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Oxnard, Calif. -- There was a time in the NFL when teams lived in dread of a wonderful moniker, if a sometimes iffy play: the coffin corner. The punt bounding down near the sideline, heading out of bounds before the end zone pylon, or slipping just past it, would dictate a next team's possession, and there was little the receiving team could do about it but watch.
Those days are gone. The coffin corner is kaput. Why?
"You tell me, I would like to know," said Ray Guy, the coffin corner's master craftsman and perhaps the only punter deserving of Hall of Fame consideration. "I still say it's the best daggone weapon. I've heard numerous things, but in the modern world, I think sometimes they take simple things and make them more complicated than they really are."
Guy plied his kicking trade with the Oakland and Los Angeles Raiders, and he was part of the first NFL team to work out in Oxnard where the New Orleans Saints now are spending the last portion of their training camp. As he was coming off the field this week, New Orleans special teams coordinator Greg McMahon was asked the same question as Guy.
It stopped him in his tracks.
"Good question," McMahon said. "You mean just in general? You know, I think maybe it's because kickers are so strong now and a lot of guys are getting the hang time. And I think guys seem to have more control with these Aussie kicks inside the 10-yard line, as opposed to the coffin corner. It's almost a lost art."
The so-called 'Aussie kick,' in which the punter drops the ball at a more oblique angle and kicks it at a much shallower trajectory, has become the punt du jour in the NFL.
Guy, surveying the current state of professional punting from his alumni affairs office in Hattiesburg, Miss., at his alma mater, Southern Mississippi, finds the Aussies unpredictable, and in-bounds caroms agonizing. The only thing worse is watching the punt team scramble about between the 5-yard line and the goal line in an often predictable failure to down the ball before it bounces in for a touchback.
"That rugby stuff -- that's the new deal -- the way they Australians do it," Guy said. "They can do it, but I don't know about the Americans. I guess you might want to take a chance the guy would try to catch it and drop it, but when you hang it up there, and think you can just drop it, more times than not it'll go into the end zone. And then these 'gunners,' as they call them, they try to get it so close they often wind up with their foot on the goal line -- touchback, and it's coming out to the 20.
"I want the sure thing. If I can get that ball as tight as I can toward the corner my chances are greater, and I don't have to worry about a guy running it back."
As it happens, Guy believes there is a current NFL punter who could resurrect the coffin corner: Thomas Morstead of the Saints.
"It's not all physical -- it's a mental thing, too,. But with Morstead, I think he picks up things very easy," Guy said. "He's comfortable understanding things, and I think I was that way, too. It's no different than kicking to the middle of the field. It's just the initial steps."
Guy said he was at the Superdome in January 2010 and saw the value of Morstead.
"The NFC Championship? He won the game for them," Guy declared. "I don't know who they give the credit to, but (Morstead) kept Minnesota bottled up all day. You have no idea how frustrating it is to think you're finally going to maybe get some field position, and then time after time you don't. I'm telling you, he won the game for them."
Walking off the field in Oxnard shortly after his coach, Morstead said he was flattered by the praise from one of the game's great punters but said reports of the coffin corner's death are greatly exaggerated.
"They do," he said, when asked why no one employs it anymore. "We had it in our last game. (Texans punter Brad) Maynard did it. I do what they ask me to do. I've done that before as well. It just depends on the situation. I do a coffin corner if we're outdoors, and if we're indoors and a controlled environment, I'll probably do the Aussie. I can control distance better with the Aussie; I can control direction better with the coffin corner."
Guy ticked off several factors he believes contributed to the coffin corner's decline: punters striding forward too far before kicking, instead of mincing their steps; coaches failing to implement coverage schemes that seal off just one side of the field; a love affair with speed that blinds some teams to old-school tactical benefits.
"He's got some points," McMahon conceded. "There's just not as many people today. The guy we played last week -- Brad Maynard? I think he's still got a good coffin corner. He keeps everything sideline-to-sideline. But you just don't see it. It's kind of a lost art."
Morstead said the fact the coffin corner is less prevalent doesn't mean it no longer exists. The key for him is the stadium.
"We don't have that many games where it's windy, outdoors," he said. "I don't know anybody who can truthfully say he can control whether it bounces backward or forward. I prefer to do it, outdoors, I prefer to do it with the wind. I know one thing: It's a confidence thing. You have to hit a spiral and just let the wind kind of take it. Sometimes, let's say you're punting indoors and you've got an overload on one side, you have to punt the other side and you're on the hash? That's a really skinny window, if you're talking about an angle like that, a very small margin of error. When you play outdoors, when I play outdoors and it's windy, I prefer to do that -- and I have done that. When we played at Carolina my rookie year and we sat everybody? I punted like nine times. We ended up with seven punts inside the 20 that game."
Today, Guy said he doesn't see the versatility among kids who come to camp even thinking about punting. With them, it's all about the "Aussie," he said.
Morstead said that could change. What was will be, he predicted.
"It's a copy-cat league," he said. "Somewhere there's a kid right now working on coffin corner kicks, and he's going to come in and do great coffin corners -- and then everyone will start doing it again."


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ESCANABA - For the past seven years, the Marquette girls have maintained a stranglehold on the Great Northern Conference track title.
Can anybody stop the Redettes from taking their eighth straight title?
If Friday's Division 1 regional results are any indication, that will be a difficult task.
The Redettes dominated on their home track by scoring 83 1/2 points, with Escanaba runner-up at 37.
"They (Marquette) have some athletes, that's for sure," said Esky coach Dan DeLong. "They're definitely loaded. They're probably one of the better teams I've seen. They have a bunch of superstars on that team."
The Gladstone boys, who were runners-up to Marquette (50-47) in the regional, head to Menominee as defending league champs.
"It was an exciting meet," Gladstone boys' coach Gary Whitmer said of the regional. "The kids did well. We had a bad handoff in the 400-meter relay, but those things happen. Thank goodness our guys made it in. I think this gives our kids confidence, knowing that we have a shot at this thing."
The meet, which starts with the field events at 4:30 p.m. (EDT), also includes Kingsford and Stephenson. Running events begin at 5:15.
Marquette sophomore Lindsey Rudden set a meet record in the 1600-meter run a year ago in five minutes, 10.65 seconds, then added another record in the 800 (2:20).
In the regional, Rudden won the 400 (1:01.19), 800 (2:23.97) and 1600 (5:10.04) and helped the winning 1600 relay.
Her main competitors are freshman teammate Amber Huebner and Menominee senior Kameron Burmeister, who won the 3200 last week in 11:42.76, edging Huebner by .07 second.
The Redettes are also led by juniors Kirsten Iwanski (weight events) and Hunter Viitala (hurdles and high jump).
Esky's leaders are seniors Lynsey Collins (sprints and 300 hurdles) and Jade Heliin (weight events) and sophomore Sunny Martineau (hurdles).
"For us, it's kind of a David vs. Goliath match-up with Marquette," said DeLong. "We stayed pretty close with them at Negaunee, then they broke away in the end. There's not much help we can get from other teams. Marquette is going to get their points. We can break them up in the high jump if we have a good day and Jade can win disc. It's just a matter of Jade getting her mechanics and confidence back. We know Menominee and Gladstone have some good athletes and Kingsford definitely brings some speed, but we don't know much about Stephenson."
Gladstone's leaders are freshman Leigha Woelffer (distance), junior Jaime Snowaert (pole vault) and senior Hailey Bedard (shot put).
"I thought we had a nice showing at the regionals," said Gladstone coach Jim Murtha. "The girls gave a good effort. Leigha had a great day and our field events did all right. We have the big three (Marquette, Esky and Menominee) from the regional. They are tough and Marquette is very strong. That's who everybody is chasing. They (Marquette) set the bar high."
Others to watch are Esky's Kelcey Geyer and Aalysiah Spencer (weight events), Marquette's Izzy Peterson and Liz Slagle (sprints), Kingsford's Hannah Allen (300 hurdles), Stephenson's Breanna Martin (pole vault) and Menominee's Paiton Plutchak (100 hurdles) and Allia Stewart (long jump).
The Gladstone boys are led by seniors Chris Sedenquist and Riley Ballard (sprints), Cody Malanowski (weight events) and Jacob Rosa (pole vault).
Points again will be distributed through sixth place in the GNC meet compared to four in the regionals.
"Looking at last year's results, the extra places really helped us," said Whitmer. "I think it can work to our advantage again this year. We had a couple fifths in the regional and our pole vaulters are finally coming on. We haven't seen Kingsford since the Dome (on April 15). They had some pretty rough conditions in their regional (Thursday at Negaunee). They definitely had worse conditions than we did. It was a little cool for us, but it really wasn't too bad. It will be nice to see Kingsford before the Finals and Escanaba has some good kids who just missed qualifying. Looks like the weather is going to be good."
Esky's leaders are freshman Joey Wolfe and juniors Eric Cousineau (distance) and Bryan Kwarciany (pole vault) and seniors Jordan Ogren and Jake Walker (400).
Marquette is led by sophomore Lance Rambo and senior Cole Rieboldt (distance), Andrew Banitt (middle distance) and Kyle Dickinson (hurdles).
Others to watch are Kingsford's Ryan Camp (pole vault), Cole Tengesdahl and Cole Moreau (sprints), Jake Allen (middle distance) and Jonah Carlson (discus), Stephenson's Conner Cappaert (distance), Menominee's Devon Harris and Justin Brilinski (sprints and long jump), Aeron Forsberg (sprints) and Austin Voracheck (long jump) and Gladstone's Andrew Olesak (high jump and 300 hurdles).

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FLINT, MI -- The cause of the mystery booming noises Flint residents had complained about may be explained by the secret bomb range Flint police recently confirmed.
For months, years even, residents have reported random loud noises, like thunder or fireworks.
Flint isn't the only place where people have reported noises like this. All over the country are reports of strange noises and loud booming sounds. Usually, nobody seems to know where they're coming from.
Let's take a look.
In January, a television station out of Salt Lake City reported that "hundreds of people from Weber County to Utah County, and some as far north as Rock Springs, Wyoming reported that they felt shaking or heard loud booms." Experts reported seismic activity in the area, but there was no record of any earthquakes.
Last November, reports out of Salem, Mass., indicated that "police responded to a report of loud explosions in the area of Bridge Street."
In January, a local Oklahoma City television station reported that residents in the town of Guthrie had been reporting a mysterious noise around town.
"Everyone seems to have their own theory behind the boom," read the report.
In March 2012, residents in the town of Clintonville reported "five loud, mysterious booms thundered through the town at approximately two-hour intervals starting at around 8 p.m. They occurred again the following night, and, much to the sleepless residents' relief, finally stopped Tuesday night," according to this report.
It seems the cause of these noises was uncovered, when the U.S. Geological Survey confirmed a 1.5-magnitude earthquake in the area.
West Virginia
In Kanawha County, there were reports of mystery booms. The mystery, however, was quickly solved.
"The Keystone surface mine, which is in the Rush Creek area east of Charleston, apparently caused the boom when it used a controlled explosion, referred to in the industry as a "mine shot," to extract coal, a state Department of Environmental Protection official said," according to this report.
Residents in San Diego reported a mystery boom earlier in the year. "News 8 began receiving reports at about 10 a.m. from people in the South Bay and downtown San Diego. A local naval base also confirmed they heard the noise," according to the local CBS station.
Blake Thorne is a reporter for MLive-The Flint Journal. Contact him at email@example.com or 810-347-8194. Follow him on Twitter or Facebook.


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WHAT: UAB (8-6) at Dayton (9-4), 6 p.m. CST
WHERE: Dayton Arena (13,435) - site of the NCAA Tournament's first round games
SERIES HISTORY: UAB leads 5-0
LINE: Dayton is a 10.5-point favorite
TV: DaytonFlyers.com
LAST TIME OUT: UAB beat Georgia Southern 65-61 on Jan. 2; Dayton lost 83-81 in overtime at USC on Dec. 30
G - Terence Jones (Sr., 6'2, 185), 10.1 ppg, 4.4 apg
G - Robert Williams (Jr., 6'4, 210), 9.2 ppg, 6.0 rpg
F - Jordan Swing (Jr., 6'6, 200), 14.9 ppg, 5.8 rpg, 2.3 apg
F - Rod Rucker (Jr., 6'5, 220), 13.6 ppg, 7.4 rpg
C - Fahro Alihodzic (Jr., 6'10, 240), 9.9 ppg, 4.1 rpg
G - Kevin Dillard (Sr., 6-0, 170), 15.0 ppg, 4.5 apg
G - Vee Sanford (Jr., 6-3, 180), 12.4 ppg, 2.8 rpg
F - Josh Benson (Sr., 6-9, 223), 11.0 ppg, 4.8 rpg
F - Devin Oliver (Jr., 6-7, 215), 10.0 ppg, 8.8 rpg
F - Dyshawn Pierre (Fr., 6-6, 210), 7.2 ppg, 3.9 rpg
THE BUZZ: After three straight home wins, UAB (8-6) will take momentum into Saturday's road contest at Dayton.
But the road has been unkind to the Blazers this year, as they are 1-6 away from Bartow Arena. That win was at Troy, so UAB hasn't won outside the state of Alabama.
The losses have been to teams with nine wins or more, and Dayton (9-4), which won at Alabama earlier this year, is no different.
I'm really hoping that the things we've seen the last 10 days (will continue)," UAB head coach Jerod Haase said. "The camaraderie, the effort, the enthusiasm, the love for playing basketball - it's really been there. On the road, you have to have that. It's never going to be easy on the road.
"I think we have a mindset right now with a lot of confidence and hopefully a lot of confidence."
UAB's recent win was a 65-61 win over Georgia Southern on Wednesday. Senior guard Terence Jones led the way with a season-high 19 points and seven assists.
"We just carry the mindset that we play at home to the road," Jones said. "When we play at home, we're a different team. We go into games just wanting to win. When we're on the road, we're completely opposite. We just need to carry this win streak into Dayton and just know that we need this win going into conference and we should be pretty play."


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It doesn't help that lights are shielded by crescent-shaped hoods, where snow piles up and keeps any illumination from escaping, Thompson said. With the lights completely covered, drivers can't see who has the right-of-way and many are trying to roll through intersections at once, he said.
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At a reporters breakfast meeting with Rep. Paul Ryan today, Ryan spoke mostly about the budget. (He says the GOP version will deal with entitlements.)
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Mitt Romney, Going Rogue
The rap on Mitt Romney is that he is the protean presidential candidate. Always shifting, always morphing, ever eager to please in relentless pursuit of the Oval Office. If he was a contestant on American Idol, the judges would surely knock him for "not knowing what kind of artist he is." One week a crooner, the next a rocker. One campaign a moderate, the next a culture warrior.
Mitt Romney's TARP problem
The 2008 financial crisis killed John McCain's chances of becoming president. But will it kill Mitt Romney's, too?
Romney's "No Apology"
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Why the Supreme Court Ruled in Favor of Gay Marriage June 29, 2015Posted by Daniel Downs in news.
Tags: constitutional amendment, federal courts, gay marriage, law making, state supreme courts, Supreme Court
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By Daniel Downs
By now, everyone has heard about the 5-4 decision of the Supreme Court in favor of gay marriage. That is supposed to mean every state must permit marriage of gays.
Why did the Supreme Court decide in favor of gay marriage? It's true the judges who voted for it are proponents of the liberal left agendas. Their reasoning is in lockstep with progressive views and interpretations of law. But, the real justification for deciding in favor of gay marriage was state courts bans of state constitutional law on marriage. Until 2014, gay marriage proponents didn't have a majority of states. Gay marriage was legal in only 17 states. In 2014, twenty state and federal courts ruled against state constitutional law that prohibited gay marriage is one way or another. This was the part of the Supreme Court's political strategy. Once the Supreme Court gave its tactic approval of same-sex marriage by rejecting five state appeals regarding federal and state court decisions, the onslaught of cases resulting in overturning voter approved constitutional law on marriage.
The Supreme Court has presented the challenge to the people of all states to rise up and defy their national dictate by convincing their state and Congressional representatives to enact constitutional on marriage. In other words, gays and the Supreme Court are telling the American people to make nature's law of one male and one female sex-partner in marriage, procreation and family the law of the land.
For more information, read the following reports:
Supreme Court rules gay couples nationwide have right to marriage, Washington Post, June 26, 2015.
How 2014 was the beginning of the end for the gay marriage fight, National Journal, December 17, 2014.
Same-Sex Marriage in the United States, Wikipedia.
Same-Sex Marriage, State by State, Pew Forum, June 26, 2015.
South Carolina Shooting in Global Perspective June 28, 2015Posted by Daniel Downs in news.
Tags: blacks, Christianity, Emanuel AME Church, Islam, Jews, Messiah, murder, secular regimes, South Carolina, world domination
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by Daniel Downs
Why did the young man who gunned down nine black Christians at the Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina? According to a recent Fox News report, he believes blacks are taking over the world. Having acculturated himself in neo-Nazism, Ku Klux Klan history, and other radical viewpoints, he may have seen the success of various successful black people in entertainment, music, business and politics including Pres. Obama as the decline of white race. However, Black people enjoying success should be applauded not seen as threat. The potential demise of the white race is a demographic issue. The western white reproductive rate has been below the sustainability threshold for many years.
On a larger scale, Muslim accusation of a Jewish conspiracy to take-over the world continues to inspire anti-Semitism around the world. Before the revolutions in the Middle East, Saudi Arabia's state news paper was publishing the same accusations.
The fear of world domination by white people originated with Western elites and has in many ways succeeded. An article in the Salon points to evidence rooted in post-World War II the development of Nato, European Union, World Bank, United Nation, and similar international institutions. There influence and control has made success possible.
Whether today's jihadists (ISIS) are reacting to a perceived threat of world domination of the Jews or the obvious success of Western control or both, they are showing how Islam may take-over the world to achieve the goal of converting all infidel people in all nations, establishing the Caliphate, and ushering in the end-time Imam/Messiah. (See interview of ISIS fighter in Rudaw and ISIS's 5-Year Plan for world domination in the Daily Mail.)
What all of the above have in common is the fear of a world dictator whether black, White, Jew or Muslim. If one were to dig deeper, the respective group's Messiah always turns out to be a global dictator. The only difference among religious and secular versions (Alexander the Great, Stalin, Lennin, Mao, Hitler, etc.) is whether a Messiah is to come or the Messiah has arrived.
In whatever way globalism and related movements produce a world dictator (anti-Christ), Christians believe the Jewish Messiah, Jesus, will return and through him God will establish His reign on earth. A type of societal reboot to a truly just and free society once again based on redemptive justice and divine rule, something human beings continue to prove they are incapable of accomplishing. In the meantime, Christianity seeks to accomplish its commissioned goals of making all people disciples of their Lord and Messiah and assisting all nations become conforming members of God's kingdom now. This they do not by violence or political control (although Christianity attempted it during the Middle Ages) but by acts of kindness, missions of mercy, works of justice, godly counsel, testimony and evidence of divine power, and education in the ways and moral laws of Christ and God.
Christmas: Promise and Purpose December 19, 2013Posted by Daniel Downs in Christmas, family, marriage.
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By Daniel Downs
Christmas is a multifaceted story about real events wrapped in two narratives. The two narratives are found in the gospels of Matthew and Luke. Like a new train and its track, these two narratives are part of one colorfully packaged gift given to humanity by God. Together they show the meaning of Christmas.
Some scholars and teachers rightly say the reason for the season is God's love, peace, and forgiveness of sin.
The first gospel begins with teen pregnancy. Yes, it's true the Hebrew word translated virgin actually means young woman or teen girl. It's equally true that in ancient Jewish culture teenage girls were expected to marry and then bear children. Out-of-wedlock pregnancies were as unlawful as immoral. The social stigmatism would have been as illiberal as Scarlet Letter puritanism. Just as a barren wife, a young unwed mother would have experienced the discriminating scorn of a religious society. Therefore, it is reasonable to interpret the transliterated Hebrew word almah as virgin (Mt. 1:23; Isa. 7:14).
Rabbinical literature originating in Babylonia portrays young Mary as mistress of a Roman soldier. Whether because of sinful consent, seduction or rape, Mary's pregnancy was conceived by rabbis opposed to the gospel message as adulterated sin. The Palestinian view, as scholars call it, is considerably different. It lacked any negative diatribes against Mary or her son. Just as the Palestinian Talmud reflects its local context, the two gospel narratives were rooted in local events and daily life in Judea and Samaria.
We also will find the meaning of Christmas grounded in the same geographical, cultural, ideological, and historical situation of then current events.
While reading our two narrative gifts, two bright themes twinkle like lights reflecting off shinny wrappings. Those themes are promise and purpose. As if sitting prominently under a Christmas tree, the two themes are wrapped with bright colorful interpretations of unfolding events. Those events appear to be fulfillment of promises made by God through even more ancient prophets. As such, they reveal as well as affirm the purpose of God.
For example, the gospel of Matthew begins the story of Jesus' birth with marriage. "Mary has been betrothed to Joseph…her husband (1:18, 19). In ancient Jewish culture, engagement was regarded as the beginning of a marriage. While Joseph was thinking about divorcing her, an angel told him to keep his wife because her pregnancy was God's doing (1:19-20). Why would God do such a thing? The angel continued telling Joseph that Mary's son would save his people. At that time, most Israelis were expecting a Messiah that would deliver them from the oppressive rule of the Roman Empire and puppet kings like Herod. That was not God's purpose. Jesus was adopted and formed in the womb of Joseph's virgin wife to save his people from their sins (1:20-21). This was seen by ancient writers like Matthew as fulfillment of Isaiah's prophecy about the Messiah (1:20-21; Isa. 7:14). As evident in writings like Psalms of Solomon, 1 Enoch, and Dead Sea Scrolls, the Messiah of David would represent the holy presence of God and lead all Jews into sinless living. In fact some believed the law would pass away when the true Messiah began to reign. For the law not to be needed meant all had to live holy lives at all times. Being capable of doing so meant the Messiah had to be as holy and sinless as those he would make holy or sinless. That is what the name "Immanuel" or "God with us" meant to those same ancient people.
If we trace the biblical history of God's redemption, God chooses marriage and family as part of the means to its end.
The purpose of marriage is narrated in Genesis (2:18-25). After their moral crime, Adam and Eve were given a promised future in which God's purpose would continue. Adam and Eve would create a society of families who would make God's creation productive and who would overcome temptation and immorality (Gen. 3). It was for married society that God offered the first animal sacrifice in order to cover the naked guilt and shame of the first traditionally married couple. The clothing also served to minimize temptation (Gen. 3:21-23). Nevertheless, sibling rivalry and sexual perversion motivated by jealousy and lust followed (Gen. 4:1-24). One result was the rise of the first walled urban city, according to archaeology. Beginning with Adam's grandson, the descendants of Adam began seeking God's redemption (Gen. 4:25-26). Why? Because human decadence also continued until it dominated society. This was followed with the family of Noah being saved from the flood as well as the continuation the covenant of redemption that began with Adam (Gen. 6-8 & 9-10). The fulfillment of God's redemptive purpose was given greater specificity with the family of Abraham. Through this family, God promised to bless the entire world (Gen. 12-17). At the same time, the sterile couple, Abraham and Sarah, was promised a son, Isaac, through whom the promise would be fulfilled in history (Gen. 15, 18). Yet, the promise was The same could be said about the family of David and the promised Messiah (2 Sa. 7:12-16; Rom. 1:1-4). Not only through a specific descendant of David would Israel's redemption be realized but all people across the globe would have access to it as well. With the virgin birth of Jesus, the promised redemption began to be fulfilled.
As we have seen, God chose a young married couple to bring His adopted son into the world. The fact that an angel visibly announced God's adoptive purpose for Jesus' life before his conception gave them a solemn mission of parenting. Their purpose was to raise God's son to fulfill his life purpose—the salvation of Israel as well as rule of the kingdom (Lk. 1: 32-33). All of this was affirmed first by the priestly shepherds who were told by a host of angels that the salvation this new born King would bring was for all people (Lk. 2:10-14). Further affirmation came at Jesus' dedication by the temple priest Simeon (Lk. 2:21-32). Simeon again affirmed that Jesus was salvation for both Jews and gentiles according to Isaiah 49:5-6. Finally, the ambassadors of Parthia, the Magi, came escorted by a military regiment to pay homage to the newly born Messiah (Mt. 2:1-6). Consequently, Mary and Joseph were parents with a holy mission to deliver God's gift of salvation holy and sinless for both Israel and the world. They had godly relatives and friends as well as a culture defined by God's word (however tainted by sin and the influence of Rome's presence) to assist them.
This was God's Christmas gift to all people for all times. Jesus' parents wrapped him in a Hanukkah candle wick because God wanted all people to see that His son is true light of the world (Lk. 2:12-14). While his destiny was to suffer the shame and judgment for all sins of all people on the cross and in hell, God saw the fulfillment of his redemptive purpose advance toward final fulfillment (Isa. 53). Having fully satisfied divine justice, God raised His son from hell, from death's tomb, and from the rejection of ignorant men. And, by lifting His son up to His side in heaven, the light of His peace, grace, and holy life forever shines for all to behold and embrace. God's just forgiveness, His presence and empowerment, and His acceptance are continually held out by our gentle risen Shepherd and Lord Jesus. The gift only has to be received and lived. When all parents and their children do, society will finally realize the common good of God's will. Then peace will then reign on earth.
2012 Republican National Convention Live August 28, 2012Posted by Daniel Downs in politics.
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Obamagnosis August 15, 2012Posted by Daniel Downs in moral law, moral relativism, natural law, politics.
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by Prof. Paul Eidelberg
A Muslim extremist shoots up a U.S. military base and it's called "workplace violence." It's called "workplace violence" by those suffering from an extreme case of "agnosis," a mental or moral inability to recognize certain human acts as downright evil. Since this ignorance is quite prevalent in the pronouncements and policies of the Obama Administration, we may reasonably say his Administration is suffering from "Obamagnosis." Let's see where this agnosis leads us, beginning on the surface and proceeding step-by-step to the underlying and insidious cause of this mental and moral disorder.
If a Muslim employee of the House of Representatives or of the Senate—or better yet, of the White House—was to shoot up some Representatives or some Senators or members of the President's staff—Aha! This would be nothing more than "workplace violence" or manifestations of Obamagnosis! Now let's probe more deeply.
Obamagnosis is not merely a diagnosis of the flawed human being in the White House. Since many millions of Americans voted for this man in the 2008 presidential election, Obamagnosis describes a malady of national scope and significance. These Americans voted for this man even though he displayed not only unparalleled political ignorance and inexperience, but also utter contempt for what Americans represent as a nation but also the price Americans have paid in blood and treasure defending freedom and human dignity against Nazi and Soviet tyranny.
Even while campaigning for the Presidency, this man had the audacity as well as the mental vacuity or agnosis to disparage America's most revered foundational documents, the Declaration of Independence and the Federal Constitution. Despite his agnosis, which is unparalleled in the history of democratic politics, many millions of Americans dignified this stranger with their votes. What a travesty of American Exceptionalism! But what is the root cause of this decadence, of this sickness unto death called "Obamagnosis"?
To begin with, we must ask, "Who are the educators of the many millions of Americans who have been rendered so morally and intellectually vacuous by Obamagnosis that a Muslim terrorist attack on a U.S. military base can be called "working place violence" without causing a national uproar? Can it be the legions of academics who, for more than 100 years, have dominated American colleges and universities? Or am I am painting with too broad a brush?
I know it's not de rigueur to name names, but America's existential situation compels me to do so. The academics I am alluding to comprise the multitude of "post-American" intellectuals who, influenced by the crypto-Marxism and historical relativism exemplified in the 1913 publications of Charles Beard and Carl Becker—the former on the Constitution, the latter on the Declaration—rendered those once venerable foundational documents of the American Republic intellectually obsolete. Indeed, decade after decade they have been relegated to the trash heap of history. As a consequence, the political and spiritual ideas articulated in these documents were degraded or were nothing to be very proud of let alone worth fighting and dying for. Today they no longer incite in countless Americans the moral sense and integrity to identify and candidly denounce America's evil and existential enemy—the military ideology that precipitated that Muslim's terrorist attack on a U.S. military base.
Now let us focus on the crypto-Marxism of Charles Beard's Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States. This book has had so many printings since 1913 that it has become a veritable icon for tens of thousands of American educators—and not only historians and political scientists—who reduce the ideas and statesmanship of America's Founding Fathers to their economic interests. This crude and simplistic crypto-Marxism took academia by storm. Indeed, it is still cited uncritically by scholars. It seems never to have occurred to these patriotic intellectuals that they were impugning the integrity of America's greatest statesmen—which does not mean that these extraordinary statesmen should be lionized (but what shall we then say of today's politicians?).
In any event, given the two pervasive and related academic doctrines of crypto-Marxism and historical relativism, I must say in all candor that "higher education" has corrupted generations of American college and university students. And since moral relativism is evident at all levels of American education—most conspicuously in the social sciences and humanities—I contend that this doctrine, more than any other single factor (such as money, skin color, or the ineptitude of John McCain), that enabled Obama to win majority of the votes in the 2008 presidential election.
Now, since Americans influenced by moral relativism must be deemed either ignorant or dismissive of the universalism and trans-historical validity of the principles of America's Declaration of Independence, is it not obvious that what is primarily responsible for this widespread ignorance and indifference is academia?
Viewed in this unconventional way, Barack Obama's victory in the 2008 presidential election should be understood as an "electoral" victory of the cynical and degrading doctrine of moral relativism over its opponent, the magnificent universalism of the Declaration articulated in that document's humble appreciation of "the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God." Nor is this all.
Know well that in the eighteenth century, both in Europe and America, educated people regarded the Laws of Nature as the "Moral Law." What the Declaration calls the "Laws of Nature and of Nature's God" may rightly be construed as the American abbreviation of the Seven Noahide Laws of universal morality. This is evident in the writings of some of the Declaration's most learned signatories such as James Wilson and John Adams. These men, like the Continental Congress that promulgated the Declaration of Independence, were averse to Jefferson's omission of the name of God and Divine Providence in his initial draft of that document.
Finally, contrary to academic opinion—even of scholars of the Straussian school of political science—the natural-cum-moral law doctrine of the Declaration of Independence is rooted not in the political philosophy of John Locke but in the Seven Noahide Laws of the Torah. This may be may confirmed in the writings of Locke's acquaintance, the greatest Hebraist of the eighteenth century, John Selden, at least one of whose lengthy volumes on the Talmud was in Locke's libarary.*
Summing up, Obamagnosis represents a denial of the natural-cum-moral law. It is precisely this denial that underlies the moral or mental disorder that impels those infected by Obamagnosis—a sickness unto death—to call a Muslim's shooting up of an U.S. military base "workplace violence."
Prof. Paul Eidelberg is President of The Israel-America Renaissance Institute. His most recent book is The Theo-Political Foundations of American Exceptionalism.
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The image above is a sreenshot of Bob Ong's ebook in PDF format. Bob Ong is a Filipino author publishing books in tagalog. He had already lots of books published from 2001 to present.
- ABNKKBSNPLAko?!
- Bakit Baliktad Magbasa Ng Libro Ang Mga Pilipino?
- Ang Paboritong Libro Ni Hudas
- Ang Kagilagilalas Na Pakikipagsapalaran Ni Zsazsa Zaturnnah
- Alamat Ng Gubat
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- ROLES (a Not Quite Unreal novel)
2 reasons why I made this post:
First reason, piracy. See the image above? The real book was photocopied or scanned and created in PDF format. The book costs not much compared to other similar genre and it was available for download from forums. If I really like the book, I'm sure I will have another collection just like Pugad Baboy (a local political humor books).
Second reason: This is to show an example of a kind of ebook that is impossible to be converted. I received a download link via SMS for this PDF years ago from a ebookworm and asked me a favor to convert it so he can read it on his mobile. Technically, its impossible.


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GENESEE COUNTY, MI – Swimmers are advised to avoid Kelly Lake in Burton because of elevated E. coli levels recorded by the Genesee County Health Department.
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It's not the most professional look. I will be the first to admit that. But for most of the last three years I have come to work with a bright orange backpack hanging from my shoulder.
It's my Katrina bag: purchased in a Baton Rouge Wal-Mart days after I rode one of this newspaper's delivery trucks out of New Orleans and before I re-entered the city the next week.
Back then the backpack carried my flashlight, some long pants and button-down shirt that I hoped would suggest professional and not looter and a pocket knife with a serrated edge I could use for convenience or protection.
The flashlight was tossed into the back of my car long ago; the knife has been used to saw open plastic packages and cut through packing tape, but remains, most days, buried beneath receipts in the kitchen drawer.
But the backpack has been a near constant. I've become as associated with it as Linus Van Pelt of Peanuts fame was associated with his baby blue blanket.
Does the backpack give me a sense of security? Given my jitters over Gustav, I guess the answer is no, it doesn't. But it does remind me that I can get things done -- when the world is falling down around me. Falling down around me in the literal sense in the immediate aftermath of Katrina. Falling down in the figurative sense so many times afterward.
On Sept. 8, 2005, I pulled a reporter's notebook from the backpack before listening to New Orleans fire officials describe mysterious fires at Dillard University they could see but not reach. It was with me later that afternoon in Treme as I took down the words of New Orleanians whose response to calls that they leave sounded not just defiant but existential. If he gave up his position and left New Orleans, one resident said to me, "Where the hell I'm going to be after that?"
Where indeed?
The backpack has carried large envelopes from FEMA, an application from the Small Business Administration and the supporting documentation I needed to apply for the loan.
Then there was the Road Home. Even when I showed up for a Road Home closing wearing a suit and tie, I had that bright orange backpack with me. And later, when I got into a back and forth with the top executives at ICF, the company running the Road Home program, the backpack carried correspondence with the attorney I needed to protect my interests.
All those things are behind me now, and the bag has been emptier of late. And now there's a potential threat from Gustav.
Maybe I'm as attached to the backpack as I am because it's among the oldest items I own. I didn't lose everything I owned during Katrina, just the overwhelming majority of things. I still own things I stored up high in my Gentilly house or brought to the office with me the Sunday before that storm.
So there are some articles that are older: a Jimi Hendrix T-shirt, a frayed pair of khaki cargo pants. I have them because they were included in the change of clothes I kept with me during Katrina.
The backpack was bought during the first days of a new phase in my life, when I was forced to deal with losing nearly everything even as there was work to be done.
So it will be with me all this weekend, too, even as I hope that people who have so little to lose don't lose it all nonetheless.
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but, as the saying goes, better late than never. As you probably know, October is National Breast Cancer Awareness month, and we at Thread Social are partnering up with The Pink Agenda, a lovely not-for-profit organization that aims to raise money for breast cancer care and research, and awareness of the disease among young professionals. (Check out the site; seems like a pretty cool organization, no?) In any case, Thread will be donating a portion of all sales received from this point on in October towards the cause, and offering 15% off all sales to boot. So, gals, here it is: One more reason to shop, and a darned good one at that.
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Towson, Md. - Grand Valley State senior defender Tayler Ward and senior goalkeeper Abbey Miller were named to the 2013 Capital One Academic All-America NCAA Division II Women's Soccer Second Team. The teams were selected by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA).
Miller, a native of Saginaw, Mich., boasts a 3.34 GPA and is an accounting major. On the pitch, she has a 22-0-1 record, 15 solo shutouts and leads the nation in goals-against average (0.136). Earlier this season, Miller played 1,228:08 consecutive minutes without giving up a goal, which was the second longest streak in Division II history.
Ward is a product of Grand Blanc, Mich. and carries a 3.72 GPA and is majoring in exercise science. She helped the Lakers' defense post 20 shutouts, the most by any team in the country, and hold nine opponents to four shots or less. Additionally, she played a vital role in GVSU's run of 13 straight shutouts this year, which matched the second longest streak in the Division II record books.
Both will now turn their attention to preparations for the Final Four of the NCAA Women's Soccer Championship. The Lakers face American International next Thursday (Dec. 5).
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"Once you open my book, you'll see it's much more," informs in-demand beauty Erica Mena. XXL definitely co-signs that, but simply perusing the Boricuan/Dominican Chiquita split's edible surface makes it easy to misconstrue her as just for show. She's candy-coated visuals for artists in almost every genre of urban music from Houston to Nina Sky to the Young Gunz, but has blasted off in this year's fourth quarter with features in Fab's "Breathe" and Mobb Deep and Lil Jon's "Real Gangstaz." Still, like her favorite group, Erica doesn't want y'all to get it twisted. "People tend to think "She's just a very pretty face." But the sexiest thing about me is I keeps it real," begins the Yankee Stadium neighbor from inside a Starbucks in midtown Manhattan. "I don't like to beat around the bush or make things seem like they are what they aren't."
"I like to add variety to what I do, so basically [my career's] like a big pot of rice and beans," she analogizes between sexy sips of chai latte. "You add the sofrito, add the sazňn, you add the adobo and the final product gets demolished. That's how I want my career: very tasteful. I want people to ask for seconds.
Cutie's aforementioned drive is hereditary, though. "My mother," begins the Austarr, Inc. All-Star. "All her life, she's struggled to support her three girls and take us out of the Bronx. And though she finally got her new house, just seeing my mother every day working hard—sometimes not coming home because she was working so much—helped me. If it wasn't for her ambition and drive, I probably wouldn't be where I am today. How would I know what working hard is if I didn't learn from the best?"
With Erica's Most-Likely-To-Succeed energy and cheerleader package you'd probably automatically pair her with some pretty-boy jock, but according to the spicy dish, "it's not even about the physical." "I'll go to the club and watch a guy all night and peep the little things, like the way he goes to the bar, how he mingles with his friends," she says. "It's rare, but I'll step to a dude in a minute. From there, you know I gotta put it on him to let him know where it's at and then from there you work and see where it goes." And Erica's never been one to shy away from hard work.
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No. 11 Babson Upends No. 8 Union in OT
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BABSON PARK, Mass. - First-year Taylor Kralovenec (Cos Cob, Conn.) scored the go-ahead goal with 16.3 seconds remaining in overtime to lead the Babson College women's lacrosse team to a thrilling 11-10 victory over visiting Union College in a high-powered season opener featuring two nationally-ranked programs.
With the win, Babson, ranked 11th in the nation in the season's first two IWLCA polls, started off at 1-0, while Union, ranked eighth in the country, begins the year at 0-1.
Babson was led by senior captain and two-time All-American Anna Collins (Winchester, Mass.), who finished with three goals and one assist, and sophomore Trisha Babson (Duxbury, Mass.), who also recorded three goals and one assist while picking up three ground balls. Kralovenec added a pair of scores in her collegiate debut, junior Alyssa Hood (Newport, R.I.) posted one goal and one assist, and senior captain Kaitlyn Pettengill (Hopkinton, Mass.) tallied four groundballs and four caused turnovers. Junior goalie Sarah Macary (Woodbury, Conn.) was outstanding in net for the Beavers, finishing with eight saves.
Union's defeat spoiled an otherwise magnificent start to the season for junior All-American Kristin Joyce (Longmeadow, Mass.). The star attack celebrated a return to her home state by leading all players with seven goals - five of which came in the second half and overtime. First-year Whitney Flynn (Concord, Mass.) chipped in with two goals for the Dutchwomen, junior Chelsea Charette (South Hadley, Mass.) added three assists, and junior Melissa Hine (South Hadley, Mass.) contributed one goal and one assist. Junior Cat Ruggiero (Huntington, N.Y.) went the distance in net for Union, finishing with four saves.
After a Hine goal tied the game at 4-4 with 7:18 left in the first half, the Beavers rattled off three straight free position scores - one by Collins and two by Babson - to take a 7-4 advantage. After carrying that three-goal lead into the break, Babson increased its lead to 8-4 on a Pettengill strike at 28:13.
Charette assisted Joyce on back-to-back scores over the next two and a half minutes to pull the Dutchwomen back to within two, but Collins netted her third of the game to give the hosts a 9-6 lead with 23:17 remaining. Neither team would score for the next 17:30, as the Beavers maintained their three-goal advantage heading into the final six minutes of play.
After managing just six goals in the first 54 minutes of action, the Union offense caught fire at the end of regulation, scoring three unanswered goals to send the contest into overtime knotted at 9-9. Joyce scored the first two - one on a free position at 5:47 and another off a Hine feed at 3:37 - and Flynn added an unassisted tally that evened the score with 1:36 remaining.
Joyce scored her seventh goal of the game on another free position with 56 seconds left before the crossover in the first overtime session, giving Union a 10-9 edge. The two teams then switched ends before Babson sent in her third of the game on a free position opportunity, pulling the Beavers even at 10-10 with 2:46 left.
Union possessed the ball for more than a minute down the stretch before a errant pass from the end line was tracked down by Babson first-year Jamie Spang (Kennebunk, Maine) near midfield. She collected the ground ball, raced into the offensive zone, and found Babson at the top of the fan with less than 20 seconds remaining. Babson then fed found Kralovenec just outside the Union crease, and the rookie made a quick move before depositing the ball into the upper left corner for the eventual game-winning score with 16.3 seconds remaining. Pettengill would gain the ensuing draw control and the Beavers would run out the clock en route to the dramatic 11-10 victory.
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On the first day of Mining Industry NL's fall Resource Investors Forum, at least three companies with three different mining projects mentioned the province's multibillion-dollar Lower Churchill hydroelectric development.
The two-day forum, now in its 10th year, got underway at the Sheraton Hotel in St. John's Monday. The annual event offers mining companies active in the province a chance to present their work to potential investors.
Among the 230 people registered in 2013 are representatives for North Atlantic Iron Corp. (NAIC), Marathon Gold and Alderon Iron Ore, who offered presentations as part of the first day's schedule.
"What I've learned in this business of mining, it's actually really about logistics," said Frank MacKenzie, president of NAIC.
At the podium, he walked through the basics of the company's ironsands development, wherein NAIC is seeking to produce high-priced pig iron out of the sands around Happy Valley-Goose Bay.
The primary separation work of valuable material from the sand will be energy-intensive, he said, but the project area would be just a stone's throw away from the dam under construction at Muskrat Falls.
"They very conveniently located a hydro structure right in the middle of our project," he said with a smile.
NAIC has spent about $17 million to date on its ironsands development, he said, explaining it recently had been seeking ways to bring down the expected cost of production as the project moves to a finalized preliminary economic assessment, a key step in any mine development.
That evaluation is "forthcoming."
The cost of power is an important factor in any mining project — something also mentioned by Marathon Gold's Sherry Duns-worth, vice-president of exploration.
Marathon has been hit by the same economic restraints troubling other junior miners over the last year, but continues to move its Valentine Lake gold project, about 57 kilometres south of Buchans, to a preliminary economic assessment.
"Newfoundland is where we're focusing our interest right now," Dunsworth said in her rundown of Marathon's recent work.
Looking ahead to a potential development, she noted Marathon has the benefit of the existing Star Lake hydro dam about 25 kilometres west of the project site.
She said the transmission lines being developed as part of the Lower Churchill project are also creating "new corridors" for power on the island.
Alderon Iron Ore, meanwhile, announced in January it would be looking to Nalcor Energy to supply the Kami iron ore project.
That project will be using generators in its early development — if released from environmental assessment — but Alderon is in discussions on the power for full production.
In response to questions, a representative for Nalcor Energy stated the Crown corporation is talking to several mining companies about their future energy requirements.
"These discussions have included Alderon, New Millenium, and NAIC. The status of these discussions for supply of power varies depending on the progression of the individual mining projects.
"Discussions to date have not yet resulted in a firm purchase contract."


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Today, June 11
WWII vets meet in Trenton
WW II Veterans and Proud of It will meet Thursday, June 11 in Trenton at Cherry's Rest. Next meeting will be in September as we do not meet during the summer. Please come, bring your spouse, caregiver or friend. So glad to see all of you that were there this month. Rod Hooten was out of the nursing home to visit with us, his good friends, Ruby Duke and her son Richard brought him. Any questions, please call Virginia Lewis at 352-528-2310.
Library Friends meetings
Today, June 4
Levy Learning Academy graduation
Graduation ceremonies for students at Levy Learning Academy will be Thursday, June 4 at 6 p.m. in the auditorium of the old Bronson High School, beding the Levy County Courthouse.
Today, May 28
Grand opening for health foods store
The Grand Opening of Health Foods and Wellness, a new business at 105 E. Rodgers Blvd., in Chiefland (next to Chiefland Farm Supply) will be celebrated on May 28. There will be a ribbon cutting ceremony at noon. The owner, Joann Conway, is surveying residents to find out what healthy foods and supplements they would like to see on the shelves. Give her a call at 352-210-4198.
TDC meeting Thursday
Want to see if you can save money on your prescription drug costs?
Are you new to Medicare and not sure of your options? Whether you are a Medicare beneficiary, family member or caregiver, SHINE, a volunteer program under the Florida Department of Elder Affairs, provides free, unbiased and confidential information.
For assistance, call 1-800-262-2243 to have a volunteer return your call visit the Chiefland Senior Center Wednesday, June 17 from 1:30-3:30 p.m.
Today, May 21
FFA banquet
The annual Chiefland Senior and Junior FFA banquet is Thursday, May 21 beginning at 6 p.m. in the Chiefland Elementary School cafetorium.
Spring concert
The Chiefland Middle High School Band will present its spring concert on Thursday, May 21, in the school auditorium. There will also be an awards ceremony.
Branford Camera Club
On Wednesday, May 27, the Historical Society has planned a one day trip to the Florida State Archives and Library in Tallahassee.
While at the Archives, the group will tour "behind the scenes" conducted by one of the Florida State Archivists.
The tour will be conducted in the restricted stacks area of the Archives. In this area, researchers will learn more about the records the Archives collects and also be shown preservation methods and view little known record collections of interest available to local and family history researchers.
Today, May 14
World War II Veterans meet
World War II Veterans and Proud of It will meet at 11 a.m. Thursday, May 14, in Fanning Springs at the Lighthouse Restaurant. Come, bring your spouse, care giver or friend.
If you have any questions contact Virginia Lewis at 1-352-528-2310.
Library Friends meet
Amvets Ladies Auxiliary 88 is hosting a four mile dog walk along the Nature Coast State Trail beginning at Fort Fanning Historical Park in Fanning Springs. It begins at 10:30 a.m. and entry is $15 per person (dogs are free). All proceeds benefit Guardian Angels Medical Service Dogs, Inc. Lunch (and dog treats), t-shirts and bandanas will be available to show your support.
For more information, contact Anna Elkins at 352-222-9453.
Friday, May 8
Movie Night at Fort Fanning
Fanning Springs is hosting a movie night on Friday, May 8, at Fort Fanning Historical Park. Free fingerprinting will be available for kids beginning at 6:30 p.m. and the movie, "Big Hero Six," will begin at sunset, around 8 p.m.
Bring your blanket or lawn chair. Concessions will be available or moviegoers may bring a picnic dinner. No glass containers, alcohol or tobacco products are permitted.
Plant Sale
Cemetery Cleanup at Jim Milton Cemetery off of Main St. Saturday, April 25 from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Bring rakes and pressure washers if you have them.
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WAYNE, N.J. – Toys "R" Us is catering to time-pressed parents with a new department featuring packaged food, beverages and other items typically found in a food store. The "R" Market department is located in the front of more than 260 of the company's 585 Toys "R" Us stores. Additional "R" Market locations will roll out across the country later this year. "R" Market features nearly 1,300 items, including snacks, beverages, laundry and cleaning supplies, health and beauty care items, ...
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The legacy of Jersey City Mayor Jerramiah Healy is not being written in letters but in numbers -- those used for court dockets and prisoner identification.
The Healy administration, including the City Council majority, showed more rot at its foundation on Tuesday.
There was a big unpleasant surprise for the mayor, the city, and this newspaper. Ward B Councilman Philip Kenny pleaded guilty to taking $5,000 in bribes as illegal campaign contributions. Kenny was not among the 44 arrested in the massive New Jersey corruption and money laundering federal investigation. His name was not on any federal complaints but he is now the 45th defendant. It was like a left-hook no one saw coming.
Kenny had a reputation for working to help people as a West Side Avenue aide to Hudson County Freeholder William O'Dea. He exuded sincerity and was considered by many as honest. This newspaper endorsed his candidacy in the May municipal election. The one factor against him was that he was on the Healy ticket, but there was some hope that he would show an independent streak on the City Council.
Now, there is a suspicion that the secrecy surrounding Kenny's involvement in this corruption investigation may suggest that the rookie councilman, who was in office only six months, has bolstered the U.S. Attorney's corruption cases or possibly others that may still be pending. It is pure conjecture, to date.
After it was learned that Kenny was the weekly star for federal court in Newark, a silly thing happened. City Councilman Mariano Vega sent a letter to the City Clerk's Office announcing he was "temporarily" resigning as president of the council. If the situation was not so serious, his "resignation" would be laughable.
Vega was among the 44 handcuffed by the FBI in July on corruption and money laundering complaints. He is stepping down as president until he is exonerated from the corruption charges. Vega remains on the council so it is difficult to understand how dropping a meaningless title achieves anything for himself or the city.
Why not just resign?
Vega does not control the majority on the panel. Healy does -- unless the City Council's actions are not to the liking of Hudson County Executive Tom DeGise. After all, too many of the city lawmakers are also on the county payroll and serve two masters.
The mayor has selected a replacement for Kenny, his own mayoral aide, David Donnelly. This week, the City Council will do the bidding of the boss and vote for Donnelly. Except for Downtown Councilman Steven Fulop and only occasionally Councilwoman Viola Richardson, the local governing body is a city joke. One council member pleaded guilty, another is prepared to go to trial for taking bribes, and another is trying to prove in court that she was a city resident when she won her seat in May.
It is difficult for the city to live with the fact that this gang's term in office still has more than three years to go. Before it ends, it should be considered the worst administration in the city's history -- including those where mayors have been incarcerated.


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Over a year ago, the Savannah River National Laboratory announced plans to bring small modulator reactors to the Site. Now, a report advocates against the use of such reactors.
Small modulator reactors are defined as reactors with an electricity output of less than 300 megawatts. They are said to allow for less on-site construction, increase containment efficiency, and heighten nuclear materials security, which would jumpstart a depleting nuclear industry.
The development of the reactors could cost $90 billion in federal funding at the Savannah River Site, or any nuclear site.
"A hundred reactors, each costing about $900 million, including construction costs, would amount to an order book of $90 billion," said Arjun Makhijani, the author of the report.
Makhijani's report, "Light Water Designs of Small Modular Reactors: Facts and Analysis," was submitted by the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research, of which Makhijani is the president.
The report addressed several of the proclaimed advantages of small modular reactors. According to Makhijani, the reactors do not decrease financial risk, as some reports suggest.
"SMRs don't actually reduce financial risk; they increase it, but transfer it from the reactor purchaser to the manufacturing supply chain," said Makhijani. "SMRs will be commercially obsolete before they are commercially profitable."
In addition to financial risks, Makhijani also alluded to the job market, stating that employment numbers will not see a significant increase despite popular belief.
"It is fanciful and impractical to believe that SMRs can bring large numbers of industrial jobs to the United States," he stated in the report.
SRNL announced partnerships to potentially bring small modulator reactors to SRS last March. SRS made the decision in an effort to increase SRS's land assets, energy facilities and nuclear expertise, according to an energy.gov article.
A study underwritten by the American Council on Global Nuclear Competitiveness backed the partnerships by listing advantages in bringing the reactors the Site. Listed advantages include job creation, export of U.S. goods and service, benefits to national security and energy policy and reductions in greenhouse gas emissions.
The study concluded that total economic impact of bringing them to the Site is between $200 billion and $400 billion.
"SRNL remains supportive of small modular reactor technology as a viable direction for the future of the nuclear industry," said Will Callicot, a Savannah River National Laboratory representative. "We are open to working with parties within the industry who are interested in the application and demonstration of the technology."
SRNL is an applied research and development laboratory at the Department of Energy's Savannah River Site.
Derrek Asberry is a beat reporter with the Aiken Standard news team and joined the paper in June. He is originally from Vidalia, Ga., and graduated from Georgia Southern University with a journalism degree in May 2012.


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The above video shows the latest example of overreach by the TSA. A pilot put a cellphone video on YouTube revealing security at San Francisco Airport is a joke. The TSA promptly sent six government agents to his house to intimidate him. And then there's this story about a rape victim who was arrested after refusing to be assaulted by government agents:
Claire Hirschkind could not receive a body scan because of a pacemaker-type device in her chest and was escorted to a female TSA officer to receive an enhanced pat down. "I told them, 'No, I'm not going to have my breasts felt,' and she said, 'Yes, you are,'" Hirschkind told KVUE. After refusing to receive the enhanced pat down, she was arrested. "The police actually pushed me to the floor, and handcuffed me," she said. "I was crying by then. They drug me 25 yards across the floor in front of the whole security."As I've noted in the past, the federal officials responsible for this sort of thing should not be merely fired. They should be indicted for conspiracy to deprive American citizens of their rights. If this were a free country, Dominatrix of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano would be hiring defense attorneys about now. State Senator Michael Doherty has three bills that would prohibit the worst excesses of the TSA. One of the bills would permit prosecution of TSA agents who assault residents of New Jersey. Here's a quote from his site: "All of these bills remove any claim that TSA agents are immune to any state statutes that they violate when searching passengers or crew. If we don't take strong action against these violations, where will it lead? Today planes, tomorrow trains and buses, what then? Will the drive to the market be viewed as a 'privilege,' the walk to church? Will we stand upon the slippery slope of paranoia that leads to invasive searches becoming a way of daily life, or say 'No' and defend our rights to privacy now while we still have them."
Doherty's been a lone voice in the wilderness of Warren County on this issue. But now the Washington Post has weighed in with a series headlined "Agony at the Airport" about the TSA. This piece on the lobbying effort that led to the introduction of those useless but intrusive scanners is particularly interesting.
No agency in the sorry history of the inside-the-Beltway crowd has wasted more of our time and more of our money than the TSA. As security expert Bruce Schneier has noted, the TSA doesn't produce security. It produces "security theater" - an act that is supposed to make us feel we're getting our money's worth.
Time to close the curtains on the TSA. If even the Washington Post is onto them, how long before Obama figures it out?


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Syracuse, N.Y. -- A Syracuse man faces federal prison time after admitting to trying to buy $30,000 worth of cocaine from what he thought was a drug dealer.
Brian Montanez showed up to a parking lot at Destiny USA on April 4 with 30 bundles of $1,000 in cash, according to a plea agreement he signed on Sept. 17. Montanez got out of his green Trailblazer and carried the money in a black purse to the car of a man secretly working for federal law enforcement officials, court documents say.
As Montanez began counting the money in the lot -- located behind Destiny USA's Sports Authority -- agents with the Drug Enforcement Administration's Syracuse Task Force moved in and arrested him. Montanez was planning on buying one kilogram of cocaine with the $30,000, federal prosecutors said.
Montanez has been charged with intent to manufacture, distribute or dispense a controlled substance, a felony. He is scheduled to be sentenced Jan. 10, 2014.
Federal agents began investigating Montanez after a woman unnamed in court documents told their confidential source that Montanez was interested in buying cocaine.
Related: Syracuse men tried buying $28,000 in cocaine in Destiny USA parking lot
The source talked to Montanez and they agreed to do business. They met and Montanez said he wanted to buy several kilograms one at a time "because the kilograms were for different people," federal prosecutors said.
After that meeting, Montanez called the confidential source to tell him he was ready for the deal.
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ISHPEMING - A pressure defense that forced Iron Mountain into 26 turnovers Thursday night sparked host Ishpeming High School to a 54-27 Mid-Peninsula Conference girls basketball victory.
"I was pleased with our full court pressure," IHS head coach Tom Graves said after his team had improved to 6-1 overall and 3-0 in the M-PC. "Our defensive intensity was pretty good."
Jessica Spencer led the Hematites with 15 points and eight rebounds. Teammate Gabby Croley added 12 points off the bench and Morgan Skytta contributed 11.
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Iron Mountain High School junior Vita Hill (40) shoots for three during a game against Ishpeming High School Thursday.
"We got a lot of energy off our bench," Graves said. "Croley scored eight points in the first quarter; (Brianna) Aho played some great defense; (Lindsey) Thompson provided us some spark; and (Chloe) Stetson gave us some quality playing time."
Ishpeming, which turned the ball over just three times in the game, led 14-7 after one quarter and 29-12 at the half.
Alyssa Khor led IM (1-5, 0-3) with nine points.
"We're playing hard and staying positive, which I am happy to see," Iron Mountain coach Ginger Moore said. "Our problems continue to be turnovers and an inability to convert easy layups."
The Mountaineers took the junior varsity contest, 51-43.
Iron Mountain heads to Westwood Monday.
"We are still having fun and getting better everyday."
Summary (field goals, free throws, total points)
IRON MOUNTAIN - Khor, 3-0-9; Gendron, 0-2-2; Herman, 0-1-1; Feira, 3-0-6; Hill, 1-0-2; McCole, 1-2-4; Pirkkola, 0-1-1; Ketcham, 1-0-2. Totals, 9-6-27.
ISHPEMING - Skytta, 3-3-11; Simula, 0-3-3; Spencer, 5-5-15; Aho, 0-2-2; Stetson, 2-2-6; Thompson, 2-1-5; Croley, 6-0-12. Totals, 18-16-54.
Score by quarters:
Iron Mountain 7 5 8 7 - 27
Ishpeming 14 15 14 11- 54
FG shooting: Unavailable; FT shooting: IM, 6 of 9 (66.6 percent); Ishpeming, 16 of 26 (61.5 percent); Rebounding, IM, 42 (Alena Herman 7); Ishpeming, 29 (Jessica Spencer 8).


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Because most galaxies tend to exist in associations that range in density from loose groups to rich clusters, mergers and interactions play dominant roles in the evolution of a typical galaxy. Thus, elliptical galaxies isolated from their nearest neighbors by great distances (more than 2.5 Mpc) preclude ongoing interaction. This gives them a unique evolutionary history, allows for evaluation of the overall importance of interaction and merger in elliptical galaxy formation and evolution, and provides a basis for the determination of the time scales involved in the appearance and disappearance of the signatures of galaxy merger. In addition, the combination of their morphology and isolation provides a rare opportunity to study some of the oldest stellar systems known in the universe. Projection effects make verifying the isolation of an elliptical galaxy extremely difficult. The relative dimness and, in some cases, sheer quantity of objects angularly close to a candidate isolated elliptical makes obtaining redshifts without the use of a multi-fiber spectrometer impractical or impossible. Thus, a method of identifying objects as galaxies near a candidate isolated elliptical, and determining if they are physical neighbors or the result of projection effects, without the use of redshift data, is presented, applied to a subset of elliptical galaxies in the Karachenseva (SaSAO 1973) catalog.
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West Ham United Ladies' wait for a win goes on after they were defeated 3-0 by Lewes in the FA Women's Premier League Southern Division on Sunday.
The Hammers have not tasted victory since their win over Lewes in the reverse fixture in early March, and there was to be no repeat as the Sussex side ran out comfortable winners.
For Lewes, the three-point haul was their fourth in succession and moved them up above the Hammers and into fifth place in the table..
Andriea Veiga's powerful drive put the Rookettes 1-0 up, before Tash Wells headed home to double their lead by half time.
Kelly Newton's header in the closing stages completed the scoring and left the visitors well beaten.
West Ham's season concludes this coming Sunday with a trip to title-chasing Reading.


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Tasmanian Family First Senate candidate Peter Madden has named the Greens, "the greatest threat to Tasmania's economic future".
Mr. Madden said of the Green antics over the last 2 weeks.
"The states economy is in free fall and the Greens continue their subversive economic sabotage regardless of the damage that they are doing! It is clear that Tasmania's future hangs in the balance. The most recent statistics reveal that, as a state, we have fallen behind every other state in all major areas both economically and socially and it is clear that the dominance of Green politics is at the root of our decline" He said.
"The last 2 weeks have seen further clear evidence of the root of the problem. First it was UTAS's training and sending out of environmental protesters to disrupt forestry. Then the Federal Court's decision to uphold the Green injunction to stop the Nelson Bay Mine. Now we have Green's Senator Peter Whish Wilson applauding the Nelson Bay decision as a win for Tasmania because of "long-term prospects of tourism in the North West" He said.
"It defies reason! Clearly the Greens have their head in the clouds while the state is going to hell. It is this very Greens stranglehold that makes the coming Federal election absolutely vital for both Tasmania and for the nation. If the Greens maintain the balance of power in the Senate, Tasmania will continue its rapid economic decline and the prospect of that decline is frightening" He said.
"Family First, as the economic polar opposite to the Greens, is dedicated reversing the decline and restoring Tasmania to prosperity" Mr Madden said.


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Skip to comments.NSF Press Release: Comet May Have Exploded Over North America 13,000 Years Ago
Posted on 08/15/2007 5:32:04 PM PDT by baynut
A "black mat" of algal growth in Arizona marks the extinction of mammoths 12,900 years ago
New scientific findings suggest that a large comet may have exploded over North America 12,900 years ago, explaining riddles that scientists have wrestled with for decades, including an abrupt cooling of much of the planet and the extinction of large mammals. The discovery was made by scientists from the University of California at Santa Barbara and their colleagues. James Kennett, a paleoceanographer at the university, said that the discovery may explain some of the highly debated geologic controversies of recent decades.
The period in question is called the Younger Dryas, an interval of abrupt cooling that lasted for about 1,000 years and occurred at the beginning of an inter-glacial warm period. Evidence for the temperature change is recorded in marine sediments and ice cores.
According to the scientists, the comet before fragmentation must have been about four kilometers across, and either exploded in the atmosphere or had fragments hit the Laurentide ice sheet in the northeastern North America.
Wildfires across the continent would have resulted from the fiery impact, killing off vegetation that was the food supply of many of larger mammals like the woolly mammoths, causing them to go extinct.
Since the Clovis people of North America hunted the mammoths as a major source of their food, they too would have been affected by the impact. Their culture eventually died out.
The scientific team visited more than a dozen archaeological sites in North America, where they found high concentrations of iridium, an element that is rare on Earth, and is almost exclusively associated with extraterrestrial objects such as comets and meteorites.
They also found metallic microspherules in the comet fragments; these microspherules contained nano-diamonds. The comet also carried carbon molecules called fullerenes (buckyballs), with gases trapped inside that indicated an extraterrestrial origin.
The team concluded that the impact of the comet likely destabilized a large portion of the Laurentide ice sheet, causing a high volume of freshwater to flow into the north Atlantic and Arctic Oceans.
"This, in turn, would have caused a major disruption of the ocean's circulation, leading to a cooler atmosphere and the glaciation of the Younger Dryas period," said Kennett. "We found evidence of the impact as far west as the Santa Barbara Channel Islands."
NSF's Paleoclimate Program funded the research.
It is strange how it stays out on the fringe of reporting.
...or it could have been the return of Planet X (3600 year cycles) as recorded by every major ancient civilization since the beginning of records...."wormwood" for you Fatima fans.....The "Red dragon" for you Asians....."Niburu" for you Sumerian's in da house....
> Comets are not bombs.
They are if they hit the atmosphere.
Ice to steam (or even plasma), instantly.
Tunguska (1908) may have been one.
Hypersonic speeds can turn just about any large object into a bomb.
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Immanuel Velikovsky wrote many books about this in the 1950s and was treated as a nut by academia
Uh-Huh. another mammoth story.
I have a scientific background so let me elaborate on this. Now you have to first understand the origins then we will work up to the present.
According to Al Gore it was the Bush administrations failures to prevent global warming that caused this event 13,000 years ago.
Want proof? I have 500 UN science majors that will corroborate Al's story.
Shoemaker Levy fragments caused explosions on Jupiter. Some of those explosions were larger than the earth.
Comets are not composed of ice. The science mafia came up with that kluge to explain away the enigma of the comet's tail- had to be "evaporation" or sublimation of a liquid. Closeup satellite pictures have proven that comets are meteors/asteroids, yet the brahmins of orthodoxy in academia and the press idiotically continue to refer to comets as "dirty snowballs". The comet tail is caused by plasma discharge due to charge difference between the meteor and the solar "wind", which itself is really solar _charge_, an electric/plasma Birkland current. See: http://www.thunderbolts.info/
There is a good chance that the meteor in question did not impact the earth but was discharged before impact, blown apart by a large short circuit of lightning. The puzzling 1908 Siberian Tunguska event left a miniscule impact crater, yet forests for a radius of 60 miles were blown flat, registering on seismographs in Europe.
Contemporary science is a cesspool of ideology that routinely sacrifices direct observation on the altar of political correctness
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I don't think Velikovsky is a nut. I'm not sure what book(s) of his you have in mind, maybe Worlds in Collision? But Venus didn't explode, in the Velikovsky scenario. What are you talking about?
I thought it was Marduke that exploded / asteroid belt as the result.
Bush's Fault for not signing the Kyoto Protocol, no doubt.
Meteors are not bombs, either, but judging by the Tunguska event of 1908 and the Barringer crater, they explode just fine.
Get anything with mass going fast enough and it will always explode on meeting the denser part of our atmostphere.
If it explodes every 3600 years they should call it Houdini...
Just saying...
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It doesn't explode every 3600 years, it passes through our inner solar system, causing an increase in volcanic and seismic activity due to it's gravitational pull.
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It's a shame we have never been able to study a comet in captivity. :p
Did comet start deadly cold snap?
Canada.com | Monday, May 14, 2007 | Margaret Munro
Posted on 05/16/2007 6:00:33 PM EDT by Mike Darancette
Diamonds tell tale of comet that killed off the cavemen
Guardian | 5-20-07 | Robin McKie
Posted on 05/20/2007 7:50:33 PM EDT by Renfield
Catastrophic Comet Chilled and Killed Ice Age Beasts (and Clovis people)
Live Science | 05/21/07 | Jeanna Bryner
Posted on 05/22/2007 1:16:48 AM EDT by TigerLikesRooster
Oregon Researchers Involved In New Clovis-Age Impact Theory (More)
Eureka Alert
Posted on 05/23/2007 5:30:19 PM EDT by blam
Comet May Have Doomed Mammoths
Red Orbit | 5-26-07 | Betsy Mason
Posted on 05/26/2007 9:12:53 AM EDT by Renfield
Ice Age Ends Smashingly: Did A Comet Blow Up Over Eastern Canada?
(More) (Carolina Bays)
Science News | 6-1-2007 | Sid Perkins
Posted on 06/02/2007 6:14:23 PM EDT by blam
Comet Theory Collides With Clovis Research,
May Explain Disappearance of Ancient People
University of South Carolina(USC News) | June 28, 2007 | Staff
Posted on 08/04/2007 2:29:34 AM EDT by ForGod'sSake
Rare Meteor Shower To Shed Light On Dangerous Comets
New Scientist | 8-8-2007 | Stephen Battersby
Posted on 08/08/2007 6:08:54 PM EDT by blam
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Sounded like a fancy term for global warming, so I looked it up and yeah, it is a fancy term for global warming. I guess we wouldn't want to confuse people between real inter-glacial warm periods and AlGore's global warming "let's get rich off carbon credits" crisis.
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I'm wondering what definition of explode you would choose. No one really knows what happened at Tunguska, and Barringer is just an impact crater. When an airplane crashes into the ground and debris is scattered all over the place no one would suggest that an explosion occurred unless the event were accompanied by a rapid combustion of fuel. (oxidation or other exothermic reaction)
Did you really understand the reference to "St. Valentine's Day Massacre"?
from the tradition of the Cashinaua, the aborigines of western Brazil. Quoted by Bellamy, Moons, Myths and Man. p. 80.
Ancient Crash, Epic Wave
NY Times | November 14, 2006 | SANDRA BLAKESLEE
Posted on 11/14/2006 7:07:33 AM EST by Pharmboy
Did an Asteroid Impact Cause an Ancient Tsunami?
NYT | Nov 14 2006 | SANDRA BLAKESLEE
Posted on 11/15/2006 11:00:40 PM EST by djf
You've been away for a while; welcome back.
The impact likely destabilized a large portion of the Laurentide Ice Sheet. Could this have been the outflooding of giant Lake Agazziz (sp?) which I understand happened about the same time?
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Soooo, THAT's where the Fruit Cakes come from!
I have long thought that there was simply no chance man could wipe out the mammoth.
Hell, you could have put twenty times as many American Indian natives on the plains, and they would have barely made a dent in the bison herds.
It took two things they didn't have.
And guns.
Man making mammoths extinct?
Dream on.
I'm sure your research is impeccable, but I have no idea what you could be referring to. Please provide me with a link.
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