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Shock, disappointment, despair, frustration:
Pick any one.
Scott Moyer went through every one of those emotions.
And probably a few more that he can't yet put his finger on.
That will happen when a promising season crashes to a sudden -- and uncalled for -- end.
On Feb. 19, on its home floor, Moyer's West Perry girls' basketball team kicked away an eight-point first-quarter lead and were upset by Northern Lebanon (13-10) 37-30 in the pigtail round of the District 3-AAA championships.
The loss closed the book on what was otherwise a fine 14-7 season for the Mustangs.
"I really didn't expect this," said Moyer in a chat three days after the game. "We were at home, we had a big crowd that was loud, the girls were excited and we had the better talent. It was a favorable draw that I thought we should win.
"I still can't explain what happened. It was an extremely disappointing loss, as disappointing a loss as we've had here.'
Behind five points apiece from Taylor Seiber and Morgan Sheaffer, the Mustangs led 12-5 after one period, but were outscored 10-5 in the second and had to be satisfied with a 17-14 halftime lead.
"We had plenty of chances to expand that lead. But, we struggled to get shots, turned the ball over too much and didn't make our free throws (3-for-9, including the front ends of two one-and-ones)," Moyer explained. "It easily could have been a 12-15 point lead at halftime. I was concernd with the score, but pleased with the defense. I assumed we'd stop turning the ball over and take advantage of our size advantage inside with Taylor, Morgan and Sami (Seiber).'
That never happened.
The Vikings, who Moyer said were, "scrappy and right up in your face," took charge in the third quarter, hitting four field goals and all four of their free throws. The Mustangs, who committed 27 turnovers, gave the ball away seven times in the quarter and failed to convert numerous opportunities.
Sam Seiber hit two shots, including a buzzer-beater from the foul line, but the rest of the Mustangs were 1-for-9 from the field. Sheaffer, the team's leading scorer, picked up her fourth foul and spent most of the third quarter seated next to Moyer on the bench.
"I kept thinking we'd go on a run like we've done so many times this year," Moyer said. "They kept turning the ball over, but we couldn't finish. It was very frustrating.'
Down three going into the fourth, the Mustangs never quite dug out of the deficit, shooting 3-for-11 from the field and committing six more turnovers. They were within one with just over four minutes to play in the game, but Liz Houser, the Viking senior who scored a game-high 17 points, hit a pair of 3s and went 3-for-5 from the line. West Perry went scoreless for nearly four minutes in the period.
"The (Vikings) were young and hustled their tails off, but there is no way we shouldn't be playing Wednesday," Moyer said. "I feel bad for our seniors.
"Their careers shouldn't be over yet.'


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Hello! My name is Sukanya. From my midtown Manhattan massage studio, I practice my passion, Thai massage. I consider it an art, one to which I've devoted myself for over a decade now. In addition to my extensive training here in the U.S., I've even been blessed enough to study at the prestigious Wat Po temple in Bangkok, Thailand. With me, you're in expert hands.
My hope is that I can bring you an experience unlike any other. The aim is to not only reawaken your body, but also your spirit. And, of course, I'm always happy to adapt the intensity and focus of the massage to meet your needs. So whether you live here in New York City or are just visiting, I'd love for you to come by. You'll be in for a treat.
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My mother and father come over from London in '62. Mom was sponsored by her sister who had married a GI and my Dad (who came a few months later) got a work visa. Both are now naturalized citizens.
I met my English husband while living in Scotland and we moved back here in 2009. The paperwork was a PITA, but he has his green card!
So, if you have any relatives or a job opportunity that will sponsor you, you could get in. A fake marriage is certainly not worth it, but maybe you will meet someone for real!
"Right is right, even if no one is doing it; wrong is wrong, even if everyone is doing it." - St. Augustine
Who says back fat is a bad thing? Maybe on a hairy guy at the beach, but not on a crab.
There is a list of careers that get a trade nafta visa depending on your country of origin. I immigrated here 16 years ago from Canada without a marriage. I am a nurse. The majority of the careers are medical, but there are others. The US also hold a visa lottery every year.
If you know where you want to immigrate to (as in region of the US), it might help to contact one of the state offices of the Senators of the state. I know they know the process, and can give you real information on how it works, your options, how long it might take, what routes you should take, etc. The idea of contacting a government entity doesn't appeal to a lot of people, but working with immigrants is one of their main jobs ,and their caseworkers will know whats up! A call or letter certainly wouldn't hurt, at the very least.
Eh, don't come here. Find a better managed and less poorly lead nation like the Netherlands or something. It's a lot of work to get in and really, there are better options.
Thanks for the input everyone!
"I think the basic anti-aging diet is also the best diet for prevention and treatment of diabetes, scleroderma, and the various "connective tissue diseases." This would emphasize high protein, low unsaturated fats, low iron, and high antioxidant consumption, with a moderate or low starch consumption.
In practice, this means that a major part of the diet should be milk, cheese, eggs, shellfish, fruits and coconut oil, with vitamin E and salt as the safest supplements."
- Ray Peat
I want to marry into the UK or EU. It's be nice to have different employment options
Excuse me for any typos and sarcastic remarks, sent from my iPhone using Marks Daily Apple Forum mobile app
To get started, you can check the web site that the US government has set up that goes over this business.
From there, you'll find all kinds of links to the different kinds of visas and what you might qualify for (or not). It isn't easy to immigrate to the US if you aren't "special" in some way (in work, or a refugee, etc). You would likely require the employment visa process -- which can take years.
I would recommend a lawyer to facilitate the process, and calling a person in the government of the region where you want to be is not a bad idea.
Likewise, as another poster mentioned, the easiest method seems to be through NAFTA -- many people go through Canada. In fact, most of the people whom I know have gone through Canada. Of course, as mentioned, they are all specialists in medical or scientific fields, and it takes years before they have permanent residence in the US (with lots of scary visa renewals in the process -- even with jobs in medical and scientific fields in place before they immigrate).
In addition, you're going to need a lot of money. You're going to need money to pay all of the relevant processing fees (and there are a lot of them). You're going to need money to pay the lawyer who facilitates your immigration process (lawyers are insanely expensive, but in the US, you MUST have one). And you're going to need money to demonstrate that you can support yourself for a bit once you get to the US -- even if you do have a job waiting for you when you arrive.
While I do think it is worthwhile to live your dream, it is incredibly challenging to immigrate to the US. I know many people who have done it, but it certainly takes a lot of focus and dedication.
In my mind, there is no true "better", just different. Well, okay, I would definitely say that the US is better than Mali for the foreseeable future. But I think you get my drift. Even in Europe, half of them would up stakes and move to another country as well. I think it is a human thing that the grass is always greener somewhere else.
I have a mantra that I have spouted for years... "If I eat right, I feel right. If I feel right, I exercise right. If I exercise right, I think right. If I think right, I eat right..." Phil-SC
I can't speak for what it's like in Europe, but as a person who moved from the US for freedom/opportunity, I can certainly comment on the idea.
Like many European nations, New Zealand has a healthy welfare system with all the great benefits. But NZ also has a lot of freedoms that we didn't have in the US -- largely because of those welfare systems (ie, subsidized private schooling; universal health care).
It was much easier for us to start our business here, and it's much less competitive market besides. It's a culture of educated people always on the move (lots of travelling, moving to different countries, etc), as well as a hugely creative little country, too.
Personally, it's just about perfect. Unless the current government screws it up.


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Often mistaken as a sign of poor maintenance habits, bedbugs are every hotel's worst nightmare, especially in a high-class tourism market like Charleston.
The problem turned into a crisis for the Comfort Inn & Suites downtown at 144 Bee St. over the Labor Day holiday weekend, when a local TV news report broadcast that one of the hotel's guests had rented a room that was infested with bedbugs - tiny insects that often live undetected in mattresses and upholstery fibers.
"It affects our business, and anytime this happens it's a grave concern," said Vicky Ritchie, assistant manager of the hotel. "But we've contacted the visitor's bureau to let them know that we're being proactive and we will get all the documentation to prove our rooms are clean."
The hotel was still working to make sure they had gotten rid of all the bugs Wednesday when they brought in a local bedbug detection service, Bed Bugs & Drugs, that uses a specially-trained canine, Laina, to sniff out the hard-to-find pests.
But perhaps the more tedious task for hotels that get bedbugs is overcoming the widespread misconceptions surrounding the problem.
Ed Gruetzner, the owner of Bed Bugs & Drugs who inspected each room at the Comfort Inn Wednesday morning, said he's frequently hired by local hotels.
"Bedbugs, they don't discriminate. ... It doesn't matter if it's a budget hotel or a five-star hotel. They're equal-opportunity feeders," he said.
Unlike cockroaches that become more rampant in an unclean environment, bedbugs can thrive in the most pristine conditions because their only food source is blood, according to the Pest Control Technology Media Group, a trade organization that provides information to professional pest control services. Plus, they can live, and therefore keep multiplying, for up to a year without food or water, the group said.
"The thing people don't understand is, it's the guests bringing them in. It's not like the hotels grow them on their own," Gruetzner said.
Bed bugs are most often transported in by luggage, clothing, furniture, people or even pets that have been exposed to bedbugs, according to the pest control group. While any public facility with furniture runs the risk of getting infested with bedbugs, hotels are more susceptible to the problem because they have a high turnover of guests.
"We have more than 150,000 guests a year that come into our hotel. Some of them travel quite a lot and could be coming from another hotel, we really don't know where they're coming from," said Jay Gandhi, director of operations of the local Comfort Inn.
He said the hotel had another bedbug problem in 2012. In both scenarios, Gandhi said the hotel underwent standard procedures of blocking off adjacent rooms and hiring a professional pest control service to chemically treat them. They also offered guests staying in the affected rooms full reimbursements and any costs associated with treating their belongings.
"We have a professional pest service come in every month. ... But as a hotelier, we do not know whether a room might have bedbugs because we don't sleep in our rooms. We only know when a guest comes down and tells us," Gandhi said.
Not only "hitchhikers," as Gruetzner called them, bedbugs are extremely good at hiding in small crevices, and they only come out at night when it's very dark - making it very difficult to detect or kill all the bugs, according to the pest control group.
Gruetzner's service has proven necessary to many hotels in town because Laina has a keen ability to sense otherwise undetectable infestations.
"Unless you have this dog to sniff everything and everyone that comes through your doors, there's really no way to prevent (bedbugs)," Gruetzner said.
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HELSINKI, (Globe Newswire) -Munksjö, a world-leading manufacturer of advanced papers products, completes its range of Gerbier HDS with a 35 g/m² low basis weight paper. Gerbier HDS are one-side coated glossy papers used for flexible packaging. Compared to a standard Gerbier HDS 40 g/m², this new 35 g/m² grade provides a 12.5% weight reduction enabling a lower environment footprint impact while maintaining high performance during lamination, printing and converting.Read more
MILAN, Italy, Oct. 12, 2015 (Press Release) -The company will be presenting an innovative paper using an up-cycling process that features alternative materials to replace cellulose
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Favini, a world leader in the creation of innovative graphic specialties products to be used as packaging by some of the world's leading fashion and luxury-goods groups, announces that the company will be participating in the international packaging-industry trade show LUXE PACK (Monte Carlo, Monaco; 21-23 October 2015, Stand VA13, Hall Verriere).Read more
The printing awards are judged on reproduction, degree of difficulty and print quality. This corrugated cardboard packaging has attracted attention due to its challenging printing material and the CMYK process colour technology combined with it.Read more
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A boy with fuzz on his face, and a shoe fetish.
Schemer scowled at me today!
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a creeper/stalker/any other type of shady character that is found annoying to someone else.
"Tom was staring at me again in class..."
"he is SUCH a schemer!"
"he is SUCH a schemer!"
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The 5,700 miles (9,200 kilometers) that separate New York and Jerusalem aren't the only thing that separate the Ultra-Orthodox communities. The fact that the vast majority of Satmar Haredim (Ultra-Orthodox Jews) who organized Sunday's protest against Haredi service in the IDF are American born and only have to worry about keeping their U.S. draft registration obligations up-to-date may also be important.
One only has to examine US census data on areas where there are concentration of Hareidi residents and there are surprisingly few non-native born among them and even fewer Israeli-born.
The economic situation of U.S. Hareidim makes it even more unlikely that travel to Israel, or any substantial sojourn in Israel, is the lot of draft age NY Hareidim. There is no Israel gap-year educational industry for Haredi young men and women as there is for Yeshivish and Modern Orthodox post-high schoolers. Haredi high school-age and college-age youths geographic horizons tend toward New Jersey, New York, Maryland, illinois and other U.S. Yeshiva locations.
The recent Israeli elections found proudly anti-Zionist Satmar Rebbe Rabbi Zalman Leib Teitelbaum carrying cash to Israeli Haredi enclaves offering $100 to any Israeli Haredi voter who would sit out the Knesset elections. From the 40 percent Knesset gains of the non-Zionist Haredi United Torah Judaism Party, which went from 5 seats in the 18th Knesset to 7 seats in the current 19th Knesset, Rabbi Teitelbaum's Israeli presence and media coverage only seems to have increased Israeli Haredi voter turnout.
The Haredi in Israel, who are actually the ones being drafted and are Israeli voters, had a major protest three weeks ago with an estimated 20,000 protesters. Interestingly, Israel's Haredi draft protesters were smaller in number than Haredi IDF draft protesters claimed for this week's New York protest. The anti-Zionist Haredi New York protest may have been planned to capitalize on the Israeli government's jitteriness about this issue. The Israeli government has been so nervous, that last week the swearing-in of an IDF Ultra-Orthodox Battalion that hundreds of Hareidi soldiers in the Netzach Yehuda Haredi Battalion were split up to be sworn in at separate small army base locations to avoid mass Haredi IDF draft protests in Jerusalem where the IDF ceremony was originally scheduled.
The Haredim in Israel are confronting a major ideological split around the issue of Zionism. Many draft-age Hareidim are actually urging IDF service and now seem to be willing inductees. There is a growing new "Haredi" camp with the Hebrew acronym Hardal (Haredi Dati Leumi, translated: Haredi Religious Nationalist). This may be enraging the non-Zionist and anti-Zionist elements in the Haredi community, who may be more salient in the United States than in Israel, as many of the U.S. Haredi have already voted with their feet to not live in Israel.
Just as it was bemoaned a decade ago that the IDF officer corps ceased to be characterized by Kibbutziks, but rather Modern Orthodox who chose to sign up as officers after their mandatory military service, so too, the new Ultra-Orthodox draftees will likely start becoming officers this coming decade. A decent IDF officer's salary may be more alluring to Ultra-Orthodox young men than the oft described state-dole-mantained poverty of Ultra-Orthodox life. The Satmar Rebbe may foresee that this new occupational opportunity may drive up the cost for buying Israeli vote abstention in the Haredi community.
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Justin Upton has slipped a bit recently, but for most of this season he has been in the running not just for the 2011 National League MVP, but for becoming one of the youngest MVPs ever. The rightfielder, who turned 24 a couple of weeks ago, has led the surprising Arizona Diamondbacks to a now-comfortable first place and an almost-certain unexpected playoff appearance.
To be sure, Upton's numbers aren't good enough compared to the other contenders—Matt Kemp, Ryan Braun, Cliff Lee, Albert Pujols, Troy Tulowitzki—and the award will likely go elsewhere, but for much of the year he has been in the conversation.
Three of the last six MLB MVPs, too, have been younger than 26, but Joey Votto, Joe Mauer and Dustin Pedroia were each still two years too old to make this list. And they were still five years older than the youngest MVP ever, who started his bust-out season at the nascent age of 21. Who was it?
Cruise through these, the 15 youngest MVPs, to find out.


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I never have written a letter to the editor, but I am wondering why there is no longer coverage in your newspaper about how good or bad fine arts performances are. I notice that you publish when and where to attend many fine performances, plus the cost of admission, but there are no critiques.
I can remember in the past, Chip Chandler always reviewed the symphony, plays and opera presentations. It seems to me that sports events are taking up all the space.
A picture of the city's new conductor on the Sept. 22 front page was not enough recognition of the magnificent performance of the Amarillo Symphony on opening night.
I hope to see more coverage soon.
Anne Crumb
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Financial Transmission Network Inc., an Omaha, Neb.-based payment processor, is working with Unit4 Coda to offer receivables management that consolidates checks, single and recurring automated clearinghouse transactions, credit card payments, cash posting, and Web payment on the ETran Receivables Platform.
Once an employee enters receivables into ETran, the system posts payment data via a batch file import utility into Coda Financials financial management software, the firms said in a press release.
That automation saves time and money because the system imports only one file from a single platform instead of multiple systems, the companies said in the release. Clients can keep their banking and credit card relationships because the ETran platform works with any settlement.
"By partnering with Unit4 Coda, [Financial Transmission Network] can offer Coda clients a cost-effective and money-saving way to manage their receivables," Doug Fisher, Financial Transmission Network executive vice president of software, said in the release. "ETran provides consolidation, agnostic settlement and posting of payment data into Coda Financials."


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Quick Hits — February 16, 2007
Fox's Answer to The Daily Show Ends Up on YouTube. Sounds like it may be good, if you don't expect your comedy shows to contain actual humor. Reelpopblog psychically predicts Slate review, offers own pre-evisceration. Majority of Americans Feel Bloggers Play a Valuable Role...Read More »


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Plan of the Month Winners
- Zombie Reaction Plan (ZRP) ZombieFood May 30, 2014
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It's a map. Of the world. Not some lame cartoon explorer's map. This one is full of zombie plans. Zombie no swiping, zombie no swiping... and now I wonder what piece of information my brain chose to forget to remember that.
This map showcases the z-plan locations of all the zombie preppers around the world using this site. So check it out, get ideas, and submit your own zombie plan!
Zack is a zombie flattened by a steam roller. He's a little tougher than most zombies, so it takes more than being flattened to kill him. Zack likes to be printed, colored, and taken on adventures. Specifically, he likes to learn of people's zombie plans. It's okay, let him learn about all your anti-zombie plans. Just make sure to dispose of Flat Zack before he tells the other zombies. He's hard to kill, so be thorough. Also, don't get a papercut as it might lead to infection.
The word Forum was originally used to describe the center a greek city where the citizens would gather to discuss the zombie problems that plagued their society. Well, not really. But that's what this forum is for. Talk about zombies, learn how to survive once the shit hits the fan, and keep up with website news.
Not used to internet forums? Then read our Forum Help and Forum Rules.
I remember when I was a budding young teenager, my father came into my room to give me a talk about the birds and bees. That was awkward. He was trying to prepare me for the future. But sadly, he never did give me the zombie plan talk. My family was not prepared. It would be years before I learned of my ignorance and family shame. Don't bring shame onto your family. Don't be unprepared. Create your zombie plans today!
Use this section to create, share, interact, and get ideas for your zombie plans. And having just one zombie plan is not enough. You never know when the hordes will rise up or where you will be.
OK. So two zombies walk into a bar... so, what would you do?
Ever watch a zombie movie and think "they're doing it all wrong." Well, time to share those thoughts with the world.
ZombiesEatUs.com maintains a series of scenarios for you to read and provide responses. Then watch as other members rate and comment your ideas. And make sure to provide feedback to them too. You know, because they're "doing it all wrong."


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Syxesteer [ˈsəks ɛs tir] is the capital city of Flora, and the chief city of the flaids.
Etymology: Flaidish king's city, Ver. Sícestir, Keb. Syḣestir.
Syxesteer was originally the king's residence; it developed into a town as trade with the Meťaiun and Caďinorians developed. The invading emperor Aiďoctodos burned the city to the ground in the 1290s, and it was also occupied by Sevurias in 1608, though much of the population simply melted away, forming a resistance army.
The city grew explosively under the last kings, who aggressively developed the Floran economy, building shipyards, factories, banks, and universities, but in a way that seemed to mostly benefit the royal family. The last king, Gennil (7et), was forced to abdicate by the Forujmory (the legislature) and Chendio, the high priest of Syxesteer (3215).
Syxtesteer is located on the northern coast of Flora, not far from the western end of the island; the climate is nearly always warm and pleasant; it is refreshed by many parks and gardens. Its population is over 125,000, so that it is the home to about 1 in 6 flaids. In "Jeerio tries to find a job" the city is described thus:
- Syxesteer was a very large city, with elaborate buildings painted blue or red or orange. The houses were tall, so that the street was in shadow; perhaps because of this, there were lanterns set on iron lampposts all along the street. Their road was colored red and the other streets were black, so that you could easily follow it without getting lost.
- The city was full of flaids— flaid children playing games or doing their homework or delivering newspapers, flaid adults watching the children, or riding horses, or buying things, or talking to each other about all sorts of things.
- 176 houses since the sign with the name of the city on it, they came to the downtown area. He and Jeerio had never so many stores, offices, and important-looking buildings. Businessmen, businesswomen,and businesschildren rushed by busily on business. Boys rode by on bicycles, or tricycles, or even quadricycles and quinticycles. Dogs rushed by after cats; cats ran by before dogs. There were even short, small-headed people with big clumping boots. Jeerio stared at them because he had never seen a human before.
Travelers often praise the color-coding of Syxesteer's streets; Jeerio's red street starts at the port and becomes the city's major north-south boulevard, continuing into the hills and across the island to Pickapo. There are two main east-west streets, the blue road along the water and the yellow road further in (which continues eastward to Tolgron). The colored streets are completed by two more north-south streets (green and brown) and the pink road which leads from the Forujmory to the Irrean temple.
Human travelers usually note the height of the buildings (flaids are taller than humans); the organic curved lines of traditional structures made of adobe; the many children (the city is quite safe, so children can freely wander the streets and parks); and idiosyncratic landmarks such as the Monument to the Logarithm.


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The spaceship would provide 600 cramped cubic feet of living space, equivalent to a room measuring 10 feet by 15 feet – assuming a ceiling only 4 feet high. In this hypersonic petri dish, millionaire Dennis Tito proposes to incarcerate a married couple in their 50s, sending them on a 501-day second honeymoon that will come within 100 miles of Mars before returning home.
Think about spending the next year and a half in the den with your spouse, never being able to go out for a cup of coffee or watch a different TV show in the living room. It's a scenario only a divorce lawyer could love.
OK, serious now: In keeping with the thousands of studies that prove what we already know (Babies do better if their parents hold them! No kidding!), we now have proof that a Mediterranean diet reduces the risk of heart disease in people at high risk. Diets rich in olive oil, nuts, beans, fish, fruits and vegetables can help prevent about 30 percent of heart attacks, strokes and deaths from heart disease, the study found. The diet helped participants to become healthier, even if they didn't lose weight.
We have been put on notice.
Tone deaf. Insensitive. Absurd. Outrageous. And, well, just plain stupid.
That's the only way to describe a prominent Brooklyn assemblyman's bad decision to wear blackface to a party he hosted last weekend to celebrate the Jewish holiday of Purim.
Democratic Assemblyman Dov Hikind donned an Afro wig, orange jersey, sunglasses and brown makeup or face paint as part of a costume that, according to reports, he said represented a "black basketball player."
Of course, Hikind expressed surprise at the blowback his action caused after a photograph of him in costume circulated in political circles and on social media. After all, where is the insensitivity in dressing in blackface?
We would suggest the assemblyman spend some of his future party time studying American history. Or, he could reapply his blackface and walk around New York City trying to hail a cab.


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The winter is coming you should be ready..
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Many people prefer to remain indoors in the winter, but staying inside is no guarantee of safety. Take these steps to keep your home safe and warm during the winter months.
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Adnan Hodzi from the Institute of Parasitology at the Vetmeduni Vienna is searching for pathogens transmitted by ticks. He is especially interested in wild carnivores (foxes and wolves) which could be a possible reservoir and source of infection for humans and other animals. Read More
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Thadd Smith was almost certain he would return from Boston College last weekend with a scholarship offer.
And he had good reason to believe so.
"Ever since [coach Steve Addazio] left Temple, he's been telling me to come up there," Smith said.
The 5-foot-11, 170-pound junior at Cardinal O'Hara now lists the Eagles alongside Temple and Rutgers among his scholarship offers. Owls coaches visited Smith on O'Hara's campus after Addazio's departure and ensured him he remains on their radar, Smith said.


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11/3/2012 (3 years ago)
Catholic Online (www.catholic.org)
For those who hope for salvation, no political loyalty can ever take precedence over loyalty to the Lord Jesus Christ and to his Gospel of Life. God is not mocked, and as the Bible clearly teaches, after this passing instant of life on earth, God's great mercy in time will give way to God's perfect judgment in eternity.
Most Reverend Daniel R. Jenky, C.S.C. BISHOP OF PEORIA
Catholic Online (www.catholic.org)
11/3/2012 (3 years ago)
Published in U.S.
Keywords: Most Reverend Daniel R. Jenky, C.S.C., Catholic Vote, Campaign 2012, Romney, Ryan, Obama, Biden, HHS Mandate, religious liberty, Right to Life, Marriage, courageous Bishop
PEORIA, IL (Catholic Online) - On November 6, 2012, Americans head to polling places all over the Nation to vote. Along with Congressional contests and ballot initiatives, they will be asked to choose a President and Vice president. The choice is between Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan or Barack Obama and Joseph Biden. Oh, I know there are other options - but to vote for them is to eliminate the effect of your vote.
U.S. Catholics can determine the outcome of this Presidential election. That is if we act in a manner which is, to use words of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, "morally coherent". That phrase was used in an instruction released in 2002 entitled a "Doctrinal Note on some questions regarding the Participation of Catholics in Political Life".
Here is an excerpt, "The social doctrine of the Church is not an intrusion into the government of individual countries. It is a question of the lay Catholic's duty to be morally coherent, found within one's conscience, which is one and indivisible. Living and acting in conformity with one's own conscience on questions of politics is not slavish acceptance of positions alien to politics or some kind of 'confessionalism', but rather the way in which Christians offer their concrete contribution so that, through political life, society will become more just and more consistent with the dignity of the human person."
The same congregation repeatedly addressed the primacy of the Right to Life. Here is one example: "The first right of the human person is his life. He has other goods and some are more precious, but this one is fundamental - the condition of all the others. Hence it must be protected above all others. It does not belong to society, nor does it belong to public authority in any form to recognize this right for some and not for others" (Declaration on Procured Abortion (1974), no. 11. I)
To insist upon the fundamental Human Right to Life is not single issue politics. Human rights are goods of human persons. When there is no human person to exercise them all the rhetoric extolling them is sloganeering and sophistry. Nor is our position only a matter of adherence to our "religious" beliefs. It is a response to the truth revealed by the Natural Law and confirmed by medical science. The Child in the womb is our neighbor. It is always and everywhere wrong to kill him or her through procured abortion.
So too with our obligation to defend Marriage and the family and society founded upon it. Marriage is the preeminent and the most fundamental of all human social institutions. It is a relationship defined by nature and protected by the natural law that binds all men and women. It finds its foundation in the order of creation. Civil institutions do not create marriage nor can they create a "right" to marry for those who are incapable of marriage. The institutions of government should, when acting properly, defend marriage against those who would redefine it.
Government has long regulated marriage for the common good. The ban on polygamy and age requirements were enforced in order to ensure that there was a mature decision at the basis of the Marriage contract. Heterosexual marriage, procreation, and the nurturing of children form the foundation for the family, and the family forms the foundation of civil society.
To "limit" marriage to heterosexual couples is not discriminatory now, nor has it ever been. Homosexual couples cannot bring into existence what marriage intends by its very definition. To now "confer" the benefits that have been conferred in the past only to stable married couples and families to homosexual paramours is bad public policy.
We are living under what Pope Benedict XVI called a "Dictatorship of Relativism" in the West. When there is a wholesale effort to deny the existence of anything objectively true which can be known by all and form the basis of our common life, then there is no real freedom. Instead, we teeter on the brink of anarchy. On January 19, 2012, Pope Benedict XVI addressed the Bishops of Region IV in the United States gathered in Rome for their ad limina visit.
He warned them of a "radical secularism which finds increasing expression in the political and cultural spheres". He told them that the "seriousness of these threats needs to be clearly appreciated at every level of ecclesial life. Of particular concern are certain attempts being made to limit that most cherished of American freedoms, the freedom of religion."
The pope's admonition to defend religious freedom came the day before Kathleen Sebelius, the Secretary of Health and Human Services, issued a mandate requiring all employers, including Catholic and other religious employers, to cover sterilization, abortion inducing drugs, and contraception in their health care plans. The purported "accommodation" offered later is a sham. Anyone who denies this, even a sitting Vice President at a recent debate, is lying.
One of the silver linings in the cloud is the way that it has elicited courageous leadership from many Catholic Bishops. Among them is Bishop Daniel Jenky of Peoria, Illinois. He gave a homily on April 14, 2012, at a Mass at St. Mary's Cathedral during the annual "Call to Catholic Men of Faith" event which showed great heroism. It also provoked a strong reaction.
Over 500 men marched through downtown Peoria bearing witness to the ancient but ever new Catholic faith. In his homily the Bishop reflected on the readings of the day for the Liturgy. The first reading, taken from the Acts of the Apostles (Acts 4: 13-21), recounted the hostility faced by Peter, the first Pope, and the beloved disciple, John, as they exercised their apostolic ministry in another culture which had grown hostile to the Church and her message of genuine liberation. Peter and John left an example which has been followed for over two millennia whenever the Church faces open hostility from the State.
It is in this account that we find these often quoted words: "So they called them back and ordered them not to speak or teach at all in the name of Jesus. Peter and John, however, said to them in reply, "Whether it is right in the sight of God for us to obey you rather than God, you be the judges. It is impossible for us not to speak about what we have seen and heard."
The Gospel of the day was from St Mark's gospel (Mk 16: 9-15). Jesus told the believers to "Go into the whole world and proclaim the Gospel to every creature." The Apostles did just what the Lord said and they turned the world of their age upside down (Acts 17:6). So too have their successors, like Bishop Jenky of Peoria. He told the men "We can no longer be Catholics by accident, but instead be Catholics by conviction."
That outstanding homily was quoted in piecemeal fashion and became fodder for those who simply o not want Catholic Bishops to exhibit a backbone. Threats were made against the non-profit status of the Diocese, simply because the bishop had the courage to speak the truth. Groups such as "People for the American Way" (a misnomer), who produced the video clip with which this article is published, were incensed over the courageous way in which the Bishop addressed the faithful. We offered the entire homily in an article entitled "The Courage of Bishop Daniel Jenky: Catholics by Conviction!"
The Bishop told the men "it has never been easy to be a Christian and it's not supposed to be easy! The world, the flesh, and the devil will always love their own, and will always hate us. As Jesus once predicted, they hated me, they will certainly hate you. But our Faith, when it is fully lived, is a fighting faith and a fearless faith. Grounded in the power of the resurrection, there is nothing in this world, and nothing in hell, that can ultimately defeat God's one, true, holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church."
I now offer a letter from this good Bishop which was sent to all of his priests to be read at all of the parishes in his Diocese the weekend before the election. It is causing quite a stir among those who do not know how to deal with Bishops who demonstrate such backbone. His unapologetic exercise of episcopal authority irks many in the media. It is also upsetting some dissenting Catholics. It is not only proper, it is timely and refreshing.
His willingness to make the following statement, "Catholic politicians, bureaucrats, and their electoral supporters who callously enable the destruction of innocent human life in the womb also thereby reject Jesus as their Lord. They are objectively guilty of grave sin", is similarly refreshing - and inspiring.
Bishop Jenky needs our prayer. He deserves our deep respect and appreciation. His detractors better get used to courageous Bishops - they are multiplying at the beginning of the Third millennium in much the same way they did at the beginning of the First Millennium. His call to heroic Catholicism - to be Catholics by conviction - has application in the voting booth.
Most Rev. Daniel Jenky, C.S.C.
By virtue of your vow of obedience to me as your Bishop, I require that this letter be personally read by each celebrating priest at each Weekend Mass, November 3/4.
Dear Catholic Believers,
Since the foundation of the American Republic and the adoption of the Bill of Rights, I do not think there has ever been a time more threatening to our religious liberty than the present.
Neither the president of the United States nor the current majority of the Federal Senate have been willing to even consider the Catholic community's grave objections to those HHS mandates that would require all Catholic institutions, exempting only our church buildings, to fund abortion, sterilization, and artificial contraception.
This assault upon our religious freedom is simply without precedent in the American political and legal system. Contrary to the guarantees embedded in the First Amendment, the HHS mandates attempt to now narrowly define - and thereby drastically limit - our traditional religious works.
They grossly and intentionally intrude upon the deeply held moral convictions that have always guided our Catholic schools, hospitals, and other apostolic ministries.
Nearly two thousand years ago, after our Savior had been bound, beaten, scourged, mocked, and crowned with thorns, a pagan Roman Procurator displayed Jesus to a hostile crowd by sarcastically declaring: Behold your King. The mob roared back: We have no king but Caesar.
Today, Catholic politicians, bureaucrats, and their electoral supporters who callously enable the destruction of innocent human life in the womb also thereby reject Jesus as their Lord. They are objectively guilty of grave sin.
For those who hope for salvation, no political loyalty can ever take precedence over loyalty to the Lord Jesus Christ and to his Gospel of Life. God is not mocked, and as the Bible clearly teaches, after this passing instant of life on earth, God's great mercy in time will give way to God's perfect judgment in eternity.
I therefore call upon every practicing Catholic in this Diocese to vote. Be faithful to Christ and to your Catholic Faith. May God guide and protect his Holy Church, and may God bless America.
Sincerely yours in Christ,
+Most Reverend Daniel R. Jenky, C.S.C.
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Duluth, Ga. - South Carolina erased two one-goal deficits, but it wasn't enough as the Stingrays fell to Gwinnett, 3-2, at The Arena at Gwinnett Center on Thursday.
Gladiators forward Kurtis Bartliff started the scoring 3:19 into the first period, deflecting a shot from forward Maxime Legault between the legs of Stingrays goaltender David LeNeveu (26 saves on 29 shots) for his 10th goal of the season.
The Stingrays (19-5-1-2) tied the game early in the second period when forward Lindsay Sparks caught a pass from forward Zach Currie out of the right-wing corner and rifled it past the blocker of Gladiators netminder Brad Philips (22 saves on 24 shots) at 2:18.
The Gladiators (8-17-0-1) reclaimed the lead moments later on the power play with a blast from defenseman Antoine Corbin at 5:35.
Stingrays forward Paul Rodrigues made it 2-2 on the man advantage at 4:04 of the final frame with help from forwards Patrick Gaul and Peter Boyd.
At 12:49, Corbin ripped in the game-winning tally and third goal of the season.
The Stingrays finished t 1 for 3 on the power play, while the Gladiators went 1 for 5.
The Stingrays play at Greenville on Friday in a 7 p.m. game before returning to the North Charleston Coliseum for a home game Saturday against the Wheeling Nailers at 7 p.m.


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I just did it. It takes about a minute.
There's also a link to the transition directory.
Coincidentally, at dinner last night, there was a discussion speculating on what Obama would do in foreign policy--especially over whom he might pick as Secretary of State. I mentioned that the only foreign policy expert on Obama's team I had seen in person was Susan Rice, years ago at an event at the National Press Club in relation to the 2004 election. She impressed me at the time as the only panelist who sounded like a normal human being. So, it was interesting to read that she seems to be in charge, according this leaked email from Politico.com:
TO: Obama Foreign Policy ExpertsA reminder of the Washington truism not to write anything that you don't want to see in the Washington Post the next day...
FROM: Tony Lake and Susan Rice
DATE: November 7, 2008
RE: Thank You
We want to thank you, and thank you again, for all that you have done to help elect Barack Obama President of the United States. Your wisdom and expertise have been invaluable. We will remain extremely grateful for your incredibly hard work and for your many personal and collective contributions.
We are obviously entering a new phase now with the transition. The transition will be a separate operation from the campaign, which is now disbanding. So too must our foreign policy expert teams disband.
The transition operation will be brief and comparatively lean. Given the need to complete this work expeditiously and efficiently, please understand that only a limited number of people will be able to support those activities. But, please also be assured that participation in the transition is in no way a prerequisite to, nor an assurance of, being offered any position in the Obama-Biden administration.
For those of you interested in applying for a position in the future administration, a transition website has been set up where you can (and, in fact, must) apply by filling out a form and submitting your resume. It is: www.change.gov. We hope very much that you will apply. You should follow the instructions to indicate your interest in being considered for a position in the government. This is a real website, which will be used to fill important positions in the government below the cabinet level. There will be no other channel through which applications will be accepted. Please also feel free to copy Mona Sutphen who will be tracking your applications at: REDACTED, with any resumes and materials you submit in the official channel.
Finally, and importantly, we ask each of you please do not under any circumstances speak to the press, any foreign officials, or embassies on behalf of the transition or President-elect Obama. Please also do not encourage solicitation of such contacts. We cannot emphasize enough the importance of this request. It would be highly damaging for foreign governments or media to receive information that they believe falsely to represent the views of the President-Elect.
If you receive any inquiries, please refer them to:
Dan Pfeiffer, REDACTED (for press inquiries)
Denis McDonough REDACTED or Mark Lippert REDACTED (for any inquiries from foreign officials and embassies)
Their new email accounts should be active by next week.
Thank you again for all that you have done to help make this historic moment possible.
Susan and Tony
BTW, If Google's electronic news clippers are pulling names from blog posts for Obama, I'd like to see Susan Rice as Secretary of State. If not Rice, my other candidate is Bill Richardson--he has experience as UN ambassador, energy secretary, and governor. Richardson might send a strong signal to Latin America that the USA takes anti-American developments in the Western Hemisphere more seriously than President Bush appears to have done...
More information on Obama foreign-policy aide Mark Lippert in this Newsweek article. Wikipedia entry here.
A little bit on Dennis McDonough here. I see from the bio that he worked for Sen. Tom Daschle for years...perhaps Sen. Daschle is in the running for Secretary of State, as well?


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Manchester United have started the season well. Sir Alex is integrating youth and experience once again. He's already talking about tough choices between his new young stars and their established counterparts.
The top seeding in this year's UEFA Champions League draw has given them yet another comfortable group. If things run true to form, there will be more chances to blood future stars—this year, Cleverley, Welbeck, Pogba and Morrison.
Right now it's a tough choice to pick a winning team for 2016, let alone 2012. And that's without knowing who else might be signed between now and then. Ganso, Costa and Goetze are all possibilities, but so are several of the current United youngsters who don't even make this projected squad.
At least the choice of captain seems obvious. By the time of the 2016 Final, Xavi and Iniesta for Barcelona will probably have retired, but Wayne Rooney will be 30, having spent over 11 years at United. He will have over 500 appearances for the team and over 100 for England.
In the last year or so, he's got his act together. By 2016 he's very likely to be the most senior pro. He leads by example. He's a natural to skipper the side.
So who else makes up the team and who could be on the bench?


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I had to laugh when I read a recent North Bergen article on the ever-growing traffic problems on Tonnelle Avenue. The situation is indeed serious, but the town officials' reaction to it is laughable -- and not in a good way.
First, there was the remark by Mayor Sacco, who states that a left-hand turning lane into Walmart would solve some of horrendous traffic and car accident problems in the area. But he blames the state for not finishing the left-turn lane in time for the opening of the shopping mall. First of all, I doubt the left-turn lane will solve much of the problem. Cars are backed up on the street for blocks and a left-turn lane handling 12 cars is not much of a help.
Secondly, Sacco and his troops continually tell us that one of the benefits of having a mayor who is also a state senator is that he has power to get things done for the town in Trenton. Well, in this case he seems powerless to help us and his attempts to blame the state for the town's poor planning is laughable. He is the state.
No matter how the town officials want to spin the overdevelopment issue along Tonnelle Avenue, it's still poor planning on the part of the town -- not the state. There is too much development crowded into the town without regard for the quality of life of our residents. And that's not a joke.


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Graduates Weigh In: What Is the Value of a Humanities Degree?
Undergraduates are increasingly wary of choosing humanities majors, given the job market's general inclination to favor graduates in the hard-sciences. On Thursday, Harvard University issued a report urging the Humanities division to market itself more aggressively to first and second year students, and to demonstrate the ways that a degree in the humanities can prepare students for a successful career.
A handful of Wall Street Journal reporters weighed in with their experience as Harvard undergrads.
Anton Troianovski, Class of 2008
I majored in social studies. People raise their eyebrows sometimes when I say this. At that point I explain that social studies, in addition to being a class in middle school, is also an interdisciplinary program at Harvard that combines history, political science, and economics. The program attracted people who either had no idea what they wanted to do or who, like me, were interested in a career in a field in which a broad liberal-arts education seemed as useful as specialized training. It was also, of course, a way to hedge my bets at a time when my academic interests were not particularly focused.
I figured that the breadth of knowledge the program promised would help inform me as a journalist, which is what I'd long wanted to do. I also anticipated that the time I spent at the Harvard Crimson, the student newspaper, would play a more important role in my pre-professional training and helping me find a job.
This attitude tracked with Harvard's general message to freshmen, one that I think many of us accepted at face value: if you find the field of study that excites you most, the job search will take care of itself. Classmates would sometimes say they'd heard that Goldman Sachs and McKinsey may well hire a star of something like the folklore and mythology program over yet another cookie-cutter economics grad. This was in the booming mid-2000s. I wonder whether the harder economic times since then have made that message—emphasizing learning for learning's sake—less convincing.
Jessica E. Lessin, Class of 2005
I majored in history because I figured studying the past was great training for writing about the future (I have wanted to be a journalist for as long as I can remember). I flirted with majoring in biology simply because I was fascinated by it, but it seemed less practical given my professional interests—and I didn't want to spend four years in labs.
I was certainly worried about the job market in journalism. But many major news publications still offered internships so I targeted those.
Most of the people I knew in college studied humanities. But they tried to make themselves more marketable to employers by squeezing in a class or two on economics. I think they were right to follow their interests. Recruiters at the time seemed more focused on how well you did in class, not what you studied. But if you wanted to work on Wall Street or at a consulting firm, an econ class didn't hurt.
Many of these people now work at technology companies and have picked up computer programming. They often talk about how a class or two in computer science may have been helpful. But they insist that any motivated person can teach themselves to code and are glad they studied something else in school.
Lauren Schuker Blum, Class of 2006
I became an English major because I wanted to learn how we tell stories and why. I found the professors in the department among the most inspiring across the whole university, and I wanted to study with the best. The classes were smaller and more personal than those I was taking in the social sciences, and also more rigorous in many ways. It's hard to imagine anything more extraordinary than listening to Elaine Scarry, Louis Menand, James Wood and Elisa New talk about books.
As much as I joked that I may as well have a degree in astrology, I believed employers would understand–and respect–my decision to major in the humanities. I even went on to get a master's degree in art history after college because I thought it would make me a more attractive candidate down the road. Most Harvard students spend a significant amount of their time on extracurriculars, and I knew that running Harvard's daily student newspaper would show I had skills beyond scanning Elizabethan poetry. When I was an undergraduate, Harvard had a substantial number of core requirements, which means that I had plenty of math classes on my transcript in addition to courses on the poetry of Walt Whitman, German Expressionism, and Cold War literature. I didn't apply to a job at Goldman Sachs like many of my peers, but I had a lot of confidence that even a banking institution would look closely at my credentials. Of course, a lot of hiring depends on timing and good luck. But many of my classmates who majored in English went on to work at Goldman, Lehman Brothers, Google, Facebook.
Many of my classmates decided to major in economics because they thought it would look good on their transcript. They found themselves again and again in classes with 400 other students and one lecturer. Many of them graduated from Harvard without ever having a professor know their name. Some felt as if they had wasted their time when they were unable to get a job on Wall Street. Literature majors sometimes fared better on the job market because they stood out from their peers—and they had lots to talk about in interviews. I'm a firm believer in what Nora Ephron said in a commencement address to Wellesley College in 1996: "Find some way to break the rules and make a little trouble out there."
We also reached out to a handful of members of the Class of 2013, as part of an ongoing project to cover this year's college grads. Here's what some of them had to say about Harvard's plans:
Asim Manizada, Carleton College
Going to a liberal arts school — without any professional departments — I only had a choice of which liberal arts fields to major in. I ended up choosing a double major in mathematics and economics because they offered a combination of theoretical rigor and technical skills. I also ended up taking a number of classes outside my majors, which helped me in getting a more rounded, broad education.
However, I was very surprised by the job market. I thought that having a technical but theory-based background will still be an impediment, but I found that the employers were quick to overlook that and say that they'll "teach any specialized skills on the job." A number of my interviewers lamented the lack of solid writing skills in their pool of (otherwise very gifted) technical applicants; I think my liberal arts writing preparation offered me an edge in a number of positions. My experience is limited to the niche job market I was considering (I will be working in economic consulting), but it's nevertheless encouraging to see Harvard striving to reform their humanities program — perhaps the future is behind workers who have rigorous out-of-the-box thinking/writing training, as well as some technical proficiency in statistics and the like? With the continuing growth of the management consulting industry, I think this is a realistic possibility.
Kristin Stevens, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Most students in our generation were told, "Study something you love," and I think that is how most liberal arts students end up in their fields–we choose a major based on what we enjoy studying instead of choosing a major so that we will be competitive for certain jobs. Many of my fellow liberal arts students never had a specific career in mind for after graduation. The typical response was always "I suppose I'll go to grad school, and then if I can't find any work, there's always academics."
Personally, I chose my undergrad major–International Relations–with a career path in mind, so the employment issue was never a major concern of mine (a concern, yes, due to the economy, but I was not concerned specifically due to my major). I think if there was more focus for students early in their undergraduate years –and even in high schools–on finding specific careers that interested them, as opposed to academic fields, we would see less unemployment among young humanities graduates.
Choose an end goal, then figure out what you need to study, what kinds of study abroad or internships you need to do, and what kind of connections you need to be making in order to get to that goal. That is what people should be telling students starting at university.
Christopher J. Velarides, University of Maryland, College Park
Employment concerns definitely fueled my choice in majors. I entered the University of Maryland as solely a political science major. While I really enjoyed what I was learning, I chose economics because it would provide me a good foundation of quantitative skills to compliment with my qualitative skills from political science. I am still looking for a job and I have different interviews where I have had to highlight different skills that I have learned in both political science and economics.
I do not believe the solution is to cut out humanities entirely, but rather for schools (both high schools and colleges) to market the importance of both qualitative and quantitative skills for students.
Encourage humanities students to take minors, or double major in subject areas that can provide more marketable skills. For example, my brother is a high school junior, who will be headed to college in Fall 2014. Last night at dinner, he was talking about how he wants to major in Criminal Justice, and work for the FBI. I encouraged him to seek out a double major in Finance to set him apart from the other FBI applicants, and also to diversify his skill set to make him more marketable to employers (whether it be FBI or someone else).
I was able to complete my degree in 4 years, and also have extra credits to spare for internships etc. However, a few of my friends wanted to double major in areas that are dissimilar, and could not complete their studies in 4 years. They have to stay for on for a fifth year. Considering the tough economic times, many students may not be willing to stay a fifth year for additional job skills. Universities may have to alter their degree requirements so that students can have additional majors (and gain job skills) while still graduating on time.
Marc Phillips, Ithaca College
I have a BS in Integrated Marketing Communications (IMC). My major was in the Park School of Communications at my college. Communications majors are frequently the brunt of many jokes. However, in this sharing economy, it's important to communicate effectively and persuasively. I know STEM majors are the new darlings of higher education, but what about students who have no interest or scientific skills?
Tim Zachas, Northwestern University
Employment decisions definitely did affect my choice of major. Although I still am graduating with a degree in Economics (technically considered a liberal arts in our College of Arts and Sciences), it was the most applicable major to employment that I could access. It also lent itself to graduate study in the field if I wanted to pursue academia. The diversity of what I could do with the major was the most important factor in my selecting it.
I think what is really important for all schools to consider is how to balance the majors to make them more versatile. Humanities majors are incredibly writing and reading focused. Math majors are driven by numbers more so than anything else. Yet what employers want is a blend of those with the qualitative and quantitative skills that can be found across liberal arts.
Northwestern is offering more and more opportunities for on-the-job learning in combination with the liberal arts program that a majority of students are enrolled in. I believe that combination, the critical thinking, writing, and numerical analyses combined with the on-the job experience and skill development, might be the best hope for training our generation. It leaves the window open for the most options – from PhD study to lucrative employment.
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During the last two years, many of us have become accustomed to a number of tax breaks that were instituted to help during a time of economic difficulty. However, these tax breaks were never meant to last forever — and they haven't. Tax breaks that you might have been counting on are disappearing, and you might be in trouble.
In some cases, the disappearing tax breaks are a bit of a nuisance. In other cases (especially for those who should have taken a required minimum distribution on an IRA in 2010), though, the absence of a tax break you have come to rely on might be a little more difficult to deal with financially. As you file your taxes, here are some things to be aware of with regard to a reduction in tax breaks.
Tax Breaks That Are Gone
These tax breaks are just gone. They haven't been extended, or offered for a reduced "value." Don't make the mistake of thinking you can take these:
- Making Work Pay Tax Credit: For the last two tax years, many of us have enjoyed a $400 tax credit. This was available in 2010, but is disappearing for 2011. The Making Work Pay Tax Credit was added automatically to your paycheck, over the course of a year, so you might not have noticed it. The loss of this tax credit, though, is partially offset by the fact that there is a break in the Social Security Tax for 2011. However, next year, when that tax break expires, it's going to feel like you've been hit by a tax increase.
- Unemployment Income Exclusion: Gone is the exclusion that allowed you to avoid paying taxes on the first $2,400 of your unemployment benefits. If you ended up with unemployment income in 2010, you will have to pay taxes on all of it come April 18.
- Vehicle Sales Tax: If you bought a car in 2010, you can't claim an itemized deduction (or an increase in the standard deduction) for the excise tax paid, even though this was something you could do in 2009.
- Disaster Losses: A special add-on to the standard deduction was allowed for net disaster losses in 2009, but if you experienced such losses in 2010, you are out of luck if you want to add on to the standard deduction. Also, gone is the standard deduction add-on for real estate taxes.
Did You Take Your RMD in 2010?
In order to reduce the burden on retirees whose retirement accounts were decimated by the stock market losses, the requirement to take required minimum distributions was waived. However, that waiver ended with the year 2009. You should have taken your RMD in 2010. If you didn't, you are likely subject to a 50% tax penalty — which could be very difficult to deal with. If you have a good reason for skipping your RMD in 2010 ("I forgot" and "I didn't know" probably won't work), you can take the distribution ASAP and send a letter of explanation along with Form 5329, which is an application to waive your penalty.
It is important to be up to date on tax law. Just because you enjoyed a tax break in 2009 or 2008 doesn't mean that it was available in 2010. Double check, and consider consulting with a tax professional to make sure that you aren't claiming something you shouldn't be.
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ATLANTA— The "birthers," tea-party goers, "extremists," and otherwise "anti-American" members of the political right are up to it again, proposing to stage a Recess Rally to protest socialized healthcare at noon on August 22nd at the district offices of each member of the House of Representatives. Are these endless rallies and rants necessary and helpful?
In a word: absolutely!
And I recommend that you go and participate.
The current version of health care reform being foisted upon us is growing increasingly unpopular. While some form of serious reform is clearly needed, the version being pushed by the true "fringe political elements" of American politics (the left-wing of the Democratic Party) is not what this country needs and it will destroy health care as we know and enjoy it in this country.
We may have 40+ million uninsured, we spend trillions on health care annually and our life expectancy rates are average relative to other industrialized nations. These are problems. But these are also no excuse to add trillions more to our spending, while simultaneously diminishing the quality and availability of our care for working-class Americans, as this bill will do.
The left-wing of this country is trying desparately to cast the growing majorities of people that are very uncomfortable with this legislation as fringe and extremist to divert attention away from the bill's increasing unpopularity. That is not working and will not work.
Rally's like the August 22nd rally will remind House members who they represent. This rally could bring about serious and needed change to the legislation currently under consideration.
There is real opportunity this year for good and much needed health care reform.
We just need to show our Representatives what that reform should (and should not) look like.


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Skip to comments.May 2010 was warmest on record: U.S. government data (Al-Reuters)
Posted on 06/16/2010 6:26:32 AM PDT by PROCON
(Reuters) - Last month was the warmest May on record, the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said on Tuesday.
It was also the 303rd consecutive month that was hotter than the 20th century global average for that month, according to Deke Arndt, chief of the climate monitoring at NOAA's National Climatic Data Center.
"Since February 1985, every single month has been warmer than its 20th century average," Arndt said by telephone from Asheville, North Carolina.
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BS Ping!
mega Bull$h!t
LOL. Seems like EVERY month has been the "warmest on record." Do people still really believe this BS anymore?
We didn't even break a hundred in Texas by then, which we sometimes do in March.
We need a new term for the sheer magnitude of lies being pushed at the public by the LSM. BS just doesn't do it justice.
It is absolutely impossible to extract a global temperature from existing data because all points are selective.
Since February 1985, every single month has been cooler than the 10,000 BC average, as well.
No mention of how cold February was (at least where I live).
After February, I don't mind all this "global warming." Feels a heckuva lot better.
They should check out the Pacific Northwest: coldest "high" temps on record for Portland yesterday, average temps are running 10 degrees lower than normal for the month of June so far.
Which just goes to show the climate models these clowns use are completely useless. It has been one of the coldest, rainiest sprining in living memory here in MN. It has no where been "hot".
The Bilderburg group is calling for global cooling and don't you forget it!
Only in SOME places.
Here in AZ it was the coolest in memory. We kept waiting for 100 degrees and it was late in the month.
My friend in Ca said the tree fruit crops are late because of unusually cool weather this year.
This article must believe only the temps in their area should be considered.
How dumb.
They must have their thermometer somewhere near the bodies of that "hot" Algore and his new friend.
Kool-Aid Ping
Do they really think we're that stupid?
Global Delusion?
The only warmth I detect is the one coming from this steaming pile of crap.
Humbling time for humanity. We can't plug up a stinking hole in the ocean, but we hope to change the world's climate?
After a warm spring we haven't seen the sun once in June and the temperatures are way below normal. It all balances out.
"Oceania was not after all at war with Eurasia. Oceania was at war with Eastasia. Eurasia was an ally. "
I wonder where the May hot spots occured...:^)
Central California has been very cool this spring. Only one weekend of >90 deg all year. Very unusual.
It sounds like the whole west coast was cooler than normal this spring. So which parts of the country were hotter than normal? It sure didn't make the news.
NOAA gets the Temp dat from Rectal Thermometers stuffed in the rectums of Al Gore, Barrack, Biden, Kerry, Boxer, Waxman, and a bunch of other Democrats that they depend on to get money from. Like NASA (See Ozone Hole), NOAA is a Whore and will say whatever the popular culture is.
I'm pretty sure they are transitioning from land based thermometers to satellite measurements.
That way, no one can look over their shoulders.
How about; Galactic Excrement or GE for short since GE is behind a lot of this.
It's Reuters...what else should be expect?
By the way, if you Google Deke Arndt and scan the hits you will find that he would probably say the same thing if he was freezing to death in August.
positively cool here in NY.
I'm sorry. This American doesn't believe the government anymore. The government has become too greedy. It's one lie after another.
Do people still really believe this BS anymore?
NO, they had hoped that all the sheeple would beleive. Now because some of the sheeple have stumbled upon the truth, the liars have to double-down on the BS.
When their political allies are put out in Nov. we will hear no more of this crap. These "climate experts" give a whole new meaning to "which way the wind blows" and to the true meaning of expert "X is the unknown and spert is a drip under pressure".
this is grossly embarrassing to true scientists everywhere. CA has had one of the coldest springs in 50 Years. Montana continues to get snow. Coldest temps in the mid west iirc - the list can go on and on. What freekin planet do these morons live on?
Ditto here in the south SF Bay Area. It was 92 on Sunday, but jacket weather yesterday! 25 degree drop.
Warmest? Where? Here in New Jersey had my heat on for 5 days in May because temps were in the low 40's. Can not remember ever having to turn on the heat in May. Maybe these morons can pay my bill for the month.
Historic high????
That must be why our furnace was running so many days last month. The Gore-bull warming crowd must not have included any temperatures from Western New York.
And just today it is reported that South Africa received its first snow in 30 some years.
They have to keep up the lies because it is the only way they can recoup their investment in CCX (thanks in part to BHO).
You must turn off the heat! Nobama is sending you extra carbon tax. The idea is to make us all so hot (under the collar) that we won't notice that globull warming is a fairy tale.
In the high desert it was the coldest on record.
No kidding. We haven't even had a day in the 80's yet, which normally occurs at the beginning of May. I bought a new gun in April and haven't been able to complete my barrel break in because I haven't had a day calm enough to zero past 50 yards.
The first day I quit after 15 shots and the wind started gusting over 50 MPH. It has rained half of the last month, which never happens.
Global warming my a$$.
PS—Pterodactyl $#!t.
We had to turn on our furnace on Friday and Saturday nights. That's unheard of mid-June.
Obviously no one was looking at temperatures from the Midwest where it has been decidedly cooler than normal and apparently no one saw the snowstorm in the Black Hills the third week in May.
They didn't look at S. Cal either - we had snow, ice and hail.
Ha. This one ranks right up there with Nepolitano's statement that the "borders are secure".
Not in Kansas City. I thought May was cooler than usual.
Despite no global warming in 10 years and recording setting cold in 2007-2008, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climatic Change (IPCC) and computer modelers who believe that CO2 is the cause of global warming still predict the Earth is in store for catastrophic warming in this century.
Global temperatures increased for twenty years from the late 1970s to the late 1990s but have actually been cooling the last eleven years. The global warming and subsequent cooling were even predictable due to hundreds of years of historical trends and observation of the impact of variations in solar activity on global temperature.
Did you know that the Roman Period and Medieval Period were both several degrees warmer than today's temperature. The world then cooled at least four degrees from 1450 to 1850. This period was called the Little Ice Age (a period of glacial advance, the same glaciers that are in retreat today). These temperature variations were not caused by man.
The reports circulating from the U.N.'s climate summit in Copenhagen also don't mention scientific climate data that suggest the globe has cooled in the last 10 years.
Data from the U.S. National Climate Data Center indicate temperatures in the U.S. have cooled over the last decade at a rate that projects to a decline of 7.3 degrees Fahrenheit over the next century
Deke Arndt is one of these types who understands the importance of lighting matches and holding them close to thermometers.
BS. It was damned cold here.
Yes it is the middle of June here in the Seattle area and it feels more like March. Ask farmers whether it was the warmest May ever. Crops around here are way behind because it has been cold. How long do these partisan hack "scientists" think they can distort the record by cherry picking weather reporting stations? They only have one weather station left in the far North of Canada that supposedly gives the average for locations thousands of miles away.
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A STUDENT has been expelled from Montreal's Dawson College after bringing a security vulnerability to the attention of the university and the software maker.
Ahmed Al-Khabaz, who used to study computer science at Dawson College, discovered a security vulnerability in the Omnivox software used by that college and others to store students' personal information. After Al-Khabaz alerted the college and Omnivox developers to the vulnerability, he ran a stress test program to ensure that the vulnerabilities had been fixed, an action that led to his expulsion from the college.
Al-Khabez claims that the vulnerability he and a colleague found would allow anyone with basic knowledge of computers to access the personal details of over 250,000 students. He told the National Post, "I saw a flaw which left the personal information of thousands of students, including myself, vulnerable. I felt I had a moral duty to bring it to the attention of the college and help to fix it, which I did. I could have easily hidden my identity behind a proxy. I chose not to because I didn't think I was doing anything wrong."
When Al-Khabez first talked to the college about the flaw things went well, with all parties concerned walking away happy. However two days later Al-Khabez wanted to check whether the vulnerability he had found was fixed and ran Acunetix, a program used to stress test software.
Soon after Al-Khabez ran the software Skytech, the software developer behind the Omnivox software, got in touch with Al-Khabez offering some stern words to the student and urged him to sign a non-disclosure agreement. Al-Khabez was then referred to the Dawson College administration, which voted to expel Al-Khabez for a "serious professional conduct issue".
According to Al-Khabez, the college administration seemed keen to cover up its failings rather than protect a talented and resourceful student. Al-Khabez said, "I was called into a meeting with the coordinator of my programme, Ken Fogel, and the dean, Dianne Gauvin. They asked a lot of questions, mostly about who knew about the problems and who I had told. I got the sense that their primary concern was covering up the problem."
Even Skytech's CEO said Al-Khabez's decision to run Acunetix did not exhibit any malicious intent, so Dawson College's actions seem wholly disproportionate. Given that Al-Khabez did not expose the students' data and acted responsibly by informing the college, it appears that Dawson College's actions were motivated by a coverup and have ruined an honest, bright student's career. µ
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Pima County Community College District Standard Practice Guide
SPG Title: Portable Computer Security
SPG Number: SPG–5702/AD
Effective Date: 11/13/06
Approval Date: 11/13/06
Review Date(s): 2/7/12
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The purpose of this SPG is to establish minimum standards for the protection of College-owned portable computing devices and the data that resides on them.
A. Portable computing devices, such as laptops, notebooks, tablets, PDAs, telephones and other handheld devices are vulnerable to damage, theft or loss by nature of their portability. Each device, as well as the data stored on or accessed by the device, needs to be secured in order to protect confidential and sensitive information that is often stored on it.
B. Physical security denotes safeguarding the portable device itself from theft or from physical damage caused by falls, abuse of electrical cords, exposure to liquids or food particles, exposure to particulates, overheating, electrical spikes, and proximity to strong magnetic fields.
C. Data security denotes safeguarding from unauthorized access all data and software residing on the portable device, as well as any on the College network to which the device may connect. This includes but is not limited to: College email, the College Intranet, data files, and commercial software.
D. Data security methods involve password protection, encryption, keeping the device within the employee's physical proximity at all times, and other means.
Procedures and Responsibilities
A. Users must secure portable computing devices from unauthorized physical and data access. Specific strategies for physically securing portable devices include but are not limited to: never leaving a device unattended in a public setting; transporting them as carry-on luggage whenever possible while traveling; keeping them covered or otherwise out of sight while locked in vehicles; using cables to secure the device to a desk whenever possible.
B. All portable computing devices should be kept up to date with the latest security patches, virus-scanning software and virus data files, and firewalls.
C. Encryption methods will be used on all business-critical or sensitive information related to the College. The portable device should contain only that College data needed during travel. Power-on passwords should always be enabled when possible. The display screen should be locked and the device physically-secured by cable if it is to be left unattended even for brief periods of time.
D. Theft or loss of a portable computing device must be immediately reported to the local authorities, department supervisor and the IT department from which the equipment was obtained.


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Red Hat's quarterly results show continued growth
Red Hat has announced the figures for the third quarter of its fiscal year 2012, the quarter that ended on 30 November. During that period the company generated a turnover of $290 million (£185 million), an increase of 23 per cent over the same period last year. Of this, $246.5 million (£157 million) came from software subscriptions, the rest from training and services. The GAAP operating income for the quarter was $54 million (£34.4 million), an increase of 41 per cent over the year; net income increased by 46.9 per cent, to $38.2 million (£24.3 million).
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HACKENSACK— Most of the baseball memorabilia that was slated for the Bergen County Prosecutor's Office auction is furnace bound after a hand-writing analyst dubbed that autographs on the items were likely fake, The Record reported.
Only 25 percent of the hundreds of autographed baseball items made the cut and the rest will be destroyed, Prosecutor John Molinelli said. The memorabilia was confiscated during a 2007 illegal prescription drug case, and authorities planned to sell the items during its May 3 auction at the Bergen County Law & Public Safety Institute.
But Las Vegas-based handwriting analyst Drew Max found that most of the items were not authentic. The prosecutor's office paid $10,000 to Max's company Authentic Autographs Unlimited, which included a $2,500 fee for temporary storage, according to The Record.
The County prosecutor said that the "fake" items — which could be real but have dubious origins — would be destroyed to avoid a lawsuit over authenticity. Also, rules laid out by the state Attorney General's Office forbid that the items be donated to charity.
"Why would I expose the county taxpayers to a lawsuit over a $40 baseball," Molinelli told The Record. "It was a judgment call on my part."