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Over 10m Argentines live in poverty conditions, says Catholic University
Over a quarter of the Argentine population live in poverty conditions, with no formal job, poor quality education, dreadful housing and insufficient healthcare, according to the latest paper from the Buenos Aires Catholic University Social Debt Observatory.
The paper, Structural heterogeneous factors and standing social inequalities also reveals that from 2004 to 2010 the social gap between life conditions for the middle class and the most vulnerable has increased considerably.
The Social Debt Observatory considered one of the most prestigious and reliable in Argentina says that half of Argentine workers have a precarious job or 'indigence jobs' (i.e. collecting cardboard and paper) and over half of the upcoming adult generations is excluded from the social security system.
Besides three million people are mal nourished, and one in ten houses does not have running water and three out of ten is not connected to sewage network.
Furthermore 37% of young adults has not finished high school and 20% are the 'ni-ni' category of 'no job, no school'; 12% of children aged 5 to 17 are involved in some kind of job and two out of ten need government assistance, with 23.5% needing a program of standing social assistance.
Despite government assistance efforts one out of four of these 500.000 households does not have access to the real value of the basic food basket.
Structural marginality did not improve in Argentine despite all the years Argentina expanded at 8% annually. Structural poverty has crystallized as has the impossibility of achieving basic levels of social integration and well-being, according to Agustin Salvia head of the Observatory research.
Half of the 2002 poor are no longer poor, but the levels previous to the crisis have worsened. Most of the social conflicts have to do with inequality and unsatisfied expectations. Crime, robbery, looting are part of a social decomposition context for people who believe the system does not include them and the distance with the well-off is ever widening.
Because of inflation poverty is advancing and so is the stagnation of formal employment. In 2013 it climbed to over 25%, says Salvia.
In 2003 the poverty rate in Argentina was 50.9% of the population and in 2012 it was down to 24.5% according to the Observatory stats (officially it's down to 5.4%). This means that 30% of Argentines, if we include the 4.9% of indigence, was unable to climb out of the situation despite the strong economic growth of almost a decade. In this context government social assistance was up to 15.3% of GSP in 2012, from 10.3% in 2003.
However even when a significant percentage of those jobless in 2002 rapidly reinserted in the production system, since they had the skills, as factories and corporations again took off. But those who have been unable to integrate are those at the basis of the pyramid with little or no education, no skills and little work habit.
For the report based on figures from another prestigious institution FIEL, the Latin American Economic Research Foundation, a household in Argentina needs 3.900 Pesos (600 dollars) a month to remain just above the poverty line and of which 2.000 Pesos to buy food. This compares with the official and much discredited Indec government stats office, which puts the poverty line at 1.750 Pesos and monthly food purchase at 769 Pesos.
Argentina has a population of 40 million which means that at least 10 million live in poverty and increasingly marginalized as the system allegedly has let them down.


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1. Introduction
Labeling the May 1995 flood event in southeastern Louisiana and southern Mississippi "memorable" and "paralyzing" may be an understatement in regard to the episode witnessed by residents of the region. Beside the very heavy rainfall, severe weather occurred with two confirmed tornadoes (one F1 and one F2 as defined by Fujita's Tornado Scale [Fujita 1971]) in Louisiana. Indeed, the event was historic, catastrophic, and devastating from both a meteorological and human perspective.
The event lasted about 40 hr, flooding over 44,000 homes, inundating countless roads, and impacting over one million residents. Damage assessments exceeded a staggering three billion dollars. Tragically, seven deaths occurred--six within the metropolitan New Orleans area and one in Harrison County, Mississippi. With extensive damage and scores of people needing immediate aid, President Clinton declared seven southeastern Louisiana parishes and four southern Mississippi counties disaster areas, qualifying them for federal assistance. Subsequently, the National Guard was activated to assist with evacuation and rescue efforts. A summary of the event's impact is included in Tables 1A and 1B. In comparison, Hurricane Andrew's 1992 Louisiana impact tallied $1.76 billion, eight directly related deaths, 18,247 homes damaged, and 36 parishes declared federal disaster areas (Storm Data, August 1992). In the wake of the flooding, community response was extraordinary. Numerous organizations from both states and around the country donated food, clothing, financial assistance, and household goods to flood victims, many of whom had lost all their personal possessions.
In the following sections, the meteorological conditions, including several local precipitation forecast techniques, will be discussed, followed by a description of the hydrological aspects of the event. Also, the impact of the episode on the communities of southeast Louisiana and southern Mississippi will be presented.
2. Synoptic/Mesoscale Patterns
a. Synoptic
The weather pattern leading up to the event was recognized to be a synoptic-type event (Maddox et al. 1979) during the initial 24 hr of the episode, but it evolved into a frontal type heavy rain event on day 2. A modified Pacific maritime cold front approached the region from the west, preceded by a squall line. The airmass that entered western Louisiana on May 8 exhibited considerably lower dewpoints than the tropical airmass across east Louisiana and southeast Mississippi. However, the mid-level short wave which accompanied the cold front quickly exited the region to the northeast. By the evening of May 9, the cold front dissipated in the vicinity of Baton Rouge. The remnant frontal trough served as a focusing axis for the heavy precipitation that continued into the late morning hours of May 10 (Figs. 1a and 1b).
In the upper levels of the atmosphere on May 8, a 50 ms-1 jet streak advanced from the northwest to the east of an amplifying trough situated over the Plains states. This persistent feature maintained an area of significant upper level divergence (associated with the right entrance region of the jet) over southeast Louisiana (Figs. 2, and 3). With time, the upper-level trough became negatively tilted to the west of the impact area, thereby providing ample upper-level divergence as well as mid- and upper-level cold and dry air advection, as evidenced in the satellite imagery (not shown).
Meanwhile, strong warm air and moisture advection from the Gulf of Mexico continued during the entire event. At 850 mb, a theta-e ridge persisted from the central Gulf of Mexico into the Mississippi River Delta area. It was in this general swath that the highest rainfall totals occurred. Most of the severe weather events during this episode also occurred in close proximity to the theta-e ridge (Figs. 2d and 3d).
b. Mesoscale
The smaller scale features on May 8 included the development of a meso-alpha scale low just north of Lake Pontchartrain about 80 mi east of the front. A pre-frontal trough extended from this low across western Lake Pontchartrain to just west of metropolitan New Orleans, to near Thibodaux, Louisiana (Fig. 1a). This subtle trough served as the primary focus for enhanced rainfall that occurred as convective cells moved to the northeast with the mean flow along the trough axis and across New Orleans. The position of this trough was coincident with the maximum divergence region of the jet structure aloft. Soundings indicated a highly unstable lapse rate on May 8, which became saturated through a great depth by 1200 UTC on May 9 (Fig. 4).
The rainfall abated during the early afternoon of May 9 as the environment stabilized. This marked the end of the first round of heavy rainfall. The Slidell sounding at 0000 UTC on May 10 indicated a CAPE of 4323 J/kg along with an 850 mb theta-e value of 344K. Around 0300 UTC May 10, the cold pool aloft, associated with the negative-tilt trough, advected over the region, thus rapidly destabilizing the environment. This was soon followed by the approach of a jet streak which rotated through the base of the upper-level trough. The surface boundary which served as the focusing mechanism was now aligned perpendicular to the low level flow and parallel with the thunderstorm propagation vector, resulting in a more efficient rain producer than on the previous night (Fig. 1b).
c. Forecast/QPF Techniques
Two in-house precipitation forecast techniques--The Flash Flood Decision Tree (Johnson and Moser 1992) and The Precipitation Calculator (Ricks 1992)--were employed by NWSFO New Orleans/Baton Rouge and the Lower Mississippi River Forecast Center (LMRFC) to estimate possible rainfall amounts over southeast Louisiana and southeast Mississippi. The use of these techniques helped forecasters make decisions on how to handle the event operationally. Rainfall estimates from these techniques for Monday and Tuesday are shown in Tables 2 and 3.
1. Flash Flood Decision Tree
The Flash Flood Decision Tree is a process a forecaster follows to determine if an environment is favorable for flash flood-producing rains. This process is based on empirical findings of 18 thermodynamic and kinematic parameters that were found to be relevant to heavy rain production in Louisiana. The forecaster determines the integrity of each parameter, and a weight of zero, 5, or 10 is given to each parameter. The sum of these weights yields a suggested action to be taken. The forecaster then completes a similar decision tree to estimate a precipitation amount. The precipitation estimation portion uses 11 weighted parameters that are added to a base amount of 2 in. A PC program was developed to assist in the calculations using this technique.
On May 8, using 1200 UTC model data and analyses, the technique yielded results that suggested a "Dangerous flash flood environment--Flash Flood Watch highly advised." The precipitation estimation indicated 7.5 in of rain possible in the watch area. It should be noted that a weight of zero was applied to the MCC parameter; otherwise, the estimation would have been 9.5 in. The use of this technique prompted the issuance of a Flash Flood Watch for south-central, east-central, and southeast Louisiana at 4:45 p.m. CDT. On May 9, using the latest 1200 UTC model data and analyses, the technique suggested, "Good potential for flash flooding--Watch recommended," with a precipitation estimation of 7.5 in. Again, the MCC parameter was set to zero. Based on this output, a new Flash Flood Watch was issued at 3:30 p.m. CDT for southeast Louisiana. Although the output on May 9 yielded a "Watch recommended" and not the "Watch highly advised" result, it should be noted that the total point score for May 9 was just fractionally lower (about 3 percent) than that of May 8.
2. Precipitation Calculator
The Precipitation Calculator utilizes parameters extracted from a skew-T, log-P analysis. Ideally, a lift representative of the 850 mb theta-e is used to determine the positive area of the environment. The parameters are input into a computation that yields two precipitation estimates. The first value is the expected amount of rainfall that could be associated with the theta-e value. The second value is the potential precipitation that could be realized if all of the convective process goes into precipitation production--an upper limit.
On May 8, using the Slidell sounding from 1200 UTC, it was determined that the 850 mb theta-e value was 325K. The low-level moist inflow and gridded model data suggested that this value would increase during the ensuing 12 to 24 hr to at least 340K. The Precipitation Calculator indicated that between 2.14 and 6.44 in of rain was possible at 340K, while the Ricks Index indicated a high risk for severe weather in the area. The technique was designed to indicate how much precipitation could be attained through one inflection of theta-e advection (i.e., one increase to a maximum value followed by a recession). In hindcast, it was noted that a double inflection in a relatively short time span was achieved. As a result, a doubling of the forecast values was possible, thus yielding 4.28 and 12.88 in. The maximum rainfall amount recorded during the first day of the event was 12.24 in at the New Orleans International Airport (Fig. 5a).
On May 9, once again using the 1200 UTC sounding from Slidell, the Precipitation Calculator generated 3.91 in of forecast precipitation with a maximum amount of 6.59 in. These values were correlated to a theta-e value of 345K. The orientation of upper level jet dynamics (left front quadrant followed by right rear quadrant) suggested a double inflection situation was once again possible. The operational forecast amounts then became 7.82 in with a maximum amount of 13.18 in. The maximum amount reported during the second day was 15.80 in (Fig. 5b).
3. Hydrometeorological Impact
a. Actual Rainfall
During the event, real-time precipitation estimates were obtained from the WSR-88D from Slidell and were supplemented by observations from New Orleans International Airport, New Orleans Lakefront Airport, and automated rainfall gauges at Audubon Park in New Orleans and the NWSFO in Slidell. Rainfall reports were also received via telephone from cooperative observers, parish and county emergency managers, and the public.
From Monday evening, May 8, through Wednesday morning, May 10, rainfall of 10 to 20 in was common over the area. Storm-total rainfall in excess of 20 in was widespread across the southern half of St. Tammany Parish in Louisiana, extreme south Pearl River County, the northern half of Hancock County, and extreme northwest Harrison County in Mississippi. The largest rainfall total was 27.5 in recorded from a bucket survey near Necaise Crossing in northern Hancock County, Mississippi (Pfost 1995) (Fig. 6).
The storm total rainfall can be separated into two distinct events of 6- to 12-hr duration. The first began the evening of Monday, May 8, and continued into the predawn hours of May 9, with rainfall amounts of 10 to 13 in across southeast Louisiana and coastal Mississippi. Most of the rain fell in a 3- to 6-hr period, including 8 in across southern St. Tammany Parish from 10 p.m. through 2 a.m. CDT. Audubon Park in New Orleans measured 12.2 in of rain between 6:30 p.m. and 11:30 p.m. CDT (Fig. 7a). Additionally, at the Saucier Experiment Forest Rain Station, 5.9 in of rain was measured in one hour from 6 a.m. to 7 a.m. May 9. This is believed to be a record for Mississippi. Considerable flooding, particularly in the Greater New Orleans area, resulted from this first onslaught of rain.
The second heavy rainfall period on the evening of May 9 and morning of May 10 was a record-breaker for the month--and the century--for southern St. Tammany Parish and parts of southeast Mississippi. Ten- to 15-in amounts fell on the communities of Covington, Mandeville, and Slidell. These same areas experienced heavy rainfall the previous night. Isolated 16- and 17-in amounts fell over Slidell and Abita Springs, respectively. Most of the rainfall occurred in an 8-hr period from around 11 p.m. CDT, May 9, through 7 a.m. CDT, May 10 (Fig. 7b). At the Saucier Experiment Forest, 14.40 in of rain fell in a 24-hr period from 5 a.m. CDT Tuesday, May 9, through 5 a.m. Wednesday, May 10. This measurement is the third largest 24-hr rainfall in Mississippi history (Pfost 1995). During this period, rainfall rates in excess of 9 in in 3 hr and 4 in in 1 hr were observed. Additional rains of 3 to 5 in occurred again in the greater New Orleans area the morning of May 10, aggravating already flooded areas.
The highest storm total recorded in southeastern Louisiana over the 40-hr period was 24.46 in at the Fire Tower Cooperative Station in Abita Springs (Fig. 6). Figures 5a and 5b are isohyetal analyses for the Monday and Tuesday night events, respectively, using rainfall reports from first-order aviation stations, automated gauges, and cooperative observers.
b. Effects of Flooding
This catastrophic flood paralyzed many parishes and counties in southern Louisiana and southeastern Mississippi. The total event lasted about 40 hr. Virtually all roads were inundated or impassable during the height of the event, especially in the New Orleans metropolitan area and in the Covington to Slidell area of south St. Tammany Parish. Portions of Interstate 12 between Covington and Slidell were under water. Homes receiving water damage included 18,000 in New Orleans, 7,000 in Slidell, 15,000 in Jefferson Parish, and 3,500 in St. Charles Parish in Louisiana, and over 1,000 homes in southeastern Mississippi. Well over a million residents were affected in some manner by the heavy rain and flooding. Seven parishes in Louisiana and four counties in southeastern Mississippi were declared disaster areas.
Seven deaths were attributed to flooding. Six of the deaths occurred in the metropolitan New Orleans area. Five of these deaths were males ranging in age from 27 to 56 and occurred on May 9. The sixth, an infant, was found floating on water toward a drainage pump on May 11. There was one death, a female, in Slidell that occurred on May 10; however, her death was likely attributed to a traffic accident. The seventh death occurred in Harrison County, Mississippi, when a 32-year-old male in his vehicle was swept away by the swollen Wolf River north of Long Beach.
c. Hydrological Impact
The hydrologic significance of the floods was extreme (Table 1B). Not only were flood stages well exceeded, but previous high water marks were literally submerged. Several river gauges were lost due to the extreme flows across the Gulf drainage basins. Based on preliminary studies by the USGS, the floods on the Biloxi and Tchoutacabouffa Rivers are estimated to be 100-year frequency occurrences (Turnipseed et al. 1995). Many homes near and along the Jourdan River had their roofs topped by flood waters.
In southern Louisiana, intense rainfall produced considerable urban flooding; however, only minor rises occurred on the Tangipahoa, Tchefuncte, and lower Pearl River basins. Near Slidell, the Pearl River at Pearl River Village, which had been in minor flood since April, rose only a foot during this event, cresting at 16.23 ft. However, this 1-ft rise reflected an increase in discharge of approximately 18,000 cfs. Flood stage is 14 ft. The Pearl River is the largest river system within the area impacted by the rainfall.
4. User Response
User survey questionnaires were sent to the Emergency Operations Coordinators of the southern Mississippi Counties. The responses were of a positive tone from the aspect of quality of service provided by National Weather Service offices. There was one recommendation to possibly use fax machines to send pertinent information to emergency preparedness officials. The responses indicated that adequate notification and coordination efforts were provided. User feedback was provided by several letterhead memos addressed to the New Orleans NWS office.
5. Summary and Conclusions
A 40-hr heavy rain event took place across the middle Gulf of Mexico coast region of Louisiana and Mississippi. This event was classified as a Maddox synoptic-type heavy rain event that evolved into a Maddox frontal-type event. Record 24-hr rain amounts fell across and around the New Orleans metropolitan area and coastal Mississippi, affecting over one million people. River flooding was extreme in the Gulf drainage systems of coastal Mississippi where 100- to 500-year frequencies occurred. Monetary loss greater than three billion dollars made this one of the most costly weather-related events in United States history.
Operationally, there were several aspects of the event that proved challenging to the forecast and service process. Access to the NWSFO/RFC facility was impaired due to excessive street flooding on the only road to the office. Several staff members worked in excess of 40 consecutive hours, providing uninterrupted services to the public. Other staff members became isolated at home, waiting for the waters to recede enough to report for duty.
The WSR-88D precipitation estimates from Slidell underestimated the rainfall by about 50 percent, while the Mobile precipitation estimates were closer to observed amounts. As rivers exceeded previous levels in the Gulf drainage basins, river gauging equipment was lost, thus negating a valuable data source for operational forecasting during the flood.
There were several lessons learned from this monumental event. Weather pattern recognition was key in staying ahead of the situation and taking the appropriate forecast actions. Locally derived techniques proved beneficial in alerting forecasters to an unusual situation beyond what synoptic models indicated, though the techniques underestimated the magnitude of the event. Increased research and improved mesoscale modeling should ultimately provide more accurate forecasts during such a rare event.
6. Acknowledgements
This paper is a collaboration of the efforts of all the men and women who served the public during this memorable weather event. A major contribution to this paper was the bucket survey conducted by the staff members of NWSFO Jackson: Larry Arnold (Cooperative Program Manager), Tom Thompson (Service Hydrologist), Johnny Baxter and Charlie Smith (Hydromet Techs), and Brad Regan (forecaster). Gratitude is expressed to Michael Koziara (SOO, NWSFO New Orleans Area) and Michael Shields (forecaster, NWSFO New Orleans area) for the technical review of this paper. Jim Moser (NWSFO New Orleans Area) provided assistance with the graphics and model data collection. Monetary loss figures were provided by the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Hydrologic data were provided by Bob Stucky (DOH, LMRFC), Jeff Graschel (Sr. HAS forecaster, LMRFC), and Philip Turnipseed (USGS-Vicksburg District).
Fujita, T. T., 1971: Proposed characterization of tornadoes and hurricanes by area and intensity. SMRP Research Paper 91, University of Chicago, 42 pp.
Johnson, G. A and J. Moser, 1992: A Decision Tree for Forecasting Heavy Rains from Mid-latitude Synoptic Patterns in Louisiana Generally from Late Fall through Spring. NOAA Technical Memorandum NWS ER-87. Bohemia, New York. p 189-194.
Maddox, R. A., C.F. Chappell and L. R. Hoxit, 1979: Synoptic and Meso-alpha Scale Aspects of Flash Flood Events. Bull. of Amer. Meteor. Soc., 60, pp 115-123.
NOAA, 1992: Storm Data. National Environmental Satellite, Data and Information Service, National Climatic Data Center, Asheville, NC. August 1992.
Pfost, R., 1995: Memorandum for the record: Coastal Mississippi Bucket and Flood Survey, May 18, 1995 (Unpublished)
Ricks, R. J. Jr., 1992: An Experimental Program for Determining Precipitation Potential Based on Equivalent Potential Temperature. NOAA Technical Memorandum NWS ER-87. Bohemia, NY. p 195-201.
Ricks, R. J. Jr., J. Graschel, and E. Jones, 1995: A Comparison of Adjacent WSR-88D Precipitation Estimates Along the Mississippi Gulf Coast. NOAA Technical Attachment SR/SSD 95-26, Fort Worth, TX, 6 pp.
Turnipseed, D. P., W. T. Baldwin, L. M. Cooper, and P.C. Floyd, 1995: "Flooding in Coastal Areas of Mississippi and Southeastern Louisiana, May 9-10, 1995", U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey, Fact Sheet FS-155-95.
Table 1. SIGNIFICANT NUMBERS
** Duration of the event: 40 HOURS
** Number of homes receiving water damage: 44,500
** Number of people affected by the event: OVER 1 MILLION
** Number of deaths: 7
** Number of parishes/counties declared disaster areas: 11
** Monetary impact: $3.1 BILLION
** Number of severe thunderstorm or tornado watches and warnings
issued from the WSFO New Orleans/Baton Rouge Office during the
entire event: 85
** Number of flood/flash flood related watches and warnings
issued from the WSFO New Orleans/Baton Rouge office during the
entire event: 48
** Maximum amount of rainfall day one: 315 mm (12.4 inches) at
** Maximum amount of rainfall day two: 401 mm (15.8 inches) at
** Maximum amount of rainfall reported for the two day event:
699 mm (27.50 inches) at NECAISE CROSSING, HANCOCK COUNTY, MS.
Table 1B.
Hydrologic Impact of the Southeast Louisiana/Southern Mississippi Flood of May 8-10, 1996
|Flood Stage (Ft.)
|Crest (Ft.)
|Jourdan at County Road 43
|500 Year Flood
|Wolf at Landon
|50 Year Flood
Highest Crest Since 21.06 Ft. on 4/27/64.
|Wolf at Gulfport
|100 Year Flood
Previous Record was 12.3 Ft. Jan. 1993.
|Biloxi at Wortham
|100+ Year Flood
Previous Record was 25.30 Ft. in 1948.
|Biloxi at Lyman
|100+ Year Flood
Previous Record was 18.50 Ft. in 1957.
|Tchoutacabouffa at D'Iberville
|100 Year Flood
Previous Record was 16.80 Ft. in 1987
|Tuxachanie Creek
|200-500 Year Flood
Previous Record was 23.63 Ft. on 8/15/87.


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Name: Morgan Griffith
School: Hollidaysburg
Age: 17
Grade: Junior
Sport: Basketball
Athlete of the week achievement: Griffith scored 27 points in the first round of the Golden Tiger Roundball Classic in a victory over Tyrone. She followed that performance with 16 points against Millbrook in the tournament championship game.
Season update: Griffith is averaging 14 points and 10.2 rebounds in Hollidaysburg's 5-2 start.
Coach Deanna Jubeck's quote: "She had a good week of pratice and it carried over to the games in the tournament. She controlled the boards and put up points on the board. She has started off well.''
Favorite teacher: Miss Jubeck
Favorite subject: English
Favorite movie: "Bridesmaids''
Favorite food: Hot wings
Favorite song: "Listen to Your Heart'' by Drew Ryniewicz
Outside interests: Hanging out with teammates
Favorite professional team: Miami Heat
Favorite college team: Penn State
Pro athlete most admired: Candace Parker
Best athlete I ever played with: Hannah Gildea
Best athlete I ever competed against: Bishop Guilfoyle's Halee Adams
Most influential person on my athletic career: "My mom or my coach, Deanna Jubeck.''
Proudest athletic achievement: Winning the District 6 Class AAA championship as a sophomore
How I got my start in basketball: "My older sister played. I just kind of played because she did, but then I started to really like it.''
Future goal: "To do as much for my team to get us as far into states as we can go.''


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NAZARETH - Juanita Schacher, 73, died Saturday, May 12, 2007 in Amarillo.
Prayer vigil will be at 7 p.m. Tuesday in Holy Family Catholic Church. Mass will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday in the church with the Rev. Ken Keller, pastor officiating. Burial will in Holy Family Cemetery by Kornerstone Funeral Directors of Tulia.
Mrs. Schacher was born July 14, 1933, in Nazareth to A.P. and Elizabeth Hoelting. She lived in San Antonio and then Amarillo before moving to Nazareth, where she graduated from high school. She married Edwin Schacher on Nov. 24, 1954, in Nazareth.
She was a homemaker and enjoyed painting, ceramics and decorating. She was a member of Holy Family Catholic Church.
Survivors include her husband; three daughters, Janice Allison and husband Roger of Orange, Wanda Huseman and husband Bernie of Hereford, and Joyce Kleman and husband Gerry of Abernathy; three sons, Darryl Schacher and Kyle Schacher, both of Amarillo and Dean Schacher and wife Dawn of Canyon; a brother Clyde Hoelting of Nazareth; two sisters, Dolores Detten and Charlene Venhaus, both Amarillo; and eight grandchildren.
The family suggests memorials be to the American Cancer Society, 3915 Bell, Amarillo, TX 79109.
Sign the online guest book at www.kornerstonefunerals.com.
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Pa. Turnpike/I-95 connection construction underway
Posted: 8:00 PM EDT Jul 29, 2013 Updated: 6:53 PM EDT Jul 30, 2013
Pennsylvania Turnpike officials have started work on a major connection.
Crews have started the first phase of a project that will connect the turnpike with I-95 in Bucks County near Bensalem.
The work will be funded by tolls and federal grants.
Crews will build a new toll facility, and they'll widen the highway.
Officials say the project will improve traffic flow and economic growth.
Phase One is slated to wrap up in 2018.
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Notion Capital founder Jos White shared his views with us at the 2010 Entrepreneurs Summit, but with his latest investment, Jos White is putting his money where his mouth is: cloud computing.
Cloud computing - A growth opportunity
Cloud computing technology is a strong growth area for entrepreneurs, and it can attract some serious money. At our 2010 Entrepreneurs' Summit, Jos White shared his views on this with us (you can catch up on them here), and he has made a new investment in cloud-based contact centre business NewVoiceMedia.
Alongside Eden Ventures, Notion Capital has co-invested £4m into the business – proof that businesses can still attract big money despite the still-fragile economic environment.
Basingstoke-based NewVoiceMedia already has a good track record, counting Parcelforce Worldwide and Wokingham Council among its customers, but the £4m investment will now allow it to scale-up internationally.
The business was founded in 2000 by entrepreneurs Ashley Unitt and Richard Pickering, and was bought into by current CEO Jonathan Grant in 2005, becoming profitable and serving more than 300 customers in 11 countries.
"It has the potential to utterly disrupt the market," says Mark Farmer, co-founder of Eden Ventures. "The business's cloud-based model simplifies customer contact centres enormously and makes the capability accessible for smaller businesses."
It's certainly a growth area: according to DMG Consulting, software-as-a-service seats account for just two or three per cent of the current contact centre market, but by 2011 they'll account for 30 to 35 per cent. Watch this space!


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My name is Tasha and I am the "K1" part of our shop. I am 29, married, a new mom, and I love to knit and crochet. I am also the proud mommy of a parrotlet, a few finches, and an ornery kitty. Some of ...
My name is Tasha and I am the "K1" part of our shop. I am 29, married, a new mom, and I love to knit and crochet. I am also the proud mommy of a parrotlet, a few finches, and an ornery kitty. Some of my other activities include camping, shopping, reading, all things internet, video games, cooking, and hanging out with my awesome friends.
My mom is Nancy and she is the "Sew Too" part of our shop. While she won't let me put her age... let's just say she is on her way to seasoned. ;) She loves to keep the neighbors up with her sewing machine. Some of her other activities include holding her new granddaughter, shopping, eating out, walking, watching prime time tv, and enjoying the outdoors.
You can check out our blog, mostly written by Tasha, at http://k1sewtoo.wordpress.com/.
I have always loved the colors of Malabrigo yarns and thus am always in search of a stitch to best show off the colorways. There are many knit stitches that do the job well, but what about crochet? This cloche was designed to show the beauty of crochet through a gorgeous yarn. It is because of this that I suggest a variegated or self striping yarn, though solid colors look lovely as well.
~Instructions for wool and cotton included
~Detailed photos to explain the star stitch
~Directions included for 21" - 23" head size
~Pattern creates a cloche that sits right above the eyes, but it is easy to add or subtract rows to lengthen or shorten the cloche to your desired length
Pattern has been tested for errors and clarity
Stitches: chain, slip stitch, back loop only, double crochet, star stitch (modified)
Pattern Difficulty: Intermediate
Time to Complete: 2-3 hrs
21" Cloche
5 mm hook, worsted weight yarn: 4 rows of 4 dc = 2.25 inches x 1.25 inches
22" Cloche
5 mm hook, aran weight yarn: 4 rows of 4 dc = 2.50 inches x 1.50 inches


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I moved recently to a 5 acre lot in a mountain subdivision. If I could find subsonic .22 rimfire, I'd put my CZ 455 to work on the squirrels, but no joy on that. Many of my neighbors use pellet guns, so I did a little reading and ended up ordering a RWS 34P with scope, along with 5 assorted tins of pellets. Should show up in a few days. I plan on swabbing it out, oiling with airgun oil, and running several hundred pellets through it.
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When she gripes her ass at the beginning... sliding her hands under her white shorts. ..so beautiful
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Aristoteles já disse que quando o velcro cola é porque tá falatndo a cola. Arsitoteles é um negão vizinho meu.
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Dr. Teresita Marrero-Velasco assumed post as the new Regional Director (RD) of the Department of Education Regional Office (RO) 1 effective April 1, 2012.
RD Velasco, Director III, OIC- Office of the Regional Director of RO1replaced Director Ligaya Soledad T. Miguel, Ed.D., CESO III who retired on March 31, 2012 after 46 years of serving the Department of Education.
In her response after retired RD Miguel turned over the key of responsibility during the Command and Responsibility Ceremony held at the Regional Educational Learning Center (RELC), San Fernando City, La Union last April 2, 2012, RD Velasco said, " Indeed, it is a pleasure to be assigned to a performing Region. With all the things handed to me, with the support of all the offices and personnel, not because of the leader but because of the people who believe that we can achieve everything, I humbly accept Region I."
Velasco underscored that even if an official is number 1 in terms of position, he cannot stand alone. "We in the department think of what's best for our department. I don't presume to know better than anyone but with a united working force, I believe we can all make a difference" she emphasized.
"In the course of working together for the incoming days, I can ask for information from you who knows better because you are from here. What you and I can do, I expect you to always support one another,' she stressed.
RD Velasco further said that she will stand tall because we are all with her knowing that we all have one vision. She continued by saying that it is an opportunity to work with friends but a challenge at the same time.
She ended her speech with this, " In the presence of everyone here today and in the next years to come, let us dream that if we all work together as one, we will work things out to make Region 1 still the no. 1." #


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Garrow: 'Your Days Are Numbered Bathhouse Barry' As Guerrilla War Against The Government Is About To Begin
For the last several weeks, Jim Garrow - a fringe right-wing activist claiming to be a former intelligence operative who personally warned the Iranian government that President Regan would nuke Mecca if they did not release the American hostages - has been telling anyone who will listen that President Obama recently attempted to detonate multiple nuclear bombs in America in order to kill hundreds of millions of people all for the benefit of George Soros, but was stopped by God and three members of the US military.
One person who has blindly accepted Garrow's outlandish claims and worked eagerly to promote them is Fox News contributor Erik Rush, who posted a message written by Garrow on his website over the weekend in which Garrow proclaimed that "your days are numbered Bathhouse Barry" because "the guerrilla war that Obama fears" is about to begin:
Patience my friends, patience. As with all the realizations that we have, the immediacy of our perceived need and our need for immediate gratification can blind us to the larger picture and that magic essence called "timing". We are seeing ever larger groups of people calling down the Marxist in the White House and his oligarchic machinations. We are reading more and more publications who are calling for Obama's impeachment and removal. We are sensing the almost panicked utterances of a bevy of hapless "spokesmen" for the ruling elite marched in front of the cameras and interpreting for us the "reality" that they want us to see. We call those lies and spin and obfuscation. What is wonderful is that the majority of the public have caught on and are ticked.
Soon the calls to action will start to be louder, more vocal, and as the elites make more and darker moves to ensure that they have guns and might and power that will put us in our place. Then the moment, the event, the trigger mechanism, the final straw, will shine the light of reality on the nations slide into despotism.
The revolution will start and if the people are prepared the guerrilla war that Obama fears will begin. It is a war that he knows he cannot win. His attempt to wipe out the population has already been thwarted, he now must go to Plan B. The new wrinkle is the missing nukes, the military that are running interference, and the obvious "litmus test" of loyalty that he is demanding that is producing a backlash of realization for the military and "We the People".
Your days are numbered Bathhouse Barry, "Mene Mene Tekel Upharsin", the writing on the wall has returned and you Sir "have been weighed in the balance and been found wanting". May God grant us His favor as we join forces to take down this tyrant and restore Liberty and Freedom to His people.
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Online gambling site Bodog is accepting bets on Monday's provincial election; they say it's 75% to 80% likely that Liberals will form a government after Monday's vote.
A gambler would have to bet roughly $400 on Liberals to win $100.
Premier Pauline Marois' PQ is a longshot; Adam Burns, Sports Book Manager at Bodog.ca, puts their odds of winning at three-to-one.
Gamblers can also bet on the number of seats Liberals and the PQ could win; the "over-under" for the PLQ is 64.5 and 53.5 for the PQ. For the percentage of the popular vote: 42.5% for Liberals and 31.5% for the PQ.
"As of today," Burns said, "based on the information and statistics we have analyzed, we feel that the Liberal party would win the election...however, polls and election data can change from moment to moment, and in turn, these odds can fluctuate quite a bit over the next few days."
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WASHINGTON - A decade after the attacks on the World Trade Center, there are still ways the United States can better protect Americans from terrorism, officials from the 9/11 commission said Wednesday.
The commission issued 41 recommendations in 2004, and while most have been adopted, nine others have gone unheeded and affect key areas that include airport security and communication among first responders.
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When you play paintball, you want to be sure that you mark the targets you aim at, and while there are a lot of factors that make for a successful straight shot, one of the easiest for you to improve is your barrel. A properly sized two-piece barrel can keep your paintballs rolling right down the barrel, port off excess gas to make your marker a little quieter, and keep your paintballs from wobbling around, ensuring they fly straight and true. Fortunately, the folks at Inception Designs have finally released a solid system that's both incredibly accurate and incredibly customizable, the Stella system. This system is designed to fit any size of paint and give you a marker that's customized to your shooting style, all for an affordable price. If you want the full review, you can check it out here.
Review: Valken MI-9 Paintball Mask
As we've said before, a paintball mask will keep you from being shot in the face; a good paintball mask will feel like it isn't even there. For intermediate level players, it's awfully difficult to find a "good" mask, simply because there aren't a lot of choices between your low end and high end masks, where the former get in the way and feel uncomfortable and the latter cost hundreds of dollars. Rather than buy a tournament-grade mask and be afraid of scratching it on every dive, what you really need is a solid mid-grade piece that can take abuse and work at a higher level than your standard rented fare while still staying in your budget. Fortunately for you, Valken Sports has come out with such a piece, the MI-9 Paintball Mask. If you want to hear AJ talk about it, we've got that video Here.
The Barrel Break: Check Your Batteries!
Not surprisingly, one of the major components of your electropnumatic markers is going to be… well, electricity. What is surprising, however, is the fact that checking your batteries, one of the easiest things you can possibly do on your markers, is one of the first things that just doesn't get done, as people move right past this and onto much more serious problems. It's actually pretty easy to tell when you're out of juice, especially when you're ramping or shooting full-automatic; you'll start getting drop-off, you'll get misfires, and your paint just won't go where you're aiming. While this could be a number of things, one of the most likely candidates, especially on your electro markers, is going to be the batteries. This edition of The Barrel Break sheds some light on the importance of checking your batteries.
Overview: Tank Covers
If you're going to have a good marker for paintball, it really helps to have the right gas tank. Whether your choice is an HPA compressed air tank or a CO2 model, a built in regulator, or even a remote line, having the right kind of tank can help your marker shoot at it's highest possible levels. With an aftermarket paintball tank cover, however, your tank can improve your paintball game even further, both by giving you a sticky grip surface to balance against your body, as well as added protection from all the natural bumps and scratches that come with a good game of paintball. If you want to see our full video buying guide, you can check it out Here.
The Hustle Reload #111
Is it that time of the week again? Why, yes, yes it is. It's time for yet another installment of our favorite paintball crew doing the things they do while the cameras document it all, the Hustle Reload. This week, we promise nothing but trivial hilarity designed to keep you from doing all the stuff you should probably be doing. Bright colors! Loud noises! Shiny stuff! And, for the ladies, we've got some sexy dancing that was deemed "too hot" for network TV (probably)! It's what the Internet was made for! If all these exclamation points have you ready for this, you can watch the Reload here! If you want to get some idea of what you're getting into, than read on…
Review: Exalt Paintball Pod Swab
Getting broken paintballs anywhere can really affect your paintball game. A broken ball in your marker's barrel can mess up your aim, a broken ball on your visor can mess up your vision, and a broken ball in your hopper can mess up feeding. However, the one part of your marker that nobody's come up with a viable solution for cleaning is your pods; a broken paintball in your pods can coat all of your remaining paintballs, your marker bolt, and your hopper with a layer of paint that messes up your accuracy and ROF, seizes up your marker when it dries, and is incredibly difficult to clean out in the middle of a firefight. While you can still wash your pods after your day of paintball is done, wouldn't it be better to have a solution that you can use on the paintball field? Enter the Exalt Paintball Pod Swab, a simple swab with the power to save you a lot of broken paintball headaches. If you'd like to see the video, it's right here.
Review: Kohn Sports Gear
Any good game of paintball is going to involve a lot of fast sprints, split-second draws, and a few incredibly tense moments as you round corners or check over obstacles. What do all these have in common? Sweat. If you're going to be sweating for long periods of time, it's going to fog up your mask, get in your eyes, and, honestly, make everything you own smell horrible. What you need is a headwrap that stops sweat right at the source, all while looking good for years (and hopefully washes) to come. Fortunately, Kohn Sports has a great line of headwraps, headbands, and even barrel covers to keep your head and your marker clean and stylish both on and off the field. If you want to see all the styles that Kohn has to offer, just check out our video here.
The Hustle Reload #110
You just can't get enough, can you? Even after one hundred and ten episodes, you folks are still curious about the Hustle Reload, our little behind-the-scenes project that shows you all the best bits from your favorite crew at the Hustle Paintball warehouse. For those of you tuning in for the first time, take note: it's hip, it's now, and it stays crunchy in milk. While it may not be a complete part of your daily balanced breakfast, it does keep you up to date on everything we're doing, shows you all our hilarious out-takes from our videos, and it would really make our day if you'd watch our video here and leave a comment. If you want to know what you're getting yourself into first, just keep on reading…
Review: AIM Sports 10-round Tube/12-gram Bandolier
With the ever-expanding popularity of mag-fed paintball, it's no surprise that even long-time woodsball players are trying to mix up their games with some limited ammo paintball games. One of the most common ways to bridge this gap is with modified stock-class paintball, using woodsball markers with limited paint in smaller ten round tubes and run through a stock class feed neck adapter to add a new element of challenge. Of course, new players to this style might find that their old harnesses, which were designed for 100 round pods, won't hold the ten round tubes at all. Fortunately, there's a simple, effective solution, and it's AIM Sports' 10 round tube/12 gram CO2 cartridge Bandolier. If you want to see the video, you can check it out here.
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The Musical Box – The Exclusive Authorized Re-creation Of Genesis' "The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway"
Wed December 12, 2012
Doors: 7:00pm / Show: 8:00 pm
Cost: $35 Adv/$40 Day Of Show
About the Event:
With so much going on visually and musically, there is something new to catch with every performance of this show! Please take advantage of this night as this is their last Atlanta performance of Lamb!
- "The Musical Box recreated, very accurately I must say, what Genesis was doing. I saw them in Bristol with my children so they could see what their father did back then."
(Peter Gabriel – voir Montreal – Nov 2002)
- "When it came to the gig (Geneva, Feb 24th 2005), I watched and listened. They played that stuff better than we ever did."
(Phil Collins' official website – March 2005)
- "I cannot imagine that you could have a better tribute for any act. They not only manage to sound, but look virtually identical. It seems as though nothing is too difficult for them."
(Steve Hackett – Story.New.Yahoo.com – Jul 2002)
- "It was bette than the real thing actually. It was great, that was fantastic."
(Mike Rutherford – BBC News – Feb 2002)
- "I have seen a video of them and the guy who does Peter Gabriel is
(Tony Banks – Nova TV – FEB 1998)
Artist Bios
The Musical Box
In May 1974, The Selling England by the Pound tour being over, Genesis take in hand their most ambitious project, a concept album.
Many ideas are proposed, including the story of "The Little Prince". But finally, Peter begins writing a story of a contemporary character which he entitles intitule "The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway".
The other musicians set up at Headley Grange to write the music. Sometimes, they improvise on certain themes; "Pharaons going down the Nile" will become "Fly on a windshield" and "The Evil Jam" will become "The Waiting Room".
The album is recorded in Wales in August 74 and The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway is finally released on November 18th, 1974. The tour scheduled to start in October in England, was postponed when Steve injures his hand. The first concert is performed at the Chicago Auditorium on November 20th. After only 5 concerts, Peter Gabriel decides to leave the band at the end of the tour.
Even though the tour is a success, mainly in Europe, Genesis finds that the production is not stable enough to be recorded, so the show is never filmed.
After more than 100 performances, the last concert of Genesis with Peter Gabriel is held in France, in May 1975.
From the beginning in 1993, it was obvious to The Musical Box that the biggest challenge would be the recreation of The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway.
In February 2000, nearly 2 years after the first request to Genesis and Peter Gabriel, THE MUSICAL BOX receives confirmation that a license for the provinces of Quebec and Ontario in Canada will be provided. Never before has any other band obtained these rights.
Most of the documentation is based on more than a 1000 photos and slides. A few Super-8mm private movies including a 13 minutes film take in Liverpool in April 1975, give a better understanding of the choreographies and the general atmosphere.
In June 2000, THE MUSICAL BOX receives a copy of the 1120 slides used in the original Genesis tour. More than a month is recessary to put them back in order and locate them in the songs.
Finaly, thanks to Genesis and to people who worked on the original tour, the remaining questions were answered.
For the music and the sound, the same instruments and equipement as the ones used for the album were found. The acquisition of a Micro-Fret 6 string bass and the access to Michael Rutherford double neck has allowed an exact reproduction. Masks, costumes, make-up, accessories, sets, lights, special effects, choreographies and staging of the show are all recreated with meticulous precision. The slipperman alone requires nearly 2 months of work. Each detail being scrupulously reproduced by hand. To re-create the Lamia, many models including one real size were necessary.
THE MUSICAL BOX's first presentation of The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway was performed at the Spectrum in Montreal on October 11th, 2000 more than 25 years after the last performance of Genesis with Peter Gabriel. The story of Rael is told again, for those who wish to hear IT and see IT.


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Release Title: Cheech.and.Chong's.Animated.Movie.[2013]480p.BRRip.H264(BINGOWINGZ-UKB-RG) Release Date: March 2013 Genre: Animation | Comedy RunTime: 83 Minutes You're not hallucinating (but they are)... It's the legendary toker jokers Cheech & Chong as you've never seen them before - in their very first Animated Movie. Catch the buzz as their most outrageous routines and laugh-out-loud lines from their Grammy Award-winning albums come to life, including "Dave's not here," "Let's make a dope deal" and more. With help from a bud-lovin' body crab named Buster, Cheech & Chong "the masters of smokin' word" deliver the ultimate comedy high and give you the munchies for more. Watch It With All Your Buds! Cheech Marin ... Himself (voice) Tommy Chong ... Himself (voice) Original SOURCE: BluRay.x264-ROVERS < Cheers Video: MP4/852*464/23fps Audio: AAC/6ch/320Kbps Sample Included: Yes File Size: 1GB Code: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1340803/
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If you're stoned it's OK, otherwise immature potty humor.
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If you're stoned it's OK, otherwise immature potty humor.
thnx reviewer..looks like a boring waste of 83 minutes.


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The evening off from 9 to 5 won't be a real night off for her, as the Great White Way fixture takes this week's 'Birdland on Broadway' slot. She was Liza Minnelli in The Boy From Oz, Elphaba in the Wicked national tour, and the title role in The Pirate Queen. She may sing ditties from any or all of them, although there will likely be no clamor for The Pirate Queen.
Mon., July 13, 7 p.m., 2009
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Mayor Mitch Landrieu's administration has suffered another setback in its fight over payments to the pension fund for New Orleans firefighters. An appellate court ruled Wednesday (Dec. 18) that the city is indeed on the hook for $17.5 million that the administration failed to pay into the system in 2012.
A three-judge panel with the 4th Circuit Court of Appeal upheld Civil District Judge Robin Giarusso's ruling in March that the city must immediately pay up. That decision could fall hard on the cash-strapped city's finances as it struggles under the costs of two federal consent decrees meant to overhaul the Police Department and the city jail.
Landrieu's next move could be to appeal the decision to the state Supreme Court. Check back with Nola.com for any response from the administration.
"Listen, we really need to work out our differences and the mayor needs to come to the table and not handle all our differences in court," Nick Felton, president of the New Orleans firefighters union, said Thursday.
The firefighters and several New Orleans mayors have tussled for years over the pension funds. This latest flare-up began in July 2012, when the fund's trustees sued the city for not budgeting enough to cover what it ostensibly had to pay that year. The Landrieu administration had begun reducing the city's monthly payments in August 2010, a move that the trustees argue has led to the accumulation of a $34 million debt through December 2012.
The administration fought back, accusing the trustees of several missteps, namely: using improper legal means to coerce the city into paying, improperly managing the fund's investments, using the wrong process to determine payment amounts and illegally upsetting the city's balanced budget. Both sides made their argument in a 4th Circuit courtroom in September.
The appellate judges, Terri Love, Daniel Dysart and Sandra Cabrina Jenkins, dissected each of the administration's tacks in their ruling. The trustees followed the correct path to force the city to cover its legal obligations to the fund, according to the decision. It also supported Giarusso's ruling that Landrieu's attorneys could not introduce the board of trustees' history of poor investment strategies as reason enough not to pay.
Landrieu's chief adminstrator, Andy Kopplin, has criticized management of the pension fund for a series of real estate investments that took hits in 2008 with the downturn of the economy and the disappearance of $15 million in a Caymen Islands hedge fund that went bankrupt last year.
The Fire Department's rank-and-file ousted the fund's board of trustees in September, electing new representatives.
The mayor had budgeted $9 million in 2013 and again for 2014 to cover the costs of the pension fund set up for those firefighters hired after Dec. 31, 1967.
The Landrieu administration's attorney, James Garner, argued in September that the city has met its obligations by paying 1 percent of what it makes from licensing fees, save those for chauffeurs and drivers, plus the equivalent of 5 percent of the Fire Department's $87.5 million annual budget, as state law dictates. But Wednesday's ruling countered that an actuary hired by the pension board not a fixed percentage that fluctuates with the department's budget - must determine the amount the city must pay each month.
The appellate judges also dismissed the administration's argument that making the $17.5 million payment will upend the city's 2012 budget, breaking the balanced budget law in the home rule charter. The panel said that that law only stops the city's chief executive from proposing to spend more than the city has each year, not to retroactively cover its debts from previous years.


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Suzie McConnell-Serio to be Inducted to the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame this Weekend
June 12, 2008
PITTSBURGH - Duquesne University head women's basketball coach Suzie McConnell-Serio will be honored by the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame as part of its tenth group of inductees on June 14 at the Bijou Theatre in Knoxville, Tenn.
The Pittsburgh native finished her first season at DU by taking a team that won only seven games the previous year and transformed them into most improved team in the Atlantic 10 Conference with an overall record of 15-15.
One of the most highly-decorated players in the history of women's basketball, she led Seton-LaSalle High School to a 35-1 record and a Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association state championship in 1984. Collegiately, she helped Penn State to a 95-33 record and four consecutive NCAA Tournament appearances. As a Nittany Lion, she was named the school's first First Team All-American while setting NCAA Division I records with 1,307 career assists.
After earning her degree from PSU, McConnell-Serio was a double medal-winner as part of both the 1988 and 1992 United States Olympic teams. She also won a gold medal as a member of the 1991 U.S. World University Games team.
McConnell-Serio was chosen 16th overall in the 1998 WNBA Draft by the Cleveland Rockers and went on to earn Newcomer of the Year and All-WNBA First Team honors in her first season in the league. She also won the Kim Perrot Sportsmanship Award twice (1998 & 2000) in her three seasons in the WNBA.
McConnell-Serio was hired as head coach at Oakland Catholic High School in 1990-91 and won her first of three Class AAAA State Championships in 1993. In 13 years, McConnell-Serio averaged over 24 wins per season. She added additional state titles in 2001 & 2003 and runner-up finishes in 2000 & 2002. Nearly a dozen of her former players went on to earn NCAA Division I scholarships.
In January of 2003, McConnell-Serio returned to the WNBA as head coach of the Minnesota Lynx and took a team that finished 10-22 in the previous season to an 18-16 record and first-ever playoff appearance. The next season, she was named WNBA Coach of the Year.
She was named to the USA Today All-Time Women's Basketball Team and was also named one of Sports Illustrated's Top 50 Pennsylvania Athletes of the Century as well as being named SI's best 5-4 basketball player, male of female, of all-time.
Informed of her induction by Hall of Fame and NCAA champion Tennessee coach Pat Summitt last July, McConnell-Serio joins award-winning official Patty Broderick, head coach of Central Arizona College Lin L. Laursen, head coach of the University of Virginia Debbie Ryan, former All-American at both the University of Tennessee and Wayland Baptist College Jill Rankin Schneider and three-time Olympian Michele Timms in the Class of 2008.


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I have encountered an error message which is " Drive letter F does not exist,
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I'm install the Veritas Backup EXEC 9.0 rev 4454 on 1 of the server which
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Unless their name is Ilya Kovalchuk.
Cmon, I don't care how bad you think Mule is playing but lets get one thing straight, THE MULE WILL NOT SIT IN THE PRESS BOX...EVER...30-40 goal scorers do not sit in a league where goal scoring is at a premium.
I know this post was a reply to someone else, but I couldn't resist.


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Tuesday, April 30, 2013
Watching the first and only debate between Mark Sanford and Elizabeth Colbert Busch, it hit me why Colbert Busch would only appear in one face-to-face event.
It's the dress.
Though she works for Clemson, surely she can't have enough symbolic purple dresses to wear throughout this campaign. And surely being clad in a dress that is a little red mixed with a lot of blue was no accident for this debate. Indeed, Colbert Busch's purple answers were as tailored for this debate as her purple dress was.
In Monday's debate, nobody scored a knockout blow, and nobody made a critical mistake. The crowd was allowed to get too rowdy, and it was obvious there was coordination among the Democrats about which touch points for which to show the most reaction. For instance, Sanford's repeated linking of Colbert Busch to Nancy Pelosi brought loud boos every time. As we say in the south, "A stuck pig always squeals."
Like many voters in this district, after watching the debate online, I mozied on over to the Twitterverse to see the raw, unfiltered reaction of Twitter users. In the old days, voters would have gathered at a local pub after such a spirited and polarizing debate and we would have traded barbs there. Now, we all just digitally connect as the wired world has made us oxymoronically "alone together." Following all the Twitter posts for the hashtag #SC1, two things stood out. First, it appears the debate didn't change anyone's mind about either candidate, but rather ignited the passions of those who have already made their choice. Second, as the campaign money trail shows, there is a lot of outside interest in this race, and that is a point Mark Sanford drove home repeatedly. Colbert Busch was obviously using the Fritz Hollings strategy – campaign in South Carolina like a conservative, then go to Washington and vote with the liberals. Her answers were straight liberal party line on the social issues of gay marriage and abortion, and also on the practical issues of school choice and private Social Security accounts. Sanford's response to the Bill Clinton comparison was quite effective. He missed at least one good opportunity for a comeback.
Colbert Busch said she was against school choice, then said a woman's choice to have an abortion is between the woman, her doctor and her god. A stinging comeback by Sanford would have been to ask why Colbert Busch trusts a woman to decide whether or not her child gets to be born, but doesn't trust her to decide which school is best for her own child.
This congressional district supported Romney by 18 points over Obama in 2012. That means a Democrat like Colbert Busch may run out of purple answers and purple dresses before next Tuesday's election. She has to rely on the personal issues to defeat Sanford, and she squeezed that into the debate.
The challenge for Sanford is voter turnout among conservative voters. He needed a raucous and polarizing debate to get voters energized for this unusual May election, and Monday's debate may have given him just that.
Will Haynie has published more than 400 oped columns as a feature columnist for the Asheville Citizen-Times and the Hendersonville (N.C.) Times-News when it was owned by the New York Times. His niche is as a humorous conservative. Find him on Twitter at @willhaynie or email him at email@example.com.
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Hi Everyone I'm not new when it comes to modded xbox's (I've had mine modded for over 7years). But it's been so long since I used my Xbox with my SmartXX that I forgot how to even use the menu of the SmartXX OS. Also I think I locked it so it auto boots and now I forgot how to unlock it. Please help me with both unlocking the auto boot and how to navigate in the OS. I'm thinking about finally upgrading my 80gb with something a lil more with the times; (ie put my massive collection of games on the HDD) And I cant with out cloning my first one.
Also I should note that I did look and saw post about pressing the power then eject when it flashes red and mine doesn't flash red anymore it just turns on counts down and boots. I used to do it all the time cause I lent it to a friend and I didn't want him messing it up and the restore it back to the usual way. But like I said it's been far to long since I used it and/or remember what or how I did it.
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The Higher Education Loan Board (HELB) of Kenya was established on July 21, 1995 through the Kenya Gazette Supplement to help undergraduate, graduate and post-graduate Kenyan students continue their educations. Loans are offered to students who are unable to finance their schooling. The HELB loan application form is required to apply for a student loan from the Higher Education Loan Board.http://www.helb.co.ke/index_main.jsp
HELB was originally founded in 1952 as the Higher Education Loan Fund (HELF), which helped finance the secondary educations of Kenyan students who were interested in studying outside East Africa. Students continued their educations in India, South Africa, Britain, the former USSR and the United States. http://www.helb.co.ke/helb_background.html Over time, financial demands grew too great to cover all students who applied. The Kenyan government changed their policy to cover only regional schools in locales like Makerere, Dar es Saaalm and Nairobi.
Loans were officially repayable after students completed their studies, but legal issues caused enforcing loan repayment difficult. By 1995, the Kenyan government established the Higher Education Loans Board to specifically oversee the management and collection of these loans.
How to Get HELB Application Forms
HELB application forms are available on the helb.co.ke website under the section labeled "HELB Downloads." The official application form is titled "Disbursement Downloads." Loan applications vary depending on what level of schooling the applicant is pursuing.http://www.helb.co.ke/helb_loans_downloads_disb.html


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Hardworking Featherstone rewarded
Featherstone Town CC from West Yorkshire are the latest cricket club to be awarded YCB Focus Club status.
The Yorkshire Cricket Board now have 91 Focus Clubs who are working hard in community clusters which includes schools and key partners, to increase participation and improve performance and are delighted to award Featherstone CC to this status.
John Newnham of Featherstone said:" Becoming a Focus Club will hopefully increase our membership, and improve our facilities (being in a much stronger position to apply for funding).
"Having working partnerships with local schools will give many youngsters the opportunity to join our already successful junior section. In general we want to so much improve our club, by promoting and making it available to everyone."
Andrew Watson from YCB said:"We are absolutely delighted to award YCB Focus Club status to Featherstone Town. They have worked so very hard over the last few years to help develop cricket in the Featherstone and surrounding areas and are continuingly improving. We wish to congratulate them on becoming the latest YCB Focus Club and wish them every success."


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First start off in a relaxing foot bath with aromatherapy added to water, Choice of relaxing or invigorating aromatherapy. Then we exfoliate the feet and legs. Then follow up with a foot to knee massage on both legs using our all natural cocoa butter lotion to soften legs and feet. Last we end our session with an invigorating lotion to put a pep in your step and lighten your mood!
First we start off with a relaxing hand massage for those tired overworked hands. Massage is then carried through the forearm to elbow. Choice of relaxing or invigorating oils can be added to our all natural cocoa butter lotion that is used for massage. Finishing off the treatment is a parrafin dip for the hands which will further soften and seal in moisture for a relaxed and hand softening treatment. Pamper yourself or someone today.
Lyposagge is a massage modality used for the treatment of cellulite and breaking down fat deposits while seperating the skin from the fat pockets(cellulite)This is done by specialized massage techniques and cupping massage. Special cellulite reducing cream is used in this treatment. The best results are acheived by a 10 week program.( Receiving treatment 1 time a week for 10 wks.) A ten week program has a discounted price of $25 per session, $500 if paid upfront. This Treatment is for those who really are concerned with cellulite and are willing to undergo treatment, which can be intense.( Bruising may occur in areas with dense cellulite and will fade, as the area becomes less congested with cellulite the easier treatement becomes for the client.) The appearance of the areas treated will become smoother and tighter will progressive results! Love your legs again!!
Massage Cupping is a modality that is used to lift the skin by use of suction, thus mobilizing blood flow to the tissues to promote healing and pain relief. Cupping pressure can be light or very deep dependant on client's needs and wanted results. Cupping Massage relaxes the muscles, draws out stagnation and provides the proper blood flow to the tissues. We do not use fire cupping in our practice but rather plastic and hand pumps.
Pregnancy Massage is a style of bodywork designed specifically for pregnant women. Pregnancy is a time when a woman's body endures tremendous stress due to dramatic physical and emotional changes. Using various techniques specially developed for the expecting mother, Pregnancy Massage helps release the pain and discomfort experienced throughout pregnancy. The benefits are profound, including emotional support, the relief of joint pain due to extra weight and postural imbalance, and improved breathing and relaxation.
Energy work is based on the belief that everyone has a "life force", and that the body needs to sustain its balance for optimum health. Anytime you experience emotional or physical illness, it indicates that your life force has simply become unbalanced. I work directly with your energy field to restore balance and flow to your entire system. And once your energy field has been restored to full health, your body will follow.
Lymphatic Drainage Therapy aims to gently and rhythmically move the lymph through the body, especially swollen areas of the body, relieving pressure and enhancing the functioning of the immune system. As both a preventative and remedial technique, LD can be used for a wide range of purposes including faster recovery from injury, reduction of swelling and discomfort from pregnancy, and strengthened resistance to illness.
Sports Massage is a type of massage designed for highly active people who engage in athletics. Engaging in sports is harsh on the body and can often lead to injuries in both the short and long term. Sports Massage enhances performance and prolongs a sports career by helping to prevent injury, reduce pains and swelling in the body, relax the mind, increase flexibility, and dramatically improve recovery rates. Sports Massage is also highly effective in aiding the rapid recovery of an athlete from an injury by encouraging greater kinesthetic awareness and in turn promoting the body's natural immune function.
Geriatric massage is a form of massage designed to meet the specific needs of the elderly. It helps to improve blood circulation, relieve pain, and also increase range of motion. If you are elderly, geriatric massage can help you maintain and improve your overall health, as well as regain certain physical functions that have been reduced due to aging. In addition, since the elderly don't typically receive enough physical touch, this massage can also help alleviate symptoms of loneliness or depression.
Chair massage is a popular way of relieving stress and releasing tension right in your home or workplace. You receive your massage in a specialized ergonomic chair which I bring to your location. In addition to the usual health benefits of massage, another benefit of chair massage is that it is done over the clothing. With seated massage, you can avoid the discomfort and awkwardness that you may feel in disrobing for a traditional massage. Also, chair massage sessions are usually shorter than traditional massage, making it convenient enough to fit into your busy schedule.
Myofascial release is a form of soft tissue therapy intended to eliminate pain, increase range of motion, and rebalance the entire body. It does this by using massage techniques to stretch the fascia and release the bonds that exist between the fascia, muscles and bones. Fascia is the connective tissue that connects and covers all muscles, organs, and skeletal structures of the body. Direct myofascial release is sometimes known as deep tissue work. Indirect release applies light pressure and gently stretches the fascia; this allows for increased blood circulation and relief from pain.
Swedish Massage is a very relaxing and therapeutic style of bodywork. It combines oils or lotion with an array of strokes such as rolling, kneading, and percussion to help the body improve its circulation. The benefits of this type of bodywork are wide-ranging and include relief from aches and pains, decreased stress levels in the body, enhanced mental clarity, improved appearance, and greater flexibility.
Deep Tissue Massage is a form of bodywork that aims to relieve tension in the deeper layers of tissue in the body. Deep Tissue Massage is a highly effective method for releasing chronic stress areas due to misalignment, repetitive motions, and past lingering injuries. Due to the nature of the deep tissue work, open communication during the session is crucial to make sure you don't get too uncomfortable. Keep in mind that soreness is pretty common after the treatment, and that plenty of water should be ingested to aid with the flushing and removal of toxins that will have been released from the deep tissue during the session.
Relax and enjoy the detoxifying foot bath. Ionic foot detox helps rid the body of toxins and renews the body. This is a 30 minute treatment. You can also purchase a 4 session package for $100. A 10 minute Foot massage can be added for $10 each session
Hot Stone Therapy is a style of massage where heated stones are placed at specific sites on your body to deepen relaxation and promote circulation in your muscles. Muscles that are heated with these stones release tension and stress much more deeply and quickly than with a traditional massage. The overall experience is very relaxing, nurturing, and rejuvenating. Hot stone massage is done seasonally during the cooler months.
The hand and foot massage is the perfect way to introduce massage to those who may be uncomfortable about massage. Tired sore feet will leave feeling refreshed. Hard working hands will appreciate the attention and pain relief. Reflexology points may be worked, as well as plantar fascitis therapy if is a problem.
Integrated massage techniques are used during these sessions. This may be a combination of deep tissue, swedish, myofacial, lymphatic drainage, reflexology, or other modailities, These sessions are very much personally based on the clients needs. I also offer 90 minute sessions for $90.


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Mod Podge Map Coasters
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Mod Podge craft ideas don't have to make your head spin. Dig into your old drawers and grab that graying, bent paper map for a little crafty inspiration. Mod Podge Map Coasters from Amanda Formaro make great gifts and look great in a kitchen or on a coffee table.
- Wood coasters and holder
- Sand paper
- Black acrylic paint
- Road atlas pages
- Antique Mod Podge - matte
- Craft knife
- Painter's tape
- Pen
- Scissors
Sand all surfaces of the wood coasters, enough to knock off any shiny finish they may have.
Use painter's tape to cover the cork circles.
You will need to create a circle template the same size as the cork on the coasters. If you have a compass you can make a circle on a piece of paper. To create mine I used a second set of painter's tape over the top of one of the already taped cork circles. Then I carefully peeled off the top tape circle and stuck it to a piece of paper. Then I cut the circle out and trimmed about 1/8-inch off all the way around. Set the circle aside for now.
Paint all wood surfaces with black paint and allow to dry.
Place a coaster onto your atlas page and trace around it with a pen, leaving some extra room around the edges. Remove the coaster.
Place the circle template that you created into the center of the square you just drew on your map. Use a pen to trace the circle. Cut out the center circles.
Apply Mod Podge onto the wood face of the coaster. Apply Mod Podge to the back of the map.
Carefully place the map onto the coasters, lining up the circle over the taped cork center. Press map down with your fingers and smooth out only across the top, don't press the paper to the edges, you will be removing that in a later step.
Use your fingernail to tuck in any excess map that is hanging over the circle's edge. Repeat decoupage steps for all the coasters.
Turn coaster face down and use a craft knife to trim off excess map edges. Do not be concerned if they are rough.
Gently run sandpaper along the edges of the coasters where the map edges are. This will remove the excess paper that is not attached to the coaster.
Sand all the way around the edges to smooth the paper edges and distress the painted wood by exposing some of the wood beneath.
Cut sections of map to fit on the sides of the coasters' holder. Apply Mod Podge and attach. Allow to dry then sand all the edges and the edges of the map as well. You will remove some of the print from the edges of the map which will give it an aged look.
Apply Mod Podge over the top of all the map and wood surfaces. Repeat for a second coat after the first has dried.
Use a craft knife to gently lift the edge of the painter's tape and remove.
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Only problem is the grammar. I like the construction and topic. Nice draft. Please, don't give any rep to people...you're asking for a spam thread with beggars.
eh, it's late, I can't see straight anymore. I've been staring at letters all day.
Help me with a fresh pair of eyes (although one would still be appreciated.)
Any meaningful help gets rep.
Spoiler Alert!Diversity
Share an experience through which you have gained respect for intellectual, social, or cultural differences. Comment on how your personal experiences and achievements would contribute to the diversity of the University of Michigan.
Different in quality or character. According to Mr. Webster, this is diversity. Throughout my life, this definition has described me in varying ways of well.
One particular instance of realizing my unique self was at a Calvinist Cadet Corps. Camporee. Thousands of churches from all across the world joined in the summer of 1999, my 6th grade year, in Alberta Canada. While overall, this was a time to unite with other Christians and see that there are believers from everywhere, we were also able to divide into small groups, and hold very deep debates. This is where I found my true thoughts. I was able to hone my faith. I found that I didn't always agree with everyone else, sometimes I was thought downright heretical in my interpretations of some things by my peers. After speaking with the Counselors at the camp, I found that being different is Tokay. I really learned a lot that week about myself, and how I live and think, and its relationship to others'.
Fast-forward to a few years later, I got caught the internet fever. I joined many forums, and found that I loved to debate. While being around other Christians and discussing our religion helped me to define my beliefs, being bombarded by non-christians online was refreshing. It caused me to take an even deeper look at myself, and be firmer in my faith.
I think that my academic history shows great equality among the different types of classes. I am just as strong in English and art as science and math. This, combined with my exposure to new and different ideas would make me a unique individual on the campus of the University of Michigan, where I hope to be able to set myself apart even more.
NOte, this is still a first draft, I'm writing all three, then revising them. I'll post them as I finish them though. Thanks in advance.
Only problem is the grammar. I like the construction and topic. Nice draft. Please, don't give any rep to people...you're asking for a spam thread with beggars.
See: meaningful help
I have to agree with Ty. Apart from the grammar, it looks like a well written piece. I hope to see further revisions. Good job.Originally Posted by ssbb_lover
The key to immortality is first living a life
worth remembering. - Bruce Lee
PSN ID: Byuakuya
essay numero dos. Btw guys, you're being outdone by WL.
Spoiler Alert!Originally Posted by my paper..
Note: the first paragraph is the question I have to answer.
That was very interesting to read. The structure of the essay is well placed and it was short, sweet and to the point. I really like the way that you have ended this section with "I hope to simply continue what I already love to do: design practical solutions that solve the problem in the most efficient way possible."
My only problem is the name of the building blocks: shouldn't they all begin with a capital? For example, "Erector" instead of "erector" (yes, I know that I am picky).
Overall, it was a great piece, so good job.
The key to immortality is first living a life
worth remembering. - Bruce Lee
PSN ID: Byuakuya
Ah, thank you pras, although you're holding back. This is my future at stake . Rip it to shreddsssss!
Since you are asking for it: it is the worst piece of crap that I have ever laid my eyes on.Originally Posted by Brawny
Seriously, I meant exactly what I said in my previous post.
The key to immortality is first living a life
worth remembering. - Bruce Lee
PSN ID: Byuakuya
Where are you applying to with these essays?
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Hardware: Nintendo Wii, 4 Wii Remotes, 2 Nunchucks
Games: Wii Sports, Wii Play, Super Paper Mario, Mario Party 8, Super Mario Galaxy, Guitar Hero 3
take the "t" out of "okay"
i deserve rep for that one
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Wii games: Super Mario Galaxy, Metroid Prime 3, Resident Evil 4, Zelda TP, SSX: Blur, Excite Truck, The Godfather, and Mario Kart Wii
PC games: Call of Duty 4, Halo 1, UT3, F.E.A.R., and The Orange Box.
PS3 games: Ratchet and Clank F.T.O.D., Resistance 2, Wipeout HD, and MGS4.