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Bailee Madison
Born Oct 27, 1999
Bailee Madison is an American child actress. She is most famous for her role in Bridge to Terabithia in which she plays May Belle Aarons, the younger sister of Jesse Aarons. She films a webshow with her babysitter and fellow actress, Samantha Droke. Madison… Read More
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1999 Birth Born on October 15, 1999.
2009 9 Years Old Madison is seen in a featured supporting role in the 2009 film, Brothers as Isabelle Cahill, the older daughter of Captain Sam Cahill (Tobey Maguire) and Grace Cahill (Natalie Portman). … Read More
2010 10 Years Old In 2010, Madison was in the movie Letters to God, where she portrays Samantha Perryfield, a girl whose best friend, played by lead Tanner Maguire, is fighting cancer. … Read More
2011 11 Years Old In 2011, Madison had a recurring role in the Disney Channel Original Series Wizards Of Waverly Place as Maxine, the girl form of Max Russo. … Read More
2012 12 Years Old In 2012, Madison appeared in the Hallmark film A Taste of Romance alongside Teri Polo and James Patrick Stuart. … Read More
2013 13 Years Old In 2013, Madison began playing Hillary on the TV sitcom Trophy Wife, replacing Gianna LePera who played the character in the pilot.
2014 14 Years Old And in 2014, she began playing Sophia Quinn in the TV drama The Fosters. … Read More
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Local Filipinos worry about their family members
The world has been watching the tragedy in the Philippines unfold on TV.
Filipino Americans in the Lehigh Valley are also watching and worrying about family and friends in their native country.
It's the worst natural disaster the Philippines has seen, and Filipinos stateside said they feel a little helpless.
The TV at the Pinoy Kitchen and Grill in Bethlehem has been on nonstop since the deadly typhoon devastated the Philippines.
"It breaks everyone's heart what happened, especially the children. They say 10,000 people already," said owner Amy Jordan.
Amy and her husband, Michael, have family in the devastated island nation. Amy Jordan's brother was evacuated along with thousands of of other people, but every day, she and her husband watch the international effort to help survivors, and they are not alone. Their Filipino customers are watching, too.
"It's devastating because we normally have those typhoons every year, but this one is really, we never had a strong typhoon like this one," said Oliver VillaVicencio.
Villavicencio has lived in the Lehigh Valley for 23 years, but she still has family in Manilla.
While his family is okay, he said he feels helpless watching the images of destruction.
"It's tough. We feel guilty somehow that we are not there to help them out, and we are kind of thinking ourselves as to what to do," said Villavicencio.
The Lehigh Valley Filipino community is focused on prayer and is assembling resources to help the typhoon victims and survivors now struggling in the Philippines.
A 24-hour prayer vigil will start at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the Barnabites Spiritual Center in Bethlehem Twp., Northampton Co. It will conclude with a mass on Wednesday.
The Red Cross is also asking for donations.
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The future of power management……….. is here!!!
The old methods of power distribution have gone the way of the manual typewriter; they're ancient technology. With the new PDM60, blown fuses, tangled wiring, overloaded circuits, and CanBus related power interruptions are a thing of the past.
The unit is simple. It's simple to install, simple to use, and simple to own. It's designed to connect directly to your vehicle's battery, with its activation trigger wire connected to any key switch activated power source (i.e. taillight circuit, headlight circuit, etc.) on your bike. When you turn your ignition key, the PDM60 comes to life. The PDM60 delivers and monitors power, and provides protection, to all of your aftermarket electrical and electronic devices.
Rocket Moto is excited to offer the USA designed and manufactured PDM60 electronic circuit breaker system. We think the PDM60 is light years ahead of conventional fuse panels. With enough oomph to handle a full 60 Amps of power-hungry electrical gadgets, the PDM60 does away with fuses entirely. Super bright LED indicators on the PDM60 keep you informed on the status of each circuit. The lights are green when a circuit is active and operating properly, yellow when a circuit is inactive or unused. If a circuit is shorted, or exceeds the rated power capacity, the PDM's digital microprocessor automatically disables that circuit, and illuminates a RED LED to indicate a fault. Once the fault is remedied, a quick power-off of the PDM60, and power-on, and the circuit is reset again for immediate use. Even the main power lead to the battery is digitally protected!
The PDM60 is *completely* sealed in epoxy and is resistant to weather and moisture, mud, snow and slop. The PDM60's have been submerged for hours without failure - it's all in a day's work for the PDM60!
From the factory, the PDM60 is programmed with two 10Amp circuits, two 15Amp circuits and two 5Amp circuits. End-user programming can also enable a ground activated trigger wire, that will send power to one or more designated circuits - like auxilliary lights, when the trigger wire is connected to ground. This can eliminate the need for a power switching relay, for high current draw accessories. Additionally, one circuit is programmable for a maximum of 20Amps, intermittent duty only, primarily intended to accommodate Stebel Nautilus Compact air horns, or similar.
This latest version PDM60 includes a special USB cable, that lets you easily program the options for each circuit with a Windows computer. The PDM60 dashboard software is downloadable. We also offer the programming cable as an accessory, if your PDM60 was purchased prior to May 2013. All PDM60 Version 2 units are programmable, but earlier units may require a firmware update to enable the USB cable option. Units purchased prior to February 2013, will definitely require the update, and we will perform the update at no cost other than postage, when you purchase a programming cable from us, regardless of where the PDM60 was purchased, originally.
The PDM's compact size enables easy, fast installation on bikes, ATV's, snowmobiles and custom cars that have very limited space. Under the seat, inside a fairing, behind a bumper, inside a fender - all are possible thanks to the PDM60's rugged, sealed construction. No screw terminals or lugs to mess with - each circuit has a color coded 16 Gauge lead for super easy connections.
We love the PDM60, and you will too! It's one of the best farkles that you can add to your bike. Do away with all of those individual fuses and zillions of connections on your bike's battery terminals. PDM60... Easy, Fast, Reliable and built to last. What's not to like?
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|4346 Gordon Dr.
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|1450 KLO Rd.
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|2180 Summit Dr
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|Mission Sports Fields
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The architecture creates its own aha moment: The unassuming, narrow stairway leads to an expansive room with terra cotta tile floors, equally rustic exposed brick walls, high ceilings and dark wood. Above one of the tables, on a small shelf, sits a collection of family photos, a warm yet subtle reminder that this is a family-owned business and has been for some decades now.
Settebello opened, back in the day, to quite a bit of fanfare, and now is one of those regarded stalwarts where you can expect old-fashioned, respectful service, white linens, real china dinner plates and those skinny, tall water glasses that somehow manage to make water taste more crisp.
Meatballs ($10), always symbolic of the philosophy of an Italian restaurant, are served in miniature and are more delicate than anticipated, offering a bit of nuance and complexity. These were not sturdy bullies, but offered loft and complexity, trailing with a peppery spark.
A celery and fennel salad ($8.50), intrinsically attractive in winter when you long for a crisp salad but are repelled by tasteless hothouse greens, fulfilled its mission. Yes, the dressing could have used a bit more oomph, but it nonetheless was a gentle salad, served appropriately at room temperature.
Pulled pork pasta ($19), a frequent dinner special, also offered surprising delicacy. Pork and pasta is a combination with muscle — the last dish on the menu you'd expect to be light and unassuming. Yet here, with tender pork, the dish was quite reserved and polite.
Salmon ($27) is old school, before the days of rare pink middles and crisp pan-seared edges. This is a long, generous strip of tender fish, trimmed with a wide ribbon of tomatoes and sauce — another mild, gentle dish.
Chicken cacciatore ($23), on the other hand, was quite robust, a generous serving of tender chicken, smothered in sauce.
Desserts are good. The creamy crème brulée ($7.50) was served warm, with a char of a topping instead of a crust, while the tiramisu ($7.50) managed a rich moistness without collapse. Both are made in house.
Settebello is the kind of restaurant that sparkled with fresh ingenuity in its day. It's also the kind of restaurant whose menu hasn't changed much since it opened. And, although the food world has evolved — in both positive and negative ways — sometimes it's nice to just return to a simpler time.
You won't be overwhelmed by a trending salumeria here, nor would you expect to see speck or squid ink ravioli on the menu.
In the end, though, you can expect a generally well-executed dinner from a menu of familiar favorites, with gracious and solicitous service. And, in warmer weather, an equally gracious opportunity to dine outside on the stone patio.
Settebello II Caffe
2 Cattano Ave., Morristown. (973) 267-3355
Hours: Dinner: 5 to 9:30 pm. Mondays through Thursdays; 5 to 10:30 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays. Lunch: 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Mondays through Fridays. Closed Sundays. BYO


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3-Day Forecast
CINCINNATI - A federal judge on Tuesday extended a temporary restraining order preventing state authorities from enforcing their ban on gay marriage against two men who got married in another state as one of them nears death.
Judge Timothy Black extended his previous order, set to expire in less than a week, until Dec. 31, which will protect John Arthur and James Obergefell's marriage as their lawsuit against state and local authorities proceeds.
The order prevents authorities from recording Arthur, who's dying of Lou Gehrig's disease, as "single" on his death certificate and not listing Obergefell as his spouse.
The couple, who married in Maryland last month, sued to have their marriage recognized in their home state before Arthur's death so they can be listed as spouses on his death certificate and be buried next to each other on a family plot, located at a cemetery that only allows descendants and spouses.
The judge scheduled oral arguments in the case for Dec. 18 and will decide after that whether to issue a permanent order against the state to recognize the couple's marriage.
In an order last month, the judge wrote that the couple deserve to be treated with dignity and that historically Ohio law has recognized out-of-state marriages as valid as long as they were legal where they took place, pointing to marriages between cousins and involving minors.
According to a lawsuit, Arthur and Obergefell, both 47, say they've been in love for more than 20 years and "very much want the world to officially remember and record their union as a married couple."
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Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy is asking skeptical questions as the court hears arguments over the right of gay and lesbian couples to marry.
The state of Ohio's ban on same sex marriages will be on review by the United States Supreme Court Tuesday morning.
The Supreme Court will consider two questions: First, does the Constitution require states to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples? Second, are states required to recognize same-sex marriages performed in other states where they are legal?
Do states have the right to define marriage? On April 28, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments in four historic cases that will determine the future of same-sex marriage across the country. Here's what you need to know.
During less provocative periods, the court gets little flak for its self-imposed bar on cameras.
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The Coalition for Western Women's History (CWWH) welcomes panel proposals for its designated session at the 2015 Western History Association Conference. The conference will be held in Portland, Oregon from October 21- 24, 2015.
Complete panel proposals on any topic related to the study of women and gender in the North American West will be considered. Please include a brief abstract (250 words) that outlines the purpose of the session. Additionally, each presenter should submit a one-paragraph abstract describing their presentation as well as a one-page c.v. with their address, phone, and e-mail. Any equipment needs should also be noted. It will be assumed that all listed individuals have agreed to participate.
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A lot of different cleanse diets offer to lose weight fast and rid bodies of toxins, but doctors caution there are a few things to consider before trying any of the programs.
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Students can come into my lab and say they are interested in behavior, physiology or molecular biology, and we've been able to craft projects for them, no matter what level of biology they are interested in.
A mother's experiences while she is pregnant - or in the case of birds, preparing to lay an egg - has a big effect on the children, or chicks. "Maternal effects" occur when changes in a mother's body get transmitted to developing offspring. For example, in some avian species, mothers that experience a shortage of food when they are preparing to lay eggs might, in turn, endow their eggs with lower levels of androgens, a group of steroid hormones that includes testosterone. If this is the case, and considering that androgens cause chicks to grow faster and stronger, it would seem that receiving less would be disadvantageous for the chick.
Assistant Professor of Biology Morgan Benowitz-Fredericks is questioning this hypothesis. Are such maternal effects merely a constraint of physiology, where stress changes the mother's own hormone levels and therefore what she passes on to her eggs? Or, is there actually an advantage to the chicks that receive yolk hormone levels that have been modified in response to the mother's environment? If the chick hatches into a world where food is still in short supply, it might actually fare better if its body isn't trying to grow too fast. "Maybe these maternal effects are a way to better match the offspring to their environment," Benowitz-Fredericks says.
Similar hypotheses have been raised for humans. Diabetes and heart disease could be the result of what was once an advantageous system for making the most of precious calories gone terribly awry in the modern, calorie-laden world.
Egg-laying makes birds an especially advantageous system for studying such questions. "Everything mom puts in there when she is making the egg - that's it," Benowitz-Fredericks says. "That's what is in that egg and that is what that embryo is forced to be bathed in, is forced to work with." That means that she can inject eggs with hormones and know that any changes in the developing chick were caused directly by those hormones, not by an indirect cascade of effects back and forth between mother and offspring, as happens in mammals.
With student research interests spanning the spectrum from molecular to ecological questions, Benowitz-Fredericks has enjoyed working with a variety of students in her lab during her three years as a visiting professor at Bucknell.
"Students can come into my lab and say they are interested in behavior, physiology or molecular biology, and we've been able to craft projects for them, no matter what level they are interested in," she says.
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Public Opinion Snapshot: Public Still Backs Government Role in Health Care
Conservatives have been arguing strenuously that public uncertainty about the Affordable Care Act is connected to a deep-seated reaction against government involvement in health care. According to them, voters are waking up to the depth of government involvement in the health care system and are rejecting it.
Findings from the recently released American Values Survey conducted by Penn Schoen Berland for The Atlantic Monthly and the Aspen Institute indicate, however, that the public continues to embrace strong government involvement in the health care system. Take the question of whether the government should guarantee health care coverage: With the Affordable Care Act firmly in place, 69 percent of the public still endorses government responsibility for health care coverage, while 31 percent are opposed.
Even more intriguingly, when the public was asked whether the government should exert more influence over America's health care system to bring down costs and provide health care coverage, 54 percent agreed, compared to 44 percent who endorsed the idea that government involvement should decrease and that the system should be more free-market oriented. So the public actually endorses more government involvement, even with the Affordable Care Act already in place.
Conservatives may think there's a revolt against government involvement in health care, but these data suggest that if there actually is a revolt, it's lacking one key ingredient: public support.
Ruy Teixeira is a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress. To learn more about his public opinion analysis, go to the Media and Progressive Values page and the Progressive Studies program page of our website.
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Hawaii quarterback Bryant Moniz took control of the game by making plays on the run in the first half and ultimately leading the Warriors to a 34-17 victory.
Moniz completed 20 of 33 passes for 178 yards and a touchdown, but he did most of his damage on the ground running 14 times for 121 yards and three scores.
Moniz broke loose in the second quarter on scoring runs of 56 and 14 yards to give his team a 17-0 halftime lead.
After being held scoreless in the first half, the CU offense found some life in the second half and quarterback Tyler Hansen connected on two touchdown passes with wide receiver Paul Richardson.
Hansen finished the game with 16 completions in 30 attempts but he often seemed to be under pressure and throwing off balance under a fierce pass rush that was aided by the loss of sophomore left tackle David Bakhtiari to an injury early in the game.
Freshman place-kicker Will Oliver added the first field goal of his career, but the Buffs too often put themselves in bad spots with penalties and an offensive line that allowed Hansen to be sacked seven times.
The Buffs racked up more than 250 yards rushing against Hawaii in a victory in Boulder in 2010, but the running game was not effective in the first outing of 2011.
Senior running back Rodney Stewart's quest to become the program's all-time leading rusher began with just 52 yards on 18 carries. Stewart did have four receptions for 98 yards, mostly on screen passes.
Colorado cut the lead to 24-17 early in the fourth quarter but didn't manage to score again. Hawaii added 10 more points on Moniz's only touchdown pass to Joey Iosefa and a 22-yard field goal from Tyler Hadden.


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right aim
during his enlightenment, it is said that the Buddha stayed under the pipal tree for how many weeks?
according to Buddhists beliefs, the problem for humans is ___ and the solution is ___
suffering, knowledge
a person who teaches their insights and reasoning and is seen as having a divine light is known as a
in class, we stated that the ages between 8-20 is reserved for learning. a person in the stage is known as
which of these would be considered a part of the shradda rites
keeping the rites of the funeral pyre
how did Mohandas K Ghandi respond to western culture as it applied to India
hue used its resources to help India
with the European invasion of the new world, tribal ingenious beliefs and practices were
compromised and adapted
in religious belief and practice, the Powhatan's paid most attention to
Okeus-the malevolent or "evil" god
the concept of complementary dualism is that
good and bad are commingled, serving a particular purpose
the Aztecs firmly believed that all of human life depended on the conquest and sacrifices of enemies
Of the 5 stages in a Sikh's progress toward union with God, which of these does not belong?
according to Jain teachings, the best way to avoid bad karma and increase good karma is
to revere all souls; human or not
the Jian Acaranga teaches that one who does not teach others to avoid harming animals continues to sin


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Name of website or photo Little Girls Puffy Sleeve Sweater
What are you most proud of? I usually make things like afghans so getting the sems correct is something that I am proud of
What advice would you give someone starting this project? Make sure to count properly as you go. I write down the row numbers and then cross off as I complete them. Also make sure to put the marker on the left shoulder so you have a reference as to where to begin the front panel. All in all this is a fairly easy pattern and written well. Its a pattern by the Double Stitch Twins!


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Show of leadership impresses
Erie County Executive Kathy Dahlkemper certainly passed her first leadership challenge when she brought competing bayfront factions to the table on Friday and again this week.
The immediate issue is in the hands of County Council. Will a majority of members vote tonight for a public guarantee for a second hotel attached to the Bayfront Convention Center? But the bigger picture is the bayfront's future development, short-term and long-term, and that's why Dahlkemper's leadership efforts were so important.
It's also important that Erie leaders, public and private, chose to come to the table. It's not as if Dahlkemper snapped her fingers and everybody jumped. It took effort to set egos aside, and the community is better for it.
Many, many bayfront issues lie ahead, and many involve the same people, like Mayor Joe Sinnott, Roger Richards, Nick Scott Sr., Chris Scott, Nick Scott Jr., Marlene Mosco, County Council and City Council members. Many will also involve leaders of other authorities, such as the Erie-Western Pennsylvania Port Authority, water, parking, sewer, the state Department of Transportation, Presque Isle State Park, etc.
Dahlkemper wasn't the only leader to step up in this issue. I heard several reports about how Sinnott made insightful remarks; how the Scotts sought some common ground, including urging the Erie County Convention Center Authority to consider lowering the number of rooms in their proposed hotel; how the Scotts' petition effort against the public guarantee had a chilling effect on some decision-makers; how a Payment In Lieu of Taxes Agreement was broached.
That kind of give and take is important.
My only concern was the orchestrated effort to keep a lid on what was said in the meeting. What does that say exactly? That those in the meeting aren't professional enough to be able to discuss and not spin what happened?
I find it unsettling, if not insulting, to the public when gag orders are placed on things like this meeting. The public needs to be included.
- Word that Craig Latimer is retiring from the Quad Games -- the citizen games he created more than 30 years ago -- is not only surprising, it also marks the end of an era. Latimer, himself a terrific athlete, has done a masterful job over the years.
Latimer not only carried the games for years with his engaging personality, he was a true innovator. Nobody in this part of the country had ever accomplished combining true athletic competition with events to encourage participation and fitness on a big scale. He's always been ahead of his time.
- Let's hope a bill by Rep. Todd Stephens, of Montgomery County, goes nowhere. Local horse racing expert Dave DiLoretto sent us a copy of Stephens' proposal to cut horse racing's share of casino revenue by $250 million, which would kill the sport in Pennsylvania. What a bad idea.
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Eye Tracking using CAMShift
I am currently doing a project on Eye tracking via internet camera, however, I am almost a newbie to C++. (The last time I touched it was abt 7-8 yrs ago)
I am able to track the eyeball using the CAMShift program, but I will need to determine the direction and distance the eyeball moved from its last location. Appreciate if the experts here can help.
Re: Eye Tracking using CAMShift
If you know the previous position then you can calculate both, e.g. if old position was 10,10 and new position is 20,20, then it's moved 10*sqrt(2) units north-east. The distance is calculated with Pythagoras: sqrt( (newx-oldx)^2 + (newy-oldy)^2 ) and the direction can be worked out either with triangle geometry (watch out for dividing by zero!) or subtracting new from old and checking if the result is negative, zero or positive.
Essentially this is nothing more than a rectangular to polar conversion: x,y -> r,theta.
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It is a classic example of seeing the trees instead of the forest. Your goal as a retirement investor is to accumulate enough money to pay for a comfortable retirement. However, if you focus on short-term investment performance, you may lose track of the big picture. And that can work against you.
Are You a Micromanager?
Your retirement plan gives you the freedom to make your own investment decisions. In addition, because you can easily change plan investments, you may find yourself becoming a micromanager. That is an investor who changes investments frequently because of daily market movements instead of focusing on the big picture — a long-term investment strategy. But "chasing returns" by moving your money into whatever investment type or stock market sector happens to be doing well at the time rarely pays off in the long run.
The Unknowable Future
The problem with chasing returns is that it is virtually impossible to predict how long a particular investment or market sector will continue to be a top performer. Eventually, another investment or sector will probably take over the lead, and there will be little or no advance warning. That can leave you in the lurch if you changed the investment mix of your retirement plan account based strictly on recent performance.
The Solution: Keep a Long-term Perspective
You may be much better off by the time you retire if you use a big picture perspective when you invest. Concentrate on your goal, and choose an investment mix with the potential to help you reach that goal over time. Your retirement plan offers several investment options, allowing you to choose a well-diversified investment mix for your account. The idea behind big-picture investing is to choose a mix that offers you a realistic opportunity to achieve long-term gains while reducing the overall risk to a level you are comfortable with. After you have chosen your investments, you should not ignore market and economic developments. But you will generally want to stay with your plan unless you decide that changes in your personal situation or risk tolerance make an adjustment necessary. If you are a big-picture investor, you can be much less concerned with what the markets do on a day-to-day basis. You'll be free to switch your investments, but you won't feel compelled to make a move every time the markets zig or zag.
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Ten years have passed since a factory worker who had spent the day drinking drove his pickup head-on into a school bus near Carrollton, Ky., killing 3 adults and 24 children; one of the youngest was 10-year-old Patty Nunnallee. The worst drunk-driving crash in U.S. history, it left Karolyn Nunnallee, now 47, devastated—but also determined. "I didn't want Patty to have died for nothing," she says. "You don't want anyone else to go through that."
Nunnallee's dedication took her to the presidency of the 3-million-mem-ber Mothers Against Drunk Driving. Since assuming the $60,000-a-year job in January, she has led a drive to get Congress to set a national standard for legal intoxication at .08 blood alcohol concentration—now the law in 16 states (32 fix the line at .10). "She's very effective," says Rep. Charles Canady (R-Fla.), a cosponsor of the measure. "It's difficult to ignore the powerful personal experience she speaks from."
It was May 14,1988, when Patty traveled with a church youth group from Radcliff, Ky., to the Kings Island amusement park near Cincinnati. (A lover of books—she had taught her 6-year-old sister to read—Patty took some Nancy Drew mysteries along for the 170-mile ride.) Karolyn says she and her husband, Jim, 46, then an Air Force major, weren't worried. "I thought, 'What could be safer than a big yellow bus?' " But at 10:55 p.m., 80 miles from home, the bus encountered Larry Ma-honey, 36, driving north in the southbound lanes of 1-71. His pickup struck the bus, right headlight to right headlight, puncturing the bus's gas tank and setting it afire. Mahoney's .21 blood alcohol was more than twice the legal limit.
Mahoney, who had been assessed only a small fine for a prior DUI conviction, wasn't seriously hurt and was eventually sentenced to 16 years in prison. The Nunnallees and the parents of another victim, Shannon Fair, 14, sued the Ford Motor Co., claiming it had knowingly put an unsafe fuel tank on the bus. (Shannon's mother, Janey, is now MADD's vice president for victim issues.) In 1992, Ford, while denying wrongdoing, paid the Fair and Nunnallee families $5 million each. "They did not admit guilt," says Nunnallee, "but they know what they did."
Meanwhile, Karolyn Nunnallee devoted herself to MADD, volunteering in Kentucky and later starting chapters in New Mexico, when Jim was posted there, and in Fort Meade, Fla., when Jim retired from the Air Force in 1992 to run a citrus and cattle business. She often counsels the loved ones of drunk-driving victims. "I'm able to tell someone who calls me two weeks after the death of their child or spouse what it's going to feel like 2 years or 10 years down the road," she says. And she had taken an active role in MADD's lobbying, including its successful push for the 1995 federal Zero Tolerance law, which requires states to prohibit youths under 21 from driving with any alcohol at all in their blood.
Ten years ago, Nunnallee was minding Patty and her sister Jeanne, now 16, and moonlighting as a beauty consultant and Weight Watchers lecturer in Radcliff, where Jim was assigned as a liaison officer at Fort Knox. Now Nunnallee, the youngest of three daughters of a physician and a homemaker in Fort Meade, is a fixture at state houses and in Washington, battling for the .08 limit. The amendment to the $217 billion highway bill easily passed the Senate in March but faces tough going in the House, mostly due to lobbying by the alcoholic beverage industry. "They are targeting social drinkers instead of true alcohol abusers," says industry lobbyist Richard Berman.
Experts estimate a .08 standard would save at least 500 lives a year. "One of those could be my daughter's," Nunnallee says of Jeanne. "I've been through it once. I don't want it to happen again."
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HARRISBURG - Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett has been laying out his argument in recent days about why he deserves for a second term, taking a road trip to jump start what will be a year's worth of re-election campaigning.
The Republican governor's case includes cutting taxes and government spending, handling three state budgets amid an economic downturn, nurturing the Marcellus shale natural gas rush and devoting "historic amounts" to basic education.
Corbett's poll numbers have slid from bad to worse, and his campaign kickoff follows a tough summer in which he was unable to push through any element of his three-part legislative agenda on public pensions, transportation spending and liquor privatization.
But he has won three statewide elections in the past decade, it appears he will not face a primary challenge, and he'll have 12 months - and millions of dollars - to sell himself.
Watching from the wings this week were the five men and three women who have announced they want the Democratic nomination. Generally speaking, they think education represents Corbett's greatest vulnerability.
"The core failing is education, education, education," said state Treasurer Rob McCord. "It resonates with working families across the commonwealth."
Max Myers, a small business owner and minister, argues Corbett has not shown appropriate concern for public education.
"It's not just how he's funding schools, it's his attitude toward public schools," Myers said.
Voters should expect to hear much more about education policy next year, including the governor's claims of having opposed tax increases.
"Everybody I've talked to, and my own experience is, local property taxes have shot up," said Tom Wolf, a businessman and former state revenue secretary. "So I'm not sure where he's getting his perspective on that."
The governor's job record will also be in the crosshairs. He says private sector job growth is a signature achievement, but his prospective opponents say the numbers are low compared to other states, and he conveniently does not subtract out the loss of teaching and other government positions.
"The longer the governor serves, the worse job creation gets in Pennsylvania," said John Hanger, a former state environmental protection secretary. "That's the facts. And he, of course, tries to muck it up by talking about total private-sector jobs."
Katie McGinty, who like Hanger served as DEP secretary under former Democratic Gov. Ed Rendell, said employment is not an area that Corbett should be emphasizing.
"The governor's leading with his chin in this campaign," McGinty said. "To highlight jobs and education ... seems to me to be an unusual strategy."
Corbett's support for the Marcellus shale natural gas drilling industry is another target for his critics.
"I don't see any plan or any strategy to bring jobs except Marcellus shale, and that ain't working," said Allentown Mayor Ed Pawlowski. "Those jobs are not coming into the state."
Unlike Rendell, Corbett has made it a priority to pass budgets on time. It's debatable as to whether the full budgets were all in place by midnight on July 1, but he has at least come close.
Balancing the budget, said U.S. Rep. Allyson Schwartz, is not much of an accomplishment.
"That's a state requirement," she said. "I will balance a budget - every governor has to balance a budget. The fact that he has is not remarkable."
The people who want his job also have much to say about the chief executive's leadership style.
"He hasn't been able to make a case, to be able to articulate why the Legislature, or just anybody in general, should buy into the proposals he's putting out there," Pawlowski said.
McCord turned Corbett's "promises kept" re-election mantra around, saying the governor "never promised to become a provider of painfully awkward and offensive comments."
It's not surprising the Democrats think the governor has soft spots. But if they hope to exploit them, they're going to have to endure the next seven months of crossfire before their primary. Corbett's political team will be taking notes, looking for the Democrats' own vulnerabilities.
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something you say when something incredibly bad is about to happen. best used if you have enough time to say "oh.............balls."
a perfect example is in the the movie Posiedon when the giant wave is about to go into the ship. It is perfect because it takes a while to crash but a person watching knows that it will hit hard. "oh... balls." (spoken very slowly)
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What someone says ehen they were expecting something good but get something bad.
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Doctor: But you do have AIDS
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An expression of dissapointment and or frustration.
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THE BANK WHEN KOLBUSH GOT IN. A BIG WEEKEND PARTY AT A NEW APARTMENT COMPLEX NEAR THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO ENDS IN GUN FIRE. THIS MORNING ONE OF THE SUSPECTS, 28 YEAR OLD TYVON GREEN FACED A JUDGE. ALBUQUERQUE POLICE SAY GREEN AND 22 YEAR OLD SHANOAH CAULEY GOT INTO A FIGHT WITH SEVERAL PEOPLE DURING THE PARTY EARLY SUNDAY MORNING. OFFICERS SAY CAULEY AND GREEN FIRED OFF SEVERAL SHOTS BEFORE DRIVING AWAY IN A BLACK JAGUAR. MOMENTS LATER, A DRIVER SPOTTED THE CAR AND SAYS THE MEN POINTED A GUN AT HIM BEFORE DRIVING OFF. it's hard to sleep at night hearing people and not knowing what's going on POLICE CAUGHT UP WITH GREEN AND CAULEY IN THE FOOTHILLS A SHORT TIME LATER AND ARRESTED THEM. THEY'RE FACING SEVERAL CHARGES INCLUDING AGGRAVATED ASSAULT WITH A DEADLY WEAPON. IN COURT TODAY, WE LEARNED GREEN HAS SOME PRIOR CRIMINAL HISTORY IN CALIFORNIA ... BUT IT'S UNCLEAR WHAT THOSE ARRESTS WERE FOR. THIS WASN'T THE FIRST DISTURBANCE AT THE APARTMENT COMPLEX. THE COTTAGES HAD ONE EARLIER THIS MONTH. KOAT ACTION 7 NEWS REPORTER MIKE SPRINGER JOINS US LIVE WITH WHAT'S BEING DONE, TO TRY AN PREVENT THIS FROM HAPPENING AGAIN. THE COTTAGES DOES HAVE ITS OWN SECURITY. ALBUQUERQUE POLICE TELL US THEY TOO WILL ALSO BE HELPING OUT WITH THAT TO KEEP THINGS FROM GETTING OUT OF HAND. THE COTTAGES OF NEW MEXICO SITS JUST A SHORT DISTANCE FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO'S CAMPUS. ITS WEBSITE DESCRIBES IT AS UPSCALE STUDENT LIVING AND IT OPENED JUST THIS MONTH. WHILE IT'S NOT ASSOCIATED WITH U-N-M, MANY STUDENTS DO LIVE THERE. It's pretty relaxed for the most part. Weekends can get a little out of hand. ALBUQUERQUE POLICE SAY THINGS GOT OUT OF HAND THERE ON SUNDAY. THAT'S WHEN OFFICERS SAY A FIGHT BROKE OUT DURING A PARTY AND TWO MEN WERE ARRESTED FOR FIRING OFF A GUN. NO ONE WAS HURT AND NEITHER MAN LIVES AT THE COMPLEX. BUT THIS IS THE SECOND WEEKEND IN THE ROW POLICE SAY THEY'VE GOTTEN CALLS ABOUT A BIG PARTY THERE. It's uncomfortable especially when you are here to go to college and make a life for yourself. RESIDENTS TELL US THE COMPLEX SENT OUT AN EMAIL AFTER THE FIRST BIG PARTY. AND THERE IS SECURITY WHO PATROLS THE GROUNDS. BUT SOME RESIDENTS ARE STILL WORRIED ABOUT HOW EASY IT IS FOR PEOPLE TO GET IN. This is the main entrance to the cottages. Residents tell us the gate here is suppose to be closed 24/7 but as you can see it's wide open ALBUQUERQUE POLICE SAY THE COTTAGES IS HIRING A COUPLE OF ITS OFFICERS TO KEEP AN EYE ON THINGS ON THE WEEKEND TO MAKE SURE IT DOES NOT GET OUT OF HAND WE HAVE LEFT MESSAGES WITH THE MANAGERS OF THE COTTAGES BUT SO FAR HAVE NOT HEARD BACK. REPORTING IN SOUTHEAST ALBUQUERQUE MIKE SPRINGER KOAT ACTION 7 NEWS. THE COTTAGES ARE NOT ASSOCIATED WITH THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO. THEY ARE PRIVATELY OWNED. THE U.N.M.'S
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Kevin Shiflett, Tyler Foster and Justin Thorne were sworn in as newly recruited police officers by Elkins Mayor Van Broughton Monday.
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Elkins Mayor Van Broughton, left, welcomes new Elkins Police Department recruits Kevin Shiflett, Tyler Foster and Justin Thorne, along with Lt. S.D. Richards in City Hall. The recruits have to be sworn in two weeks before they go to the Charleston Police Academy on Jan 6.
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a rich upper class suburb on the east side of cleveland. is known for the somewhat decent schools and crappy mall.
"Oh, you are from Beachwood? They have a mall there"
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A small town outside of Toms River NJ, known for nothing big...Some ugly girls, a few good parties...and you cant find it on a map.
Yo lets go to Beachwood
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To have a boner at the beach
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Last year Laini Taylor's The Daughter of Smoke and Bone was our #1 pick of the Best Teen Books of 2011 and we all waited (and waited..) for a chance to read the follow-up. It's always a bit of a dice roll, reading a second book when you really love the first, but Days of Blood and Starlight delivered everything I'd hoped for, and more. Days is on our 2012 list of Best Teen Books, and right from the beginning it engulfs you in a story rich with emotion, brutality, and breath-taking twists. Like the first book, Days also takes you to exotic, faraway lands--lands Taylor visited and photographed. In an Amazon exclusive, Taylor shared some photographs from her trip to Morocco after she finished The Daughter of Smoke and Bone--she's an amazing photographer and the places that inspired Days are even more beautiful than I imagined. Note to self: go to Morocco and pack Daughter of Smoke and Bone and Days of Blood and Starlight for re-reading.
When I wrote DAUGHTER, I had been to Prague but not Morocco, but it was the source of my travel lust at the time, so I did the best research I could, including watching videos, and created a sense of place that way. Then, going to Morocco was my reward for finishing the book. I did not know at that time that the trip would inspire book 2 in such a major way, but it did. Whereas Marrakesh features in DAUGHTER, the action of DAYS (well, some of it) has moved on to the land of kasbahs and palm oases in southern Morocco. My husband Jim and I came *this close* to abandoning this portion of our trip as a result of the driving time. Clementine was 16 months old and hated her car seat with a burning passion, so that drive over the Atlas Mountains was ... blood-pressure raising. We actually stopped at one point and seriously considered turning back to Marrakesh. But I'm so glad we didn't.
Here is a glimpse of the world that inspired my
"land of dust and starlight"--Laini Taylor
kasbah of Telouet, which was the real inspiration for the primary setting of DAYS:
Ait Benhaddou, the most famous kasbah in Morocco; it is where Zuzana and Mik are when "it" begins: "It. The thing that would never be eclipsed, that would own the third-person neuter pronoun "it" forever. Where were you the day it began?"
Agdz, where Karou goes to buy supplies:
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Bár volna előnyös, ha bement egy kicsit részletesebben, még mindig megvan a lényeg, hogy mit akarsz mondani. Egyetértek vele. Lehet, hogy nem lesz népszerű ötlet, de van értelme. Biztosan jön vissza többé e. Great work.Good munka, csodálatos blog ... igazán élvezni, és hozzáadta az én szociális könyvjelzőket. Csak így tovább a jó munkát
Posted by: echarpe burberry | Thursday January 3, 2013 at 12:07 AM
Absolutely amazing. I am getting ready to start Days of Blood and Starlight. As a matter of fact, it is laying beside me as I type. I will have to keep this page handy and use it as a resource. These are beautiful pics. I especially like the last one, imagining the robe as Karou's amazing hair! I would love to see some Prague pictures, from scenes in Daughter of Smoke and Bone, some day too!
Posted by: Jaime Lester | Monday November 26, 2012 at 1:07 AM
We all saw your photos from the trip to Morocco. And that featured into the book. So, to get clues for the third book we should keep a tab on your travels in the year preceding the release of the third book? So can we bet on France and Amsterdam?
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Everyone's favorite rumor-monger Bruce Garrioch at the Ottawa Sun is back in full force as he reports that in response to the Rangers rough start to the season, Glen Sather has been calling around for help on defense.
Garrioch floats Dan Boyle as a possible target.
While it's not out of the question that Sather might be inquiring about available blueliners, assuming Boyle isn't on that list anymore after he was taken off the ice on a stretcher last night…
…wow, players standing up for a teammate? Forgot what that looked like. Hope the Rangers were watching.
But I digress…
…listen, I get Garrioch is more miss than hit when it comes to rumors, but there's no doubt he has connections in the league and if you remember he was the first one on the Gaborik trade last season, so I have to respect what he's reporting.
…to the actual rumor, with the Rangers defensemen a combined -31 on the season, I'd be pissed if Sather wasn't calling around. Now do I think he's ready to strike a deal today? Absolutely not, but if the Rangers don't win at least two out of their next three very winnable games, I think all bets are off.
…from what I've read, AV still has a number of fans on the Canucks roster, so you wonder if Sather would look to trade for a Canucks defenseman (Hamhuis?) who could bring a working knowledge of AV's system to a defensive unit struggling to implement it properly. I know a certain Rangers defenseman whose name rhymes with Birardi that Torts would love to have back blocking shots on his blueline.
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New Jersey Youth Symphony (NJYS) and New Jersey Youth Chorus (NJYC) perform sounds of the season at their joint concert Holiday Tapestry on Sunday, Dec. 16, at 3 p.m. in the Performing Arts Auditorium at Watchung Hills High School located at 108 Stirling Road in Warren. Tickets to the concert are $10 and can be purchased in advance from NJYS (908 771-5544) and NJYC (973 998-5670) or at the door. The concert is open to the public and especially suited for families.
Concert selections include "Carol of the Bells," "Torah Orah," a Hanukkah song, a jazzy "Go Tell it on the Mountain," and the popular "It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year" sung by New Jersey Youth Chorus (NJYC) Advanced Chorus. New Jersey Youth Symphony (NJYS) solo instrumentalists will accompany the Chorus.
Youth Symphony, NJYS's premiere orchestra, will perform selections including Leroy Anderson's "Sleigh Ride." Together NJYC and NJYS will perform "Ding Dong Merrily on High," the 16th century English tune "What Child is This?" John Rutter's "Star Carol," and other seasonal music.
As part of NJYC's "Kids for Kids" mission, parents and students will be selling baked goods before and after the concert to benefit "Cookies for Kids Cancer."
New Jersey Youth Chorus is an auditioned choral program for children in grades 2 through 12. Consisting of five ensembles and over 180 choristers, NJYC includes Advanced Chorus, Young Men's Ensemble, Intermediate, Apprentice Chorus, and First Steps to Singing Class. Advanced Chorus performs frequently with many professional ensembles including the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra and Canadian Brass at NJPAC in Newark and the State Theater's Gala under composers Marvin Hamlisch and Bill Conti.
The Advanced Chorus has participated in numerous festivals in New Orleans, Hawaii, Canada, and England, and has toured Italy, Poland, the Czech Republic, and Germany.
Highlights of NJYC's 20th Anniversary Season in 2012 included: performances with the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra and Brian Stokes Mitchell, a performance at the American Choral Director's Eastern Division Convention, a joint concert with the West Point Cadets, a performance at Westminster Choir College, and a tour to Ireland.
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AUGUSTA, GA. - The Masters Tournament is going through a transitional period, and it has nothing to do with the latest alterations to Augusta National Golf Club.
It has everything to do with the makeup of the field.
Former stars are gone, and a new wave of potential stars are lining up to take their place.
For the first time since 1954, the tournament will start Thursday without Arnold Palmer or Jack Nicklaus in the field. Palmer played his final Masters in 2004, and Nicklaus followed suit last year.
"It will be different," Davis Love III said of the absence of Nicklaus and Palmer, who combined for 10 Masters titles.
As former Masters champions, Nicklaus and Palmer could still play here if they wished. Palmer was 74 when his Masters career ended; Nicklaus was 65.
"A few of the old boys are thinning out," said three-time champion Nick Faldo. "It's a shame, but I guess it's going to happen. At least they're still alive, but not playing. It will change the atmosphere."
The 460 yards added to Augusta National since the 2001 tournament might have hastened the legends' exits.
70th Masters
When, Where: Thursday through Sunday, Augusta National Golf Club, Augusta, Ga.
Tuning In: Thursday and Friday - noon (GOLF), 3 p.m. (USA), 6 p.m. (GOLF). Saturday - 11:30 a.m. (GOLF), 2:30 p.m. (KFDA), 6 p.m. (GOLF). Sunday to be announced.
"The changes are unfortunate in a way," said 2003 PGA Championship winner Shaun Micheel. "Arnold didn't want to come back after 2004, but Jack not wanting to come back ... that's golf, right? We think about Jack and the Masters. I'm kind of surprised Jack's not playing. Some of the older guys are still here, and it's good to see. But it's a very difficult golf course for all of us now."
Said Love: "When I get a little older, I'm not going to want to play that golf course, either, so I don't blame them. We're all going to have our time when we move on."
Palmer and Nicklaus were at Augusta National on Tuesday. They attended the Champions Dinner later that night in the clubhouse.
Other stars who never won a green jacket aren't here this year because they didn't meet the strict qualifications.
That includes 49-year-old Nick Price, who played in 20 Masters from 1984-2005 and is still is the co-holder of the course record.
Another mainstay who didn't qualify is 52-year-old Jay Haas. The Greenville, S.C., resident played in 22 Masters, from 1976-2005, and had five top-10 finishes.
The rising young stars are headed by 28-year-old Englishman Luke Donald, who tied for third in his Masters debut last year. He has already won on the PGA Tour this year, at the Honda Classic.
Other young stars in the Masters this year are Sergio Garcia, Adam Scott, Geoff Ogilvy, Chad Campbell, Lucas Glover, Henrik Swenson and David Howell.
"They are the future of golf," Micheel said. "Some of the younger guys are great players."
This is the fifth Masters for 25-year-old Scott, who is 11th in the World Golf Ranking.
"The young guys have been playing well," Scott said. "A little experience here can go a long way, but if it's your week, it's your week, it doesn't matter if you've never been here before. If you can make putts at the right time, there's no reason one of us can't contend for the tournament."
Experience might not play as big a role in the tournament as it once did because of the changing nature of the course. Rough was added to Augusta National in 1999, 285 yards in 2002, 20 in 2003, and another 155 this year.
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Tuba Group authorities on Sunday disbursed workers' salaries for the month of July and overtime bills from the BGMEA Bhaban in presence of BGMEA leaders.
Some 682 workers received salaries and overtime bills till 4:30pm today while the rest are still in the queue for receiving the same, an official at the BGMEA told.
The official hoped that the disbursement process would complete within a couple of hours.
The salary disbursement started at 2pm in presence of BGMEA President M Atiqul Islam, second vice president SM Mannan (Kochi) and vice president M Shahidullah Azim.
Vice President of Bangladesh of Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporter Association (BGMEA) M Shahidullah Aziam told that the workers started collected their salaries and duties at 2pm.
The Tuba garment management provides the salaries and duties all the workers. "If any worker remains unpaid today, they'll be able to collect it tomorrow," the BGMEA vice president said.
On Thursday, Shipping Minister M Shajahan Khan and State Minister for Labour and Employment Mujibul Haque Chunnu conveyed a strong message to Tuba Group owner Delwar Hossain to pay the salaries of the workers of Tuba Group factories for July by Sunday.
Tuba Group, which owned the Tazreen Fashions Ltd, have five other factories -- Tuba Textile Mills Limited, Tuba Fashion Limited, Taif Designs Limited, Mita Designs Limited, Bughshan Garments (pvt) Limited where over 1458 workers are employed.
They went on hunger strike on July 28 demanding three months' wages and Eid bonus. Earlier, the BGMEA authorities paid the salaries for the months of May and June.
Tuba Group's owner, Delwar Hossain was released from jail after securing bail in a case filed in connection with the deadly fire incident at Tazreen Fashions factory in Ashulia in November 2012, which killed 112 workers.


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Peter LaBarbera of Americans For Truth About Homosexuality on Friday spoke to Religious Right talk show host Janet Mefferd, who insisted that the Obama administration wants to "give preference to somebody who is a homosexual to be a security guard" to guard embassies in countries like Libya. However, the job posting in question "does not list same-sex domestic partners of government employees as a prerequisite," as Media Matters had already noted, but lists same-sex partners under their "Eligible Family Member" guidelines, which includes spouses, children and siblings. "It's beyond dumb, I didn't know that when Barack Obama was campaigning in 2008 that he was going to give us gay affirmative action," LaBarbera said, "hey who is in favor of affirmative action based on aberrant, deviant sexual conduct."
"We've seen this all over the world, the Obama administration is now promoting homosexuality as a 'human right' and they are in your face, going in Muslim countries and heavily Christian countries promoting homosexuality in their embassies, this is an incredible, revolutionary development," he said.
"I don't know those gay security guards, that's who I want to defend me," LaBarbera said. He went on to refer to the President as "Dictator Obama," asserting that the job posting violates DOMA.
Mefferd: One of the things we've learned now is in the months leading up to the 9/11 attack on the consulate in Benghazi, the US embassy in Libya was seeking to hire two body guards with limited English language skills, we know this for about $13,000 a year, and in these job descriptions that the US embassy in Libya posted online they explicitly stated that they would give preference to filling these positions with qualified US citizens who were family members of US government employees and this included those with same-sex domestic partners. Now I'm thinking to myself, how does this jive with Libya? Don't you think that's a dumb idea, am I missing something here?
LaBarbera: It's beyond dumb. I didn't know that when Barack Obama was campaigning in 2008 that he was going to give us gay affirmative action, don't you think that would have been an interesting point? Hey, who is in favor of affirmative action based on aberrant, deviant sexual conduct? See that's an interesting concept but if you're going to do it let's do it in a Muslim country where homosexuals can actually be killed for practicing homosexuality and we've seen this all over the world. The Obama administration is now promoting homosexuality as a 'human right' and they are in your face, going in Muslim countries and heavily Christian countries promoting homosexuality in their embassies, this is an incredible, revolutionary development and it's hardly even been a campaign issue.
Mefferd: And the silly part about it is why would you give preference to somebody who is a homosexual to be a security guard, what is the connection there?
LaBarbera: I don't know. Those gay security guards, that's who I want to defend me. But also what about DOMA? This is a violation of course of the spirit if not the law of the Defense of Marriage Act which is supposed to give preference to normal, male-female married spouses in our US government and Obama just said, 'hey, we're not going to follow that anymore,' and just decided to make a new law.
Mefferd: Right, because he has been denigrating DOMA for a long, long time and has not defended it in court even though he is required to as the President of the United States to uphold federal law, he's just not doing it and nobody is holding his feet to a fire on that. Does that drive you as crazy as it drives me that he just gets away with it?
LaBarbera: Yeah, you know Dictator Obama, hey, write a new law, we're not going to enforce that law.
LaBarbera also lauded the American Family Association's campaign to pull students from schools that participate in the Southern Poverty Law Center's "Mix It Up at Lunch Day," where students are encouraged to sit with their peers whom they don't normally talk to or associate with. While he couldn't find an example of how "Mix It Up at Lunch Day" promotes the "gay agenda," he said the event should be opposed simply because it connects schools to the "anti-Christian" and "evil" SPLC.
What this event is, this seemingly innocuous event, of getting kids to sit next to somebody else during the lunch hour, but what this really is is luring the schools in, getting them hooked on the SPLC and later on they find out that the SPLC promotes homosexuality in the name of tolerance. This is one of their more innocuous activities but if you are allowing the SPLC in as an institution then you are saying essentially you agree with the SPLC's concept of tolerance, which these days is a radically pro-homosexual agenda.
Their purpose is to get us out of media, to delegitimize us, to make it 'oh why did you call that hate group, hey you don't call the KKK every time you do a story on black people,' which is the way they think. It's evil, it's really insulting to Christians, especially to African American Christians the idea that the opposition to homosexuality is analogous to being like a racist, that is an anti-Christian thought process that the SPLC is going through.
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UN Names Next UNEP Deputy Executive Director
2 August 2013: UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has appointed Ibrahim Thiaw (Mauritania) as Deputy Executive Director of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP). Thiaw succeeds Amina Mohamed (Kenya) in the post.
According to the UN, Thiaw has over 30 years of experience working in the fields of environment and sustainable development. He joins UNEP amid the "1,000 days of action" to reach the targets set out in the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by the 2015 deadline. [UN Press Release][UNEP Press Release]


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The college recently announced that four members of the faculty have been awarded tenure by the Board of Trustees and will be promoted to the rank of associate professor. This is the third in a four-part series highlighting the faculty earning tenure this year: Brenda Boyle, English; HyeKyung Lee, music; Jonathan Walley, cinema; and Lina Yoo, biology.
HyeKyung Lee is fascinated by new things, whether she discovers them or creates them herself. The assistant professor of music is a prolific composer and pianist, and delights in writing music for choirs, pianos, wind instruments, symphonic bands, string quartets, orchestras, brass quintets, fixed media, toy pianos and a litany of other instruments.
Her Romanza piece, written for piano and violin, was debuted recently by fellow faculty member Damien Mahiet and guest artist Angela Early at Burke Recital Hall. Now Lee is completing a new piece, A-ri-A-rang, commissioned by the Avion Saxophone Quartet. It will premier at The World Saxophone Congress XVI, in St. Andrews, Scotland in July. She also is composing the film music for the movie "We Could Be Your Parents" by Charlie Anderson, to be released in 2013.
Growing up in Incheon, South Korea, Lee began piano lessons in elementary school and continued her musical interest at Yae Won Middle School and Seoul High School of Arts and Music, a three-hour commute each way for her every day. She earned a Bachelor of Music in Composition at Yon Sei University in 1983.
She came to the United States in 1986, where she earned a Master of Music in Composition in 1988 and a Certificate in Piano Performance at the University of Austin in 1992. Lee says her study there taught her to discover each note, make it different from the others, and give it the depth needed for her to become a successful composer. In 1998, she was awarded a Doctor of Musical Arts in Composition at the University of Texas.
Before joining Denison's faculty in 2006, Lee was a visiting assistant professor at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Bowling Green State University and Ohio Wesleyan University. She also was composer-in-residence at Interlochen Arts Academy, University of Florida, Murray State University and University of Houston. She says she has found the perfect place at Denison with students who are creative, enthusiastic and interested in electronic as well as acoustic music.
Lee teaches courses in music theory, composition, conducting and orchestration and gives private lessons. Among her recent awards are the Renee B. Fisher Composers Award, the Uncaged Toy Piano Competition, the Athena Chamber Music Composers Competition and the Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra Composition Prize. Her compositions have been recorded by MSR Classics, Innova Recordings, Vienna Modern Masters, VoxNovus, Equilibrium and Capstone Records.
She also has contributed to Denison's musical history, writing Fanfares for Brass Quintet for the Classes of 2011, 2012 and 2014; Awakening for the Denison University Orchestra; and Gust of Embers for violin, clarinet and piano for Associate Professor of Music Andy Carlson and former assistant professor Nicolas del Grazia.


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BALTIMORE — He had just won the Kentucky Derby with a horse he had quietly nurtured, almost in secrecy. A horse that had never run on dirt before. A horse that had only run four times in his career. A horse so lightly regarded, he got away at odds of 21-1.
Now he stood on the racetrack with arms stretched toward the sky, all but silently chanting, "Thank you, Pegasus." And then Dale Romans, the trainer whose colt, Shackleford, had made a tremendous attempt at stealing America's race of races until his gas tank came up empty, watched him wipe tears from his eyes and said, while pointing:
"There's the quickest way to the winner's circle. Now go get your horse."
It was a private moment that held a partial answer to a question that half of America has been asking since Animal Kingdom roared across the Churchill Downs finish line:
Who exactly is Graham Motion?
How many times is it necessary to read that Graham Motion was born and raised in England, and shaped by the fact that his dad was a bloodstock agent there and his mom a female jockey?
That's romantic, but it ain't even close to the answer. The truth is that because he came here at age 16, and except for a slight accent, he is as much a product of England as Maryland crab cakes and Chesapeake Bay oysters.
He's not Bob Baffert, the king of California horse racing glitz. He's not Todd Pletcher, who can send enough horses to the post in any given month to create the world's largest cavalry charge. He's not Nick Zito or D. Wayne Lukas or any of those other names that generally get to write American thoroughbred history.
He will tell you that for him to win the Kentucky Derby was exactly like living a fairy tale. That for him to return to Maryland with the only horse alive in the chase to become just the 12th horse to win the Triple Crown is incredible.
And then to reduce his own amazement to the level all of us can understand, he said, "If I was clever, I probably would've had a bet (on Animal Kingdom). But I'm not a particularly shrewd gambler."
This is a man who crusades, in his own way, to reduce the amount of drugs that are legal to use on thoroughbreds. In the nearly 8,000 starts that comprise his career, Motion has never been cited for a medication infraction. You could say that this makes him an army of about one whole entire soldier.
He is all of the above and more.
And now, win one lousy Kentucky Derby, and the world awakens and demands to know who you are. This week, in the teeth of the steady rain that has followed this Triple Crown series, a brigade of television crews, writers and photographers trekked out to his command post at Fair Hill Training Center, a little more than 60 miles northeast of Pimlico.
He has not changed a bit. But everybody in this state expected he wouldn't. In this state, whether it's the trainers, the grooms or the hot walkers at Laurel, Pimlico or even little Timonium, they have known for more than a decade or two who he is. And so do the bettors — the man finished in the top 10 of Maryland trainers nine times — who make it their business to know.
Motion is a spectacularly successful Maryland trainer with about 70 horses in his public stable at Fair Hill. He differs from a lot of his colleagues by trying to keep routines consistently normal for his horses. Consequently, unlike the preponderance of horses in this race, his will not be on the Pimlico grounds until Saturday morning.
Meanwhile, Wednesday's post position draw produced a dramatic oddity. Animal Kingdom, at odds of 2-1, drew post No. 11. Next to him in No. 10 is Dialed In, and next to Dialed In, at No. 9, is Mucho Macho Man. That puts the three, generally conceded to be the class of the field, next to each other.
You can bet that all three jocks will be keenly aware of how the other two break.
Such information is critical and as the Hall of Famer Lukas once famously quipped, "People have opinions — horses have the facts."
But as usual, they ain't talking.
As the Wit and Wisdom of the ancient prophets said:
"If a horse had anything to say, he'd say it."
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Clint Eastwood's "J. Edgar" may leave viewers wondering if the "B" in FBI stands for "Brokeback."
While the film doesn't exactly frontline J. Edgar Hoover's relationship with his deputy, Clyde Tolson, their alleged love affair figures crucially in its narrative and thematic conclusions; older Eastwood fans who liked the conservative "Dirty Harry" and "Gran Torino" are in for a surprise this time around.
The movie's treatment of this hot-button issue is discreet and intelligent; unfortunately, discretion and intelligence don't always make great cinema.
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"J. Edgar" desperately wants to elevate its subject to the epic status of Ghandi or T. E. Lawrence; instead, it succeeds only in being a fairly decent movie that's too long and slow.
Leonardo DiCaprio turns in yet another flawless performance as the man who served as an FBI director for nearly five decades, pioneering such forensic standards as fingerprinting and crime-scene analysis.
The film's triumph is its measured stance toward this controversial figure, who - along with his still-unproven homosexuality - is reputed to have kept secret files on hundreds of citizens, including Eleanor Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King.
I'm not qualified to judge the film's historical accuracy; but I can say that "J. Edgar" lays out the allegations about Hoover without feeling cheap or preachy; remarkably, it also refuses to vilify the man himself.
In other words, the film resolutely avoids doing to Hoover what Hoover supposedly did to others for years.
Instead, the crime-stopper comes across as committed and sometimes heroic - especially in the Lindbergh kidnapping; the rounded richness of the character is due largely to DiCaprio's focused intensity, and to the magnetism and humanity that have served him well even in playing men who've gone over the edge.
Many have ridiculed the make-up job that ages DiCaprio's Hoover from 24 to 77, but I found it convincing and impressive.
The work done on Naomi Watts (as Hoover's lifelong secretary) is less successful; and as for Armie Hammer, who plays Tolson, I have to agree with the Internet writer who opined that his older version looks like a burn victim about to continue melting right before our eyes.
In addition to fine work by these three leads, the film also features terrific support from Josh Lucas, Judi Dench, Zach Grenier and Jeffrey Donovan (spot-on as Robert Kennedy); yet it somehow never generates excitement.
The crime scenes are few and brief, and tension in the Hoover-Tolson relationship - as well as tension between what Hoover says and how he acts - develops far too late to give the narrative any backbone; its 137 minutes feel more like three hours.
On a side note, I could see no reason for the film's R rating; the language, violence and sexuality are far milder than many a PG-13 movie.
Saddest of all, I don't think "J. Edgar" is even good enough to net DiCaprio his long-deserved Oscar.
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Lisa Loeb
If she had never made another record, Lisa Loeb would still go down in the books as the first unsigned artist to top the American charts; her single "Stay" -- from the soundtrack to 1994's Reality Bites -- spent three weeks at number one soon after the film's release. Born in Dallas, Loeb studied piano as a child but later switched to guitar. At Brown University, she studied music theory and played as a duo with her roommate. After college, she attended Boston's Berklee School of Music for one semester, but then formed a full band in 1990, christened (in tribute to J.D. Salinger) Nine Stories: Tim Bright on guitar, Jonathan Feinberg on drums, and Joe Quigley on bass. Lisa Loeb & Nine Stories began to gig around the Midwest, playing at Austin's South by Southwest seminar. Loeb then hooked up with producer Juan Pati¤o, and in early 1992 released the cassette-only Purple Acoustic Tape, which she sold at live shows. Several major labels showed interest in her, but Loeb remained unsigned by late 1993, when her friend Ethan Hawke asked her to contribute a song for his next picture. Director Ben Stiller decided that he liked one of Loeb's other songs even better, so "Stay" was inserted on the soundtrack. Released as a single in May 1994, it reached number one two months later and eventually sold over 750,000 copies worldwide. Loeb & Nine Stories received a Grammy nomination for Best Pop Performance by a Group, and won a Brit Award for Best International Newcomer. Geffen Records, which had shown interest in Loeb before "Stay," signed her later in 1994 and re-teamed her with Juan Pati¤o. Her debut album Tails was released just over a year after her signing, and proved successful with commercial radio as well. Firecracker appeared in 1997, scoring a hit with "I Do." Tours with the Wallflowers and Chris Isaak followed later that summer as well as a stint with the Lilith Fair. Five years later, Loeb returned with a third effort and her debut for A&M, Cake and Pie. She co-produced the album and collaborated with an impressive cast, which included Glen Ballard, boyfriend Dweezil Zappa, Randy Scruggs (Vince Gill, Sawyer Brown, Waylon Jennings), and Peter Collins {($Bon Jovi, the Indigo Girls). First single "The Way It Really Is" was a moderate hit among college radio; "We Could Still Belong Together" was also included on the soundtrack to Legally Blonde. In mid-2002, Loeb inked a deal with Artemis. She relaunced Cake and Pie under the title Hello Lisa, which featured Sanrio's signature Hello Kitty artwork on the cover, that November. John Bush
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UTPA Foundation Board meets in Dallas to recognize Board chairman and UTPA president
Members of The University of Texas-Pan American Foundation Board and key representatives from the University traveled from across the country to meet in Dallas, Texas May 29-30 for the Board of Trustees meeting. Composed of 25 members spread across the nation, the UTPA Foundation Board meets three times per year to discuss its philanthropic services to support the University's greatest needs. Veronica Gonzales, vice president for University Advancement, used this particular meeting as an opportunity to honor and recognize two phenomenal University leaders, UT Pan American President Robert S. Nelsen and Board Chairman Jaime Ramon. The two day event began with a self-guided tour through the George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum located near Southern Methodist University, followed by a well-attended reception that hosted more than 50 invitees. The reception gathered members of UT Pan American's administration and staff, friends and donors, prominent corporate donors, UTPA alumni, a former UTPA Pillar of Success, a former Pan American University regent, and the UTPA Foundation Board Trustees. Those who attended the Thursday evening reception at Café 43 mingled and enjoyed hors d'oeuvres while celebrating UTPA's greatest successes and its many partners in education. This special event recognized the longest-serving chairman, Jaime Ramon, who joined the Board in 1988 and took his role as chairman in 2008. Veronica Gonzales and Nelsen presented a video tribute and resolution on behalf of the University to honor Ramon's committed service. Through a video tribute, Nelsen also received recognition for his loyalty and dedication to the advancement of UT Pan American and higher education in the Rio Grande Valley. Ramon presented Nelsen with a resolution in his honor at the Foundation Board Meeting the following morning. The Dallas location served as a central meeting site for the Board of Trustees and granted major opportunities to expand UT Pan American's alumni networks and corporate partnerships.
Pictured from left to right: (Front Row) Gilbert Perez, Jr., senior administrative associate; Jeffrey Graham, vice president for Information Technology; Board members Victor Gonzalez, Ed Munoz, Arcilia Acosta, Theresa Barrera-Shaw, , and Armando Arismendi; Jaime Ramon, Board chairman; Dr. Robert S. Nelsen, UTPA president; Board members Richard Lawson, Jim Aller, and Joe Ramirez; Dr. Havidán Rodriguez, provost and vice president for Academic Affairs; Terry Thompson, chief legal officer; Marty Baylor, vice president for Business Affairs; (Second Row): Alicia King, major gifts officer; Blanca Coronado, administrative associate; Lisa Cardoza, chief of staff and governmental relations officer; Veronica Gonzales, vice president for University Advancement; and Lydia Aleman, associate vice president, University Advancement.


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USANA Expands to Belgium and France
Exciting news for USANA Health Sciences based in Utah.
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USANA Health Sciences, Inc. (NYSE: USNA)
Salt Lake City, Utah
Worldwide economic recession hasn't stopped USANA Health Sciences from expanding. Currently USANA is operating in 16 markets and this addition will bring them to 18. This new expansion into France and Belgium is planned for the first quarter of 2012. Why expansion into France? France has the 10th largest direct selling market in the world and total sales estimated at $2.4 billion.
Currently USANA manufactures extremely high quality personal care and nutritional products. Among the USANA Health Sciences offerings are three product lines including meal replacements and energy drinks, skin and hair and body care, and general nutritional supplementation for optimal health and wellness, along with detoxification.
Many Olympians and professional athletes use and attest to the benefits of USANA Health Sciences nutritional supplements. Covering the full gamut of sports, there are professional swimmers, skiers, football players, speed skaters, boxers, track and field stars, hockey players, baseball players and more who consistently use USANA supplementation for optimum performance in their chosen professions. A plethora of professional athletes endorse the USANA brand.
Besides the professionals with great notoriety harnessing the full power and benefit of USANA Health Sciences dietary supplementation, there are millions more common folk who have their own daily regimen of nutritionals, assisting them in weight loss, helping them to gain a healthier overall appearance with the personal care and skin products, and boosting their energy levels and helping with their overall fitness and physique. To add to the mix are also the detoxification products that the many fans of USANA products use to cleanse their bodies of impurities and to help them renew their body systems.
USANA distributorship offers the several unique benefits that typical corporate world jobs are lacking in. USANA Health Sciences distributor home-based businesses are typified by the opportunity to choose one's own working hours with the ability to go full- or part-time, and a flexibility that bucks the rigidity of mainstream America traditional work schedules. The USANA compensation plan is the highest of profitable reporting companies in the entire networking marketing industry. The USANA opportunity has also been consistently rated (10 years running) as a Distributor Choice Best Company in Network Marketing Today & The MLM Insider Magazine.
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