEO of Squaw Valley and Alpine Meadows.
The five-year pledge increases TRWC's ability to tackle 50 priority projects. For example, last summer TRWC began construction in Coldstream Canyon. This project will increase wetland habitat by an acre and eliminate nearly 5 tons of eroded soil from the canyon. Other projects include the work on the main stem of the Truckee River, Martis Creek, and Gregory Creek in Negro Canyon.
"Many thanks to Squaw and Alpine for their support. We look forward to continuing working with them," says Lisa Wallace, executive director of TRWC.
Squaw Valley Village Development Plan
presentation rescheduled from December
A Squaw Valley event is scheduled on Jan. 26 for those who want to hear about the proposed Squaw Valley Village development. Jennifer Montgomery, Placer County supervisor, and Alex Fisch, county planner for the Squaw Valley Village Development, will present the process for approval of the development. Chevis Hosea, vice president of the Village Development at Squaw Valley, will discuss the current status of the proposed development plan. In addition, written comments to the county's NOP can be turned in to the county planners. The event, sponsored by the Squaw Valley Property Owners Association, is at the Olympic Village Lodge, 4-6 p.m. SVPOA members are free; others are $10. A no-host bar will be open after the presentations. All, especially those interested in the future of Squaw Valley, are urged to attend.
Project MANA announces Stone Soup
This season's Stone Soup, a weekly soup night in Truckee where everyone is invited to celebrate food, live music and community, is getting off to a late start. Slated to kick off Jan. 6, it will begin Jan. 27. Soup is prepared and served each Sunday evening through March 10, 5-7 p.m. at the Community Arts Center, 10046 Church St. in downtown Truckee. Take your own bowl and spoon and enjoy delicious soup and a good time. Donations are requested but not required.
This year Project MANA is spearheading efforts to find different groups of volunteers from the community to get involved in Stone Soup. If you or your organization is interested in preparing soup or volunteering on Sundays, contact Project MANA at 775-298-0008.
"Heart Art":
Call to Artists for February Show extended
North Tahoe Arts invites you to submit two- or three-dimensional art for a show celebrating art that is about, for, and from the heart. Open to all fine art media, including painting, photography, sculpture, jewelry, functional art and craft. The jury may consider other media, such as poetry and music, so let us know if you have ideas. Submission deadline: Jan. 25, installation Jan. 30 with show Jan. 31 through 15 March 2013.
Eligibility requirements: Artwork must be framed and ready to hang, or balanced to stand. Artwork must be original, done by the artist. Application fee is $20; participation fee is an additional $40. Jury will need three 4x6-inch photos of artwork or a CD and corresponding inventory sheet with prices, medium, and dimensions. The commission schedule will be 70/30 percent for members and 60/40 percent for non-members. Download entry Form at www.northtahoearts.com or contact: North Tahoe Arts in Tahoe City at 530-581-ARTS.
12th Annual Truckee Bingo Night and Spaghetti Dinner
Celebrate with Sierra Senior Services at the 12th Annual Truckee Bingo Night and Spaghetti Dinner - a perfect evening out for the family. This event benefits Truckee and North Tahoe area seniors, homebound, and disabled adults who rely on freshly cooked meals seven days a week provided by the area's Meals on Wheels volunteers.
Join the fun-filled social event Saturday, Jan. 26 at the Truckee Community Recreation Center. Tickets are $20 each in advance. A no-host bar opens at 5 p.m. Dinner is served at 6 p.m. Enjoy a delicious Italian feast with dessert and coffee.
After dinner, bingo balls are poppin' 7-9 p.m. with 10 games for $10, followed by a $10 blackout game. Raffle prizes and a silent auction keep the evening stirring. Raffle prizes include a Calistoga Spa Package, Southwest Airlines tickets (two). Cost is $10 each or three for $20.
Tickets are available online at www.sierraseniors.org or at Sierra Senior Services, Plumas Bank and at the Community Recreation Center.
For more information, call 530-550-7600.
Tahoe Safe Alliance announces discounted Sugar Bowl lift tickets
The annual Tahoe SAFE Alliance Ski Day at Sugar Bowl is Sunday, Feb. 3. For more than 10 years Sugar Bowl has shown their support by donating all-day lift tickets to Tahoe SAFE Alliance. Sugar Bowl Ski Day tickets cost $35 - a huge savings. Enjoy some awesome skiing before the Super Bowl. Purchase your tickets at www.tahoesafealliance.org today! Tickets will be on sale until Friday, Feb. 1 or until supplies are gone.
Tickets will be available for pick-up only on Feb. 3 at Sugar Bowl's Mt. Judah Lodge. For additional information contact 775-298-0010 or email firstname.lastname@example.com. Tahoe SAFE Alliance is a nonprofit organization established in 1985 to reduce the incidence and trauma of domestic violence, sexual assault, and child abuse in North Lake Tahoe and Truckee. Visit www.tahoesafealliance.org.
Beginning guitar class for adults
The Tahoe Music Institute offers an adult beginning guitar class. The class, taught by Kerry Andras of local band Sneaky Creatures, is focused on learning the basics of playing guitar and covers topics such as tuning, chords, strumming, chord progressions, music theory, singing, folk and campfire songs. Classes meet Wednesday nights from 6:30-7:30 p.m. at the Tahoe Music Institute located at 2810 Lake Forest Road in Tahoe City. Call Shauna at 530-581-0618 or email firstname.lastname@example.com for details or to register.


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Jim: Yo Dan, I was feelin on my girl last night and all of a sudden she gives me a warm front!
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Awards, Grants, Scholarships, and Fellowships
Boren Scholarships
Boren Scholarships provide up to $20,000 to U.S. undergraduate students to study abroad in areas of the world that are critical to U.S. interests and underrepresented in study abroad, including Africa, Asia, Central & Eastern Europe, Eurasia, Latin American, and the Middle East.
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- A Fulbright Full Grant, which funds one academic year of overseas study and/or research in one country
- An English Teaching Assistantship (ETA), which funds one academic year of teaching English in one country
Additionally, Fulbright offers several specialized grants, including Travel-Only Grants (which are usually given to graduate students, and only for Italy, Germany, and Hungary), Fulbright/mtvU Awards, Critical Language Enhancement Awards, Fulbright Business Grants (Mexico, Spain, and the Netherlands), Fulbright Journalism Grants (Germany and UK), and Country-Specific Awards to Australia (CSIRO), Ireland (Irish Language), Italy (Slow Foods and Deaf Studies), Mexico (Graduate Degree and Public Policy); and the Netherlands (Water Management).
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The Mitchell Scholarship Program, named to honor former US Senator George Mitchell's pivotal contribution to the Northern Ireland peace process, is designed to introduce and connect generations of future American leaders to the island of Ireland, while recognizing and fostering intellectual achievement, leadership, and a commitment to community and public service.
Up to twelve Mitchell Scholars between the ages of 18 and 30 are chosen annually for one year of postgraduate study in any discipline offered by institutions of higher learning in Ireland and Northern Ireland.
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Rhodes Scholarships, the oldest international educational fellowships, were initiated after the death of Cecil Rhodes in 1902, and bring outstanding students from many countries around the world to the University of Oxford.
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Catherine Keller (2009-10):"After Omnipotence: Power, Pluralism, Peace"
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Basketmaking classes are now forming. Outstanding. I suggest we sign up Charles Town City Council for these classes so they quit spending out tax dollars. Paoenessa, Slover, Bringetott and the rest of these carpetbaggers that came here. Why doesn't Shepherdstown take them over there?
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Plus a sweets-only soiree is "really easy. You can make everything in advance and store it in the fridge or airtight containers. Then all you have to do is set the desserts out on pretty platters, and you're done!"
The New Yorker, 34, whips up at least three different confections, and "I like to add something fresh to the menu, so I serve fruit," she says. Another way she sends guests home feeling guilt-free? "Once the sugar stars flowing, I get a little dance party going to work off some calories!"
Menu: Toasted Coconut Macaroons (see below)
Individual Apple Tarte Tatins
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Toasted Coconut MacaroonsMakes 24
3 egg whites
½ tsp. cream of tartar
1 tbsp. sugar
1 (14-oz.) can sweetened condensed milk
1 tsp. vanilla extract
1 tsp. lemon zest
20 oz. sweetened shredded coconut
7 oz. dark chocolate (60-70% cocoa)
1. Preheat oven to 325ºF.
2. Beat egg whites in electric mixer on low. Once whites are broken up, add cream of tartar and sugar. Increase speed to medium and beat until whites are frothy.
3. Shut off mixer and fold in condensed milk, vanilla and lemon zest. Add coconut and mix until well incorporated. Let mixture sit for 2-3 minutes.
4. Line 2 cookie sheets with parchment paper. Drop 12 heaping tablespoons of the batter on each tray, spacing them apart evenly. Bake for 20-25 minutes. Let cool.
5. Melt chocolate in a double boiler over low heat or in the microwave. Dip half of each macaroon into the chocolate. Place on tray to allow chocolate to set. Serve when cooled.
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Tobacco Free U: http://www.tobaccofreeu.org/index.asp
National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism: http://www.niaaa.nih.gov
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The 7 Most Absurd Inventions in the History of Alcoholism
#3. The Worst Game in the WorldPatent Application #US2004/0188942 A1
Mark Trokan's invented a "nonalcoholic beer-pong game system," so his other inventions must be a social network for Halo players and a flavorless inhaler with all the health benefits of regular bacon. The only other people to extract the horrible parts of something so precisely are cancer surgeons. The whole point of beer pong is getting drunk enough to engage in unhygienically sticking things into fluid with strangers.
Patenting this game means they want to sell it and are therefore insane. Drink pong is less sanitary than bobbing for apples after the Toxic Avenger.
The patent makes the usual polysyllabic attempts at intelligence, describing "a plurality of colored beer-pong balls" aimed at "frustoconical shapes." They also realize that sober beer pong misses the point of everything so hard it's almost an antimeaning of life, so they write challenges on the balls to add a "degree of edginess." They're the sort of humorless assholes who'd write "zany" in cold blood. When your invention is "something college students do, but stupider," it's not a patent, it's dangerous proof that the nurses let you have something as pointed as a pen.
#2. Beer Bottle Fruit ClipPatent Application #US2011/0042343 A1
Jeffery Bartucci's patent reads like a dictionary cheating at Scrabble. He wants to patent keeping fruit wedges proximate a bottle spout using the distal end of a cantilevered containment arm, and when he describes his childhood he describes gustatorily investigating domicile coloration fluid.
This guy uses more steps to put fruit in a bottle than the Ghostbusters did to put ghosts in the Ecto-Containment Unit.
If you need mechanical assistance to put fruit in your beer, that's a level of impotence dick doctors don't have a word for yet. They only know that every time you fail to have sex you fade out of old photographs. The clip also has a smaller target market than giraffe leashes for dwarfs, because if you're prepared to make an effort to use special equipment for drinking, you've probably found a beer you can bear the taste of in the first place. Shoving citrus chunks into a bottle is how bartenders say, "We understand you desire our cheapest alcoholic water and have already placed vomit mops on standby."
That's not a clip, that's a kickass Need for Speed level.
A truly terrifying amount of design has gone into this thing. It's got more carefully artificial curves than Cher, and you'd have to drink several beers before considering using either. He's also designed more special-function variants of this equipment than the Batman.
I feel the sudden need to apologize to the inventor. And sleep with my dick in a safety deposit box.
#1. The Beer BellyPatent Application #US2007/0056998 A1
The "system for beverage storage and concealment" is the exact same idea everyone who's ever paid for stadium beer has had. And Lee Tyler Olson is the worst inventor of all of them.
I'm really glad he's designing beer-smuggling equipment or I'd feel bad mocking the child with a newly discovered syndrome who drew this. I don't know if the U.S. Patent Office gives gold stars for effort, but that smiley face radiates such brain-damaged joy at his beer, body armor, carefully drawn abs and huge swinging dong that I'm seriously considering buying one for Brockway. It looks like a child drawing the worst father ever as a superhero, knowing that his parents love beer because that's what he had for amniotic fluid.
Our only proof that it wasn't drawn by a child is that a young boy would have been giggling too hard to finish scribbling a penis on the cover of a patent application. This design is actually a cunning strategy: By not threading the tube through the bag, and instead having you hunch over to suck on your own crotch, you gain several minutes of drinking time as security guards wait for police backup before even attempting to stop you.
There may be a few problems with prior art, but as we've seen, art is Olson's fatal weakness. The way this exact device was used in several comedies in the '80s and was already for sale before 2007 might also be an issue.
I often find that it's chiseled-jaw hunks who need to sneak drinks in public places. In the mirror.
The provisional application was made in 2005. Olson was working on this for over a year, and this was still the best he could do. Babies improve at drawing faster than that. He didn't even use a ruler. This may be the only patent application completed during product testing.
It's a tragedy, because the basic idea of body armor made with alcohol instead of Kevlar is sound: We've been threatened by sobriety far more often than by bullets.
Luke McKinney spent the last week shoving scorpions into his face and discovering that 911 needs to add an Emergency Natural Selection service.
For other inventions of insanity, check out The 7 Most Terrifying Sex Toys Ever Patented and 9 Self-Defense Gadgets Your Mugger Will Find Hilarious.


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SEC575: Mobile Device Security and Ethical Hacking
- Contents | Schedule | Additional Info
- Instructor: Peter Szczepankiewicz
- 36 CPEs
- Laptop Required
Once again SANS has exceeded my expectations and successfully re-focused my view of threats and risks. I recommend this course because it is very enlightening.
Charles Allen, EM Solutions, Inc
In the fast paced world of Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) and mobile device management, SEC575 is a must course for infosec managers.
Jude Meche, DSCC
Mobile phones and tablets have become an increasingly common system in enterprise and government networks, from small organizations to Fortune 10 companies. Often, mobile phone deployments grow organically, adopted by end-users for convenient email access, on up to the CEO for access to sensitive company resources and systems. In other cases, mobile phones and tablets have become critical systems for a wide variety of production applications from ERP to project management.
Whether Apple iPhone or iPad, Windows Phone, Android or BlackBerry phones or tablets, the use of mobile devices introduces new risks to an organization including distributed data storage and access mechanisms, lack of consistent patch management and firmware updates, the high probability of loss or device theft and more. Mobile code and software applications are also introducing new malware and data leakage problems that expose sensitive data or personally identifiable information assets. Topping off these problems is a non-technical issue: there simply are not enough people with the skills to securely deploy and manage mobile phone and tablet deployments today.
This course was designed to help organizations struggling with the problems introduced with mobile phone security. From policy to network architecture and deployment, from mobile code analysis to penetration testing and ethical hacking, this course will help you build the critical skills necessary to support the secure deployment and use of mobile phones and tablets. You'll get hands-on experience in designing a secure mobile phone network for local and remote users, make critical decisions to support devices, analyze and evaluate software threats, and learn how attackers exploit mobile phone weaknesses so you can test the security of your own deployment. With these skills you'll be a valued analyst, able to guide your organization through the challenges and pitfalls of securely deploying mobile devices.
A Sampling of Topics
- Evaluating Mobile Device Management (MDM) systems for your organization
- Benefits and weaknesses of device encryption systems
- Building secure mobile phone remote access solutions
- Unlocking, rooting and jail breaking mobile phones and tablets
- Extracting sensitive data from Apple iOS and Android file systems
- Bypassing device lock passcodes
- Reverse engineering mobile code and applications
- Identifying data leakage exposure from mobile applications
- Fingerprinting mobile devices inside your organization
- Impersonating secure WiFi networks for credential harvesting
- Stealing usernames and passwords from BlackBerry phones
- Exploiting weaknesses in popular mobile devuce applications
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|SEC575.1: Mobile Device Threats, Policies, and Security Models
|Peter Szczepankiewicz
Sun Dec 9th, 2012
In order to have a secure mobile phone deployment, you need to establish policies that define the acceptable use the technology and recognize the limitations and threats of mobile phones, tables and the associated infrastructure systems.
The first part of the course looks at the significant threats affecting mobile phone deployments and how organizations are being attacked through these systems. As a critical component of a secure deployment, we'll guide you through the process of defining mobile phone policies with sample policy language and recommendations for various vertical industries, taking into consideration the legal obligations of enterprise organizations. We'll also look at the architecture and technology behind mobile phone infrastructure systems from BlackBerry, Apple, Android and Windows as well as the platform-specific security controls available including device encryption, remote data wipe, application sandboxing and more.
CPE/CMU Credits: 6
Mobile Problems and Opportunities
Mobile Devices and Infrastructure
Mobile Device Security Models
Legal Aspects of Mobile
Policy Considerations and Development
|SEC575.2: Mobile Device Architecture Security and Management
|Peter Szczepankiewicz
Mon Dec 10th, 2012
With an understanding of the threats, architectural components and desired security methods, we can design and implement device and infrastructure systems to defend against threats. In this part of the course we'll examine the design and deployment of network and system infrastructure to support a mobile phone deployment including the selection and deployment of Mobile Device Management (MDM) systems.
CPE/CMU Credits: 6
Wireless Network Infrastructure
Mobile Device Management System Architecture
Mobile Device Management Selection
Mitigating Stolen Devices
Unlocking, Rooting, Jailbreaking Mobile Devices
|SEC575.3: Mobile Code and Application Analysis
|Peter Szczepankiewicz
Tue Dec 11th, 2012
One of the critical decisions you will need to make in supporting a mobile device deployment is to approve or disapprove of unique application requests from end-users in a corporate device deployment. With some analysis skills, we can evaluate applications to determine the type of access and information disclosure threats they represent. In this process, we'll use jailbreaking and other techniques to evaluate the data stored on mobile phones.
CPE/CMU Credits: 6
Mobile Phone Data Storage and Filesystem Architecture
Filesystem Application Modeling
Network Activity Monitoring
Mobile Code and Application Analysis
Automated Application Analysis Systems
Approving or Disapproving Applications In Your Organization
|SEC575.4: Ethical Hacking Mobile Networks
|Peter Szczepankiewicz
Wed Dec 12th, 2012
An essential component of developing a secure mobile phone deployment is to perform an ethical hacking assessment. Through ethical hacking or penetration testing, we examine the mobile devices and infrastructure from the perspective of an attacker, identifying and exploiting flaws that delivery unauthorized access to data or supporting networks. Through the identification of these flaws we can evaluate the mobile phone deployment risk to the organization with practical, useful risk metrics.
CPE/CMU Credits: 6
Fingerprinting mobile devices
Wireless Network Probe Mapping
Weak Wireless Attacks
Enterprise Wireless Security Attacks
|SEC575.5: Ethical Hacking Mobile Phones, Tablets, and Applications
|Peter Szczepankiewicz
Thu Dec 13th, 2012
Continuing our look at ethical hacking or penetration testing, we turn our focus to exploiting weaknesses on individual mobile devices including iPhones, iPads, Android phones and tablets, Windows Phones and BlackBerry devices. We'll also examine platform-specific application weaknesses and look at the growing use of web framework attacks.
CPE/CMU Credits: 6
Network Manipulation Attacks
Mobile Application Attacks
Web Framework Attacks
Back-end Application Support Attacks
|SEC575.6: Secure Mobile Phone Capture the Flag
|Peter Szczepankiewicz
Fri Dec 14th, 2012
On the last day of class we'll pull in all the concepts and technology we've covered in the week for a comprehensive Capture the Flag (CTF) event. In the CTF event, you'll have the option to participate in multiple roles, designing a secure infrastructure for the deployment of mobile phones, monitoring network activity to identify attacks against mobile devices, extracting sensitive data from a compromised iPad and attacking a variety of mobile phones and related network infrastructure components.
In the CTF you'll use the skills you've built to practically evaluate systems and defend against attackers, simulating the realistic environment you'll be prepared to protect when you get back to the office.
CPE/CMU Credits: 6
|Additional Information
|Laptop Required
Throughout the course, students will participate in hands-on lab exercises. Students must bring their own laptops to class that meet the requirements described below.
Students must bring a Windows 7, Windows Vista, or Windows XP laptop to class, preferably running natively on the system hardware. It is possible to complete the lab exercises using a virtualized Windows installation, however, this will result in reduced performance when running device emulators within the virtualized Windows host. If you are a Windows XP user, make sure you also have the .NET 3.5 framework installed, which can be downloaded from http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=21 .
Administrative Windows Access
For several tools utilized in the course, students will be required to perform actions with administrative privileges. Students must have administrative access on their Windows host, including the ability to unload or disable security software such as anti-virus or firewall agents as necessary for the completion of lab exercises.
Students will use a virtualized MobiSec Linux VMware guest for several lab exercises. VMware Workstation or VMware Player is recommended. Note that there is no cost associated with the use of VMware Player, which can be downloaded from the VMware website.
While some students successfully use VMware Fusion for the exercises, the relative instability of VMware Fusion may introduce delays in exercise preparation, preventing the timely completion of lab exercises. VirtualBox and other virtualization tools are not supported at this time.
Hardware Requirements
Several of the software components used in the course are hardware intensive, requiring more system resources than what might be required otherwise for day-to-day use of a system. Please ensure your laptop meets the following minimum hardware requirements:
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Girl: Let's go to my place.
Guy: I'll take off my pants.
Guy: I'll take off my pants.
po Hall and Oates Јун 29, 2011
devilish anti sex devices. Warning: pants made for girls are notorious for being even more difficult to beat, they can contain up to 4 buttons to be unbuttoned.
Dude, I was getting it on with this girl, but her pants were so locked up there might as well have been a padlock down there. So I gave up and found another girl with a skirt on.
po fatninjaporker Јануар 29, 2011
something i'm too cool for, and rarely wear when i'm alone.
pants are icky
po toosexyformyhirt Јануар 9, 2011
A FEMALE who is extremely controlling. A female who is overbearing and aggressive in every situation, even those that have little or no relevance to her at all. Bossy, domineering and somewhat manly!!
"W-O-W she really wears the Pants.."
"no she IS PANTS!!"
"no she IS PANTS!!"
po cupcakeSDF Април 9, 2010
a color. it is a blueish color.
Person 1: "hey whats your favorite color?"
Person 2: "oh, PANTS!"
Person 2: "oh, PANTS!"
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Both sides of the adjective spectrum.
Can be awesome, great, horrible, disgusting.
Can be awesome, great, horrible, disgusting.
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"Yeah, that test was so easy!"
"That movie was pants..."
"Yeah, I didnt want to go either."
"Yeah, that test was so easy!"
"That movie was pants..."
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Nashville's Barry Trotz says Red Wings must stop bumping into goalie Pekka Rinne
"They were crashing the crease. They were in the blue paint. They were bumping into him," Trotz said. "He doesn't really get fazed by that. That's something that's got to stop in our series here.
"You're seeing it all the time, there are guys in the blue paint. They aren't pushed there, they're just there."
I guess we'll watch and see.
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WAILUKU - Maui Planning Commission members approved a permit Tuesday for the Aloha Aku Inn to operate a six-bedroom, bed-and-break-fast business near St. Theresa Church in Kihei.
Bed-and-breakfast permits are now handled administratively, but inn business owners Charlene Schulenburg and Gary Passon faced a complication with the Maui County Code because their main dwelling at 1390 S. Kihei Road has five kitchens.
The County Code allows only one kitchen in a bed-and-breakfast operation, but Schulenburg and Passon were initially told that they could be in compliance if they pulled stoves out of the kitchens, officials said. In a reversal, they were later told that the kitchens still would be kitchens, even without stoves, and they would need to get a variance from the one-kitchen-only requirement from the Board of Variances and Appeals.
That happened in September. Then, because the Kihei bed-and-breakfast had detoured onto the variance route, its application was required by the County Code to go before the planning commission for review.
When the bed-and-breakfast application went before the panel Tuesday, there was no opposition. An anonymous letter in opposition was received earlier by the Planning Department. A neighbor complained that the property was being used for private weddings on state land.
In response, the applicants, through their planning consultant, said that the property's prior owner may have allowed wedding parties. But Schulenburg and Passon have not done so since purchasing the property in late 2010.
The Aloha Aku Inn proposal calls for six bedrooms for use by visitors in two dwellings on the apartment-zoned property, which has eight parking stalls for guests.
The Rev. Monsignor Terrence Watanabe, pastor at St. Theresa Church, submitted written testimony in favor of the proposed bed-and-breakfast.
Schulenburg and Passon have partnered with the church, opening their home and property for nonprofit and other fundraisers, and they have served on a number of community boards, giving generously of their time and resources, Watanabe said.
"They intend on continuing that aloha spirit," he said. "They are upstanding citizens, strive to do the right thing and share their good fortune, including their home with the community.
"Aloha Aku Inn would be a great addition to the area and will bring in people from all over the world where they can experience a stress-free, nonresort, family-style visit on Maui," Watanabe said.
In other action, the commission recommended passage of two measures for land-use changes to allow property owners to do renovations on as many as three dwellings on their 2-acre property at 101 Kuau Place near Tavares Bay in Kuau.
Philip Kai, one of the owners, said the property had been in interim zoning before there was "blanket zoning" of the area as agricultural without the owners' knowledge or notification. The rezoning meant that when the owners went for permits to do home renovations they discovered they couldn't do so because their new zoning was "illegal" and "nonconforming" to their home improvement plans, he said.
Kai said the owners had no plans to develop the area or increase its density.
Commission members recommended that the County Council approve two bills for the Kuau Place property. The measures would amend the Paia-Haiku Community Plan and change the property's zoning from agricultural to rural.
And, in a follow-up to a Nov. 13 commission meeting, panel members approved a written order denying the Wahikuli Neighborhood Association's and three residents' requests to intervene in the Iglesia Ni Cristo (Church of Christ) application for special use and special management area permits to demolish the existing single-story church and to build a new one as well as to provide 36 parking stalls at 1518 Malo St. in Lahaina.
The association and residents raised objections about the project's traffic and parking impacts, drainage, obstruction of views and noncompliance with setback and height requirements, among others.
At the November meeting, the commission denied the intervention request, finding that the residents' raising objections did not demonstrate that they would be directly and immediately affected by the church's plans and that their interest is clearly distinguishable from the general public's.
Commission members also approved the church's requests for permits for its project.
The would-be interveners were advised of their right to file an appeal of the denial with 2nd Circuit Court.
Wailuku attorney Lance Collins filed a written objection to the commission's order in the case, but the letter was dismissed as being vague and not specifying its legal objections.
The commission also approved a state land use special use permit for a four-bedroom short-term rental operation at 110 Apau Place in Makawao.
* Brian Perry can be reached at email@example.com.


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Astex and partner Janssen-Cilag International reported EC approval for Dacogen™ (decitabine) for the treatment of adults aged 65 years and over with newly diagnosed de novo or secondary acute myeloid leukemia (AML). The DNA hypomethylating drug is already approved for treating myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) in over 35 countries, including the U.S.
EC clearance for the AML indication was based on results from the Phase III Dacoo-016 study, which compared treatment using either decitabine infusions, supportive care, or low-dose cytarabine in 485 subjects aged 65 years and over. An analysis of protocol-specified results showed that decitabine therapy was associated with a 54% increase in median overall survival (7.7 months for decitabine-treated patients, compared with 5.0 months in the comparator arm). Subsequent analysis of mature survival data confirmed the trend for overall survival and provided clinically significant evidence of decitabine efficacy.
"Dacogene nicely complements our growing portfolio of therapies to treat hematologic malignancies, which is one of our key areas of focus in oncology," comments Peter Lebowitz, M.D., oncology therapeutic area head for Janssen R&D.
Astex Pharmaceuticals co-developed Dacogen and receives significant royalties on global sales from Eisai in North America and from Janssen-Cilag in the rest of the world. Under terms of its licensing deals the firm may receive up to $17.5 million in future payments if milestones are achieved for Dacogen globally.
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The way we conduct business is fundamentally changing, pioneered by the "Bring Your Own Device" phenomenon. More employees than ever before are using their personal devices, such as Apple's latest iPad, for or at work. For small businesses, BYOD offers unprecedented opportunity, cost savings and challenges.
According to the latest study by NewsFactor, 23 percent of people who purchased Apple's iPad 3 indicated they planned to use their newfound gadget for work-related purposes. In another study, over three quarters of Information Technology leaders noted BYOD isn't a "fad" and could be "somewhat" to "extremely" beneficial for their organizations.
Nonetheless, information security remains the top concern with regard to BYOD. As new devices enter the marketplace, scalability and flexibility is critical. Supporting such a broad array of hardware remains problematic. However, given small businesses have the ability to be more nimble – and agile – than large entities, they reap the benefits, too.
According to Matthew Ackerson, founder of Saber Blast, small business owners should jump at the chance to embrace BYOD, given it is a "natural, evolutionary change." Many owners are worried employees will slack off playing Tetris all day, which simply isn't the case. Rather, employees are more productive, often during times they wouldn't otherwise work, such as on the train, while laying in bed, or on vacation.
Cost Savings
The days of employer-issued smartphones are quickly fading as convergence rises. More employees are mixing their personal – and professional – lives, both on and offline. Leverage this new paradigm to increase productivity and flexibility, while reducing your operational expenditures.
Google Apps for Business in lieu of MS Exchange
Most employees want to check their email while on the go, and it is commonplace within the greater business community. Minimize costs by opting for Google's free platform, which offers many of the same benefits as MS Exchange, but for a fraction of the cost.
VoIP and virtual communications
Traditional telephone lines and complex PBX systems are costly given their features. Most, if not all, of your telephony can be achieved using a mixture of company-issued laptops and employee devices. Use Skype or Google Talk, for instance, for quick calls and Google+ Hangouts to facilitate remote meetings.
Cloud-Based rather than dedicated services
The olden days of logging onto a virtual private network to access services are fading. Rather, small business owners are finding success using cloud-based solutions to meet their needs. As such, employees can access critical systems anywhere, anytime. Plus, it's then up to the vendor to manage security compliance and create mobile apps.
The 24/7 Employee
With BYOD and the aforementioned flexibility employees are often glued to their mobile devices 24/7. Small businesses, especially startups, benefit from this new breed of innocent "workaholics." The productivity gains clearly offset the relatively low costs associated with BYOD for small businesses.
This article is part of the Drive Your Business Forward series. Check out allvoices.com/smallbusiness for more tips and advice on how to succeed as a small business. This series is supported by Mercedes-Benz Sprinter.


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Lids is a once in a lifetime player, I love Pavel but he is not Lids or Stevie Y, and neither is Z for that matter.
I also said Kronwall which you left out, in his contract discussion Holland said the same thing.
He said the same thing when Z was up, it is the canned answer for everyone that is not a once in a lifetime player.
My point, that is Holland's canned answer, he gives that answer to the media every June!


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5 Reasons the Scariest Thing Ever Written Is a Kids' Book
When we were kids in the '80s, pornography was hidden from our eyes for fear it would warp us -- and with good reason. The only way we could see a skin mag was to sneak into the homeless camp at the abandoned drive-in, brain a hobo with a log and take the porn from his lifeless corpse. Now you're a murderer, and it's all because some people look good naked.
These days, of course, you can have any kind of porn you want on the Internet, and it won't cost you anything more than some Russian spyware recording your every keystroke. But that horny time was still better than this porny one. (Unless you're a hobo. But if you are, why are you on the Internet? Go ride a railcar.) You see, in that era, we had easy access to something far more disturbing than a woman faking an orgasm. We could walk into any library and check out three volumes of terror called Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark.
I am more scared of these stories than I am of real dangers.
I know you young people think you know horror, what with all the sea monsters and Australian people Cracked gives you the phobias about, but the liquid terror of these books fueled enough nightmares to run Elm Street out of business. The series was a cavalcade of butchery, spooks, demons, disease, death and other delights. So here are the reasons Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark remains the greatest batch of horror ever kind enough to warp our childhoods.
A good ghost story stops at the most horrifying point in the tale. Scary Stories stopped at the most horrifying point in the universe. Many of the entries ran no longer than a page or two, but while they did, they ran like hell. Scary Stories is responsible for more psychotherapy than freshman year and clown sex combined.
The original creepypasta.
Not only did half the tales lack explanation; they defied it. Evil exists because evil exists, the book whispered in our minds, and death is not only inevitable, but the best option. To deny death is to deny life, and make mockery of the natural order. You'd kiss the reaper gladly if the alternatives were to become a shambling, murderous husk or a rattling wisp, damned forever. Or worse, Jim Belushi.
Also, ninja turtles aren't real. We learned a lot of hard truths that year.
This is Harold.
Augh it's on the roof why is it fascinated with the roof?!
His button eyes sparkle with hate, and while that feature has gotten me lots of dates with other broken people, Harold uses his gaze for something almost as unhealthy: murder.
Harold is a scarecrow who comes alive because two lonely cowboys didn't have the good sense to Brokeback away the days. If they'd only turned their energies to love and pudding instead of mistreating poor Harold, he might never have self-animated. Let this be a lesson about the importance of love wherever we find it, and also about not torturing murder-dolls.
The fact that he totters around like a drunken two-year old is way creepier than some juggernaut of violence coming at your throat in promise of a swift death. Hell, we can get that in real life just watching Shark Week, or working retail on Black Friday.
Not here, though. Harold's two hobbies are spontaneous generation and anti-life, and he's grotesquely inexperienced at both. You get the idea that next time he'll know to kill the screaming thing before ripping its skin from skull to knees like a plucked chicken ... but for now he's discovering his technique as an artist.
If you asked Hieronymous Bosch to illustrate a children's collection of ghost stories, these are the pictures he would draw while quitting heroin. I would rather get pity-sex from a menstruating spider than gaze upon any of this art after sunset.
Illustrator Stephen Gammell claimed he never expected anyone to take these over-the-top monstrosities seriously. And that's an excuse that fools the kind of adults misguided enough to "protect" children. But kids are savages who haven't learned to lie to themselves yet, and they don't flinch from the truth. The fact is these drawings are the perfect match for the stories. They're also perfect for summoning Rax, the god of murder who appears in four ancient cultures that, strangely, had no contact with each other.
I was a child and someone let me see this.
When arranged in the right order, the series' illustrations form a panorama with no beginning and no end and no hope. Some kids in Iowa once configured the infinipych, and all that was found of them was a lock of singed hair and a bloody hand print that had six fingers. The house where they disappeared was sold 10 times in seven years, until it was burned down by its final owner, who to this day will only gibber, "The sinking world has seen us ... and it hungers." He does not sleep.
The book was re-released last year for its 30th anniversary with new illustrations, and they're very well drawn -- exactly what you'd commission for a kids' book of ghost stories. But not for this title. We've seen the impossible geometries of terror now, and your false world, where mothers don't devour their babies and a sane God dances in the sky, is a lie we can never swallow again.
Come on, HarperCollins, don't deprive readers of the original books' mind-scraping horror. These are scary stories; you don't defang a crocodile and then talk about how good it is with children.
Evil Warning Woman is what happens when the unknown and the inevitable make a terror-baby. She appears in an artist's dream to convince her to flee an evil house. But whoopsie! Trying to avoid her fate takes her straight to the room she was supposed to dodge. And there she runs into the woman from her vision.
It's one of the book's tamest stories -- the tale of the Englishwoman who changed her travel plans. Nothing terrible happens. Its eeriness is mostly derived from the dread of an evil premonition coming true, a feeling we're all acclimated to in the United States from every year the Yankees win the World Series.
Oh, but did you see the dream woman in question?
"Haha I'm not touching you!"
Look, not everybody you meet in life is going to have a neck. Some people can't afford one is all. So you shouldn't fault them for overcompensating with extra chins. But even if they discreetly cover their nudity with raspy, black straw hair, a moonfaced smirk doesn't apologize for their godless, bloated body. This thing looks like a 17th century corn husk doll that strips on Tuesday nights to support its four kids. After the illustration, this anecdote could give Lady Bathory a cold chill.
And this is the HELPFUL monster. Just watch as Gammell cuts loose on cannibalism, skin-walkers and swamp-zombies.
Schwartz was a storyteller, and exhaustively cited all the sources in his book to preserve a bit of folk history. That's very impressive, since you can only make a small number of pages from the skin of a virgin seventh son who committed suicide.
His citations are revealing; you can tell a lot about a person by what they're afraid of, and the same goes for societies. For example, people from South Dakota are afraid of having their limbs ripped from their joints by the restless dead. A North Dakotanese person knows that's superstitious hogwash, and the real danger is the wendigo that prowls the frozen forest. And those of us who have traveled the great 48 in these troubled times know the only thing we have to fear is fAAAAHH GOD HERE IT COMES!
In one setting, two Americans vacation in Mexico, back when that was the first line of a scary story instead of the last. They find an adorable little dog, and bring it home, because U.S. Customs can suck it. After a few days, the pooch appears to be sick, so they take it to the veterinarian, who immediately diagnoses the dog ...
The doctor also discovered the owners were blind.
... as a gigantic, rabid rat.
This tale speaks to a very real fear of having to deal with oblivious American tourists. But it's even more obviously a cautionary fable about contamination in what scared rich people consider a dirty, poor country. And you know they're rich because they're dumb enough to want a tiny dog. Rule of thumb is if it lets you carry it in a purse, it's not a dog; it's a proximity alarm that refuses to be housebroken. Chihuahuas only have two emotions: jealousy and tremble, and neither one appeals to a person who has to suffer through a real job.
No practical, responsible human being would make the mistake of smuggling a lousy little doglet, or as they call it in Mexico, un perrito. (Holy cow, you guys! I just made that up and it turns out that is the RIGHT WORD!) This story tells us that in privileged America's view, Mexico is a trap where even the pleasant joys are hidden horrors ... at least if you're a snooty richie. Those of us who do an honest day's labor know rabies is actually one of the cooler diseases. It's as close to zomboids as we're going to get on this earth.
CDC via Wikipedia via oh no, rabies!
And without it, we would never have such moving works as Old Yeller and Their Eyes Were Watching God.
Other stories in this cultural Rorschach blot include a deadly elevator (fear of technology/enclosed spaces), a poisonous ball gown (fear of shoddy merchandise) and a girl who ventured the unfamiliar streets of Paris to fetch medicine for her sick mother, only to find the hoteliers don't remember her (fear of dealing with a French concierge).*
*Concierge is a French word meaning "with contempt for you."


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Cutting corners not an option where mine safety is concerned
February 6, 2013
Given the complexity of coal production and the enormous number of regulations mining companies must obey, it is not surprising that some rack up large numbers of safety violations....
"U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration officials say pattern violators of safety and health rules will not be tolerated." Is this one of the functions of government we can cut to save money? It's under the Department of Labor.
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'Has The Editor joined Obama's "War on Coal"?' Me thinks the editor can't make up his/her mind.
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Please show me the proof that only a tiny fraction of coal mines attempt to circumvent complying with regulations. I would argue that only a small percentage do not. These companies do not care about coal miners safety and only care about bottom line.
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As always I question my own sanity responding to your remarks but it is one of my many flaws. Check the MSHA website for the millions in fines these companies are given (they end up not paying the vast majority) instead of being in compliance. I have marched with the UMW for miners rights, working conditions, wages, and benefits and yes they perform a vital task that I could not. Riding a bicycle and being a coal miner are not mutually exclusive. Coal miners hold a special place for me.
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Exactly, mining companies DO NOT care about the welfare of the miners! Blankenship (Tea Party darling) proved that! It is cheaper to pay fines than to lose the revenue of processing the coal. Until REAL high dollar fines are imposed, trash like Blankenship will continue to put money over safety. And during this last election, there way a mine owner in KY that forced the miners to pose for ads supporting Mitt Romney, off the clock on their OWN time! Hefty fines are needed and inspections.
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Finalists Amber Riley and Corbin Bleu were the season's regular leader board frontrunners, while Jack Osbourne improved tremendously since he began, and touched people with his life story.
But it was Amber who won the mirror ball.
It was an exciting night. After all of this season's former contestants danced a separate routine, the three finalists hit center stage for a fusion number.
Bleu and partner Karina Smirnoff kicked off the competition with a foxtrot-cha cha combo. "You messed it up at one little part," judge Len Goodman told the actor. Bleu nodded and chuckled in agreement.
The other judges made the same point, but there didn't seem to be any hard feelings because it was clear they still thought he was a solid dancer. The pair scored three nines, getting 27 points out of 30.
Next up were Osbourne and partner Cheryl Burke, who danced a Paso doble-salsa routine that also scored three nines. Judge Carrie Ann Inaba offered a slight critique for the dance, and Goodman commended a "terrific" Osbourne for climbing "a mountain" from the start of the competition to now.
The last finalists to make their way to the ballroom were Riley and partner Derek Hough, who danced a samba-quickstep fusion, which had the actress's mom crying in the audience. "Amber and Derek, well done," a teary-eyed Inaba told them. Goodman called Riley "bedazzling." The pair scored a perfect 30.
Then came the night's first big announcement. Eliminated off the bat was Osbourne and Burke.
"I'm definitely not a better dancer than my sister, for one," the former reality star told the crowd right after his dismissal, referring to his sibling Kelly who landed in third place during a different season. "We're both tied."
He added: "Just going the distance for me was winning enough."
Of Osbourne, who brought a typically unemotional Burke to tears on numerous occasions, the dance pro said, "Jack has not only been such a n inspiration to me but such an inspiration to everyone out there. Jack has shown me there's so much life to live."
And so came the announcement everyone was waiting for all night: The newest champions of DWTS are Riley and Hough.
"Anything that scares me I want to do," Riley told the crowd after learning her fate, mentioning that it doesn't matter what size you are. "You can do whatever, whatever, whatever you put your mind to."
Bleu, who showed happiness for his competitor, told the crowd, "I thank god for this experience. I thank my family."


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November 7, 2010 - By CATHY BROWNFIELD, Family Recovery Center
You may keep all medications in the medicine chest in the bathroom. Or perhaps you keep them on a high shelf in a kitchen cupboard where Mom can keep an eye on who is accessing those medications....
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Here is an opportunity for budding artists of all ages to experience and learn this winter. Since the Spring Semester of 2009 the Art Museum has been offering art classes to the public –both youth and adults.
One class geared towards the younger age group is called Open Studio Painting and Drawing Classes for Youth. These classes take place on the first Tuesday of each month from 4-6 p.m. and the third Wednesday of each month in one hour sessions.
Other classes offered are:
Photoshop 101: offered Thursdays from January 20th – March 10th (8 Weeks). 5:30 – 7:30 PM. Course instructor Carvin Rinehart will cover the many basic skills that allow you to navigate skillfully through the seemingly infinite options offered to us in the Photoshop software. Join us for a great class!
Ceramics: Wheelwork
Thursdays, January 20th – February 24th (6 weeks) 5 – 8 PM
This is a pottery course for novice, intermediate or even the recreational ceramist, Brian Haviland will teach students all about what it takes to be successful when working with clay, including wedging, trimming, glazing and plenty of time spent throwing on the wheel!
Dan Woodson Workshop:
Saturday, January 29th, 2011 9 AM – 5 PM
Dan Woodson is an award-winning painter and an all around good guy! He has won awards at Indiana Heritage Arts, the T.C. Steele Great Outdoor Paint Out, the Hoosier Salon and at the Richmond Art Museum. Painting all over the United States, he loves to paint the Indiana landscape most. He has given many workshops and truly loves painting and sharing his knowledge and enthusiasm with others.
Each course carries a separate fee and the cost depends upon membership with the Art Museum, though non-members are encouraged to participate as well. For more information about the cost of classes and supplies needed, and to register inadvance you can contact:
Lance Crow
Education Director
What a wonderful way to pass these wintery days in Wayne County.


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A new show starring Stephanie March as Alex Cabot. It will air on NBC in Spring of 2006. It's created by Dick Wolf. It will be similar to his Law & Orders, only it's more character based.
Law and Order: SVU and Conviction will be my addictions Summer '06.
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Board president for Arts Center of North Texas to resign
Updated at 6:46 p.m. In a prepared statement about his resignation, Bobby Baggett said: "Since this project will not be built by this organization and financing efforts have been suspended, as President of this Board, I feel that my job and the job of this Board are essentially complete." He suggested the remaining tasks be handled by the cities and their attorneys or maybe a board more suited for what's left.
Baggett said he still believes the concept for an arts hall in the Collin County area has value. "In the past few months there has been a growing number of arts groups, arts supporters and leaders in our community that are in the process of organizing a new independent 501(c)(3) entity whose purpose will be to carry on the vision of a regional arts center in Collin County," he said in his statement. "I would like to begin focusing my time on helping with that effort."
Original: The president of the board for the ill-fated Arts Center of North Texas announced his resignation Friday during the board's meeting in Allen.
Bobby Baggett, who has served as a representative for Plano, said his resignation would be effective March 31.
The board also met in closed session Friday to discuss a report from its attorney that detailed restricted donations and the process for liquidating a nonprofit. The board did not release details of the report. Baggett said the nonprofit's owner cities – Plano, Allen and Frisco – would get copies of the report so they can decide how to proceed.
The three cities had been working for years toward building a 2,100-seat performance hall along State Highway 121 in Allen. They were in the final stages of fundraising. Questions about finances prompted a petition from the Frisco tea party in 2011 to put its city's remaining bond money back on the ballot. Voters decided to revoke the city's authority to spend its remaining $16.4 million on the project. The Frisco City Council voted against allowing the group to spin off as a nonprofit separate from the cities.
In recent months, the board's attorney has been researching legal issues related to questions posed by the Frisco council. The report discussed Friday answers those questions.


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Serves 8 |
Prep Time 15 minutes |
Cook Time 35 minutes
2 Tbsp Eden Extra Virgin Olive Oil
1 medium onion, diced
3 cloves garlic, chopped
1 Tbsp dried rosemary
2 bay leaves
1 cup carrots, chopped
2 medium organic potatoes, peeled, chopped
6 cups water or vegetable stock
8 ounces Eden Vegetable Ribbons
28 ounces Eden Diced Tomatoes w/Basil, do not drain
15 ounces Eden Great Northern Beans, do not drain
1 cup organic sweet corn, fresh or frozen
1 cup green peas, fresh or frozen
2 tsp Eden Sea Salt
1/4 tsp freshly ground black pepper
Heat oil in a soup pot, sauté onions and garlic until onions are translucent. Add herbs and sauté briefly. Add carrots, potatoes, water, tomatoes and beans. Cover and bring to a boil. Reduce the flame to medium-low and simmer 20 minutes. Meanwhile cook pasta as package directs, rinse and drain. Add corn, peas, salt and pepper. Cover and simmer 5 minutes. Place pasta in each bowl, top with soup and serve.
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