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A brand name of pacifier. It's a registered trade mark of Playtex, but much to the annoyance of their lawyers, it's often used as a generic term for any pacifier.
If the baby cries, give him his binky.
di John Slowata 11 ottobre 2005
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A dance performed by rabbits when they are happy and having fun. They jump into the air, throw up their back heels to the side and flip their ears.
Look at Douglas binky!
di rabbit-lady 31 dicembre 2007
The behaviour of a rabbit, especially a pet rabbit, when it runs, jumps and flicks its hind feet into the air. This is almost always a playful gesture.
Towards the evening the buns dash around the garden doing binkies. That's a really good sign!
di Jem Mawson 12 aprile 2005
A childish comfort. Another term for their "blankey". Something they feel very dear to them. Nothing will tear them apart. In my case a 3-foot long strip of yellow satin. One of two that I ripped off a blankey when I was five.
Johnny, its time to get rid of that aweful thing. You're too old for it now anyway.
di Mel Function 01 settembre 2003
a person who is awesome in a strange way.
the characteristics for a binky is curly brown hair, brown eyes, and agressive behavior.
the characteristics for a binky is curly brown hair, brown eyes, and agressive behavior.
Dude, Binky looked at me with his brown eyes and then slapped me on the head!
i hit him back in the balls.
i hit him back in the balls.
di Willi the Great 27 maggio 2009
The Clitoris - a sensitive part of a woman's vagina - often exploited through cunnilingus.
Nicole has the best Binky I know, I could lick it for dayz
di Mahogany Ride 27 luglio 2007
A main character in "Life in Hell," a 4 panel cartoon drawn by Matt Groening before he became famous. Binky is an angsty, frustrated rabbit and the father of Bongo, an even more angsty, single-eared rabbit who seems to be about 8 years old.
"I thought you weren't seeing Binky anymore."
di in_disbelief 14 marzo 2010


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The Night Before Kindergarten by Natasha Wing
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Kindergarten is about to start, and kids all over town are getting ready. Excited and a little scared, they pack school supplies, pick out what to wear, and wonder what the first day will bring. This upbeat take on Clement Clarke Moore's classic Christmas poem offers a creative way to help kids through first-day jitters.
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MIAMI, Fla. - The Stetson women's soccer team fell to Florida International by a score of 4-0 in Friday night's season-opener. The Hatters were unable to crack the Panther defense, and gave up a pair of goals in each half.
FIU took the advantage in the 11th minute as Chelsea Leiva received a pass from Scarlett Montoya, and finished it off by chipping past Stetson goalkeeper Victoria Troccoli. It was then Montoya who put it on herself to give the Panthers a 2-0 lead before the half with an unassisted score in the 32nd minute.
"The score wasn't indicative of the game," Head Coach Julie Orlowski said. "They took the game to us in the first 20 minutes, and we just didn't answer. We didn't handle the situation as well as we would have liked, and we spotted them an early goal."
The Hatters tallied a couple of shots in the opening frame, and recorded two corner kicks, but it wasn't enough to keep up with the Panthers on Friday. With Stetson pressing to get back in the match, FIU was able to take advantage and put a pair of insurance goals in the net to finish with the 4-0 win.
Stetson totaled six shots for the game and added three more corners in the second half. Troccoli finished with seven saves playing all 90 minutes in goal for the Hatters. Sophomore Colleen O'Kennedy led Stetson with three shots in the defeat.
"Mara Keomanivane was very impressive in her first collegiate game," Orlowski continued. "So was Autumn Matthews, who went for 90 minutes. There were a lot of bright spots. The best opportunity we had came on a corner kick where their goalkeeper had to make a couple of great point blank saves."
Returning home for the first regular season game at the newly renovated Stetson Soccer Complex, the Hatters will host Georgia Southern at 1:00 p.m. on Sunday.


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Back-to-school shopping will kick into high gear this weekend when the state sales tax is lifted on school supplies, clothing and other items deemed exempt during South Carolina's 14th annual tax-free weekend.
Tax-free items
Samples of tax-free items
School supplies
Clothing and footwear
Linens such as towels and sheets
Computers, printers and software
Samples of taxable items
Furniture and housewares
Electronics such as cell phones, music players and cameras
Sports equipment
To view the full list of items that are exempt and non-exempt of the state-imposed sales tax, visit the S.C. Department of Revenue's website at www.sctax.org
As one of the biggest shopping holidays in the state, the weekend-long break from the sales tax offers retailers a chance to boost sales and parents an opportunity to save money on necessities for kids heading back to school this month. The tax-free holiday will be in effect at 12:01 a.m. Friday until midnight Sunday.
Across the country, families with children will spend an estimated $635 on back-to-school items this year, according to a survey conducted by the National Retail Federation.
Margaux Corbin of Yonges Island said her budget for her grandchildren's school supplies is closer to $500. She shopped Wednesday in Target for clothes and other items but said she's waiting to buy school supplies this weekend.
"Listen, I pay enough taxes as it is. If I can get a break for a few days, I'm going to take advantage of it as much as I can," Corbin said.
When one shopper was asked if she'd be participating in the tax-free holiday, she gave a surprised look and nodded as she began to put the kids' uniform clothes from her cart back on the racks.
Anna Bailey of West Ashley held her back-to-school shopping list in one hand as she pushed her half-full cart through Target's school supply section. Her goal was to finish buying supplies for her two children before the big shopping weekend started.
"I prefer to shop beforehand because I don't like all the crowds," Bailey said. "I'm not buying any big-ticket items, so I wouldn't be saving enough money for it to be worth my time."
Bailey added that she doesn't do as much back-to-school shopping as some parents because her child's school, Ashley River Creative Arts Elementary, offers a paid service that provides students with all the supplies they need for the school year.
"You're paying for convenience because you don't have to go out and look for all the different supplies," she said.
Retailers, on the other hand, are pulling out all the stops to draw big crowds this weekend.
At Mount Pleasant Town Centre, shoppers can enter to win a backpack stuffed with hundreds of dollars in gift certificates to stores in the shopping center.
Town Centre will also offer a center-wide shopping rewards program over the weekend. Those who spend $250 across five stores will receive a $25 gift certificate that can be redeemed at shops, restaurants or the movie theater at the center.
"It's a great way for people who are shopping here to be rewarded for what they're buying." said Erin Engebritson, marketing manager with the shopping center. "Plus, it encourages people to visit more than one store while they're out here."
Engebritson said tax-free weekend was a success for Town Centre last year, and they hope to build upon that by offering extra incentives during this year's tax-free holiday.
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$15,000 Homebuyer Tax Break
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Update 2/12: The $15,000 provision has been replaced by an $8,000 first-time home buyer credit, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Holy schmoly… the Senate just voted and included a $15,000 tax break to homebuyers!
It was an addition that Senate Republicans wanted in order to leave "their mark" on the economic stimulus package President Obama has called the American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan. At an estimated cost of $19 billion, the $15,000 tax credit is very much like the $7,500 tax credit given to first time homebuyers. It will be a tax credit of 10% of the value of new or existing homes, up to a $15,000 limit and everyone would be eligible, not just first-time homebuyers (defined in the previous bill as someone who hadn't owned a home in the last three years).
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Check out the potential big changes to this credit…increased amount to $15,00, a proposed no repayment/recapture, plus a new 5% down payment requirement. Downside is it's not really retroactive but meant for purchases after December 31st, 2008.
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Proposed Amendment introduced today into the economic stimulus package (two pages of Congressional record when the amendment was introduced in the Senate, February 4th, 2009):
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Disagree with our choices? You can vote your own favourite tracks to the top in our Tracks Of The Decade Readers' List - and let us know what you think by piling into the debate over on the NME office blog.
NME's 100 Tracks Of The Decade was written by Tim Chester, Jamie Fullerton, Luke Lewis, David Moynihan, Hamish MacBain, James McMahon, Emily Mackay, Ash Dosanjh, Ben Patashnik, Alan Woodhouse, Martin Robinson, Matt Wilkinson.
100Apply Some Pressure (2005)
With this, [a]Maximo Park[/a] showed they can do rollicking pop songs as flexible and captivating as Paul Smith's crotch. It's the rather marvellous keyboard riff that's the key here, one which hooks you into the main thrust of the song without making too much of a big deal about 'going electro'. You can't help but think it was written with Paul Smith's drum-rise leaps in mind, such is the way it repeatedly quietens then explodes into life, which is probably the best approach to songwriting you can have. The [a]Maximo Park[/a] song even the naysayers have to begrudgingly appreciate. [b]MR[/b]
99Do You Realize?? (2002)
"Do you realize, everyone you know some day will die." Not an obvious idea to present in a pop song, but it worked incredibly well in this highpoint from [a]The Flaming Lips[/a]' 'Yoshimi…'. Presented as a sweet, necessary reminder of mortality required in order for you to truly appreciate your life and the people around you, it married space-age sonics with heartfelt emotion without being cheesy. The Flaming Lips live experience is this song writ large, joy at life taken to transcendent levels, though always with the knowledge that death is close. It's also fun if you want to see a man in tweed bounce about in a big plastic ball. [b]MR[/b]
98Irish Blood, English Heart
[a]Morrissey[/a]'s truly great 'comeback' song, a stirring little nationalistic drama which comes across as impassioned rather than bombastic. It heralded the new barrel-chested, gladiatorial [a]Morrissey[/a], who was soon seen brandishing a tommygun on the cover of his 'You Are the Quarry' album. The revolutionary spirit was burning strong in him at this stage, a man angrily wishing to reclaim the heart of his nation so he can stand by the flag, "not feeling shameful, racist, or partial." Controversy's never far behind Moz, but here his sentiments were expressed in the most strident rock'n'roll terms. [b]MR[/b]
97Round Round (2002)
Probably one of Xenomania's most perfect tracks, 'Round Round' is mean, it's taut, it's sexy and it's awesome. Preceding 'Sound Of The Underground' by several months, it never falls into the slightly nudge-nudge Carry On 'knowing' territory that [a]Girls Aloud[/a] often do – [a]Sugababes[/a] were by far the cooler proposition. The chugging, locomotive introduction and whip-smart rhythms are totally dancefloor irresistible and the classic Destiny's Child you-ain't-all-that lyrics ("I don't need no man, got my kicks for free") perfectly nonchalant, in the days when they could still draw on Mutya's sultry drawl. [b]EM[/b]
96The Shock Of The Lightning (2008)
The song which announced [a]Oasis[/a]' new psych-rock direction on the 'Dig Out Your Soul' album, and showed that while the lads had added sitars, drones and joss-sticks to the equation, they weren't sacrificing any of their rabble-rousing, singalong chops. The difference with the gibberish Noel writes, as opposed to most other similar buffoon lyricists, is that his actually stick in your head: "Love is a time machine, up on the silver screen" (so, so true). The whole thing sounds like Liam riding a massive tequila worm in the desert like that bit in Beetlejuice, or Dune. [b]MR[/b]
95All These Things That I've Done (2005)
The best [a]The Killers[/a] single by some distance, a stirring, huge-hooked, last-song-of-the-night monster which is the only time the band have truly touched greatness. The final refrain of "[i]I got soul but I'm not a soldier[/i]" is a meaningless phrase when you think about it, but when you're yelling it in a field along with thousands of people while your seventh pill of the night is threatening to change your sex, it can feel pretty powerful. It manages to pull off that early U2 trick of being both a misty-eyed call of romantic defiance, and a song you can bounce around to with your mates. [b]MR[/b]
94My Girls (2009)
The fact that [a]Animal Collective[/a] are to blogging what the electric guitar was to rock and roll music is not their fault. Yeah, loads of idiots like to write a load of nonsense about them in corners of the web that no one with any semblance of a life ever visits, but ultimately, stripped of any context, songs such as the taster for 'Merriweather Post Pavillion' exhibit a band who trade in come one, come all euphoro-rave. It would be a tragedy if they were remembered for being merely 'a blog band', rather than what they actually are, which is simply an incredible band. [b]HM[/b]
93House Jam (2008)
How groovy and catchy can dreamadelic indie ambience get? Well. Pretty damn groovy and down-right catchy-as-hell, as it turns out. On 'Saint Dymphna' the Brooklyn five-piece ran their jam-happy hotchpotch through a big fat washing machine, jiggling the hooks into new tangible form and cleaning up their often stifling backdrop of distorted humdrum, making something of an underground anthem for off-kilter electronic fans and indie die-hards alike. [b]JH[/b]
92Hurt (2002)
When the svengali of Cash's reinvention Rick Rubin contacted Nine Inch Nails' Trent Reznor to request if the country legend could cover the song on Rubin's suggestion, Reznor, replied that he was 'flattered' but concerned it'd be 'gimmicky'. Upon viewing the video, he relented the song was no longer his. The stark, desolate sorrow of the original was translated into harrowing, minimal balladry by the Man In Black. When he died later that year it instantly became a chilling serenade to his fan's mourning, worldwide. [b]JH[/b]
91Let's Make Love And Listen To Death From Above (2004)
Predating the onslaught of lame leggings and skin-burning cracked glow-sticks, [a]CSS[/a]' breakthrough hit did everything you never even knew you wanted from a hit of mid-Noughties indie-disco. The winning recipe of naïve flirtiness, shuffling spacey infectiousness and surprising and irreverent NME-culture references put the spotlight on Sao Paolo in a way pop culture hadn't seen for some time. As nu rave took hold it became one of the most incendiary sure-fire dancefloor bangers at lektro discos across the world. [b]JH[/b]


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UNIVERSITY PARK -- Sam Ficken hung a game day magazine from the Penn State-Virginia game in his room following the team's devastating loss to the Cavaliers earlier this season.
The sophomore kicker used it as a reminder that things could get better in the young season if he continued to work hard.
They have gotten better, too, and Ficken removed the magazine from his wall last week. He said he has moved on from the Virginia game, in which he missed four field goals -- one on the final play -- and an extra point in the Nittany Lions' 17-16 loss.
"As a kicker, you try and forget missed kicks," Ficken said. "It is going to be in the back of your head sometimes because that's just how kicking goes."
Ficken said the positive support he received following that game outweighed the negative comments that came his way through Twitter and Facebook. His support system of family, friends, teammates and coaches all rallied around him during that time.
"I think the biggest thing was keeping the mindset that I have to work hard to correct what I am doing wrong," he said. "I think I have done that, and it is starting to pay off."
Ficken has improved as the season has gone on, and the young kicker has gotten his confidence back following the early troubles.
Since the Virginia game, he has connected on 9-of-12 field goals. And in Saturday's loss at Nebraska, he hit on all three of his kicks, including a season-long 38-yarder.
"Making these past few kicks, my confidence is definitely increasing," said Ficken, who has made six in a row and has a goal of not missing the rest of the season.
Ficken said former Pen State kickers Massimo Manca, Kevin Kelly and Robbie Gould all reached out to him to provide some words of encouragement and advice this season.
"Being a kicker is kind of like a club, I guess," Ficken said. "You try and sick together when things don't go well, because when things don't go well, people don't really know what you're going through exactly. It is a special position, and you're kind of on your own on that one."
Gould, who is in his eighth NFL season, and Ficken speak on a regular basis. He said initially Gould would break down video from Penn State practice to see where Ficken can improve. As the season has progressed, Gould is now just watching Ficken kick in games on television.
The most important piece of advice Gould gave to Ficken earlier this season was short and sounds quite simple -- "Slow down and don't think too much."
Ficken said that advice applies both mentally and technically. He said he has slowed the game down in his head. But he also has slowed down on his approach to the ball, even if it is only a matter of a tenth of a second.
Earlier in the season, Ficken said he was making contact with the ball 1.2 seconds after it was snapped. Now, with the help of special teams coach John Butler and the advice of Gould, Ficken said he's hitting the ball at 1.3 seconds, and that's causing his kicks to be straighter.
"My ball tended to fade a little bit more than I would have liked in the start of the season," he said. "Now it is a little more straight lined and actually a bit of a draw. I can place it more, so that seems to be helping out."
Another minor tweak to his kicking motion that Ficken has been working on the past few weeks is working on the placement of his plant foot, as well as making better contact with the ball. Ficken said the plant foot helps direct what direction the ball will travel.
Penn State coach Bill O'Brien has said on several occasions in the past few weeks that he is seeing the confidence level in his kicker continue to rise.
"He's much more consistent with where his plant foot is on each kick, and there is a lot of credit that you have to give to him because he's really worked at it," O'Brien said.
Ficken said O'Brien did not make a big deal of his early season struggles. The coach just told him to keep working hard and that good things would come his way.
In addition to the early season struggles, Ficken also has had to fight through two different injuries.
Prior to Saturday's game against Nebraska, some small black rubber pellets that are underneath modern-day field turf got caught in Ficken's eye. He tried to rub his eye to get the rubber out, but Ficken ended up scratching the eye.
"I had to wear sunglasses to keep the wind from drying out my eye throughout the game," he said.
Ficken was forced to wear an eye patch Saturday night when he slept, but he said his eye is fine.
He also has had to recover from a midseason right quad injury that stemmed from "overkicking." His right quad is his kicking leg, but Ficken said the distance of his kickoffs have not seem to change. Last Saturday, he had five touchbacks on six kickoffs.
"I couldn't really kick the week of Ohio State, unfortunately," he said. "After that they kind of limited me. I have been limited in practice a little more than I would like, but I can't really even tell my quad has been bothering me as of now."
It appears Ficken is now healthy and free from any eye or quad ailments. His confidence also seems to be at a season high.
O'Brien said has seen Ficken's confidence grow with every kick he makes. The soft-spoken sophomore is gaining composure and appears to be more and more relaxed every time out.
"When you're kicking better and better, you're gaining more and more confidence," the coach said. "He's a very, very laid back guy that cares about his teammates, and he wants to do well."


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We're about to find out if companies mean what's in their mission statements | Opensource.com
We're about to find out if companies mean what's in their mission statements
I don't mean to pick on these companies; they're just particularly clear examples of how all organizations talk about their people. I've never come across a modern enterprise that publicly states anything like "We want our people to put their heads down and do only the jobs that have been assigned to them. We want their thinking to stay 'inside the box.' When we want their opinions, we'll ask for them. Our machines and business processes are our most important assets; our people just keep them running." Instead, virtually all organizations stress the empowerment of their people.
We're at a very interesting juncture just now: we're about to find out how many of these companies really mean it.
I study information technology's impact on the world of business—how it changes the way companies perform and compete. In recent years I've spent a lot of time looking into the phenomenon that I call Enterprise 2.0 —the use by organizations of the Web 2.0 toolkit of emergent social software platforms like wikis, blogs, microblogs, social networking software, tagging systems, prediction markets, location-based services, and so on.
All of these tools share a few properties. The first is that they place very few rules or constraints on their users— no pre-defined workflows, differentiated roles and privileges, membership criteria, or standard operating procedures. The second is that despite this apparent fondness for chaos, they actually become pretty orderly environments; users can find what and who they're looking for, and patterns and structure appear over time even though no one's dictating them up front or from on high. Third, they deliver results that are impressive even to the most hard-headed pragmatist: Wikipedia is the world's largest reference work and its factual accuracy rivals that of the Encyclopedia Britannica, prediction markets do better than polls at predicting election winners, and strangers and friends alike answer each other's questions on Twitter. Fourth, these tools are pleasing and even addictive to their users. Humans are social and (at least somewhat) altruistic creatures, and we like well-designed technologies that let us interact and share with each other without mandating how we do so.
One final commonality, though, is less heartening: many organizations appear scared to death of Enterprise 2.0. They're worried that people will use the new tools and accompanying freedom to broadcast hate speech or porn, or harass each other. They're worried about secrets slipping over Chinese walls and firewalls. Or that people will be too critical or contrarian in public forums. That 'social' is too close to 'unproductive' or 'time-wasting.'
They're worried, in short, about what will happen when they actually do empower their employees with the digital tookit of Enterprise 2.0. They seem quite concerned about what will happen when they give demonstrably powerful tools to their most important assets.
Some of this hesitation is justified, at least for a bit. These tools really are something new under the sun, and it wasn't initially clear if people would use them maturely, and for productive purposes. But virtually all the evidence I've seen over the years convinces me that people (whether employees, partners, or customers) can be trusted, and do predominantly use the new social software platforms in ways that provide benefit and credit to the companies that establish them.
So I think the real reluctance comes from someplace else. I think it comes from a deep-seated desire to not give up control.
Executives these days feel like they have less and less control all the time, so it's natural for them to hold on to two areas where they still have a lot: what their people do, and how their business processes are executed. And at least in the latter area, they've been taught that control is immensely desirable and valuable. I used to teach operations management to MBA students, and if there was one mantra we drilled in to them, it was "if you want to control the outcome, control the process."
I still think that's the right mantra in some situations, but the successes of Web 2.0 and Enterprise 2.0 have taught me another mantra. It goes something like "If you want a good outcome, back off on process and get out of the way of people. Let them come together and interact as they wish, and harvest the good stuff that emerges."
I admit that's a little bulky. I also admit that we (or at least I) don't yet have a clear idea when each mantra is appropriate. But I am certain that the latter mantra fits in perfectly with mission statements about empowerment and people as the most valuable resource. I'll be very keen to see how many companies come to share this certainty, and how quickly.
What's your experience? How much progress are companies and their leaders making in the difficult work of deploying the new digital tools, giving up control, and harvesting what emerges? How closely are corporate mission statements aligned with today's digital cornucopia? Are companies practicing what they preach? Leave a comment, please, and let us know.
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While employed at a large telecom and working towards my MBA I had the need to review my employer's Mission Statement as part of a project. What struck me most was the thought that though the message was a lofty speech on how employees were regarded.
In practice it was clear to me the impression that the statement evoked did not reflect reality. At that time, I had been an employee for about 7 years. During that time and since (I'm told) the company had continuous layoffs sometimes numbering in the thousands.
When new ideas or new methods of doing things were thought up, most often (at least in the business unit I was involved in) the implementation was discouraged at best. Instead, that method developed by the manager was to be implemented. Whether it would work or not. Why? Because this insured the manager's stamp on the operation was evident. So as to provide evidence of the manager's worth. There was no regard about efficiency of effort or use of resources. It was about internal politics.
Now as predicted, it is obvious this company remains willing to sacrifice its knowledge base in order to meet its quarterly projected numbers. Even with all of the advances in technology all change is resultant on the people.
If people as decision makers are not willing to explore, adapt or even evaluate the potential of new ideas, methods or practices without regard to ego (and such), the true full benefits of advancement are lost.
I don't miss that former employer at all.
Naturally I view all mission statements with a sense of suspicion. Hopefully one day my company SolidHostDesign will be fortunate enough to hire employees and allow them to grow.
RB www.solidhostdesign.com
Great article.
Companies that want to use their mission statement to show they're empowering their people have a great place to start: the mission statement itself.
If you want to give your employees a voice, actually give it to them. Open up the process of writing the mission statement. Exchange ideas out in the open.
You might want to give them a framework to provide leadership and direction for their thinking--but then share this work with them. Give them a forum to exchange ideas: Internal mailing lists. On a company blog. In town hall-style meetings. (Or even your customers in a public forum?)
Let them speak about what is most true about who they are and who the company is. Show them their ideas matter. Allow the best ideas to emerge.
Chances are, you'll find the language people in your company use are less likely to be the stock phrases, "the leader in this and committed to that..." Which stands a better chance of sticking in people's minds so they'll remember and repeat it.
After all, the goal of any mission statement is to inspire people and help them guide their everyday actions. And if you want to inspire people with a statement of empowerment, start at the phrase itself. You'll give them a statement they can actually get behind because they'll have had a hand in creating it.
No matter what the outcome, you're going to learn a lot about who your company really is along the way.


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Hispanic activists believe local Latinos were afraid to complain about signs that promised more severe penalties for violations in Spanish than in English.
MILFORD, Del. -- Hispanic activists in Delaware said Monday they are concerned that signs that issued a more severe warning in Spanish than in English at local school playgrounds stood for so long, saying it speaks to the fear and reluctance in the Latino community to protest unfair treatment.
"I see that it was a whole year and no complaining about it. I just think how frightened my community is," said Rosario 'Charito' Calvachi-Mateyko, a member of the Delaware Hispanic Commission. "I'm happy for the way this was handled, but at the same time, I see the big picture."
Until they were taken down Sunday, Spanish-language signs posted at two elementary schools said permits were required to use the playgrounds, and police could be called if the rule wasn't followed. English signs posted in the same places only recommended that kids playing on the equipment be watched by parents, giving no warning about the police.
When radio talk show host Dan Gaffney alerted Facebook followers to the signs on Saturday, it prompted a rising tide of online furor. Bloggers called the sign "seemingly racist" and "an outrage," saying they effectively discouraged Spanish speakers from using the playgrounds.
Schools superintendent Phyllis Kohel removed the signs on Sunday, but complaints continued on Monday.
"I've had calls from Illinois, Colorado – this thing has obviously gone national," Kohel said. "The people I've talked to thus far have been understanding as to how it could have happened."
Matched English and Spanish versions of the signs mentioning permits are posted at sports fields in other schools in the district, Kohel said. They went up at those sites because a glut of adult recreation sports teams were using the public fields, sometimes during school hours. School officials had met with the teams and amiably worked out a permit system, she said.
"That's why those signs, which say you must have permission to play, were created," Kohel said. But about a year ago, when new playground equipment was added to the elementary schools, the Spanish version of the same sign was posted by mistake, she said, along with the more lenient English signs.
"Whoever installed the signs installed them without realizing what they actually said," Kohel said. "There's no reason to believe they were put there to be discriminatory. Our playgrounds are open to our community."
Advocates for Latinos in Delaware, including undocumented immigrants, say they are pleased Kohel acted so quickly to correct the error. "This is obviously an unintended consequence of the language barrier," said Javier Torrijos, a civil engineer for DelDOT who chairs the Delaware Hispanic Commission. "We'd like to reach out to the superintendent to find out what happened. We'd like to think it's an honest mistake."
Calvachi-Mateyko said many Latinos in Sussex County, including those in its sizable poultry-industry workforce, don't speak up when they perceive hostility for fear of drawing attention. "This is the community that produces the chicken that goes on the table for our children," she said. "This is a community that's contributing. Why do they have to be frightened?"
Zaida Guajardo, former director of La Esperanza Community Center in Georgetown, Del., said Latinos often encounter mistakenly translated or misplaced Spanish signs, forms and brochures. "If we want to insure the Hispanic community doesn't feel marginalized, we have to be more cautious with these kinds of translations, these miscommunications," she said.


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After enjoying a lunch at an outdoor cafe, the couple, who are costars in the X-Men franchise, set off on foot. They were bundled up a bit for their outing in the spring chill, with Lawrence, 23, sporting a black leather jacket, a burgundy fedora and a large turquoise ring on her left hand.
A rep for Lawrence says it's not an engagement ring.
They later gussied up to join newly married fashion designer Tom Ford, 52, for dinner Thursday night at The Chilton Firehouse restaurant and bar, with Lawrence stepping out in a black jumpsuit covered with a camel coat, her sleek bob slicked back and away from her face.
While free time is often rare, Hoult, 24, told the spring issue of V magazine, released in March, that working together with his girlfriend on the latest sequel, X-Men: Days of Future Past, was an added bonus.
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Only two players remained in the Buffalo Sabres' dressing room. One was Mikhail Grigorenko, who accepted handshakes and posed for pictures with the puck used for his first NHL goal.
Across the room, still in his pads, Ryan Miller sat almost motionless. The goaltender had his right elbow on his thigh, and he repeatedly picked at his bottom lip with his right hand. He stared blankly at a spot on the floor 5 feet away.
Like Grigorenko, Miller was reliving the game against Toronto. Only the rookie will remember it fondly.
Just 1.5 seconds away from entering their first shootout of the season, the Sabres suffered their first overtime loss. Toronto's Matt Frattin streaked down the left side of the Buffalo zone as the tenths of seconds ticked toward zero. He beat defenseman Jordan Leopold, Miller and the clock, slipping a shot between the goalie and the post as fans in First Niagara Center looked skyward.
The scoreboard timer read 0.0, but video review showed the puck entered the net before time elapsed. The Maple Leafs partied at center ice, and the shocked Sabres trudged to the dressing room.
"I let the guys down on that one," Miller said after shedding his equipment. "I just made a stupid decision. Bad play, made a hole and didn't really take anything away there. Pretty dumb."
The shocking finish extended the Sabres' winless streak to four games (0-3-1).
"Sometimes it has to start with one point," captain Jason Pominville said. "It's just unfortunate when you give yourself an opportunity to get two and it slips away with 1.5 seconds. You have to complete games to be able to win them."
The Sabres lost to Toronto at home for just the second time in 13 games. They'll travel to Boston to face another archrival Thursday.
"It's games like these that are only going to make us stronger and harder," Sabres right wing Drew Stafford said. "It's just frustrating. We're getting better. ... Obviously, to lose it like that, it's tough."
The day started with the Sabres celebrating news that Grigorenko was staying with the team all season. It nearly ended with another party for the rookie when he tied the game with 12:50 left.
The Sabres and their supporters in the crowd of 18,801 were in a lull until Grigorenko scored. The arena went bonkers after the center got Mike Weber's rebound in the slot and slipped a backhand through James Reimer's pads.
As the wide-smiled Grigorenko went to one knee for a sliding fist pump, he was tackled by teammate Marcus Foligno as fans clad in blue and gold hopped to their feet.
"That was the moment of great enthusiasm in the game," coach Lindy Ruff said. "It was great to see."
But the Leafs, backed by 10,000 vocal fans who made more noise than the 19,000 who attend games in Toronto, celebrated last when Frattin scored.
Miller lamented two other goals. Toronto opened the scoring when Nazem Kadri's shot eluded Miller's glove, struck the crossbar and bounced to Jay McClement in front for a rebound goal. The Leafs answered goals by Pominville and Andrej Sekera and took a 3-2 lead early in the second when Miller whiffed on Cody Franson's point shot.
"I just really didn't feel like I gave the guys too much help," Miller said. "We get three goals and we carried the play. We probably should have had a lead. I've got to make more saves. I just didn't have it."
Sabres right wing Patrick Kaleta didn't get to see the wild ending. He was taken to the hospital for precautionary tests after suffering a neck injury in the first period.
Kaleta made a pass along the boards and turned his back as Mike Brown barreled in. The Toronto forward followed through his hit and was assessed a boarding penalty.
"I thought he was sideways," Ruff said. "Some of the obligation is on the player. I didn't think he was defenseless. It's a tough area.
"It's not a blatant run of a guy from behind. He's had the neck issues in the past. ... We want to make sure that there's nothing there."
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text: Norton Rose advises on US$1.3bn financing agreement for SUEK 11 November 2011 Contacts Nick Grandage London Alexander Tsakoev Moscow Related services Banking and finance International legal practice Norton Rose LLP has advised on a five-year loan facility agreement of up to US$1.3 billion for Russian coal company SUEK.A team from Norton Rose LLP's London and Moscow offices advised a syndicate of 16 banks, lead by the Coordinating mandated lead arrangers of the loan, UniCredit Bank and ING Bank. The transaction closed on 27 October and will provide SUEK with a pre-export finance facility.Mathew Hinxman, senior associate at Norton Rose LLP, commented:"This deal represents a very large loan facility agreed within an ambitious timeframe. We're delighted that that transaction has been brought to a close within less than three months, drawing on the expertise of our team in both London and Moscow, and underlining our commitment to Russia and the CIS region."Norton Rose LLP's London team was led by partner Nicholas Grandage and senior associate Matthew Hinxman, with assistance from Irina Zghibarti, Natalie Coverdale and Daniela Schluckebier. The Moscow team was led by partner Alexander Tsakoev and assisted by Ksenia Zolotova.Baker Botts LLP represented SUEK on the transaction.For further information please contact:Jane Lougher, PR Manager, Norton Rose LLPTel: 44 (0)20 7444 2063, Mob +44 (0)7595 886 email@example.com Tweet [+Open all]


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ATTICA - Seneca East plated 11 runs in a two-inning stretch to take control Wednesday in what became a 19-9 Midland Athletic League-opening win over Calvert.
The Tigers led 1-0 after the first inning, and used a six-run burst in the second to go up 7-2.
Calvert closed to within 7-5 in the top of the third, but Seneca East answered with five runs in the bottom of the third to push the lead to 12-5.
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Seneca East's Mykayla Ruffing rushes in to scoop up a short fly ball against Calvert on Wednesday.
Calvert countered with four runs in the fifth, but the Tigers rebounded with five runs in the bottom of the frame.
Caitlin Sowers drove in three runs, doubled, singled and scored for the Tigers (4-2) and Kayleen England scored twice and chased in four runs with three singles.
Paige Reichert (2-1) helped her cause with two singles, two runs and an RBI.
Makayla Ruffing added three runs, two singles and an RBI, Cameil Ruffing scored three runs and singled twice, C.J. Linke had two runs, two singles and an RBI, Anna Martin scored three times and singled, Kristen Bowerman knocked in a pair and singled, and Rachel Bauman scored twice and singled.
Kate Brickner went 3 for 4 with a double, two RBIs and a run for Calvert, and Allison Huss scored twice, doubled and knocked in a run.
Losing pitcher Nichole Bickley (1-1) singled twice, scored twice and chased in two runs.
Blue Jackets swarm H-L
NEW RIEGEL - Taylor Kirian tossed a no-hitter and Hailey Theis hammered a homer Wednesday as New Riegel blanked Hopewell-Loudon, 15-0, in the Midland Athletic League opener for both.
Kirian (5-0) fanned eight in the five-inning game, allowing just two walks. She also shined at the plate, going 3 for 3 with two doubles, two runs and four RBIs.
Theis had a 3-for-3 day with two runs and two RBIs for the Blue Jackets (5-0), and Kara Scherger went 3 for 3 with three RBIs.
Taylor Arbogast drove in two runs and doubled, Emily Hohman and Leah Bouillon each scored twice and singled and Morgan Noftz scored three times.
Kelsey Coppus took the loss for the Chieftains.
Abby Park and Alaina Goshe each walked for H-L.
Blue Devils blank SW
CAREY - Carey erupted for four runs in second inning and Makenzie Wentling drove in three teammates Wednesday as Carey blanked St. Wendelin 9-0 in the Midland Athletic League opener for both teams.
Wentling singled and scored for the Blue Devils (3-3) and Chelsea Schlack added a run, RBI and double as part of the team's 10-hit attack.
Sydney Wentling and Haley Hoepf each added two runs, a single and RBI, Chelsea Schlack doubled, scored and knocked in a run and Jordan Strahm singled twice and scored to help Ali Rymer (2-2) get the win.
"We played great solid defense and got timely hits," Carey coach Teresa Jacoby said.
Meghan Reiter suffered the loss for the Mohawks (0-3).
Sammie Digby went 2 for 3 with a double, and Allie Rutter singled twice.
Stockaders slip past SJ
OLD FORT - Hali Kimmet scored on Sara Bell's sac fly in the bottom of the 10th Wednesday as Old Fort clipped Fremont St. Joe 5-4 in the Midland Athletic League opener for both teams.
St. Joe scored twice in the fifth for a 4-1 lead, but the Stockaders (2-3) plated a run in the bottom of the frame and another in the seventh to force extra innings.
It stayed scoreless until the 10th.
Kimmet doubled for Old Fort and went to third on a Jordan Magers sacrifice. She could not score on Krista Ward's single, but came home on Bell's fly.
Alyssa Pence (2-2) got the win in relief of Magers.
Peyton Miller, Ward, Michaela Davidson and Sammy Miller each singled twice for Old Fort.
Warriors nip Raiders
SYCAMORE - Mackenzie Sowers scored the game's lone run in the bottom of the sixth Wednesday as Mohawk beat Lakota, 1-0, to open Midland Athletic League play.
Sowers and Allison Price both doubled for the Warriors and winning pitcher Kasey Adelsperger (1-1) went 3 for 3.
Taylor McClain added two singles for Mohawk.
Morgan Gangwer suffered the loss for the Raiders.
Quiana Palos, Destiney Long-Meyer and Gangwer each singled.
BC shuts out Royals
NEW WASHINGTON - Sierra Hanes singled, scored and drove in two runs, part of a nine-run, 10-hit Buckeye Central onslaught against Wynford in a game the Buckettes won, 9-0.
Morgan Wurm struck out four, didn't walk a batter and allowed just five hits in improving to 3-1.
Wurm has earned the decision in all of BC's games.
She also scored two runs Thursday, while Alexis Mills singled and drove in a run.
Rams can't hold on late
SHELBY - Shelby scratched out two runs in the bottom of the seventh Wednesday to complete a comeback and drop Upper Sandusky 7-5.
Upper Sandusky led 3-0 after the first inning, but had to score twice in the top of the seventh to tie the game.
"We hit the ball well in the first two innings then the bats went silent for four innings. Sara Gier pitched very well and held Shelby down for the first four innings," Upper Sandusky coach David Young said.
"We just need to stay aggressive at the plate and cut down on our mistakes late in the game," he said.
Sara Gier suffered the loss for the Rams.
Maranda Stansbery lined four singles and scored twice for Upper Sandusky. Justeen Searfoss singled twice and doubled and Maddison Stansbery tripled twice and singled.
PC overwhelms TC
PORT CLINTON - Port Clinton led 8-0 before Columbian found the scoreboard Wednesday in a 10-2 victory.
The Redskins scored single runs in the second and third innings before plating two in the fourth and four in the fifth.
Morgan Shalk (0-2) took the loss for the Tornadoes (0-2).
Macy Shock went 3 for 4 with an RBI. Autumn Taylor and Ronnie Daughenbaugh both scored, and Sam Gaietto added an RBI.


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See that is why I need someone to sponser me into Canadian citzenship. America sucks for Hockey Fans.
Very little hockey outside of our Wings and while TSN was announcing the Bertuzzi trade, ESPN News was talking to John Elway and Jon Bon Jovi about the start of Arena League Football.
yea i kinda agree I've even noticed that sometimes on 1270 and 1130 AM when there is big hockey news they are talking about other stuff that has no importance but i love both those stations don't get me wrong


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Scammers target reporter with phone call about husband's kidnappingUPDATED 11:30 AM CST Dec 27, 2012
WESH 2's Michelle Meredith was working on Christmas Eve when she received a call about her husband being kidnapped. The scammer wanted $2,000. Luckily, she was able to figure out it was a scam.
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Putting the members of Pussy Riot in jail may turn out to be one of Putin's worst mistakes. The art collective (which pretends to be a punk band) always had a talent for identifying and articulating Russia's most pressing political and social issues, and nearly two years behind bars have made its members Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alyokhina that much better informed and better equipped to do what they do.
Alyokhina, who was released several hours before her friend and co-defendant, came out of the penal-colony gates like she was late for a meeting. A couple of years late: she said she had to quickly put herself together and fly to Krasnoyarsk, the Siberian city where Tolokonnikova has been held, to discuss their plans for a prisoners rights NGO.
Alyokhina had been jailhouse-lawyering pretty much from the day she arrived in a penal colony over a year ago. Tolokonnikova joined the fight this fall, with a heart-wrenching open letter on prison conditions and a dangerous hunger strike. Over the last three months, Tolokonnikova's husband, Petya Verzilov, has been shuttling back and forth between the two inmates, helping them hatch a plan for a new prisoners rights movement.
Judging from comments she has made to friends and to the media, it appears Alyokhina tried to reject Putin's amnesty: she wanted to serve out the two months left in her sentence so she could continue helping fellow inmates. In her first comments outside the prison gates, Tolokonnikova also expressed concern for women she was leaving behind.
"I have not changed a bit since I was jailed," she added. "I have become stronger and more resilient. I hope now I can work to change the country for the better. I'll be trying to do that."
Two years ago, Putin ordered a bunch of punks jailed. Now he has two strong opponents who have the trust and respect of hundreds of thousands of Russians and millions around the world. He probably has no idea Tolokonnikova and Alyokhina walked out of jail on the 27th anniversary of Andrei Sakharov's return from forced internal exile.
Masha Gessen is the author of "Words Will Break Cement: The Passion of Pussy Riot," which will be published by Riverhead on Jan. 8, 2014. She interviewed Tolokonnikova in prison, and corresponded with Alyokhina.
Related: The Foreign Bureau takes a look at pardons from Russian President Vladimir Putin.


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LOCKPORT – The side job of administering the estates of people who die without leaving wills has been far less lucrative for Niagara County Treasurer Kyle R. Andrews than for his predecessor.
In three years in office, Andrews has collected $11,450 in commissions, he reported last week.
His predecessor, David S. Broderick, paid the county more than that just to settle a state investigation of alleged self-dealing in how he processed estates.
In a June 2011 agreement that included the $17,000 settlement, Broderick also acknowledged to state auditors that he collected $306,415 in commissions on estates between 2003 and 2008.
Asked why he's not amassing commissions like Broderick did, Andrews shrugged: "I administer the estates that come before us." He said he has closed 22 estates or trusts and has 29 currently unfinished.
A state investigation, requested by County Judges Sara Sheldon Farkas and Matthew J. Murphy III, showed that Broderick's wife, Jane, had collected more than $10,000 in commissions on real estate her husband assigned her to sell. Also, Broderick assigned some legal work on estates to his brother William, an attorney.
On Jan. 1, a new set of state guidelines took effect. Andrews said that in some ways, the state rules are more lenient than the county policies Farkas and Murphy imposed after the Broderick case, in their role as judges of Niagara County Surrogate's Court.
For example, the state doesn't require an independent appraisal of real estate before it is sold, while the county judges did. Andrews said, "Where feasible, I still do have real property appraised prior to listing it with a [Multiple Listing Service] Realtor."
But the state rules made illegal some of Broderick's old practices. For example, no outside vendor may be related to the administrator. His staff members and their spouses, parents and children also are barred from such estate work.
Andrews said he advertises every year for such vendors. "It's been a pretty good process for me. Every year, the list of vendors gets a little more robust," he said.
Attorneys who work for Andrews must take a flat $500 to close real estate sales. He said the going rate in the Lockport area seems to be $650.
Vendors are paid from the estate, as is Andrews, whose commission is based on a scale set in state law, pegged to the total value of the estate.
Andrews said he writes a personal check to the county for 20 percent of the commission, a practice he started when he succeeded Broderick, and which the County Legislature made mandatory in September 2010.
Andrews, showing a reporter photocopies of those checks, said he has paid the county $2,862 since taking office.
"We said three years ago we were going to be open and transparent about the public administrator function in county government, and we're doing that," Andrews said.
One of the public administrator's main roles is recovering Social Services liens on the estates he supervises.
In the last five years of Broderick's tenure, he recovered $226,707. Since Andrews took office, he has recovered $64,198 for Social Services.
Andrews also says he uses social media to find missing heirs. Facebook comes in handy for that, he said.
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Source: Computerworld
quote: Buying a Mac instead of a PC is a poor choice...always has been.
quote: Macs are just overpriced high-end computers, but poor choice they aren't
quote: If all you do is tweet and email, then sure...get a Chromebook, or whatever. Doesn't matter - you certainly won't overpay. But to put up with the "reassuringly expensive" prices of Macs - again ignoring all other reasons to not buy them - is just retarded, no matter what else is going on.


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2 glasses of wine, followed by 2 shots of espresso
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Hey Stephanie! Lets go to that Irish Pub, then to Starbucks, cuz i need a double double STAT!
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A Canadian term used to describe how you take your coffee - two teaspoons of sugar and two creams. Preferably used in any Tim Hortons location.
Server at your local coffee shop: Can I take your order?
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A way Canadians order coffee, meaning double cream and double sugar. Most commonly heard at Tim Hortons coffee chain. Even in Quebec the same term is used but pronounced in French of course.
I'll have a large double-double and a boston cream donut.
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Two cream, two sugar in a Tim Horton's Coffee (Canada's most popular donut/coffee shop)
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A burger at IN-N-OUT with two meat and two cheese.
Yeah, I'll have a double double animal style with animal fries and a large lemonade.
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The Canadian term for a coffee with double cream, double sugar.
*ordering at a coffee shop* "Could I get a double-double and a donut?"
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A coffee from Tim Horton's, a coffee and donut chain in Canada and north east USA. A double-double is two cream two sugar in your coffee.
A coffee from Tim Horton's, a coffee and donut chain in Canada and north east USA. A double-double is two cream two sugar in your coffee.
You going to Timmy's, get me a double-double.
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A fast food order made at an In-N-Out burger resteraunt in the southwestern region of the US. A burger named for it's ratio of two hamburger patties to two slices of cheese per bun.
Did you get a double-double when you went to In-N-Out?
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Tuesday, July 30, 2013
Recent actions by the SC House to create office space for newly elected Judge Maite Murphy have been called a "fiasco" by a Dorchester Senator, and "unfair", "extortion" and "without due process" by members of Dorchester County Council. I add to that "abuse of position" and "unwarranted overkill".
Last February Dorchester County Clerk of Court Cheryl Graham asked by letter that Dorchester County Council "expand" the Dorchester Courthouse to provide Judge Murphy "a chambers and office space" as required "under state law" using funds set aside previously for that purpose. Graham followed with a March 11 letter "to formally designate space" for Judge Murphy requiring $12,000 in alterations.
Council determined it was questionable whether Graham had the authority to require expansion of the courthouse versus merely to "assign" who would use space that already existed; only Council, not Graham, had the authority to appropriate money; there were no funds set aside for expansion of the courthouse; and state law required the county to provide "an office", not "a chambers and office space".
Graham "designated" for Judge Murphy a 1440 square feet office, about the size of an average Dorchester County house. This seemed excessive to some, especially since the Judge would not use the office much of the time as she would be traveling as an At Large Judge; for years visiting Judges have been given an office of only 386 sq ft; and the Probate Court would lose 517 sq ft, over 24%, of its space to make room for the Judge.
Probate Judge Mary Blunt was so concerned about the harm to citizens if the Probate Court lost that much space that she appeared before Council and got a law firm to represent her to fight Graham's downsizing of the Probate Court.
Weighing these concerns, on May 20 Council voted to approve the $12,000 requested by Graham to implement Graham's office space plan. On May 22 the County notified Graham of this appropriation and Graham thanked the County Administrator.
Finding Council's scrutiny objectionable, somebody got Chief Justice Toal involved. On May 31 the Chief Justice issued, without prior notice to or an opportunity for Council to be heard, an Order prohibiting Council from deviating from the space plan presented by Graham; requiring that $12,000 be used to implement Graham's plan; and telling the Clerk to notify Council if the $12,000 appears to be insufficient so Council "can consider making further appropriations." On June 4 the County Attorney responded by letter telling the Chief Justice Council had never tried to interfere with Graham's space designation and asked for the Chief Justice to meet with a representative of Council to correct incomplete or incorrect information. That request was denied.
Rep. Jenny Horne entered the fray to teach County Council a thing or two. Indignantly declaring that Council was "not going to play that game anymore", she surprised Council by causing insertion of a proviso in the House budget on June 5 giving to Graham $30,000 of the funds allocated to Dorchester County from the Local Government Fund. The $30,000 proviso amount was 2.5 times the amount Council already had appropriated as agreed upon by Graham; gave Graham a "blank check" to use the money however she wished without any limitation; and took from Council monies it already had budgeted and which taxpayers unexpectedly would have to supply.
Rep. Chris Murphy, husband of Judge Murphy, recused himself from voting on the proviso, as he should. However, based on how the Legislature works, the House would not have passed that proviso affecting only Dorchester County if any Dorchester resident House member, including Rep. Murphy, had objected.
Rep. Horne tried to justify this intrusion on Council by telling the Summerville Journal Scene "If county council doesn't want to obey the law, we as the delegation will make sure the court system continues to operate" and "The lack of a space for Murphy affects the administration of justice."
These claims by Rep. Horne are invalid and rhetoric to get Council to stop asking questions in fulfillment of its duties. There was no need for this proviso. County Council was not violating the law. Council already had approved on May 20 the $12,000 expenditure that Graham had requested, and the Chief Justice's Order merely repeated the $12,000 amount Council already had voted to appropriate. There never was any risk that the court would not operate properly or of interference with the administration of justice. There never was any question about whether Judge Murphy would get an office. There were only questions of size, costs and the effect of taking so much space from the Probate Court. Council did its duty by scrutinizing those issues.
Legislators in Columbia should help, represent, work with and show respect for local elected officials instead of dictating to them with unnecessary surprise legislative overkill.
Michael T. Rose
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Summerville, SC
Mike Rose is a Summerville Attorney and former State Senator Representing Dorchester, Berkeley and Charleston Counties
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Aztec, Inca and Maya Collections
The Museum is rich in collections from three of the ancient Middle and South American cultures whose conflicts with European societies were among the most dramatic and far-reaching. These collections are particularly strong in ceramics: Aztec pottery from Late Post-Classic Mexico (ca. A.D. 1450-1521)--one of the finest collections of Aztec ceramics outside Mexico. Through analysis of clay samples from a series of vessels, a Museum research associate uncovered pathways of economic exchange during this period on the brink of European contact.Learn more about Aztec, Inca and Maya Collections


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I presume the mastermind was never caught, but is known to some. Not still dealing I hope :evil: The second batch made in the 1990's, were they from the same source, or yet another scurge?
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The holidays are upon us and Fairlane Town Center is the place to be on Black Friday, Nov. 26. From shopping for great deals on this year's hottest gifts to a community breakfast to an elaborate interactive Ice Palace to photos with Santa, Fairlane Town Center has everything to make your holiday season joyous and memorable.
On Black Friday, shoppers are invited to enjoy a holiday breakfast from 6 to 9 a.m. at the Lifestyle Café. The hot breakfast will be available to the first 1,000 Fairlane Town Center customers, compliments of the shopping center. Now in its third year, the holiday community breakfast is the perfect stop for shoppers looking to rest and re-energize in between holiday purchases.
"We are thankful for our customers and support from the community year-round. Hosting the holiday community breakfast is our way of saying thank you," said Catherine O'Malley, Fairlane Town Center general manager. "It is a pleasure to see our customers at the center looking for great deals or just an inviting setting to spend time with family and friends."
Shoppers eager to learn of doorbusters and deals throughout the Thanksgiving weekend can get information from Santa's elves at all mall entrances from 6 a.m. until noon on Black Friday. Additional shopping support, including gift ideas, is available at the information desk.
Morning mall walkers are welcome to participate in the seventh annual Turkey Strut, a fun-filled event to keep fit for the holidays. From 7 to 9 a.m., Bally's Total Fitness personal trainers will lead the workout and help with stretches, exercises and dancing along the way. The first 100 mall walkers will enjoy a hot breakfast after the workout.
Fairlane Town Center opens at 7 a.m. on Friday, Nov. 26, with JCPenney, Macy's and Sears opening at 4 a.m.
Great Gifts for All Ages
Shopping for loved ones is easy at Fairlane Town Center. With more than 160 stores, shops and specialty services, customers can choose from a wide array of gifts while staying on a budget.
Youth will enjoy playing with the HexBug from Radio Shack for $9.99. Passionate readers will enjoy having "The Night Before Christmas" "read" to them by a loved one when they turn the pages of this recordable book from Hallmark for $24.95. Another great story from Hallmark is "Jingle All the Way" for $24.95. "Jingle the Pup" will enchant young readers by barking or making other sounds in response to highlighted phrases in the book being read aloud.
For those on the go, a Hoodie Buddy from JCPenney for $50 makes listening to music a breeze with built-in headphones that plug into an MP3 player you can find at Radio Shack for $49.99. Music lovers who find their song list is constantly growing will love that they can add more memory to this MP3 player to stay current with the hottest hits. Facebook isn't the only place to share photographs. A digital keychain from Radio Shack for $19.99 will keep your favorite photos handy.
For shoppers looking to splurge this holiday season, an iPad from Verizon with a starting price of $630 is a gift that will be appreciated by all. The Kinect from Game Stop for $149.99 is an exciting way to play games for the entire family. You become the controller when you play with the Kinect sensor, which uses the latest technology to track your every movement.
New Holiday Décor
Now through Dec. 24, shoppers can experience the enchantment of an Ice Palace based on the December 10 release of "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader." Sponsored by Oakwood Hospital, the holiday display is inspired by the magic of winter and features a color changing, 30-foot ice palace, encircled with a series of majestic arches and smaller globes that appear to be carved from ice and will immerse visitors with magical vignettes from the land of Narnia.
As visitors walk through the dome, guests are greeted with falling snow, a captivating light show and exclusive movie footage integrated into an exciting video experience. The journey continues as guests are seated on the Ice Palace throne that's cool to the touch, and can leave their handprint behind on the interactive ice arch, which features the paw prints of famed Narnian creatures.
Ice Palace was unveiled in grand fashion on November 12 during a special lighting ceremony, whereby the stars from the movie via satellite gave holiday revelers the first look at their highly anticipated film. Here in Dearborn, local children used LED wands to help light the Ice Palace for the holiday season.
"The holidays are a time filled with joy for children of all ages," said Darla Bowen, Fairlane Town Center marketing and sponsorship director. "What better way to begin the season than with a gathering of children and families to enjoy the Ice Palace."
In addition to the excitement of the new holiday display, families can continue to experience the holiday tradition of visiting Santa at Fairlane Town Center through December 24 for family photos. Every child who visits with him will receive a special gift. Finally, friends and family can take home a piece of their Ice Palace adventure with a cool holiday photo in front of the Ice Throne.
For up-to-the-minute details on store hours and gift ideas, check in at http://www.shopfairlane.com.


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Girl, usually college aged, that is older and out of high school, but not quite reached actual maturity or 25. She travels in packs and loves to party. The pack can always be heard making their most noticeable sound "te-he-he!" This sound resonates through out the summer as te-he-hes LOVE the pool and house parties and keggers, especially at apartments. They are not necessarily club goers.
Te-he-hes (all together): Te-he-he!
Dude #2: Wait...did you hear that!
Dude #1: Hell yeah! Let's roll.
Te-he-hes (all together): Te-he-he!
Dude #2: Wait...did you hear that!
Dude #1: Hell yeah! Let's roll.
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used at the end of in a playful sentence, or a sexually suggestive sentence, pronounced tee-hee-hee
Ooh, he's cute. tehehe!
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un puta grandeによって 2006年02月09日(木)
When one of the female species says "tehehe" one can make the assumtion that their vag tingles.
Girl: tehehe
Boy:Ur vag must be tingling right now
Boy:Ur vag must be tingling right now
brahman da Buddhahaによって 2010年12月28日(火)
A cute laugh that a shy girl does when they're talking to someone who they really like online
Guy:Hey, Whats up ?
Girl:Hey tehehe c:
Girl:Hey tehehe c:
nick shredderによって 2011年06月22日(水)
To describe a a big puffy crotch. It looks like you have a butt under your stomach. Only witch like creatures have them.
Boy: Ewww... did you see that girls Te-He-He sticking out of her pants?
Other Boy: Yea it was sick!
Other Boy: Yea it was sick!
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text: Volunteer bakers spent Tuesday morning preparing delicious merchandise for the upcoming cookie sale at Covenant Presbyterian Church, 401 18th St., Wellsville, which will be held Saturday, Dec. 22, from 9 a.m., until they're all gone. Many varieties, including sugar cookies, buckeyes and pumpkin rolls, will be available. Making cream-filled lady locks in the church kitchen are (from left) Doris Ewing, Jan Taylor, Charlene Sargent, Joleen Cattrell, Eva Board and Pat Brown. (Photo by Richard Sberna)


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CHARLESTON - An Eastern Panhandle delegate has been criticized for requesting his comments made during Thursday's session be stricken from the House Journal Appendix.
Del. Eric Householder, R-Berkeley, spoke in support of an amendment to Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin's education bill that proposed an optional, alternative way to evaluate teachers, according to an Associated Press report. The method offered a yearly $1,000 bonus to teachers for their participation, as well as an additional $2,500 if students excelled in their achievements.
Householder allegedly said his wife would directly benefit from the amendment, statehouse sources told The Journal Friday. Householder said he could not confirm or deny the allegations, as he could not remember what he said during his remarks on the House floor.
"I don't remember exactly verbatim what I said," Householder said. "I'm sure I probably was very passionate about teachers having the ability to make an extra $3,500."
Householder's wife is a teacher in Jefferson County, according to the West Virginia Department of Education website.
Delegate Mike Caputo, D-Marion, requested Householder's remarks about the amendment, along with two other House Republicans' remarks regarding a different amendment, be added to the House Journal Appendix, according to the House Daily Journal.
Householder said he was not in the chamber when Caputo's request was made, but said he heard it over a speaker while in the bathroom. Householder said he objected to including his remarks in the appendix, because Caputo attached his name to the wrong amendment.
"(Caputo) made several mistakes when he was rattling off all three amendments," Householder said. "I spoke two or three times yesterday. I don't know if he was confused or what."
The Speaker of the House advised Householder, along with Delegates Joshua Nelson, R-Boone, and Cindy Frich, R-Monongalia, to file a written objection to their remarks being included in the journal appending, according to the House Daily Journal.
Sources said Householder should have invoked Rule 49, which states that "any member having a direct personal or pecuniary interest" in a piece of legislation, the member "should announce this fact and request to be excused from voting."
Householder said the Speaker of the House invoked Rule 49 over all members present at the beginning of Thursday's session, which would allow them to vote on the matter.
"Being a member of a class, he would say I'm entitled to vote," Householder said, adding that many members are teachers, retired teachers or have spouses who work in education.
The House Daily Journal did not have listed the invocation of Rule 49.
Householder said he believes the situation is being exaggerated.
"I'm just surprised that this is being blown out of proportion," Householder said. "It just seems like this is more partisan politics than anything."
Calls and emails to Caputo from The Journal were not returned by press time Friday.
The House Journal Appendix could not be referenced because it is not transcribed until the end of the session, according to a House of Delegates spokesperson.
- Staff writer Rachel Molenda can be reached at 304-263-8931, ext. 215, or email@example.com.


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- "…Any man whose wife goes astray…" (5:12)
From the juxtaposition of the section discussing the Priestly gifts to the laws of the Sotah, a woman suspected of infidelity, the Talmud derives the following: The consequence of a person refusing to give the Kohein his tithes is that his wife will be suspected of infidelity. He will, thereby, be forced to turn to the Kohein to perform the procedure of the "bitter waters", which will clarify whether he may resume relations with his wife[1].
The Maharal asks: If the message is that one who does not appreciate the Kohein, apparent in the fact that he does not give him his tithes, will eventually need his services, why does this have to manifest itself through the law of Sotah? The same message could be conveyed by any number of services requiring a Kohein[2]. Furthermore, why do his actions result in his wife being suspected of indiscretion?
We are not discussing an individual who does not keep the tithing laws. The Talmud does not say that he does not separate the tithes, rather that he holds back from giving them to the Kohein. What could be the motivation of one who separates the tithes, but holds back from giving them to the Kohein?
If a person does tithe, but refuses to give it to the Kohein, what he is doing is exerting his control over the Kohein. The Torah is teaching us that a person who feels the need to exert his control over others probably relates to his spouse in the same manner. It is this domination over his wife which either causes her to rebel or results in his uncontrollable jealousy, which makes it necessary for her to drink the "bitter waters". His own wife, over whom he exerts control, becomes prohibited and the only one who can permit him to resume relations with her is the Kohein. He now faces the realization that he has no control over either party.
1. Berochos 63a 2. Gur Aryeh 5:12
An Act Of Intent
- "One leader each day, one leader each day…" (7:11)
The leaders of the twelve tribes brought identical offerings for the dedication of the altar. Nevertheless, the Torah records each leader's offering individually, expending seventy-two verses in the process. The Talmud and the various Midrashim go to great lengths, expounding upon the different names of the leaders, to show how each leader's motivation reflected his own unique abilities.1 Although this teaches that each leader had his own individual motivation for the offerings he brought, would the same conclusion not have been derived had the Torah recorded the offerings only once, mentioning that all twelve leaders brought the same offering?
Two individuals can give charity with very different motivations; one person can give charity because he finds fulfillment in performing a benevolent act, and the other can give charity because of his concern for the recipient. In such a case, it is not the same act with two divergent motivations which is being performed, rather two completely different acts of charity. A person's motivation gives new definition to, and is therefore apparent in the very act itself. Whether it involves a change in the inflection of the benefactor's voice or the actual manner in which he gives the charity, even the recipient can sense a difference in the act depending upon the motivation involved. It is this very message that the Torah is impressing upon us. The reason for the repetition of each leader's offering is that since they had different motivations, each offering was unique, and therefore, worthy of being recorded.
1.Bamidbar Rabbah 13:17 see Ramban 7:2
Half Way There
- "from new or aged wine shall he abstain…" (6:3)
The Talmud deduces from the juxtaposition of the laws concerning the Sotah to the Nazarite law, that a person who sees a Sotah in her demise should abstain from wine[1]. The expression used to define this abstinence is "yazir" – "to separate". On other occasions the Torah uses more common terminology to express the concept of separating. Why does the Torah use such an uncommon expression?
The commentaries explain the derivation from the juxtaposition in the following manner: Nothing a person sees should be viewed as coincidental. Therefore, upon witnessing the fate of a Sotah, a person should realize that he has a susceptibility to the same vices which led her astray. Since alcohol is generally used as the instrument to weaken a person's inhibitions, the Torah mandates that this individual abstain from wine for thirty days[2]. If a person suffers from a condition which requires such drastic measures to alert him of it, how does thirty days of abstinence remedy the situation?
In many cases, the most difficult obstacle in addressing a problem is overcoming denial of the problem's existence. The thirty-day period of abstinence mandated by the Torah is not the solution to the person's condition, rather, it is a period of time which allows for introspection and acknowledgement that the problem exists. Internalizing the notion that the problem exists facilitates the individual's seeking assistance and ultimately coping with his condition.
The main concern that prompts a person's denial is the fear of being stigmatized amongst his peers. The Torah addresses this concern by referring to him as a Nazir. The term "Nazir" is not derived only from the verb "yazir", but also stems from the word "nezer" – "crown". The message that the Torah is imparting is that a person who acknowledges a deficiency in himself and works to overcome it, will be crowned by his peers as a role model. Not only will he not be viewed with disdain by his peers, but on the contrary, he will be elevated in their eyes.
1.Sotah 2b 2.See Rabbeinu Bechaya 6:3, Moshav Zekeinim ibid.


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Wednesday, December 18, 2013
Bishop England senior center Mary Harriet Moore joined the 1,000-point club Tuesday as the Lady Bishops topped the Academic Magnet Raptors 70-44 in North Charleston.
Moore entered the game needing just five points to crack the career milestone. The four-year starter finished with 13, surpassing 1,000 in the second quarter with the Bishops already holding a commanding lead.
It felt awesome, Moore said. I knew that I needed five points at the beginning of the game but I just let it happen.
Moore joins Bishops guard Michele Boykin on the prestigious 1000-point list. Boykin achieved the feat just three games prior.
That just tells you what kind of talents those two are, Bishop England head coach Paul Runey said. You always preach the team concept but it is important to have individual goals. Mary Harriet has been a big part of our success the past four years. Shes a great athlete, has good touch and has been a good ambassador for Bishop England.
Runey described Moore as the best shot blocker hes had in 28 years and praised her selflessness on the court. Moore says the accomplishment ranks high on her list but added that winning state championships as a team trumps any personal achievement.
Sometimes I wish she was actually more selfish because shes that good of a player but thats not what type of person she is, Runey said. These girls do sacrifice a lot of personal awards because they realize its a team game and they want to see everyone on the team do well.
The Lady Bishops (6-0) are doing about as well as could be asked so far this season with lopsided wins in all six games. Bishop England will host the Carolina Invitational Tournament, beginning Dec. 27. The 64-team field features some of the top girls talent from across the Southeast.
Its no slight to the teams weve played but I think this tournament will be a good indicator of where we are and where we need to be, Runey said. Were going to be playing some really good talent. Well need our team to really play well and players like Mary Harriet and Michele to play a big role if we want to have success in that tournament and have another chance at a state championship later in the year.
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I am from Allison Park, PA, just north of Pittsburgh. My high school guidance counselor suggested I look at Saint Vincent because of its excellent academics and friendly people. She was absolutely right!
I am a Communication major studying the Public Relations and Advertising track. I'm also pursuing a Marketing minor. Outside of class, I like to be active in the SVC community: I am President of the SVC Culture Pub, Media Chair of Alpha Phi Omega, and am active in Marketing Matrix, Threads for Heads, Women in Business, and Orientation Committee. I'm also involved in the Alpha Lambda Delta and Lambda Pi Eta honor societies. This year, I was chosen to participate in the Fred Rogers Scholars Program. Additionally, I work as an Admissions Ambassador, a work-study for the Archabbey Public Relations Office, and as the Marketing and Design Intern for the Office of Campus Life.
I am fortunate to have had many wonderful professors during my time at Saint Vincent. All of them have impacted me in their own way, especially Dr. Cook, Dr. Robinson, and Dr. Edmiston. They ignited in me an even greater passion to treat every experience as a unique learning opportunity and have shown unwavering support throughout my college journey thus far.
There are so many reasons to love Saint Vincent! I especially value the close relationships I've built with my professors over the years. They always have my best interests in mind, and I can go to them for help at any time. I also love the strong sense of community that is present all over campus. It is so nice to see a friendly, familiar face wherever you go, be it a monk, a professor, or a classmate. The Benedictine values on which Saint Vincent was founded really help to make the campus feel like my home away from home.
The best advice I can give to freshmen is to be proactive. Our campus has so many resources that it is nearly impossible to fail at achieving your goals if you put in the effort. It is so important to get involved in the SVC community through clubs, sports, and activities. Don't be afraid to try something new. Take your studies seriously, but always make time to have fun and grow your friendships. Most importantly, always keep a positive attitude: it will take you far!


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JAMESTOWN – City police arrested an alleged burglar over the weekend and announced that they are investigating "multiple burglaries" that took place in the city last month.
City resident Wayne B. Wright III, of McKinley Avenue, was arrested on Saturday in connection with an Oct. 16 burglary in the southern section of the city. Police said Wright is charged with burglary and petit larceny.
Detectives said they are investigating other recent burglaries in the city. Police asked on Sunday that anyone with information about recent burglaries contact their department at 483-7537 or 483-8477.