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MEADVILLE -- Shane Rigby had 15 kills to lead the Saegertown boys volleyball team to a 3-0 victory over Our Lady of the Sacred Heart Wednesday in the first round of the PIAA Class AA playoffs at Meadville High School.
Saegertown won by game scores of 25-14, 26-24 and 26-24. With the win, the Panthers (12-5) will play Ambridge Saturday in the quarterfinals at a site and time to be determined.
"We came out strong in the first game and we served well," Saegertown coach Justin Johnson said. "We played good defense (and) we had a good attack going. That set the tempo for the match right there."
Johnson also said that containing OLSH hitter Shaugn McDonald early in the match was key to the win.
Dustin Pavlik recorded 13 kills, while Ross Ferguson had 34 assists and Alex Barclay had six digs.
- Ambridge 3, Meadville 0: At Pittsburgh, Tom Leech had seven kills, 13 assists and five digs but Meadville's season ended with a loss to Ambridge in the first round of the PIAA Class AA playoffs at North Hills High School.
The game scores were 25-17, 25-19 and 25-21.
Matt Izbinski had 11 assists and seven digs for the Bulldogs (14-2), while Tom Leech and Kyle Rose had seven kills each.
Lee Smith recorded 15 kills for Ambridge (16-3-1), while Aaron Mueller registered 30 assists.


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GOLF: J.J. Miller and Aaron Gooding lead the first third of the Men's Catholic League at Seneca Hills with 122 points. Denny Krupp shot a 38 for the low gross, and Gooding and Jim Banks tied for low net with a 30.
BASEBALL: The Tiffin Babe Ruth League seeks players between the ages of 16-18 for its Senior Division. Players must not turn 19 before May 1. Online registration is available at tabrl.baberuthonline.com or call David Jones at (419) 310-3156 for more information.
n Hopewell-Loudon's alumni baseball game is at 9 a.m. June 7.
5K MUD RUN: The Gillmor Community Park in Fort Seneca will host a 5k Mud Run on June 7. There will be an adult race at 10:30 a.m. and a kid's race at noon. There will be 20 obstacles including mud pits, ice baths, climbing walls, slip n' slide and more. Registration forms can be downloaded from the P.M. Gillmor Community Park Facebook page. For more information, call Ann Miller at (419) 455-4028 or email firstname.lastname@example.com.
SOCCER: The Tiffin Soccer Club will hold a player placement and parent meeting day June 7. Players will be on field 9-10 a. m. with the parent meeting 10-10:30 a. m. This is for kids entering grades 6, 7 and 8 who want to play soccer this fall. The event will be held at Hidden Valley (within Hedges-Boyer Park). For more information visit www.tiffinsoccer.org.
FUNDRAISER: KemoSabes Roadhouse Grill in Fostoria will host a fundraiser 11 a.m.-9 p.m. June 8 for Hopewell-Loudon sophomore wrestlers Damion Vitt and Alex Brock go to Walt Disney World Resort for the AAU Wrestling Scholastic Disney Duals. The wrestling event is June 26-July 1. They have been asked to join the Titan Wrestling Club out of Aurora. There will be a host of raffle items that you can purchase tickets to win. Door prizes will be going on all day long. For more information, contact Laura Vitt at (419) 619-1498 or email@example.com.
H-L ATHLETIC BOOSTERS: The Hopewell-Loudon Athletic Boosters will host a tour of the current athletic complex 8 a.m.-noon June 7.
SPEED CAMP: There will be a speed and agility camp June 16-20 and July 14-18 at Tiffin University's Hanson Fitness Center. The camp is for both boys and girls grades 3-8 of all sports and ability levels. Pre-registration is $50 each or $80 for both. The day of camp cost is $65. For registration information, call Melissa Cole at (419) 396-0031.
GUS MACKER: Fostoria High School will host a Gus Macker 3-on-3 tournament June 14-15. The deadline to register online is Monday. The entry fee is $132 per four-player team. Teams can register at www.macker.com.

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She deserves to be stoned to death," the prosecutor declared, "because pregnancy in a woman who is not known to be married is clear evidence of extramarital sex."
In a packed, sweltering Nigerian courtroom Aug. 27, Amina Lawal sat impassively on a bench and rocked gently back and forth as attorneys argued over whether she should live or die. Her crime? Adultery, according to an Islamic court that convicted the 31-year-old in March 2002 shortly after she gave birth to daughter Wasila, now 20 months old. The sentence, according to Muslim law, or sharia: that she be buried up to the neck and stoned "until the life leaves her body." When human rights groups took up her cause, the illiterate mother of four found herself at the center of a moral storm, the symbol of a draconian form of justice that has sparked protests, petitions and candle-light vigils around the world. Now Lawal was appealing her case in an Islamic court in the town of Katsina, nodding off occasionally as the lawyers talked.
Then, after six hours, a ray of hope: The prosecutor, Nurulhuda Mahmud Darma, who had taken Wasila in his arms and given her candy during a prayer break, seemed to soften in his closing argument. "Our prayer to this court is for it to accept our explanations and uphold the [death] sentence," he said. "However, we would not be opposed to this court having reservations...strong enough to save Amina from execution." A panel of judges won't hand down a decision until Sept. 25, but Lawal's camp, which lost its first appeal last year, was elated. "We are sure we are going to win," says her lead attorney, Hauwa Ibrahim. Lawal herself is philosophical: "Everyone will die at one time or another, even those who will stone me. Why be afraid?"
In truth, Lawal may have little to fear. The Nigerian constitution prohibits cruel and inhumane punishments and, while avoiding direct involvement in the case, President Olusegun Obasanjo, a Christian like 40 percent of his citizens, says he fully expects Lawal's sentence to be overturned by the Supreme Court. Even so, her case has vast significance for the 40 million Nigerians who are subject to Islamic law, which was instituted in 12 of the country's 36 states after the 1999 collapse of 15 years of brutal military dictatorship. Few of those people would have support systems like Lawal's to take them all the way to the highest court. "We want the case to be a precedent," says Krista Riddley of Amnesty International. Should Lawal be exonerated, it might save the lives of a young couple currently facing adultery charges, and boost the argument of Amnesty and other human rights groups working to end similar punishments in sharia-law states such as Saudi Arabia.
For Lawal it's all understandably overwhelming. One of 13 children, she married and divorced twice and bore three children before she began seeing toll collector Yahaya Mohammed. After 11 months she became pregnant. She says they had planned to wed, but when his family objected, he broke things off. Nine days after giving birth, Lawal was arrested. (Mohammed denied having sex with her and was exonerated.)
Now she awaits her fate quietly at her three-hut family compound in the village of Kurami, where goats and chickens roam dusty streets and there is no electricity or running water. Once plagued by ulcers and nightmares, she has settled into a routine, doing chores and caring for Wasila. Villagers see her as a kind of Islamic Hester Prynne. "Anybody who commits a crime against our religion should be judged according to the Koran," says Ibrahim Ahmed, a local civil servant. Remarkably, Lawal's own Muslim faith is unshaken. "One day Allah will bring everything to an end," she says. "And that will be it."
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Blades, Oil Kings and Hurricanes victorious in WHL action
Blades 5 Warriors 4
SASKATOON — Brenden Walker's empty-net goal ended up counting as the winner as the Saskatoon Blades beat the Moose Jaw Warriors 5-4 in a wild Western Hockey League game on Tuesday.
Walker put the Blades up 4-3 with a goal at 6:58 of the third period, then his empty-netter with 35 seconds remaining seemed to cement the win.
The Warriors gave the Blades one last scare, however, when Brayden Point scored his second of the game with six seconds remaining. Brett Stovin also scored a pair of goals for Saskatoon (28-21-3), while Josh Nicholls had the other Blades goal.
Sam Fioretti and Tanner Eberle had the other goals for Moose Jaw (18-27-9).
Both goaltenders faced a lot of rubber in this game. Saskatoon's Andrei Makarov picked up the win stopping 35 of 39 shots. Justin Paulic was stellar in a losing cause for the Warriors, making 50 saves on 54 shots.
Oil Kings 4 Raiders 3 OT
PRINCE ALBERT, Sask. — David Musil scored at 3:31 of overtime Tuesday as the Edmonton Oil Kings got past the Prince Albert Raiders 4-3 in the Western Hockey League.
Stephane Legault, with a goal and an assist, Michael St. Croix and Mitchell Moroz had the other goals for Edmonton (39-11-5), which got two assists from Dylan Wruck.
Laurent Broissoit made 26 saves to get the win. Mike Winther and Leon Draisaitl each had a goal and an assist for Prince Albert (30-18-5), while Davis Vandane also scored. Luke Siemens made 48 saves in a losing effort.
Edmonton finished the night 1-for-3 on the power play, while Prince Albert wound up 1-for-4.
Hurricanes 5 Pats 2
REGINA — Ty Rimmer turned away 48 shots to lead the Lethbridge Hurricanes to a 5-2 win over the Regina Pats in Western Hockey League action Tuesday night.
Jamal Watson had two goals, including the eventual winner for Lethbridge (25-23-8). Josh Derko and Sam Mckechnie had a goal and an assist each while Axel Blomqvist added one for the Hurricanes.
Chandler Stephenson and Marc McCoy scored for Regina (19-29-6). The Hurricanes scored two goals on their first four shots, ending Regina starter Matt Hewitt's night six minutes into the game. Watson's eventual game winner near the end of the frame was one for the highlight reel, going top shelf after a nifty toe drag from in tight.
Lethbridge went 1-for-4 on the power play while the Pats were shut out on seven attempts. Rimmer (22-20-8) is ranked first in the WHL in minutes played and saves.


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Dr. Jane A. Williams Memorial 5K & 1.5 Mile Walk
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The forth annual Dr. Jane A Williams Memorial 5k and 1.5 mile walk on October 1, 2016 honors Jane Williams, a 25 year veteran staff member of the Penn State University, Shenango campus. Born on November 21, 1959, this Irish girl attended Ursuline High School and later Youngstown State University for her Baccalaureate and Master's degrees. In 1982, Jane received her Doctorate in higher education administration from the University of Akron. She married the love of her life, Donald "Fats" Williams, in April 1998.
Jane had a quiet, yet vibrant, personality, always ready to lend a listening ear or help others fight for what was right. Students, faculty and staff alike would gravitate to Jane for her comfort and guidance.
While Jane passed away in May of 2012, her vibrant legacy lives on. Her spirited nature and love for all things Penn State sparked the idea for a 5K. Jane enjoyed walking and running, particularly in the wee hours of the morning. In her office at Penn State, visitors would find evidence of her other loves: Tia, a Great Dane; Bailey, a King Charles spaniel; and Bridget, a St. Bernard.
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[QUOTE=shuther;1149152]thanks Otzi. I just don't know if I can do this. Just had another P I am SO hungry and feel weak and not great! I was never eating too high protein as I didn't feel well on that I love veggies and tried raw even but way too many nuts!! So I eat as much raw veg as I can with whatever protein my body wants, usually Whey in am, some chicken few times a week beef. About 50-70 g protein. I am hopelessly addicted to Coconut manna as my dessert but it makes my face break out big time...
oh and when I go lower calorie even by accident (not hungry, etc) my weight starts to creep up instantly. I cannot eat anywhere close to bedtime or I don't sleep and with my weaker adrenals sleep is something i cannot risk to lose now that I am finally getting some. I am a poster child for Matt Stone (don't throw rocks) reasoning. Low carb does NOT agree with me and now even lower calorie 800-1200 makes the scale go up and hair fall out....An occasional pizza party can make it move down again. trying to just listen to my body and relax about these last 30 lbs but honestly I'm impatient...lol. My bloodwork may be better but the system still needs a reset for sure....[/QUOTE]
Not sure what to say. Maybe just try to maintain where you are for 3 months without gaining, and once you have mastered that, work on losing some excess this summer.
[QUOTE=Graycat;1149202]Hi guys, I'm not doing an all potato diet. Only having a potato salad (boiled potatoes, chopped onion, balsamic vinegar, salt, a bit of EVOO) or simply a baked potato with my dinner most days. I always eat them after they were chilled in the refrigerator. Taters taste great to me, and I've been steadily losing body fat for the last two weeks or so since I incorporated them regularly into my diet. Yep, it's the satiety element.
I'm just curious, what type of potatoes do you guys eat? I like the regular Russet variety. Are the red skinned ones that seem less starchy better? Does it matter at all?
Sorry if you have already discussed it on this thread. I'm bad at reading the monster threads. Thanks and keep on tatering...:D[/QUOTE]
I like the small (golf ball sized) red ones for eating cold (boiled then chilled), I like Yukon Golds for hashbrowns, homefries, and mashed, and I like perfectly shaped, tough-skinned Russetts for baking.
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In this country, the green bean is often relegated to wallowing in swampy mushroom-soup casseroles or swimming in vinegar as part of three-bean salads.
Yet the green bean, one of several bean varieties prized for their immature seed pods, is arguably better the less it is cooked.
Blanched in salted water and shocked in ice to retain its vibrant green color, green beans add flavor and tender texture to salads. Topped with a sauce of lemon and browned butter, with a sprinkling of sliced almonds, they can be dressed up well to accompany sophisticated entrees like Dover sole.
The green bean also is found extensively in Asian countries, where cooks have long used green been analogues like long beans that are native to their regions.
Green beans start wilting as soon as they are picked, so store them securely wrapped in your refrigerator's crisper drawer, and use them as soon as possible.
Local legume: Green beans used to be called string beans, because of a fiber running the length of the bean, starting at the stem, similar to pea pods. But a bean breeding breakthrough attributed to one Calvin N. Keeney of LeRoy changed that.
In the late 1800s, using specimens selected from more than 1,000 acres of beans, Keeney developed a strain that produced reliably tender beans. His seed company's stringless versions were among more that 60 varieties he sold, earning him the title "father of the stringless bean."
Here, in a recipe from Saveur, green beans are blistered in hot oil, removed from the pan, and reintroduced after pork has been fried and seasoned in the pan. It's the bare framework of a classic Sichuan Chinese recipe, and garlic or ginger could be added to taste.
While the recipe calls for pickled mustard greens, available at local Asian groceries, any sour pickle will do in a pinch. Just try to chop it into pieces that are easy for eaters to fork up alongside green beans.
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Dry-Fried Green Beans
¼ cup canola oil
10 ounces green beans, cut into 2-inch pieces
2 ounces ground pork
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1 tablespoon Chinese cooking wine
1 tablespoon soy sauce
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There's a rule in my house that each time I buy a new book, one from my library is evicted in order to make room for the new title.
As rules about books go, this is not my favorite. But it is admittedly useful in warding off overstuffed bookshelves, drawers, tabletops and under-bed storage. It also has made an interesting exercise of determining just what I value in my collectible reading material. And it explains the teetering pile of borrowed public library books at my bedside.
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July 28, 2014 - Diane Laney Fitzpatrick
We've gathered here together. . .
Ack. Wrong speech. I can honestly say that's one of the few things I didn't fear while speaking to a large crowd in Ohio last week: Opening up my mouth and having all the wrong words come out.
Also not worried about? Laughing uncontrollably and inappropriately, a fear that has kept me from being a reader in church, speaking at any funerals, and becoming a teacher. When I get overwhelmed with anxiety, I laugh. Not good in serious situations or during CAT testing week.
The fact that I was not worried about spewing nonsense and laughing is really only because I was on worry overload. I was already anxious that no one would laugh at my LeBron joke or that a swear word would slip out. Or that I would have to go to the bathroom again, just in case 14 times in two hours wasn't enough.
When I was asked to speak at this function, it was something like 9 months ago. I am just immature enough that if someone asks me to do something, I'm more likely to say yes, regardless of how in-over-my-head I am, because I have these unrealistic expectations of what is going to happen between now and then.
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3. Ohio would be fracked to death and all speaking engagements that addressed anything other than how to survive on ash and rubble would be cancelled.
As it turns out, I did OK. People did laugh at my LeBron joke (and I give full credit to my son, Jack, who gave it to me a day and a half before the speech. I had practiced the darn thing so many times. I obeyed my smiley face reminders on my notecards, and the WKSU guy who advised me to turn my head but not my mouth, so that when the speech was broadcast on radio, I didn't appear to be one of the Mandrell sisters bouncing all over the stage.
I am counting this as one more step up the ladder in being a decent public speaker, following my son's advice that "you can't get good at something unless you fail at it a couple of times." I did better in Ohio than I did on the Today show three years ago. Although, I stopped feeling bad about the Today show a few months ago when I saw Kate Gosselin on there being so mean to her daughter. I turned off the TV and said to myself, "I might have been lame on the Today show but at least I wasn't mean on the Today show." And then I wrapped the final ribbon around that whole package and put it in the gifts-that-keep-on-giving closet.
In a few weeks, I'll muster up the courage to listen to my Ohio speech on WKSU and critique myself before sending it to the same closet. And then, watch out: Eventually I could be cracking LeBron jokes at a funeral near you.
~ ~ ~ Read more of Diane's Just Humor Me on her website at www.DianeLaneyFizpatrick.com. While you're there, sign up for her weekly e-newsletter and check out her book, Home Sweet Homes: How Bundt Cakes, Bubble Wrap, and My Accent Helped Me Survive Nine Moves.
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Until now an unknown quantity in the publishing world, Koen has established a short but dazzling track record. Random House paid $350,000 for Glass, at the time a record for a first novel. Avon Books shelled out more than twice that amount for paperback rights. A Book-of-the-Month Club selection, Glass has spent five comfortable months on the New York Times best-seller list. Plans to turn the book into a big-budget miniseries are also underway. For Koen, who lives in Houston with her husband and family, all this major-league success is hard to comprehend. "I am still creeping around," she says. "We haven't blown up balloons or anything, although maybe we should."
Through a Glass Darkly (the title is from Corinthians I) is no run-of-the-mill bodice buster, trade slang for bosom-heaving historical romances. Koen paints a lavish, carefully researched portrait of a young woman's turbulent coming of age in 18th-century England and France. (The heroine, a coltish 15-year-old redhead, marries an older man who turns out to be bisexual.)
Koen's own coming of age was considerably less dramatic. The daughter of a ship captain, Karleen Smith grew up in Houston and graduated from North Texas State in 1970 with a degree in English. She was the first managing editor of a magazine called Houston Home & Garden. After five years she quit to devote herself to her family. She and second husband Edward, a self-employed businessman of 44, live with Samantha Barlow, 15, Koen's daughter by her first marriage, and their son, Blake, 9.
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While wanting to be faithful to the Russian tradition of icon painting, Ludmila Pawlowska seeks a new way of expressing what Matisse (when he discovered icons) termed "luminosity and devotion." Her own Orthodox faith and cultural heritage (she was born in Kazakhstan and has been influenced by art movements in Sweden, where she lives) shape her exploration. "God is not an idea, and praying is not an exercise to improve our idea of God," she says. She calls an icon a kind of prayer—"the cultivation of the awareness of God's actual presence."
Executive Order 9066, issued in 1942, began a nightmare for 120,000 West Coast Japanese Americans that echoes through the generations. Those deemed of "foreign enemy ancestry" were tagged with ID numbers and put on trains to internment camps. Wendy Maruyama, the daughter of second-generation Japanese Americans, began re-creating the ID tags but soon realized that her project required collaborative effort. She gathered people to replicate tags and share their stories. Church groups, galleries and advocacy organizations participated. The Tag Project is a traveling exhibition centered at the Japanese American Historical Society of San Diego. It contains the names and replicated tags from the ten internment camps, plus footlockers, suitcases, barbed wire and photos that offer a visual witness to exile and loss.
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People ask me why I don't go out with women my own age. I'd love to. The problem is, there are no women my age.
—George Burns, 88
The fairer sex is not the problem for John Henry, the George Burns of horses. For one thing he's kind of ugly, and his disposition—like that of his otherwise undistinguished sire, Ole Bob Bowers—is terrible. In fact his lack of graciousness was so total that, at the tender age of 2, he was gelded. Though this did nothing to improve his temper (his handlers experimented for a while with leaving a volleyball in his stall in the hopes he would kick the ball instead of them), it ended forever his interest in the ladies.
Nonetheless, Burns and the irritable Thoroughbred have much in common. At ages when most of their contemporaries are pushing up daisies—or perhaps eating them—both are having the best years of their productive lives.
In John Henry's case the numbers, heavy with zeros, are mind-boggling: $6.5 million in career earnings, $3 million more than any horse in racing history; 39 wins in 83 lifetime starts, the last 45 in top-level stakes races.
But what really makes John Henry so special—unique actually—is the simple number 9, his age. In 1984, while most members of the Thoroughbred class of 1975 were resting comfortably in the equine equivalent of nursing homes, John Henry won five Grade 1 stakes and more than $2.3 million. There are two ways to put this in perspective: (1) The only other horse to win a Grade 1 stakes race at the age of 9 was Borrow, who did it once in 1917. (2) Since each year in a horse's life is generally thought to equal seven human years, it's as if your grandfather laced on a pair of sneakers and went out and whipped Carl Lewis in a handful of Olympic dashes.
Now that ain't horsing around.
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The Best Pictures from the BA Filter, Week One
Earlier this week, we announced the launch of the BA Filter, the best way for you to share your great food photos with us at Bon Appetit. We were thrilled to get so many submissions tagged with #bafilter in just the past four days, and had a hard time whittling down our favorites to a manageable number! But after much deliberation (and wishing some of you guys would cook for US sometimes), we managed to pick our top five photos from the week.
So, without further ado, here's the best of the BA Filter, week one (in no particular order):
- Instagrammer zurichvienna went on a pretzel mission in Frankfurt
- A reader named bunnyscratch made this bowl of bun cha gio for dinner (and used her own homemade fish sauce!).
- Prolific Instagrammer soucymonster shared this simple, colorful tomato and bread salad.
- It's hard to deny the appeal of a bright red doughnut, Instagrammed by breadmilkbutter.
- And gorillafly gets a ton of points for the great (we're guessing cloudy day) lighting on this pile o' nuts next to a wedge of blue cheese.
- And we know we said top five, but this one comes from Bon Appetit staffer Noel Wagner, so we thought we'd add it in as a little extra. Happy weekend!
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A performance-based documentary, Brothermen features five African American men who through their art transmit the historic, political, and cultural realities of the African American experience.
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Murali Vijay wins Golden Bat award for Champions League T20
Murali Vijay won the Golden Bat award for scoring the most number of runs in the Champions League T20 in the 2010 edition of the tournament. Vijay pipped the Warriors captain Davy Jacobs for the Golden Stumps award.
Jacobs and Vijay were both in the race at the start of the final of the Champions League T20. Jacobs had started the game on 252 runs, while Vijay was on 236, both having played five games.
Jacobs started off well in the final against Chennai but fell after the introduction of the spinner, R Ashwin. He scored 34 to push his total tournament runs to 286.
That meant that Vijay had to score 51 runs to win the Golden Stumps award, and he ensured that he went on to hit his half century to overtake the Warriors captain.
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Parents across the country are hugging their children tighter as many head back to school today. But Friday's Newtown, Conn., shooting has raised new worries about safety.
School districts across the country are working to calm those fears.
All of the schools in Newtown are closed Monday. Students from Sandy Hook Elementary will go back to school within the next few days at an unused building in a neighboring town.
In Boston, the public school administrators have asked police to step up visits throughout the day. And in Denver, school psychologists are prepared to visit children.
As difficult as it may be, experts say it is critical that parents send their children back to school.
How can parents reassure their kids that they will be safe at school? Dr. Linda Mintle, licensed family therapist, has this and more, following this report.
"It's important after a trauma that we get kids back to routines," Dr. Jamie Howard, with the Child Mind Institute, said. "So we can be kind and compassionate and acknowledge that it's difficult and address their concerns. But they do need to go back to school. It's in their best interests."
In an interview with ABC's "Good Morning America," author Willow Bay advised parents to talk to their children.
"Remind them that there are adults out there whose job it is to keep them safe," Bay said.
"Whether it's policemen, their school principal, their teachers, always come back to reminding them that it's the job of adults, and there are a lot of us, hard at work to keep them safe," she said.
Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy praised first responders for their actions at Sandy Hook Elementary. On ABC's "This Week" he pointed out that their quick arrival prevented more children from dying.
"We surmise that it was during the second classroom episode that he heard responders coming and apparently at that, decided to take his own life," Malloy said.
New and chilling details continue to emerge about 20-year-old Adam Lanza, the gunman in the school massacre.
Richard Novia, director of security for all of Newtown Public School system, was also advised for the technology club, where he interacted with Lanza.
Novia told television reporters Lanza "often had little episodes like that where he would just shut down and pull within himself."
"Getting him back out of that would be challenging. What led up to Friday morning, there was no indications of any kind that that could have ever happened," he said.
Police continue to investigate as they removed computers and videos from the Lanza family home over the weekend. They hope the items can provide clues about a motive.
Investigators say it could take months to put together all the events that led to the shooting spree. State police say they still have to interview many witnesses, including the young children who survived the carnage.
"Any interviews with any children will be done with parents and professionals," Lt. Paul Vance, with the Connecticut State Police, said.
Police say Lanza carried an arsenal of weapons, including a military-style rifle and hundreds of rounds of ammunition, as well as two handguns. They say he only stopped firing and turned the gun on himself when he heard police arriving.
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No More Fail Whale! Twitter Matures, Now Offers Stats TooCecily Kellogg
Earlier today I very, very briefly spotted the Fail Whale and realized that it's been a while since that's been a standard occurrence when using Twitter. As the site has grown and changed since launching on July 15th, 2006.
Today there was big news on the Twitter front when it was revealed that at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference that Twitter is now rolling out an analytics service to help individuals and companies better understand how Twitter is driving traffic to their sites.
At the Twitter developers blog, they had the following to say about the changes.
Twitter is a powerful platform for websites to share their content, and drive traffic and engagement. However, people have struggled to accurately measure the amount of traffic Twitter is sending to their websites, in part because web analytics software hasn't evolved as quickly as online sharing and social signals.
Today we're announcing Twitter Web Analytics, a tool that helps website owners understand how much traffic they receive from Twitter and the effectiveness of Twitter integrations on their sites. Twitter Web Analytics was driven by the acquisition of BackType, which we announced in July.
The product provides three key benefits:
- Understand how much your website content is being shared across the Twitter network
- See the amount of traffic Twitter sends to your site
- Measure the effectiveness of your Tweet Button integration
Twitter is rolling out the analytics service to a few key partners and hopes to have it available to the public in a few weeks. This article at the Twitter Developers blog offers a sneak peek of how the service will look.
The Next Web dissected the changes at Twitter in this excellent article, and they included the following stats.
[Twitter] Statistics as of September 8, 2011 are as follows.
- An average of 230 million tweets a day
- 100M monthly active users around the world
- 50 million people actively logging in every day
- Over 55% of these people are mobile users
- Over 400 million monthly unique visitors to twitter.com
230 million tweets a day… sheesh. And I'm only personally responsible for a couple hundred of those. Ahem.
There's no doubt that Twitter has grown up and become a vital tool as well as a fun social media platform. I'm looking forward to seeing the continued changes and growth (and can't wait to get my hands on those analytics).
Just for fun, I thought I'd end this article with this fun infographic from the Infographic Showcase (click to enlarge). Which Twitter user are you?


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PRESIDENT OBAMA'S "you didn't build that" comment has become a top campaign issue.
The uproar began when Obama, speaking on July 13 in Roanoke, Va., emphasized how an individual's success in business is directly dependent upon the government's spending on roads, bridges, education, etc.
"If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help," he proclaimed. "Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you've got a business, you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen."


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The first meeting of the International Foundation for Online Responsibility (IFFOR) Policy Council has resolved to take steps to tackle three of the most pressing concerns for Internet users and in particular owners of dot-xxx domains: piracy, filtering and child abuse images.
The two-day meeting, held last month in Washington DC, resulted in the formation of two working groups for piracy and filtering, and a number of measures to combat child abuse images online.
As the non-profit organization tasked with policy making for ICM Registry, IFFOR has a mandate to tackle issues that impact owners of dot-xxx domains as well as broader Internet users. The efforts will be funded through a $10 per domain contribution by ICM Registry to IFFOR.
IFFOR's nine-person Policy Council consists of four "stakeholder groups": Child Advocacy, represented by Sharon Girling; Free Expression, represented by Nadine Strossen; Privacy and Security, Fred Cate; Sponsored Community, Jerry Barnett, Chad Belville, Trieu Hoang, Andy Kayton, and Florian Sitta; and an ICM representative, Bob Corn-Revere.
Each stakeholder group addressed the Policy Council on their area of concern and expertise, and then led discussion aimed at agreeing on the best steps to tackling those concerns. The result was the formation of the two working groups and a series of steps aimed at contributing to the global effort against child abuse images while also protecting the privacy of both consumers and producers of adult entertainment.
On piracy
The adult entertainment industry is facing the same problems as the music and film industries, all of which have seen a surge in pirated material in recent years. Much of that content is then made available elsewhere on the Internet. IFFOR's Piracy working group will review the current situation and develop ways to effectively combat the problem, from technological solutions to legal recourse. A goal of the group is to find a solution that can work across the entire dot-xxx registry.
Chair of the working group will be VP of Business Development and General Counsel at AbbyWinters, Trieu Hoang. Trieu commented:"We look forward to working with the industry and ICM Registry to analyze the various anti-piracy solutions out there and to bring the best to dot-xxx owners. We can't stop piracy, but we can make it harder for people to make money from it. Part of that effort will be through new technology, and part through the education of financial institutions and other groups not aware of how they incentivize the theft of content."
On filtering
IFFOR's position is that the decision to restrict access to legal content should be made by the individual. Reflecting that philosophy, IFFOR oversees automatic labeling of all dot-xxx domains that enables parents to restrict adult content websites at the browser level.
The filtering working group will review the state of global filtering laws, regulations and plans with a view to educating legislators and others about the advantages and effectiveness of user-defined filtering as opposed to mandated filtering or blocking at the ISP or router-level.
Chair of the filtering working group, the Managing Director of Strictly Broadband and chairman of the UK's Adult Industry Trade Association, is Jerry Barnett. Jerry said of the group's formation: "Content filtering is a worrying first step into Internet censorship and can easily be used to block any kind of content, reducing free access to information on the Internet. That's why I volunteered to head-up the IFFOR filtering working group. We will monitor these efforts and communicate effective alternatives."
On child abuse images
IFFOR will join the global fight against child abuse images and work with existing third parties to recommend simple reporting, promote tools used to combat the problem, and educate policy makers and other groups to ensure a consistent and effective approach.
Sharon Girling, head of the Child Advocacy stakeholder group, has a 30-year career in law enforcement and investigating child exploitation, the last ten years of which were spent specializing in online child protection. She will act as the Policy Council's lead on the issue. "I am delighted with the development of IFFOR and the progress made by the Policy Council at our first meeting. The council adopted baseline policies which clearly prohibit any child abuse content or indicative material, including in domain names. In addition IFFOR uses MetaCert to ensure all dot-xxx websites (and sites to which they redirect) are labeled to help parents prevent their children from accessing them. Council members have taken a real step forward in child protection through these and other policies."
Board thoughts
Chairman of the IFFOR Board, Clyde Beattie, said of the first Policy Council meeting: "This is precisely what IFFOR was set up to do: review problems and find real-world solutions. I'm delighted that the Policy Council was able to agree upon these important issues at its first meeting."
He continued: "IFFOR can stand up for issues that are important to global internet users and dot-xxx registrants and which fit with our core goals. Child Advocacy, Piracy and Filtering fit that role neatly and I look forward to seeing the Policy Council make progress on all of them."
The IFFOR Policy Council comprises nine members: five from the adult sponsored community, three advocates for free expression, child protection, and privacy and security, and a representative of dot-xxx registry owner, ICM Registry.
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SC notice to Kerala government, CBI in ice cream parlour sex case
By PTI - NEW DELHI
Published: 22nd November 2013 02:55 PM
Last Updated: 22nd November 2013 03:04 PM
The Supreme Court on Friday issued notices to Kerala government and others on a plea of former Chief Minister V S Achuthanandan seeking a CBI probe into the Kozhikode ice cream parlour sex scandal.
A bench headed by Justice Ranjana Prakash Desai sought responses from the state government and others including CBI on a plea of former chief minister that criminal justice
has been subverted in a systematic manner in this case that can be rectified by only ordering an independent probe.
"Young girls have been sexually exploited and to suppress the shocking incident monies have been exchanged.
"Unfortunately, the high court glossed over it," senior advocate Shekhar Naphade, appearing for the former CM, said.
"This is the shocking state of affair to say the least. I am afraid if this case does not warrant a CBI probe then which case will merit such kind of investigation," he said, adding
that even after lapse of a decade, the investigation has not moved.
The senior advocate said he does not want to disclose the names of the culprits in the open court as it will be "embarrassing for the institution".
The former CM has moved the apex court against an order of Kerala High Court which had dismissed his petition seeking a CBI probe in the case allegedly involving Industries Minister P K Kunhalikutty.
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Final blood glucose reading (2 hours after high-carb meal): 79 mg/dL
thoughts? sounds more like hypoglycemia than diabetes...
Here are my results so far... I've yet to do the third test but I'll update later when I have.
Fasting blood sugar, 8:40am. 82 mg/dL
One hour after eating ~50g carbs, 9:54... 136 mg/dL
From what I've read, if I stay below 140 mg/dL after the first hour, and under 120 mg/dL after the second hour, I'm normal.
I should only be in the diabetic range if I jump above 200 mg/dL at any time. Does this sound right? I'll update with my second hour result in a little while.
Final blood glucose reading (2 hours after high-carb meal): 79 mg/dL
thoughts? sounds more like hypoglycemia than diabetes...
Your readings are perfect! Hopefully you didn't spend too much money, but it should be worth it for peace of mind.
You only get a bit of the picture taking readings on the hour, if you take them every 15 minutes, you'll see a better indication of what's actually going on.
If I do them at 15 minute increments after eating 1 full pound of potato, I see this:
FBG - 90, Eat potato, 15 min reading - 115. Then every 15 minutes for 3 hours: 115, 145, 199 (1 hour post prandial), 154, 136, 110, 89 (2hours after eating), 74, 81, 83, 89 (3 hour point).
So you can see your BG will rise and then fall, even fall too far, that is OK. It should level out at the 3 hour and beyond point around where your fasting BG was.
In your case, If you had eaten your carbs and seen this: Fasting level: 145, 1 hours after eating - 225, 2 hours after - 225, 3 hours after - 200. Then you have a problem!
FBG should be under 120, preferably 85-95. Spikes over 145 are thought to be bad, but if they are immediately brought down by your own insulin--it's fine. Prolonged (like all day long) BG over 145 is a bad sign.
You can now beging to see why SAD eating of sugary snack foods all day long is so bad for the health. If you have high BG because you are eating sugar all the time, your body dumps insulin all day long and you become resistant to it. That is the start of a life of hell.
Your blood sugar levels seem perfectly normal.
It doesn't seem like there's any signs you're diabetic.
Your food problems could be a lot of things. If it was a heavy burning and itching, it could be an allergic reaction or a fungal infection.
The blisters could also be just because your shoes don't fit right. Even if they don't feel painful it can happen.
Dealing with some inflammation and itching on my toes for the past few months, doctor told me to see a dermatologist. It always takes forever to get an appointment with one. I tried an antibiotic and an anti-fungal and can't get rid of this thing. What has worked best: being barefoot as often as possible, shoes with large toe boxes (just got Merrell barefoot pace shoes, they are awesome), and doing daily soaks in hot water with epsom salt, tea tree oil, and a splash of raw ACV. I apply tea tree oil at least twice a day and then a light amount of lotion (coconut oil would be good too) to rub it in. After doing this regularly for a week, it seems like everything is finally clearing up!
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Um...this phrase you used "...when I cheat with large amounts of sugar." Eating a primal meal, you are allowed high amounts of tasty fat and protein. One of the most telling things for me was that, when I get sufficient fat, I don't WANT sugar. Yes, go see a doctor, the others have lectured enough, but what is this cheating you speak of and why are you doing it?
these blood sugars may be normal but they aren't healthy. The lower your blood sugar (within reason) the better. Switching to a low carb paleo regimen and not over consuming protein puts you into a ketogenic state at least part of the time and gets your blood sugars much lower and seems to have many healing benefits.
Even though you don't have diabetes, to be on the safe side learn all you can about it anyway. Read Ray Peat; he says to minimize/eliminate PUFAs (all omega 3 & 6 fats) and starches:
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PHILADELPHIA Quartz countertops. "Smart" homes. Energy saving. Bamboo bedding.
Acres of inspiring products and professionals were on display Saturday at the Philadelphia Home Show at the Convention Center.
But perhaps none stopped more passersby in their tracks than Rob Franks' demonstration of Scum Off.
After all, who wouldn't be curious about a cleaner (even if it's only available online and costs $20 for 16 ounces) that's tough enough for soap scum, calcium deposits, road tar, and grease - yet safe enough that Franks could squirt it (diluted) into his mouth.
"It's also a fat-burner; I used to weigh 700 pounds," Franks joked about the kelp-and-coconut-oil compound.