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If Chuck Hagel isn't confirmed as Secretary of Defense, he's the person to blame.
How do you go to a contentious, public, televised job interview apparently clueless about how you want to answer pointed" when did you stop beating your wife" questions about your previous comments on Israel's influence in Washington, Iran and the surge in Iraq? This was an open book test; why didn't he at least score a C?
I don't have an answer except the possibility that a free-wheeling guy was overcoached, because, well he's a free wheeling guy, who like VP Joe Biden, has the unsettling tendency to wing it. That said, a strong department head's response to Sen. John McCain's hectoring for a yes/no, up/down response to the surge in Iraq would been something along these lines.
"It's both yes and no senator and here's why," jumping into the extended answer before McCain could regain the offensive with another made-for-television badgering for another inane yes/no answer. McCain didn't really care about Hagel's answer; only the sound bite and optics.
Hagel's handling of this and other exchanges with Senators made him look weak and gave anyone on the fence a reason to vote against him. Never mind that more time was spent on these hot-button issues than on actual DOD management issues like military deployment, arms systems and the upcoming debate over mandatory cuts. Confirmation hearings are about perception, Hagel left a pretty unflattering one along with a reminder of Clinton's DOD head Les Aspin's weak management style during a time of defense cuts, as noted in this 20-year-old feature.
I still think the votes are there to confirm him, if Democrats on the committee and in the full Senate don't break ranks. But the weak performance potentially emboldens Republicans to consider steps to block the nomination from reaching the Senate floor, a power play they won't have considered had Hagel showed the leadership fire that Hillary Clinton demonstrated during the Benghazi hearings.


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C. G. Jung, son of a Swiss Reformed pastor, used his Christian background throughout his career to illuminate the psychological roots of all religions. Jung believed religion was a profound, psychological response to the unknown--both the inner self and the outer worlds--and he understood Christianity to be a profound meditation on the meaning of the life of Jesus of Nazareth within the context of Hebrew spirituality and the Biblical worldview.Murray Stein's introduction relates Jung's personal relationship with Christianity to his psychological views on religion in general, his hermeneutic of religious thought, and his therapeutic attitude toward Christianity. This volume includes extensive selections from Psychological Approach to the Dogma of the Trinity," "Christ as a Symbol of the Self," from Aion, "Answer to Job," letters to Father Vincent White from Letters, and many more.
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For two months the images thrust themselves upon the world's consciousness: sleek, delta-winged Israeli Mirage jets transforming Beirut, once the Paris of the Middle East, into a city on fire. After assaults that seemed to have no end, hundreds of Lebanese men, women and children lay maimed and killed. To Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, the invasion of Lebanon was a deliberate act of justice, a chance at last to root out the PLO terrorists who have for years brought death and suffering to Israel. To foreign observers, it was a startling act of violence. "This is not the Israel we have known," a shaken John Chancellor said in Lebanon last week as a residential section of West Beirut went up in flames. President Reagan, on the eve of giving Israel's Foreign Minister an unprecedented dressing down, put it more succinctly: "I lost patience long ago." But for all the foreign criticism of the Israeli action, there has been little visible internal dissent; for a decade Israel lived with PLO bombardments from Lebanon, and the memory of events like the PLO massacre of 21 schoolchildren in Maalot in 1974 kept many from speaking out. No more.
Two weeks ago Israel's youngest full colonel on active duty, Eli Geva, 32, asked to be relieved of his command rather than lead his troops north of Sidon into Beirut. The son of a general, Geva was a well-known hero of the 1973 war, and Begin himself asked Geva to change his mind. "Many of my soldiers would be killed, and so would many civilians," Geva reportedly told the Prime Minister, "and it would not bring a solution." Geva asked only to be reassigned, but he was discharged from the army. Suddenly the growing antiwar movement gained a symbol—and the world took notice of the real and growing dissent within Israel against this war.
Geva was hardly the first Israeli soldier to voice doubts about the course of military action. Just weeks after the invasion began, in June, two young paratroop reservists transformed their discontent into a movement. Yoni Oren, 28, and Udi Shiloni, 27, formed Soldiers Against Silence soon after completing their tours of active duty at the front in Lebanon. Their movement now claims a few hundred followers, many of whom have donated their $20 separation bonus to pay for SAS's antiwar newspaper advertisements. The group has demanded the resignation of Defense Minister Arik Sharon, architect of the invasion. Oren and Shiloni regularly picket Begin's office. "I do accept that we have no choice but to fight the PLO," says Oren, a kibbutz farmer in civilian life. "But from what I saw in this war, the main aim was not only to destroy the PLO but to use the army for the creation of a new order in the Middle East. We felt the army was being used to solve political and not military matters, and this is contrary to what, in our mind, the purity of the army should be." Adds Shiloni, a Hebrew University law student: "The initial idea of organizing a protest movement came to us while fighting, right there on the battlefield, but the actual organization came only when it was over and we were taking off our uniforms."
SAS has been controversial since its founding and has engendered bitterness from some critics who feel that its words and deeds border on treason. Although SAS members have all put in their time at the front, Begin claims that they and their allies are "responsible for encouraging the PLO not to evacuate West Beirut." Though no one knows how many Israelis support the various antiwar movements, leaders now claim 25 percent of the population, many of them reserve personnel. "I myself have taken part in five wars," says reserve Col. Mordechai Bar-On, 55. "I have good conduct medals from each. I shall do everything in my power to ensure that my 3-year-old grandson will not wear a good conduct medal. Ever."
Bar-On, a former infantry commander and personal assistant to Gen. Moshe Dayan, was one of the founders of Peace Now. That four-year-old organization came into being when Bar-On and a group of other army officers banded together and wrote to Begin, begging him not to ignore the peace overtures of the late Egyptian President Anwar Sadat. While Soldiers Against Silence restricts its activities to opposing the invasion of Lebanon, Peace Now has been a persistent critic of many Begin actions it views as aggressive. Its members meet every Sunday night in a Jerusalem cellar to discuss strategy. Though it lacks both an organizational structure and formal membership lists, the group has been able to bring out as many as 100,000 protesters to its demonstrations through word of mouth. "It's very much like an Athenian democracy," says Bar-On enthusiastically.
The members of Peace Now are drawn from every corner of Israeli life. Since virtually all Israelis must serve in the military, most Peace Now members are either veterans or in the reserve army. "Those who lead the Peace Now movement are actually those who did the fighting," says Tzali Reshef, 29, a veteran who studied at Harvard and is a successful lawyer in Jerusalem. With Bar-On, Reshef is credited with founding the movement in 1978—and with giving it its uniquely unstructured form. "We are a group leading the movement because we did not want a personality cult," he says.
Still, there are strong personalities at the helm of Peace Now. One of the most visible—and vocal—is Dr. Janet Aviad, 40, a transplanted Philadelphian with a degree in religion from the University of California. A widow who emigrated to Israel with her son after her husband died in 1973, Aviad became active in Peace Now last December, irate over a conflict that preceded the Lebanon war. "Sharon imposed a collective punishment on the West Bank village of Beit Sahur," she recalls. "Some 16-year-old boys had been throwing stones at Israeli Army vehicles. The houses of their parents were all blown up by the authorities. What could the parents do? Could I control my son at the age of 16 to such an extent that myself and my family would rightly be punished for any act of his?"
The leaders of Peace Now reject the charge that they are leftists: They claim that even some members of Begin's conservative Likud bloc support their efforts. But they are also aware that they run the risk of being dismissed as simply a protest movement, which has contributed no positive solutions to Israel's problems while constantly criticizing the government. For that reason, Tzali Reshef is now urging his fellow Peace Now leaders to develop a political program for Israel's future. "We must do something fast," he says. "Otherwise it will be like the proverb in which the dogs bark, but the caravan still moves on." As Tzali Reshef realizes all too well, unless someone devises a better way to conduct statecraft, Israel, like Lebanon and the rest of the Middle East, will not find peace now, or perhaps ever.
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A working farm since the 1800s, the verdant property juxtaposes the old with the new so that the original Victorian house is now a tasting room for their award-winning wines and olive oils…and the modern, industrial-style restaurant boasts architectural chandeliers made from re-purposed antique tractor parts. Copious trees and vegetation provide shade as well as bursts of color, but with Farmstead's commitment to responsible farming nearly everything that grows here makes its way onto the menu.
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if it's $3, it ain't wine!
jk. hubby is in the wine biz so we are snobs. We mostly drink Oregon Pinot Noir. sooooooooooo good...
I'm a little sad about this. I used to drink 1-2 glasses of red wine a night. Last night I poured a glass of my favorite $3 cabernet and it was like drinking juice. Just really really too sweet. Guess I might have to switch to expensive dry bubbly or something else. What do you guys like to drink?
if it's $3, it ain't wine!
jk. hubby is in the wine biz so we are snobs. We mostly drink Oregon Pinot Noir. sooooooooooo good...
I like really dry bitter red wines, I can't remember the name of this one Italian wine I tried at one of my jobs, but it was IT... I think I prefer such wines because I can't really drink too much of them so it's a good way to not go over board. I can't really stand any white wine.
A good Pinot Noir is by far my favorite wine! I've never liked very sweet wines.
Regardless, I never go over a glass or two in one sitting. Being drunk is not my cup of tea and I've found that since going Primal, I can start to feel a little buzz after just one glass.
$3 wine ? isnt that what u put in yr lawn mower ?
pinot noir for me
Shiraz for me. Cabernet is much fruitier
I probably go through at least one bottle of red wine a week. I've never found a decent bottle for $3 but recently I discovered Barsao Campo de Borja. Its only $7 a bottle and its really surprisingly good. Not as dry as a pinot but definitely more substantial and nowhere near as sweet as most reds. It tastes like a $20 bottle. Just stock up and order a case. Its also great for sauces for beef and lamb. If you can find the 2005 that's the best one but the 2008 and 09 are fine.
A subject after my own heart. I love wine. Personally I like a good Zinfandel, or Shiraz, or Petit Syrah, ha ha... Pinot Noir is good but not my favorite. Though Elwyne has a good point, Oregon Pinot is really good. I could go on and on but I don't want to bore you. I think with every type of wine, each wine maker has their own technique that adds different quality's so I think trial and error is a good thing. Unless you know what you like in a wine. Personally I like a really Oaky wine, especially in a Chardoney, but I like red best.
Anyway, I can relate. Red wines are my favorite, but I've always had trouble finding varieties I like that aren't too sweet. And ever since PB got me to dump the sugary snacks, everything tastes twice as sweet as it used to. I systematically went through all the cabernet's sold by local stores until I found one with a tolerable level of sweetness. The brand is 'Smoking Loon'. I'm reasonably happy with it, and it's pretty cheap (under $10 for 750 ml I believe, though local/state taxes can probably change this figure a lot).
I've just begun my search for a pinot noir that is flavorful, not too bitter, and not too sweet. No luck yet. :\
$3 a bottle. Really. Its like two-buck-chuck (which is now three-buck-chuck) but sold at my favorite Tesco-derived grocery. The "house" brand, if you will. I think it is Big Kahuna. It is a Cabernet/Shiraz blend and so very delicious (or at least I used to think so).
I will have to experiment to find a new wine-for-cooking (but not cooking wine!) I like to drink whilst in the kitchen.


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Danny Garcias rib injury that caused his Feb. 9 fight with Zab Judah to be postponed is a legit injury, according to his sparring partner, DeMarcus Chop Chop Corley.
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We were in there sparring all last week, and Danny threw a body shot, a right body shot towards me, and I used I put my elbow down to block the body shot from getting hit with it, Corley had told TheKoncreteJungle.com. He caught it on the thumb, on his right thumb, and he was having problems with it for the last whole week.
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WTF are you talking about? what does this have to do with Garcia calling the police on ZAb? Has anyone in GArcia's camp come out and publicly say they didn't call the cops? I see you are from PR and God bless, but blind alegiance is primitive thinking ! Garcia's dad is going to get him hurt, he does not have the skill set to stay at the top, better do your research on up and coming PR boxers so you can jump on some else's band wagon (Cotto is on his way out, trinidad is retired, Delorme is exposed, Garcia is too slow and will get exposed this year - and on and on)
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President Barack Obama's administration Wednesday asked the US Supreme Court to uphold his historic health care law, likely sparking an explosive legal showdown in the heat of the 2012 election.
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The White House is the official residence and principal workplace of the President of the United States. Located at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW in Washington, D.C., it was built between 1792 and 1800 of white-painted Aquia sandstone in the late Georgian style and has been the executive residence of every U.S. President since John Adams. When Thomas Jefferson moved into the home in 1801, he (with architect Benjamin Henry Latrobe) expanded the building outward, creating two colonnades which were meant to conceal stables and storage.
In 1814, during the War of 1812, the mansion was set ablaze by the British Army in the Burning of Washington, destroying the interior and charring much of the exterior. Reconstruction began almost immediately, and President James Monroe moved into the partially reconstructed house in October 1817. Construction continued with the addition of the South Portico in 1824 and the North in 1829. Due to crowding within the executive mansion itself, President Theodore Roosevelt had nearly all work offices relocated to the newly-constructed West Wing in 1901. Eight years later, President William Howard Taft expanded the West Wing and created the first Oval Office which was eventually moved as the section was expanded. The third-floor attic was converted to living quarters in 1927 by augmenting the existing hip roof with long shed dormers. A newly constructed East Wing was used as a reception area for social events; both new wings were connected by Jefferson's colonnades. East Wing alterations were completed in 1946 creating additional office space. By 1948, the house's load-bearing exterior walls and internal wood beams were found to be close to failure. Under Harry S. Truman, the interior rooms were completely dismantled, resulting in the construction of a new internal load-bearing steel framework and the reassembly of the interior rooms.
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The Arctic weather is affecting 195 million Americans, with at least 35 states from the Midwest to the Gulf facing below-freezing temperatures.
In Minnesota, wind chills have dropped to 45 below. And in nearby Wisconsin, a propane shortage is forcing families to bundle up even indoors.
"Normally they're barefoot, so they've got socks on," Wisconsin resident Michelle Baldwin said. "We've got a hat on the baby."
Even the Deep South is not immune, with crews preparing for icy conditions as far as Texas.
"Nothing's enough here, I'm sorry," one man said. "I need layers on my face, layers on my hands."
In Chicago, residents are seeing wind chills that feel like 20 below zero.
"I'm looking forward to this summer. I'm not going to complain about how hot it is," one Chicago resident said.
The deadly weather was also responsible for a massive interstate pileup in Indiana.
"I can't believe the way it looked," one eyewitness said. "Even I was in tears just looking at it. It's horrible."
More than 40 vehicles smashed together on Interstate 94 in northwestern Indiana -- big rigs and cars, tangled after whiteout conditions. Three people died and more than 20 were injured.
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Meanwhile, the football industry is bracing for the impact of the cold conditions. For the first time ever the NFL is suggesting the date of the Super Bowl could be moved.
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If you're looking for something to do with the kids this weekend check out the following events happening this Saturday. Note the Friday night details on the Pelham event.
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Bart's Art Cart: Super Scrolls at the Birmingham Museum of Art
Saturday 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Free admission
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The craft will focus on the color of cherry blossoms and bamboo! Study the careful and intentional art-making of Japanese artists in our Japanese galleries and the Lethal Beauty exhibition. Make your own scroll inspired by nature to remember spring.
Antique Engine & Tractor Show Tannehill Ironworks Historical State Park
Saturday 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Admission $3 for adults and $1 for kids
Check out old engines, antique cars but mainly antique tractors. Call the park for more details.
You can ride the train too for $2 per person.
Phone: 205-477-5711
Pelham's Golden Jubilee 50th Birthday Bash
Friday & Saturday. There will be free live music at Oak Mountain Amphitheater, children's play area, free ice skating and more.
Go here for more details and the schedule.
Free ice skating will be tonight from 5 p.m .to 9 p.m.
Saturday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.Southeastern Outings Easy River Float from Locust Fork from Swann Bridge to Powell Falls
Bring a picnic, your float, sunscreen, water and few more items. Go here for outing details.
Admission is free. Event begins at 9:30 a.m. Saturday.
Go here for details and contact information to confirm the event will happen, which could change at the last minute.
Bass Pro Shops Free Family Summer Camp
Saturday & Sunday noon to 5 p.m.
Free shooting arcade.
Free casting challenge.
Free homemade ice cream.
Free BB shooting range.


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Cañon City police arrest man suspected of triple homicide
CAÑON CITY, Colo. — Police in Cañon City have arrested Jaacob Vanwinkle as a suspect in a triple homicide Sunday night.
Vanwinkle, 31, faces three counts of first-degree murder, three counts of kidnapping, sexual assault and sexual assault on a child by a person in position of trust. He will be arraigned later Monday.
A mother and two children, a 9-year-old girl and a 5-year-old boy, were killed. Police responded to a report of sexual assault by a teenage girl in the 1100 block of Phay Avenue when they discovered the bodies.
A teenage girl who was sexually assaulted was able to get out of the house.


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How fortunate that we may at once benefit from both an Arab and an Indian point of view on the faith, history, politics and civilization of the Islamic World and its sacred sites from the earliest of times. Sultan Ghalib, whose mother is the eldest grand-daughter of the sixth Nizam of Hyderbad, India, was the last ruler of the Hadramaut (South Yemen) and since resides in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, near Makkah and Medina, which are the focus of this monumental work.
As this volume literally brings alive the history of many centuries, it has something of interest for everyone, be he or she a scholar of the Middle East and the Islamic World, a Muslim longing for precious details of the Holy Sanctuaries and pilgrimage, or an art historian drawn to the great architectural complexes the world over.
In his royal style of English, the author transports us on an intriguing journey where we are introduced to hitherto little- or un-known places, personages and events. A real education altering one's world-view!
What astounded me personally were the fascinating details – and even cataloging – of the enormous and fervent support and involvement over the centuries of the entire Muslim world, stretching from South East Asia to West Africa, in the maintenance of Makkah, Medina and Jerusalem. It is surprising to hear of India's funding the Dome of the Rock and Mosque of al-Aqsa. Staggering sums were consistently donated not only for expansion and the repairs necessitated by such natural disasters as floods, earthquakes and fire, but also for the cities' indigent population. International patronage was devoted towards education and various charitable endowments. The needed Hijaz railway was financed by individuals as well as the Muslim public from Iran, Morocco, Bokhara, Egypt, Europe, Aden, South East Asia, India, et al.
Included would appear to be mention of nearly all the rulers and key people from the Caliphate onwards. Struggles for power read like tales of mystery and intrigue. The sheer inclusion of the names and dates of all these important personages through time provides the reader with a reference work of substance. One comes to understand what a privilege and responsibility has been the role of those called "the Servitors of the Two Holy Sanctuaries."
For a Muslim to follow the development of each key element found in the three sacred sanctuaries is deeply moving, such as the story of the Kiswa over tine, the enclosure of the Prophet's tomb, the Maqam Ibrahim, and the exact circumstances of how Prophetic relics reached the Topkapi. And what a bonus to have included the very prayers which are to be said by Muslims making Tawaf, performing the Sa'y or standing in the Prophet's garden, ar-Rauda. These prayers will also be of interest to the outsider who may wonder what the circumambulating pilgrims, for example, are saying. How exciting to have a letter from Al-Ghazali (d. 1111 CE) regarding insiring moments at the Hajj.
For the art historian who, for example, studies the Mughal period in India and has seen the portraits of Akbar and Jahangir, it is interesting to be able to envision these sultans alive, in their enthusiasm and involvement while readying the Hajj caravans. We mostly think of Shah Jahan only in association with the Taj Mahal, but now we meet him as a donor to the Holy Cities. Here we learn of the involvement of the Mughal court with Arabia.
I was brought to tears when Umar Fakhrad-din Pasha refused to leave his sworn post in defense of the Prophet's mosque in Medina. He had held out against all odds and when at last he was torn away from his station, he fell weeping at the tomb of the Prophet, begging his forgiveness for having been forced to forego his oath.
Against the captivating backdrop of history, whether it be World War I, a famine, or the yoke of colonization, we witness the strength of the Muslim ummah working as one.
Quoting from Ihsanoglu's introduction to the book, I agree that "Possibly the greatest benefit of this valuable book is that to the Western reader it provides a rare and truthful display of the development of events [in the Muslim world] from an Arab perspective which we hope will contribute to redressing the stereotypical misconceptions through which many Western writers have portrayed Islam, Muslim, and heir causes."


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Commissioners, help me; I do not see where it says in the Constitution of the United States of America that every man woman and child has the right to free speech, except for one certain commissioner on the Woodinville Fire & Life Safety District Board of Commissioners.
Speaking as a former commissioner, there were times when I did not agree with other commissioners, but I never considered bringing up a motion to censure or remove them from their positions strictly because of their statements and beliefs.
Since Commissioner Callon has been removed from the Ethics Committee, who will replace him? I hope that that person is sinless. Speaking of ethics, Webster defines it as "the study of standards of conduct and moral judgement," and by this board's actions, it could be applied to anyone who speaks out against them.
First, it is unethical to write a letter to your constituents, and next, it will be unethical to speak out at a public hearing as a commissioner. Be careful, commissioners or firefighters or citizens, you could be next. Where was it popular, in the not so recent past, that people were punished and put in jail if they were not in step with those in power?
Why is it popular to attack someone that is trying to help the taxpayers keep some of their hard-earned money? These savings are not going into Commissioner Callon's pocket. It is sad to see someone put down, not for doing something bad, illegal, or immoral, but because his philosophy is different from the other board members.
We need differing opinions, for without them we will not gain insight or wisdom. Do we need a board of all Dave Callons? No? Neither do we need a board of all Tim Osgoods or Frank Peeps or whoever. We need diversity and we need various voices.
Dave Callon is the senior member of the board and has earned respect, as he has given many thankless hours for this community and for the Woodinville Fire & Life Safety District. He is and has been a good steward of our money and has worked very hard to bring other non-tax dollars (i.e. cell phone towers) to the department.
I hope that these silly actions by the board will cease before we lose a person who is not afraid to try to slay the bad dragons of our society. And if we do lose him, what commissioner's head will be the next one on the chopping block and what will be the next freedom that will be stepped on?
Don Eddy, former commissioner, Woodinville Fire & Life Safety District


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SLIPPERY ROCK -- Marty Schaetzle says he and his Mercyhurst University coaching staff won't change the way they teach tackling in the wake of the NCAA's new "targeting" rule.
And he realizes they might be taking a risk.
"I think you've got to just teach your guys how to hit clean and hit right," Schaetzle said. "It's no different than when you're a little tyke and you're trying to learn that you don't hit with your head, you hit with your shoulders. But when you make a rule like that, it's going to hurt a team because the refs are going to call it."
Schaetzle doesn't know exactly what to expect a few weeks from now when officials begin enforcing the rule, which is designed to protect defenseless players from hits above the shoulders.
He's not alone, judging by reaction from players and coaches at Monday's PSAC football media day.
The rule makes them nervous because, unlike previous efforts at increasing safety, this change carries a much steeper cost. Violators face an automatic ejection in addition to a 15-yard penalty.
In the PSAC, an ejection means an automatic disqualification for the next game, making it even more significant.
"It's really hard to target players," said Indiana (Pa.) linebacker Alex Berdahl, who fears officials will be left to make judgments about defensive players' intent. "You're playing a game that's a seconds game, and you can't really react."
Many coaches, including Gannon's Brad Rzyczycki, have put together video compilations of hits designed to help teach players which hits might be flagged and which are clean.
"I have to put our kids out on the field in a walk-through situation and have the other players (holding shields) so that everybody understands what constitutes an illegal hit," Rzyczycki said. "And then you hope that your interpretation is the same as the official's."
PSAC commissioner Steve Murray said he met with the conference's officials and encouraged them to carefully scrutinize what they've seen before throwing a flag that would lead to an ejection.
Murray said the conference would send clips to an NCAA review committee on a weekly basis to determine if penalties were warranted. In cases where they are deemed unwarranted, the subsequent game ejection would be waived, he said.
But that doesn't change the fact that a targeting flag will still disqualify the offending player at least for the rest of the game.
"It's a big penalty," Edinboro defensive tackle Chris Williams said. "But it's not going to change the way I play. I still have to be aggressive and I have to come after people. I'm not a dirty player, so I don't expect a problem."
JOHN DUDLEY can be reached at 870-1677 or by e-mail. Follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/ETNdudley.


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Before I get the weekend links, I wanted to share a couple of wedding pictures. Our daughter, Meredith got married last weekend. It was such a special time to celebrate with friends and family.
We don't have photos back from the photographer yet, but I managed to snap a few with my phone.
Instead of wedding cake, we served donuts from North Lime Coffee & Donuts. When Meredith and Stephen first told me that's what they wanted to do, I really wondered about it. But it turned out to be a big hit with the guests!
In fact, I'm pretty sure the photographer didn't have a chance to take any photos of the donut table before our guest started diving in. I ran over to take photos right after the ceremony, while the receiving line was forming. They had to call me back to the line, because I got caught up in taking food photos 🙂
We had white iced, maple bacon, strawberry cheesecake, blueberry cheesecake, chocolate iced, lemon ice box and cherry limeade (my favorite!).
Instead of a cake cutting ceremony, Meredith and Stephen bit into the same donut. I can't wait to see the photos of that. I was on the other side of the room and missed getting a picture of that moment.
It was a wonderful day and we're so thankful for all the help from family and friends.
What C.S. Lewis ate
Now for a few weekend links. First up, one of the ministers that officiated at the wedding writes a blog. Quite a while ago, he sent a thank you letter to C.S. Lewis (even though the author had passed away long ago). You won't believe the response he got back in the mail! If you ever wondered what C.S. Lewis ate to make him the writing genius that he was, wonder no more.
I loved this post on grocery shopping from The Kitchn.
I've been diving into the Storyline Blog lately. While digging around over there, I stumbled on a song by Ben Rector. I'd never heard of Ben Rector, but I loved the song. After pulling up iTunes, listening and loving the song samples and realizing I had unspent iTunes money from Christmas, I purchased his latest album. Good stuff!


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The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Taiwan Environmental Protection Administration, Clean Air Asia, and the Bay Area and South Coast Air Districts have formed the Cities Clean Air Partnership. This is the first major clean air certification and partnership program to encourage air quality protection in cities across the Asia Pacific region.
The Cities Clean Air Partnership aims to strengthen the air quality management in cities across Asia, encourage progress and contribute to reducing the health impacts of air pollution and climate change in Asia. The program will include:
With the new initiative cities around the US are going to be able to collaborate with cities in Asia Pacific to share experiences and innovations to reduce and control air pollution. Fighting air pollution and growing clean energy economies are major EPA goals. For many years the EPA has worked with environmental agencies, non-profits and industry in Asia to improve prevention and control of emissions of particulate matter and other air pollutants.
Original support for the new scheme came from a US$ 5 million grant from the International Environmental Partnership to advance global environmental collaborations. Clean Air Asia, is developing the partnership which will hopefully drive progress for participating cities, helping them make targeted decisions about the best way to deploy resources and improve air quality.
Kuo-Yen Wei, Taiwan Environmental Protection Administration Minister said, 'the Cities Clean Air Partnership will greatly accelerate air quality improvement in Asian cities and Taiwan is proud to help initiate this program with the US EPA. We are looking forward to forming ties with other city partners in Asia under this program and the International Environmental Partnership framework.'
Bjarne Pedersen, Executive Director, Clean Air Asia, commented, 'we can only significantly reduce the problem of air pollution through meaningful and effective partnerships among cities, which is the driving principle of this partnership. This is a landmark initiative towards air pollution prevention and control in Asia. We are looking forward to both delivering real impacts under this pioneering initiative as well as bringing more partners onboard.'
Jack Broadbent, Executive Officer, Bay Area Air District, said, 'public/private partnerships have proven time and again, that investments in clean air programs can provide large public health dividends. With over US$ 300 million committed over the past several years to reduce port related diesel pollution, investments in cities for greenhouse gas reduction programs, community grants that fund small scale projects which offer real results, we recognise the benefits of these partnerships to successfully tackle our clean air challenges.'
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Millcreek schools challenging charter petition
The Millcreek Township School District is challenging a petition appealing its denial of a charter for the proposed Erie Biosciences Academy Charter School.
The petition "contains fraudulent signatures, completed by an individual other than the individual signing, fictitious persons, fictitious addresses, and/or misrepresenting an addresses as being located in Millcreek Township," among other concerns, district lawyer Tim Sennett wrote in a motion for discovery filed in Erie County Court.
The school is seeking to appeal the district's denial to the Pennsylvania State Charter School Appeals Board.
By law, the school is required to collect the signatures of at least 2 percent of the residents of the school district in which it intends to operate or of 1,000 residents, whichever is less, within 60 days of the district's denial. The school gathered about 1,400 signatures.
A county judge must approve the petition before the appeal can proceed to the state appeal board.
Harold Kurtz, a Bucks County-based consultant working with a local group to start the school, called the district's claims "a typical delaying tactic."
"Always in the process there are some signatures that are incorrect," Kurtz said. "That's typical. The bottom line is, after they're struck, we're confident we're fine. We're going to have more than enough signatures."
The court filing includes affidavits from people supporting the district's position, including Millcreek residents who own or live at some of the home addresses listed on the petition. The residents said they don't know the people connected to their addresses on the petition.
In an answer to the petition, the district also said that 590 of the signatures are insufficient because affidavits of the people circulating the petitions either weren't attested or the attesting signature wasn't legible.
Sennett is asking the court for more time to review the signatures and find and talk to the people who circulated the petition.
"Based on what we've found so far, we think we need more time, clearly," he said.
Asked to respond to Kurtz's claim that the filing is a delay tactic, Sennett said only "He should read the affidavits."
Jennifer Hennessy, an Exton-based lawyer representing the charter, did not return calls seeking comment.
The district has twice denied the school's request for a charter, first in February and then in July, based on several concerns, including zoning and safety issues and concerns about the proposed curriculum being too similar to the district's.
Organizers had hoped to open the charter school inside the former Steris Corp. offices at 2424 W. 23rd St., but that site is not zoned for schools.
As proposed, the charter would offer specific career paths for students, including biomedical engineering, biotechnology, molecular biology and genetic research.
ERICA ERWIN can be reached at 870-1846 or by e-mail. Follow her on Twitter at twitter.com/ETNerwin.


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Aerophile is a one-skein garter shawl with narrow wings that stretch wide like a soaring bird which loves to fly. Each wing is knit using short rows from a provisionally cast on central spine, while the scalloped top edge is created by casting on additional stitches every six rows. After both wings are complete, a super-picot edging binds off the live stitches along the bottom edge. Choose a beautiful yarn as the focus of the shawl, and let the uncomplicated ground and simple textural edgings highlight the fiber.
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During the Democrats National Convention a woman said, "I don't know why anyone would not vote for Obama." That's an easy one with the last nearly four years of failures and the eventful past month that have highlighted this presidency.
Feb. 2, 2009, to NBC's Matt Lauer, Obama said if he didn't have the job done in three years he'd be a one-term president. The Sept. 22, 2012 Obama said ... (we) "have always, said" it would take more than one term, one president. No thanks. Four years later, America nears life support.
Obama's record is clearly reflected in the deplorable unemployment rate. The duplicitous media errantly spews corkscrew numbers designed to distort the real jobless count that perniciously "revise(s) last month's" numbers every month. Rather than make succinct, unadulterated short statements, the mass media prints columns of nonsensical numbers and percentages that a 5-year-old could debunk.
In early 2012, Harvard PhD. John Corsi, wrote, "The real unemployment rate for January 2012 is closer to 22.5 percent, not the 8.3 percent reported by the Bureau of Labor Statistics." Things are no better now. Equally, author John Williams, Shadow Government Statistics, offers that economic data is manipulated by the Feds "for political purposes." He elaborates that for a true unemployment rate, the BLS must factor in Table A-15 titled "Alternative measures of labor underutilization" with its "U6 unemployment" that represents those who gave up looking for work, those "marginally attached to the labor force" and the "under-employed" that take part-time jobs while seeking full-time employment. No, Mr. President, the private sector is not "doing fine."
Barack Obama is "In-Chief" of many things but "Commander" isn't one of them. This president too readily apologizes for America but never to America.
The planned brutal terrorist assassinations of four Americans in Libya on 9/11 is egregiously inexcusable; one more safety failure of this administration. That embassy is sovereign U.S. territory. It had been attacked twice recently before Sept. 11 this year. They are acts of war and Obama behaves like they're workplace violence. "Workplace violence" is the Obama administration's classification of the Fort Hood Massacre where Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan killed 13 and wounded 29 more. This label was assigned irrespective of al-Qaida major operative, Anwar al-Awlaki, declaring Hasan a "hero...fighting against the U.S. army is an Islamic duty." Osama bin Laden and al-Awlaki are dead but fanatic, anti-American, anti-anything not sharia, terrorism thrives. Half of the Middle East is on fire.
Within hours of the deadly Libyan attack, the unfettered President Obama pompously traveled to pricey celebrity fundraisers. Americans are hanging on by their fingernails while their president appears on witless television shows like "The View," "Letterman," "Leno" and "The Daily Show." However these venues are where you will hear Obama's true beliefs. He told Jon Stewart, "If four Americans get killed, it's not optimal." Staggering.
Blue Mountain Group was hired to guard the Benghazi diplomatic contingent. BMG was "virtually unknown" and "guards patrolled with flashlights and batons instead of guns ... (and) despite their inexperience, the Blue Mountain guards said they feared the Americans were not concerned enough about security" (Reuters). Obama's 13-year-old daughter had more armed protection on her spring soirée to Mexico than these Americans did in a known hot bed of violence.
Hours after the Libyan murders, Obama cancelled his scheduled press conference and dispatched Ambassador Susan Rice, a virtual unknown, to face cameras on many Sunday talk shows where she struggled to feed the public pig slop about a YouTube video. Weeks later, as more truth emerged, uncharacteristically, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton took the wrap; albeit in undefined, mish-mosh statements about "something" being responsibility. President Obama has a penchant for sending out women to take his heat. And women think Republicans are their enemy?
The 2008 candidate Obama answered questions with (that's) "above my pay grade" and he told of his aim to "fundamentally" change America. Too many did not listen.
Americans need a president who is an adept leader; a veritable commander; a relentless, fearless defender of America and its exceptionalism; one who knows 2+2=4 and most of all a person who believes that American lives are indeed optimal.
Betty Arenson is a Valencia resident.


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The American Association of Teachers of Turkic Languages (AATT) is pleased to announce the establishment of an annual "Graduate Student Pre-Conference in Turkish and Turkic Studies". This conference is being established to mark the 20th anniversary of the establishment of AATT. The first Pre-Conference is co-sponsored by the Institute for Turkish Studies and Georgetown University.
The first annual Pre-Conference will be hosted on Friday evening, November 18 and Saturday, November 19 by Georgetown University. It will be held in conjunction with the 2005 meeting of the Middle East Studies Association to be held November 19-22, 2005 in Washington, DC. (Future meetings may also be coordinated with the annual meeting of the Central Eurasian Studies Society.)
The Pre-Conference is designed to encourage research making significant use of sources in Turkish and Turkic languages by graduate students in Turkish and Turkic Studies in North America. It will promote contact between students at various institutions and allow for feedback from faculty discussants participating in the pre-conference. Another goal is to help students progress towards more formal presentations at national conferences such as those of MESA, CESS, and organizations devoted to specific disciplines.
AATT will award a limited number of travel awards to help subvent the cost of student participation. Students are also encouraged to seek funding from their home institutions.
Students should submit a 250 word proposal for a paper together with the following information:
The deadline for submission of proposals is September 15, 2005.
Proposals should be submitted by email to:
Professor Uli Schamiloglu
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University of Wisconsin-Madison
Professor Erika H. Gilson
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Princeton University
Applicants will be informed of the selection committee's decision by October 1, 2005.


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Ocean prognosis: mass extinction
Jeremy Hance
June 20, 2011
A new report finds that the oceans are facing a mass extinction. One day many of the world's marine species may only be found in aquariums, if at all, such as this green sea anemone in the Monterey Bay Aquarium. Photo by: Rhett A. Butler.
"The findings are shocking," Alex Rogers, IPSO's scientific director and professor of conservation biology at Oxford University, said in a press release. "As we considered the cumulative effect of what humankind does to the oceans, the implications became far worse than we had individually realized. We've sat in one forum and spoken to each other about what we're seeing, and we've ended up with a picture showing that almost right across the board we're seeing changes that are happening faster than we'd thought, or in ways that we didn't expect to see for hundreds of years."
The Earth has seen five mass extinctions, and some scientists suggest we are seeing the signs of a sixth; although usually they point to the destruction of the world's rainforests as proof, not the degradation of the oceans. However, the panel found that past mass extinctions of marine life included three signs: increased hypoxia or low oxygen levels, increasing 'dead zones', and ocean acidification. All three of these are occurring today due to human impacts in addition to overfishing and other issues.
In addition, climate change is melting Arctic sea ice and Greenland faster than anticipated, risking not only rising sea levels, but the possibility of methane release from underwater deposits.
Marine dead zones are also on the rise. In 2008 over 400 dead zones were identified globally, but recent research has found that such zones—where dissolved oxygen has fallen to such low levels that most marine species can no longer survive—are doubling every decades. Dead zones are caused by agricultural runoff, especially nitrogen-rich fertilizers, as well as the burning of fossil fuels.
Overfishing has already plundered the oceans of many key marine species. Some target fish and bycatch species (those killed unintentionally) have fallen by 90 percent report researchers. Following the collapse of target fish populations, industrial fisheries simply move onto other species until they too are decimated. Now, both the Arctic and the Antarctic are being eyed by industrial fisheries. The Arctic, which is becoming increasingly assailable due to melting sea ice from climate change, is also a recent target of oil and gas companies.
New research is also showing human trash in marine ecosystems to be more nefarious than expected. Tiny plastic particles are absorbing chemicals, such as flame retardants and synthetic musks, which are then then consumed by marine life. These chemicals have been found as far abroad as the polar seas. Other research has found that plastic decompose in the oceans much faster than expected, releasing potentially toxic substances.
All of these impacts, and others, are not allowing marine ecosystems time to recover, but instead are creating synergistic effects that are putting ocean ecosystems at grave risk.
So, how do we prevent a marine mass extinction? Number one, according to the researchers, immediately reduce greenhouse gas emissions. They then recommend restructuring industrial fisheries for longterm sustainability, including shutting fisheries that are not sustainable; establishing more marine protected areas; tackling pollution and nutrient run-off; and reducing oil, gas, and mining in the oceans. The scientists say that the 'precautionary principle' must be used in terms of oceanic impacts, in other words society shouldn't proceed with activities unless they are proven to be largely safe for marine ecosystems. Finally, researchers say the UN General Assembly must more effectively govern and regulate activities in the high seas, which are beyond any national jurisdiction.
According to the report, such large-scale changes are entirely possibly, but "current societal values prevent humankind from addressing them effectively."
The report's full findings will be released at the UN in New York later in the week.
Created by satellite, the red circles on this map show the location and size of many of our planet's dead zones. Black dots show where dead zones have been observed, but their size is unknown. Darker blues in this image show higher concentrations of particulate organic matter, an indication of the overly fertile waters that can culminate in dead zones. Image courtesy of NASA. Click on image to enlarge.
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WASHINGTON - President Obama says the government needs to pay for new programs by cutting spending rather than going deeper into debt.
But the President also says it's okay to borrow tens of billions of dollars to pay for his health care plan.
Obama is pushing a law that would make Congress come up with ways to pay for what it spends.
"The pay-as-you-go rule is very simple: Congress can only spend a dollar if it saves a dollar elsewhere," Obama said.
Click play for more analysis from Charles Dunn of the Regent University School of Government, following Paul Strand's report.
Obama points out that the rule -- called "PayGo" -- was in place in the 1990s when record surpluses piled up, and...
"When this rule was abandoned ... we returned to record deficits that doubled the national debt," Obama said.
But critics say there are so many exemptions to Obama's PayGo plan, they wonder where'd the Pay part Go?
It's most likely the Democrats' coming $1 trillion-plus health care plan will be exempt for a decade or so.
Social Security will be untouchable. And discretionary spending, which makes up around 40 percent of the budget, is exempt.
One deficit-hawk organization stated, "This is like quitting drinking, but making an exception for beer and hard liquor."
And House Republican Whip Eric Cantor suggested, "The quickest way to save money is to stop recklessly spending it."
Cost will be a big part of the battle over health care reform.
The Obama administration says such reform may be expensive at the start, but will eventually save money. They warn if health care costs continue to grow unchecked, just Medicare and Medicaid alone will make up 20 percent of the economy by mid-century.
Democrats on Capitol Hill are starting to outline their health care reform proposals:
-Everyone would be required to buy health insurance and pay a penalty if they don't.
-Employers will have to buy health insurance for workers or pay a penalty.
-There may be a plan to let citizens buy health insurance from the government.
-Families making less than $88,000 a year might get federal subsidies to help them pay for health insurance.
And to help pay for it all, some in Congress are considering a tax on health benefits workers receive from their employers.
These measures are all quite controversial and could lead to some serious political fights on Capitol Hill.
But President Obama has said health care reform is a top priority of his first year in office, so the battle is about to be joined.
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36 yr old male. T level below 300. I am only 36 but felt 66. I had no energy, depressed, no sex drive and horrible sweating episodes. Once we found out what was going on I was put on Androgel. I noticed it the 1st day. I was, and am still amazed with it. I feel like a new person. I have so much energy, great mood all of the time and my sex drive is back! This is an awesome product.
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I began using the Androgel product 6 days ago and the effects have been fantastic. I had a declining T level that was about 153 Total and 37 free when I began the treatment. All other blood work looked perfect, according to my Urologist. I began with 4 pumps, applied in AM right after the shower and on the whole torso/chest. After the second day of use, my energy began to return and increased daily. My libido came back in earnest by day 3, which made my wife very happy. My libido had suffered the most, besides a lack of ejaculate volume. My energy is back the the point that I dont need to take Adderall and have begun to back off prozac for depression. My mind is clearer and my memory is better than it has been in about 3 years. I love this stuff and am beginning to work out again with all the energy. My mornings are easier, with lots of energy to get moving... amazing feeling for a man that has felt like an 80 year old for the past 3 years.
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It has been effective in taking care of the ED sysmptoms that I was experienceing. I never had a lack of sex drive, just an inability to keep it after some exersion.
I had low testosterone of 290. After about 2 weeks my life really changed for the better. I had better memory, energy, libido, sleep and mood. I was using 5gm packets. At one month I went back for a recheck of the testosterone level and it was 3000, yes 3000!!! Dr. told me to stop and retest in three weeks. That was a week ago. I now feel like crap and am back to where I started. Can you really get a reading that high in one month? I think it was a lab mistake but doctor was firm about stopping and retesting in 3 weeks.
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After about 2 weeks i feel great. I have energy, i eat full meals, sexual desire through the roof, and i recommend you work out on this medicine you will see results.
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Hey anyone out there who has used androgel, I was wondering if they had any shrinkage to there manhood? thanks
47 year old male with decrease sex drive, depression, and lack of energy. Testosterone level prior to use was 360. after 6 months, 640, which is a good normal range. Increase sex drive and energetic. work out regularly, with increase muscle. feel like a 20 year old again.
Being a 32 year old my DR almost fell out of his chair when he got my lab tests back. A non working Thyroid and a T level of 180! Going on my first month of Androgel and Synthroid have to say I have not felt this good in 10+ years. From my mood to workouts all the way to my sex life Androgel has truly changed my life.
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I have heart disease, my T levels were 0, used 1st Androgel then Testim for over 1 year, T levels great, sex drive great, then developed pain in abdomin, turned out to be blood clot, dr. believes related to gel. Discontinued gel, pain stopped. Odd reaction?
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Not sure why it decided not to copy it but it should now.
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Oh well
And comments are disabled until further notice. Tired of trying to keep up with the latest exploits from these idiotic spammers. Absolutely NO PURPOSE to what they do...but I've already been down that rant. Can't spam here if you can't fing type here. Suck it.
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Cage Pets:
*Draconic Rage - Currently granting 20% Melee and Spellcasting Haste regardless of the pet's agility level
-I checked this spell using debug code and it's definitely adding the proper amount of haste..though it may not be on client side. It does a simple +% to haste by a specific amount manually put in. No dbcs or anything to screw it up.
*Arcane Haste - Currently granting 650 bonus spell power and 20% spell haste regardless of the pet's intellect level
-Secondary proc aura was not pulling values from primary. It will now.
*Pets have no melee attack distance when in Aggressive mode
-Adjusted melee distance to 10.0f (roughly 8 yards give or take).
*Thundershock has range of 5yards
-Not sure what's up with this spell..since the cast range is set at 30yrds and the AOE distance is 5yrds from target. Modified distance to 40yrds and aoe to 8yrds for further testing
*Electric Discharge
-Same as Thundershock except the aoe part.
*Stamina Pet Revisit
-The Stamina pet will now receive an Ultimate ability (1000+ Stamina) that is much improved - 20% of all damage taken by it's owner is redirected to itself and all incoming damage (including the redirected damage) is reduced by 50%.
*Succubus pet Seduction has no DR
-Adjusted this and other fear flagged spells for DR (some fears are not yet flagged properly)
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If you take a look at the Core Devs websites, you'll see that they as well have not been updated in months. This is because it's near impossible to keep up and there are several roadblocks along the way.
I will be revisiting upgrade options after the new expansion comes out..but until then, do not expect any major revisions. As I've said many times already..we both have lives and neither are willing to give anyone else access to do updates..because (as has been proven before) it will not go well.
For the record, I have a 4.3 server working but I'm not releasing it because it causes more crashes and stability issues than anything. It also will take months to add all our custom changes into it. By then, the next patch or expansion even will be out..breaking everything that was done. When Blizzard calms down on major revisions, we will consider moving forward.
Repairs and updates that don't involve 4.3+ are welcome suggestions and I will work on them periodically as I have free time. Ash also checks the bug tracker for quests, items, and other related fixes pretty much daily. It's not like we're standing still..
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Database was getting slightly bloated so Ash ran an orphan query to clean it up. Will not affect any players as it's items/etc with no ownership (and no storage).
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finally immune and no effect
Please give some details about what spells you're testing, what server you're testing it on, and how you're testing it. I will leave the test server up for a day or two in case people want to double check there to see if the issue is build related.
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Alcoholism has become a "public health crisis" in the U.S. military, according to a new study requested by the Defense Department.
The Institute of Medicine found that 20 percent of active duty service members admitted they drank five or more drinks per day on a regular basis in 2008.
In the same year, 47 percent said they engaged in binge drinking, which is five or more drinks in one sitting for men and four or more drinks in one sitting for women, but not on a regular basis.
Ten years prior, the number of binge drinkers actively serving in the military was at 35 percent.
The report also revealed the Pentagon hasn't improved its outdated methods of dealing with substance abuse among service members.
"Better care for service members and their families is hampered by inadequate prevention strategies, staffing shortages, lack of coverage for services that are proved to work, and stigma associated with these disorders," said Charles O'Brien, with the University of Pennsylvania's Center for Studies of Addiction, the chairman of the study committee.
Though not as prominent of a problem, prescription drug abuse also increased. In 2002, only 2 percent of active duty personnel said they misused prescription drugs. By 2008, that number had risen to 11 percent.
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I'm Buckley (No. 27), and I'm a 7-month-old, male blue-brindle pit bull mix who came to the shelter on Feb. 7. I enjoy cuddle time and showing off my toys. I'm well-behaved and affectionate. I have been on several outings and love to go for walks on the beach. Hopefully someone will give me the chance to show them just how gentle and cuddly I can be. I always have the softest kisses to share and really love lap time. If you were to come down to the Puunene animal shelter, I would love to show you how lovable I am.
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"[B]y casually agreeing to conceal the identities of those who provide non-critical information, The [Washington] Post erodes its credibility and perpetuates Washington's insidious culture of anonymity," wrote Post ombud Andrew Alexander in his column yesterday, laying out "evidence The Post's use of anonymous sources is growing," and declaring that "reporters should be blamed," but "the solution must come in the form of unrelenting enforcement by editors, starting with those at the top."
The New York Times's public editor, Clark Hoyt, on his last day on the job, shared this anecdote from his "first day on the job:"
Arthur Sulzberger Jr., the publisher, sat opposite me in a little room off his office, clapped his hands on his knees and said with a laugh: "Well, you're here. You must be dumber than you look."
And in a column in which Hoyt recalls that during his tenure he has, among other things, "deplored the overuse of anonymous sources," he quotes, yes, an anonymous source:
[O]ne reader….wrote in 2008 to tell me that I had no standards whatsoever and that I "must have made a deal with the devil at a young age." She would not let me use her name in this column because she said she did not want to lend authenticity to "such a pitiful guardian of truth and fairness."Liz Cox Barrett is a freelance writer and graphic designer in Kalispell, Montana. She worked as a newspaper journalist in Denver and Kalispell for 20 years.


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Look! Up in the sky!
it's a bird… a plane…a
product of our ignorance
at what our politicians pass
or discuss in committee
Robot drones over the US!!!!
to help enForce the law (of cOURse)
some even able to see through walls,
it's not cheap porn they're after
(well maybe). Next
we'll arm them, 2015 is- oh Orwell,
what have you wrought?
what have we bought
with our vote? Some slick
snake oil to grease the wheels, attempt
to distract the eye
while the hand is dealt.
The House wins! Man,
how does that happen,
again & again (don't
all these exclamation points
grate your nerves?)
♬ My country, tis of thee
Sweet land of.... ♬
Coming Soon! in HD, surround---
you and me & - SMile
when they come through the door,
your 15....15....15 minutes of fame,
lacing fin-gers behind your head
laying prone on the floor…Welcome,
welcome one and all---
to the reaping of the Ostriches!
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Possibly one of the most useful apps I've come across this month for the iPhone is HulloMail. It's voicemail, but with a difference. Replacing your network operator's voicemail service, it's similar to the visual voicemail that was a much talked about feature of the original iPhone.
Not only does it organise your voicemail within the app into sound files you can play at your leisure, it also emails them to an address of your choice.
Two reasons why I love it: I frequently forget my mobile phone, which means I miss calls and messages; and when I do have it, it's usually on silent for eight hours a day. Any messages I do get might not be picked up for a few hours. With that in mind, the ability to get notifications of voicemail by email is useful.
I also have a serious hatred of voicemail. There's little I can do about getting voicemail, but anything that means I can skip the less important messages until later and deal with the urgent ones is welcome.
And of course, the app itself is free.
Setting up the account is a little complex – you have to sign up for a free HulloMail account, register your phone number, activate voicemail and set up the various alerts you want – but once you get it up and running it's an easy enough process. It saves some contacts to your phonebook for activating and deactivating the voicemail account.
I set mine up using a Gmail account, which was easy enough, and also set it as my message store with HulloMail Sync. A Mobile Me account will work in a similar way in keeping your message status synchronised
You can also send short voice messages through the app without even making a call. If you are contacting another Hullomail user, the message will go straight to them; otherwise, it can be sent to an email account.
It has a missed call notification, so when your phone is off or out of coverage, you will be alerted to those who tried to call but didn't leave a message as soon as you have phone service again. This is already offered by some of the networks, but not all, so it's a handy feature to have.
It also means you can catch out the people who try to dodge making calls and swear they tried to ring, but it went straight to your voicemail so they left a message…
When you're travelling, you can set Hullomail to answer all your calls, and you can simply pick up the voicemails on email, or through the app when you get to a wifi hotspot, neatly sidestepping the roaming charges.
However, there are some drawbacks. Because it forwards your missed calls to a landline, you will pay or use your plan's inclusive minutes to send calls to voicemail. It will also mean some data charges – although the messages are small enough in size – so if you have free access to voicemail on your current network, you might not be as keen to add to your bill.
It's also not an option for phone plans that don't allow you to forward calls – namely pre-paid accounts, cutting off a large portion of mobile phone users in Ireland.
Synchronising your contacts with the application seems to be easier for Android and Blackberry users, who can do it through the phone. For iPhone users, however, you need to go to the website to set it up.
HulloMail also works with Android and Blackberry systems