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Chef Martin Huddleston, part of the Ovens Group, is used to wearing many hats, one being a toque, to help Manitowoc Foodservice clients. Chef Huddleston initially joined Manitowoc Foodservice team in August 2005 as part of the Lincoln team offering support to the culinary sales and marketing teams, while working with chain customers across a number of different cooking and holding platforms. In 2010, he expanded his responsibilities as a sales manager for the Ovens Group. He is now working with chain accounts and developing business for Lincoln, Merrychef, Convotherm and Garland. He is a professionally trained chef with certifications from the ACF (Certified Executive Chef and Certified Culinary Administrator) and NAFEM CFSP (Certified Food Service Professional).
Beginning his career in the foodservice industry, he focused on culinary and operations while cooking and managing in hotels, country clubs, catering and fine dining facilities. Chef Huddleston now uses his working knowledge and expertise from the years spent in a variety of operations to help his clients expand and grow their businesses.
"These stages of my career have always held common threads of culinary fundamentals, operations expertise and passion for excellence. In my current role, I strategically combine these skills to deliver equipment solutions to leading foodservice brands."
Q: Describe your favorite dessert.A: I love "trios" of flavors, textures and contrasts like S'mores. This item has always been a go-to for me and today you can see many variations of this classic across the country in virtually any foodservice setting. At home, I make an almond-spice lace cookie filled with homemade marshmallow and dark chocolate or I create S'mores "Fondue" by dipping marshmallow in different melted chocolates and coat with ground graham crackers and other crisp cookies. Fruit crumbles are another versatile dessert and favorite of mine. Summer berries tossed with citrus and vanilla-scented sugar and topped with crunchy granola and greek yogurt are a backyard mainstay at my house in the warmer months.
Q: What is your favorite or signature dish to prepare?A: Anything on the grill in the summer! But if I had to choose one dish, my family enjoys sitting down to roasted chicken with garlic, potatoes, bacon and vegetables, and fresh bread. The joy in this type of food is that I can bring in the season's freshest ingredients regardless of the time of year. Though the "Roasted Chicken Dinner" looks like our typical Sunday lunch, it always varies. I make my own seasoning salt. I might flavor the chicken with citrus along with complementary herbs. The potatoes, vegetables (along with the bacon!) and garlic get roasted either individually or together, depending on the varieties. Bread has to be part of this meal. Either a crusty sourdough loaf or a simple drop biscuit will do, whatever suits us that day. In keeping with my affinity for balance, I usually serve some form of a fresh vegetable and greens salad with vinaigrette to eat along with the meal. This dish may be finished off with molasses chocolate chip cookies or one of the desserts mentioned above.
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The sky is the limit for some Johnson City Elementary Students...
It's all part of a mentoring program with the Aerospace company Rockwell Collins.
Action News Reporter Caitlin Nuclo shows us how this week...the kids take control of a helicopter cockpit.
Seven-year-old Cameron Keophomma climbs into this flight simulator at Rockwell Collins.
And prepares for take off.
"It felt like I was all grown up and I had the job to fly the helicopter," said Keophomma.
He takes the chopper for a quick trip over Greater Binghamton.
"It was really cool coming down for the landing and driving over the houses and the water," he said.
"He was really excited to be able to do that," said his mentor, Justin Lis.
Cameron and his classmates took control of the cockpit thanks to a mentoring program.
It teams up Rockwell employees with kids from JC elementary school.
"They've been really excited. A lot of them say meeting with their mentors is the highlight of their week. So this great for them," said Johnson City Teacher Jessica Skarbinko.
"I just like to be with kids and teach them things I know," said Lis.
The aerospace company designs flight simulators for military and commercial training.
"It feels like you're in an actual helicopter. When you're in the cockpit area you have complete surrounding visual. All the controls are there, all the instruments are there. They all do the things that they would do in an aircraft when you're flying it around," said Lis.
"The visual system alone makes it feel like your moving so when you turn one way you kind of lean with it," he said.
Which has some of these students leaning towards flying in the future.
"Do you think you're going to be a pilot when you grow up?"
"Maybe," said Keophomma.
This is the first year of the mentoring program.
BAE Systems also runs a similar program with local students.


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I had an interesting conversation with Gordon T. Long of Macro Analytics recently. We discussed our economic future and what investors must monitor in this new age of fiat money. I introduce "The Liquidity Gauge" here for the first time. Gord did a great job of weaving charts into the interview and posting it on…
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Homemade Hot Dog Buns
Rebecca Lindamood
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Cook time:
22 mins
Total time:
52 mins
Homemade Hot Dog Buns elevate an ordinary hot dog meal into an extraordinary experience. Soft, buttery, flavourful, and able to hold up to infinite toppings, these buns put all supermarket rolls to shame.
1¼ cups lukewarm milk
1 large egg, beaten
6 tablespoons butter, softened to room temperature, cut into pieces
3 tablespoons sugar
4 cups bread flour (You can substitute all-purpose flour if necessary.)
3 tablespoons instant potato flakes
1 tablespoon vital wheat gluten (optional, but it improves the final texture.)
2 teaspoons kosher salt
2 teaspoons instant yeast
½ cup of cultured buttermilk, for brushing
To mix dough in a bread machine:
Put all ingredients except for the buttermilk in the pan. Program bread machine for the dough cycle and hit start.
To mix dough in a stand mixer:
Put all ingredients except the buttermilk in the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with a dough hook. Mix on low speed for 10 minutes, or until a smooth, elastic dough is formed. Remove the bowl from the mixer, cover with a tea towel and let rise in a warm, draft-free place until doubled in bulk, about 1-2 hours.
To mix dough by hand:
Add all ingredients except for the buttermilk to a large mixing bowl. Use a sturdy wooden spoon or your hand to stir until a shaggy dough forms. Turn out onto a lightly floured surface and knead until a smooth, elastic dough forms, about 15 minutes. Place in an oiled bowl, cover with a tea towel and let rise in a warm, draft-free place until doubled in bulk, about 1-2 hours.
To form rolls:
Lightly grease an 11-inch by 13-inch baking sheet or line with a silpat or parchment paper. Set aside.
Divide dough into 3 equally sized pieces and form into logs.
Divide each log into 5 equal pieces for standard sized rolls or 4 equal pieces for larger Italian sausage or hoagie rolls.
Working with one piece at a time, pat each piece out into an oval.
Press an indentation down the length of the center of the oval with the side of your hand.
Roll the dough up around the indentation.
Pinch the seam together lightly.
Roll the pieces gently seam side down until about 6-inches in length.
Transfer to the lined baking sheet, leaving about 1 inch between the pieces, and let rise in a warm, draft-free place until puffy, about 30 minutes.
Preheat oven to 375°F.
Brush the puffy dough generously with buttermilk.
Bake for 18-22 minutes, or until deep golden brown.
Cool the rolls on a rack for at least 10 minutes before slicing.
To serve as a hot dog or sausage roll:
Make a slice down the center of the top of the roll nearly through to the bottom. Gently pry open with your fingers to hold the hot dog or sausage.
To serve as a hoagie or sandwich roll:
Lay the roll on its side and slice it in half about midway up the roll.
To store leftovers:
Wrap tightly and store at room temperature for up to two days. They can be wrapped tightly and frozen for storage up to a month.
Recipe by
Foodie With Family
at http://www.foodiewithfamily.com/homemade-hot-dog-buns/


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Jade statue about 4 inches in height with the base. given to me by an old boss who was an antique collector. have had for years. very heavy piece. would like to know what its worth. has a brown colored base that goes with it
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The background is a brief quote from Daniel Dennett which I posted as one of my Quotes of the Time Being. Alon responded with a tangentially relevant comment, I responded with my position on the issue, and mentioned that "what's really bothersome among the people Dennett is attacking is that they often attack Dawkins et. al. on purely tactical grounds, with a disregard for what's true." Bronze Dog also chimed in, saying he too cared about what was true.
In Alon's response, he said, among other things, that for Dawkins and his fellow religion critics religion is the root of all problems in the world. I pointed out that Dawkins has explicitly rejected this position. Alon's response? He claimed the fact that Dawkins has rejected the position he attributed to him doesn't matter.
Pause and think about this for a moment. I criticized some of Dawkins' opponents for acting with a disregard for truth, and this quickly lead to one of them claiming that it didn't matter whether the critic's characterization of Dawkins' position matched Dawkins' statements. In essence, Alon is claiming a right to slander. This is actually an example of contempt for truth far worse than anything I had in mind in my initial comment. Talking about having an opponent prove your point for you. Did I mention Alon's an atheist, has blogged at Unscrewing the Inscrutable, and that I first met him at the CFI conference? My first impulse is to be embarrassed that an activist atheist could say something like what he said, though I suppose that's as silly as expecting to see special virtues in every person who does not believe in fairies. Oh well.
In the spirit of full debate, I'm going to go through everything Alon said in support of his position. First, from the initial comment:
For example, Harris ends up endorsing an incredibly conservative agenda about Muslims that a consistent empiricist would eschew; some of the things he says about Muslims would do Rush Limbaugh proud.There are three weird things here packed into one sentence: first, the apparent assumption that a "consistent empiricist" would automatically reject anything "incredibly conservative" (whatever that means--I learned long ago that political labels aren't terribly useful). Where on earth does the apparent identification of liberalism (whatever that means) with empiricism come from? Second, he insists Harris' position must be wrong without a shred of evidence, in spite of the superficial appeal to empiricism. Third, and perhaps worst of all, he appears to argue if a person agrees with Limbaugh on some point, the person must be wrong. Now, I have never heard Limbaugh explicitly state his position on the color of the sky, or the sum of two and two, or the moral character of Stalin, but I suspect we would find these as points of agreement, and I cannot find in me the slightest desire to change my position on these issues for that reason. Furthermore, I cannot help but note that Limbaugh would probably applaud Alon's view of "radical feminists."
Really, that was one of those sentences that looks like an argument at first glance, but once you've analyzed it, the view that the author only ever meant to make a baseless assertion begins to look like the more charitable interpretation. Moving on:
Dawkins invented a whole pseudoscience, memetics, so that he could pathologize religion.This sentence prompted me to actually read the original proposal for the idea of memes in The Selfish Gene, and I could not find a shred of evidence for Alon's view therein. Dawkins does discuss God in one paragraph (out of thirteen pages), but only as an illustration of a larger point. I see nothing to suggest he was trying to pathologize religion. He mainly comes off as a curious scientist trying to figure out how culture works, and throwing out an interesting explanation. The explanation is not a dumb one: it notes that cultural artifacts undergo semi-conservative replication much as genes do, and plausibly infers that the processes involved might be similar. He later went into more detail on memes and religion, and observed that many religious systems have ways of getting people to believe independently of whether they're true, but I see no reason to think this was the sole driving force behind memes. More importantly, Dawkins' observation about religious systems appears to me to be correct (see faith, damnation, etc.) Next!:
Neither seems to have ever seriously considered the possibility that people can consider the evidence unbiasedly and come to different conclusions...I see little reason to think that Dawkins and Harris think that can never happen (though some people, like philosopher Richard Feldman, have argued it can't happen). In the narrower area of reasonable religious belief, I would wonder if they have simply considered the claim and found it wanting. Finally:
...or the possibility that in a world with 5.5 billion religious people, a lot of unrelated problems would be superficially entangled in religion.Oh, yes, they dismiss that possibility out of hand, except of course in the sections of their books where they explain specific ways in which religion causes problems.
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u have anything for a trade?
anyone wanna sell me excite truck cuz they're sick of it and its a terrible game?
u have anything for a trade?
Originally Posted by StevieB
Ebay.com or try Overstock.com now stop your whining.
If I don't know you, and if I don't talk to you on the forums, don't send me a friend request. I won't add you and will not give you an explanation.
hey my girlfriend got me wii too! but it cost me an ipod. damn. trade girlfriends?
Originally Posted by StevieB
pm me for info and pics. LOL jk jk.
no seriously tho you have any game u can trade with me for excite truck?
Haha, I have Excite Truck.
It's mine, all mine.
Aside from Wii's and Wiimotes/Nunchuku around here, Wii stuff is pretty easy to get. They had 4 Zelda:TP's in the store, and 3 copies of Excite Truck. I bought one, since I already had a Wii coming from eBay >_<'
Owned: Excite Truck [8 GRP], Wii Sports [6G, 7R, 8P], Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess [9G, 5RP], Elebits [7GR, 5P], Wii Play [5G, 8RP], The Godfather: Blackhand Edition [10G, 9R, 7P], Super Paper Mario [8G, 6R, 5P], SSX Blur [10 GRP].
Rented: Rayman Raving Rabbids [6G, 7R, 9P].
Wanted: Resident Evil 4, no Wii games currently.
G = Gameplay Rating, R = Replay Value, P = Party Rating, all out of 10.
no. no games to trade.
Edit: Crap... i thought you ment monster 4x4... i hate monster 4x4
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The concert is free, open to the public and is a way "just to kick off the holidays," said Cindy Ficorelli, spokesperson for the hospital.
"The patients who are able ... will come and watch and the public and the employees who are there and usually come. We get quite a few people who enjoy the music," she said.
On Dec. 6 the hospital will have student and church groups coming to perform in the atrium (the large entrance to the hospital) throughout the day. The Dec. 6 performances will also be televised in patients' rooms.
"What's really nice is visitors are coming in to see patients and they hear music," Ficorelli said.
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When Gov. Ed Rendell was in Washington, D.C., last week attending President Obama's first state dinner, who paid for the trip? Taxpayers did.
According to Rendell spokeswoman Amy Kelchner, the governor and wife Judge Marjorie "Midge" Rendell's attendance at the official White House function was part of his duties as governor. "The governor was on official business in Washington. We looked at it as a tremendous opportunity for him as India is becoming a key trading partner for Pennsylvania and there really were no expenses," Kelchner said.
The state police troopers on security detail would have been with Rendell regardless, so she said the only cost was for the state vehicle taking him down and back. But she added, "if he hadn't gone to this, I suspect there would be some other event he would have done."
Because it was official business, she said, the out-of-state travel ban the governor imposed last year didn't apply. She said, "people still do go out-of-state if there is official business to take care of."
As for Mrs. Rendell, Kelchenr said she paid for her own train ticket to Washington, D.C., where she met up with her husband and rode back to Pennsylvania with him.
Tim Potts, director of the government watchdog group Democracy Rising PA, agrees that an argument could be made for having taxpayers picking up the tab if they got something out of it. "I'm not sure what taxpayers get out of it," he said. As for sidestepping the porous out-of-state travel ban, Potts said this trip is "more evidence of an imperial government" that applies rules to some but not everyone.


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Editor's note : Note this from the Israel Policy Forum on Hagel. Even the Israel Policy Forum doesn't concur with the Kristolite and Rubinite attacks on Hagel.
Remember that it is these self-anointed "experts" <sic.> who beat the drums for war, and the military who fights and dies in those wars who do not see any reason to wage them in the first place, writes Alan Sabrosky…
Dr. Alan Sabrosky's response to IPF :
Well, I have to say that this is much more balanced than the drivel emanating from the likes of Bill Kristol and Jennifer Rubin, and I do mean that as a genuine compliment, and not an exercise in damning with faint praise. I also have to say I am always amused (but not in a happy way) at the assorted comments about entities like Hezbollah (& Hamas), recognizing that exactly the same could have been said (and usually was said) about pre- (and sometimes post-) independence/revolutionary/
anti-colonial/etc. movements around the globe, including the Irgun and the Stern Gang in what came to be Israel.
But I was intrigued by this comment:
"the Jewish lobby intimidates a lot of people up here." Though that wording is unfortunate…..
Well, other than the fact that very few people on Capitol Hill have the backbone to call that specific spade a spade, lobbies of any and all types are supposed to intimidate, punish, promise and/or reward the objects of their lobbying activities, and probably have done so ever since the chariot-makers lobby in Egypt pushed their products ahead of horse cavalry. The Jewish lobby, perhaps best personified by the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations (of which AIPAC, of course, is but one of 49 or 50 members – haven't checked in a while) plus brigades of smaller PAC's and lots of editors and journalists, is but the most successful current practitioner of the art in the US. So why not scrub the opprobrium of saying so? After all, if something is neither dishonest nor contrived, let it go, even if the truth – while not necessarily setting one free – does deserve to be heard.
Or don't you think so?
It will be interesting to see how this plays out.
Alan Sabrosky, PhD
(A Marine Corps Vietnam veteran and a 1986 graduate of the U.S. Army War College. Read more here)
From Israel Policy Forum's Chair, Peter Joseph, and Executive Director, David Halperin:
Senator Chuck Hagel, rumored to be President Obama's nominee to serve as Secretary of Defense, is under attack for his views on Israel. Certain Jewish organizations and conservative commentators have voiced concerns about his support for Israel, even coming close to calling him anti-Semitic for his remarks about the "Jewish lobby."
We are pasting below the entirety of Senator Hagel's wide-ranging remarks to Israel Policy Forum (IPF) on December 4, 2008. None of his remarks to us suggested he is anti-Israel or anti-Semitic. Far from it.
To be sure, any concerns regarding Hagel's views should be aired by those in our community. But as they were outlined in his IPF address in 2008, his ideas are not outside the mainstream.
His statement that "The United States cannot impose peace in the Middle East, but I don't believe any way you come at this, there will be peace in the Middle East without the United States," is exactly right.
Regarding Iran, he recognized that: "(Iran) support(s) terrorists, they support Hezbollah, they've got their tentacles wrapped around every problem in the Middle East that is anti-Israel, anti- the United States. Those are realities. Those are facts."
His description of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as the "strategic epicenter" of the Middle East have been subsequently reflected by CENTCOM chief General James Mattis, former Defense Secretary Robert Gates, former CIA Director General David Petraeus and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who have all similarly identified resolving the Arab-Israeli dispute as critical for advancing regional stability and American interests.
None of this should be considered dangerous for the United States or the State of Israel.
Hagel should be applauded for his service to date, and given a chance to answer the considerable charges that have been leveled at him in a nomination hearing.
Hagel has served his nation as a veteran and a dedicated public servant. As a Senator he fostered strong ties on both sides of the political aisle, and created a reputation as an experienced, honest and independent-minded thinker. These are all qualities that make for a fine candidate to serve as Secretary of Defense.
Of course, much of the outcry against Hagel stems from a passage in Aaron David Miller's book, The Much Too Promised Land, in which Hagel is quoted as saying that "the Jewish lobby intimidates a lot of people up here." Though that wording is unfortunate, it is also regrettable that the exuberant manner in which Hagel's potential nomination is being vilified could be considered to be a case in point.
In His Own Words: Sen. Chuck Hagel on the Middle East
Israel Policy Forum Annual Event, December 4, 2008, New York City
Thanks to this important institution for what you continue to do, for what you stand for, and the impact you are having at as an important a time in the history of our world, our country, and certainly the State of Israel as I think we have ever lived through. Your voice, your efforts, your leadership, and your involvement will be more important in the next few years than ever before…
It was 40 years ago today, Dec. 4th, 1968 that I returned from a 12-month tour in Vietnam as an army infantryman. Those of you who have served in wars and the military and other rather significant times and events in your life, you remember those kinds of dates. I remember that date also because when I was taking basic training at a glorious spot out in the desert, called Fort Bliss, TX…which is El Paso, and in the middle of the summer, it's 130 degrees in June and July of 1967. You all in this room recall what was happening in the world, specifically in the Middle East in June of 1967. I remember there was much conversation in our barracks during our training, mainly coming from our drill sergeants, that it was a matter of where the army would send us as we completed our basic training, then advanced infantry training, whether we would be going to the Middle East because of the war in the Middle East at the time or we were going to Vietnam. I remember very serious conversations within our barracks about that issue. I, being from Nebraska and had never been outside of Nebraska until I went to basic training in Fort Bliss, TX, was most intrigued by the perceptions of these young men who were with me in basic training. Mainly these young men were from the Midwest and the South, Southwest, and in particular, their perceptions of Israel, of the Middle East. What was this about? Was this America's war? Why would we send American troops to the Middle East? What a crazy idea that was. It was okay if we sent American troops to Vietnam, but not to the Middle East.
I have always recalled those days, that kind of conversation. I really acknowledge that I was not a great geo-political thinker in 1967. Most people acknowledge that I am not a great political thinker now. But, nonetheless, you stumble through things as best you can. But at the time, listening to the comments and questions, shaped a sense of what I would later learn more and more about this strange place Catholics knew as the Holy Land where Jesus Christ was born, where he was crucified, where we all emanated from our faith, our hope, everything we believed in that was good, everything we believed America was about. Somehow that was tied to the Holy Land, to the Middle East. As I have worked my way through the years and through life and had some wonderful opportunities, and not the least of which has been the great privilege of the last 12 years to serve my state and my country in the United States Senate, I have learned a lot more about this place called the Holy Land and the Middle East. I have tried to inform myself and educate myself not just by many trips to that area of the world and meeting leaders and understanding the dimensions of that area. I have come to believe and, as Peter noted in my book, I have a chapter on the Middle East, and I have a chapter on Iran, I have two chapters on Iraq. Much of my book is about the Middle East, not that I intended to write about the Middle East, but it is much about the Middle East because that represents that part of the world, the strategic epicenter of great conflict.
When I listen to Peter tonight talk about justice, about hope, about possibilities—that is not reserved for Catholics or Jews or Hindus or Muslims. That is what we all aspire to: justice, equality, hope, better world. I have referenced that as the common denominators of the human condition. Most of you in this room have been to many places in the world, and I suspect that most you would find it hard to believe that somehow one religion or one region has a corner on those virtues. That somehow Christians are more noble than Jews, or Jews more noble than Muslims. I don't think so. I think all people love their children and their families, and want a better world. That has led me to one very fundamental observation about the world and somehow it eludes us in this great dilemma in the Middle East, and that is the human condition. The human condition has dictated every event in the history of man, and it always will because men are locked in cycles of despair and when there is no human dignity, when there is no hope, then it's fairly predictable that it will not result in a better world, in a safer world, in a more justice world. I don't mean that I connect poverty or despair with terrorism or extremism. But I will tell you, when you look at the world today – 6.5 billion people – the regions of the world that have been left behind since World War II, that in fact have not enjoyed human liberties and advancement of the human condition, an increase in the standard of living, and hope and possibilities. They are the most troubled areas of the world and we know where they are: the Middle East, much of Asia, Africa, a good part of South America. It is about the human condition, and when we do not deal with the human condition, the human condition will deal with us.
The human condition will dominate, always, the realities of policy, the abstractions of Washington. We live in Washington, this great bubble of abstractions. There is no shortcut, no easy way to great accomplishments. The Middle East, as Peter had noted, in regard to President-elect Obama's cabinet that he is selecting, conversations I have had with President-elect and Vice President-elect Biden…the Middle East is central to what they want to accomplishment as any one thing. Why is that? Yes, there is a sense of justice but they also understand that unless we bring this Israeli-Palestinian issue to some higher ground, and unless we are able to break through the fog that has surrounded, dominated, and consumed the effort that all presidents have made since 1948, and leaders of the world have made that continues to elude us. Unless we break through that, then we will continue to see a more dangerous, complicated world.
It is clearly in the interest of America, and clearly in the interest of the Middle East and the world that this issue be brought to a higher ground of confidence and trust to move to a different plateau of finally trying to solve the problem in a relevant and realistic way. I noted the topics of the three breakout sessions tonight- all quite relevant to your topic and your focus here because all three, in my opinion, are part of the comprehensive, strategic context and approach that must be employed in a coherent way to deal with getting where we all or almost all of us agree we need to get to- and that is a two state solution. And if we almost all agree with that, and the leaders of the free world: the US, Israel, the Palestinian Authority, most all the Arab nations, Russia China, P5 plus 1, NATO, most of the UN all agree that that is the objective, that is the point, then why can't we get there? Why do we keep going backwards? Partly, like all great challenges and objectives in life, they're difficult. They require a concerted, concentrated focus, day in and day out, to get it done. I have called over the years, and most recently the last two years, for a presidential special envoy that must stay there and work day in and day out. The good efforts of many who have been involved in these efforts over the year I do not diminish, I acknowledge. But, it's going to take an effort that is day to day, hour to hour, minute to minute.
The United States cannot impose peace in the Middle East, but I don't believe any way you come at this, there will be peace in the Middle East without the United States. Because if for no other reason, we are the only nation capable, with the capacity, but most importantly, still I believe, with the confidence and trust of all sides to be able to bring this and elevate this to the position it requires in order to move it toward an accommodation toward a resolution.
My dear friend Ambassador Ilkin, here tonight, who was the Turkish Ambassador to the United States, now the Turkish Ambassador to the United Nations…What his country has been doing – the subject of one of your breakout sessions tonight – to move the Syrian-Israeli peace closer to engagement – a critical component of this as I know that all three are. But as important as any one of those pieces and they all play a role in the larger framework in a strategic comprehensive effort to accomplish this objective is engagement. Engagement is not appeasement. Diplomacy is not weakness.
The most dangerous thing the United States or any nation can do in the completely interconnected world that we live in today…we don't need much more evidence of an interconnected world then the global financial crisis that we are all trying to work our way through now. If there is any doubt about how interconnected the world is, you go to any country in the world today, fly out tonight and see if that country is affected by this global financial crisis. It is. It's deep. Most countries are being affected far worse than the United States. There isn't any debate about this. This is a world that's interconnected. It's combustible. It's complicated and it's dangerous. So what do we do about it? The worst thing we can do, the most dangerous thing we can do is continue to isolate nations, is to continue to not engage nations. Great powers engage. Great powers form coalitions of common interests. They form alliances. They strengthen alliances. What just occurred in India – we the civilized world, combating this kind of ruthlessness…despicable, outrageous barbaric terrorism, which Israel has been dealing with for a long time as well as other nations.
The only way we start to get a fix and our arms around that is to work a common denominator dynamic of all peoples, the human condition and that requires engagement; that requires alliances; that requires seamless networks of intelligence sharing and gathering; that requires jobs and hope and possibilities and education. Armies aren't going to fix this problem. The military can't fix the problem in Iraq. The military can't fix the problem in Afghanistan- part of it- but it will require all the instruments of power of a great nation, diplomatic, trade, economic, education, alliances, intelligence, military is part of that, but it can't fix the problem. We're learning that the hard way in Iraq. We're learning that the hard way in Afghanistan. I don't believe that you're going to have a solution to Afghanistan and Iraq without bringing in all the powers of the region…a comprehensive strategic context of all those pieces. Iran. I know it's easy to dismiss Iran – oh we're not going to talk to Iran, they support terrorists, they support Hezbollah, they've got their tentacles wrapped around every problem in the Middle East that is anti-Israel, anti- the United States. Those are realities. Those are facts. Now we've got a choice here. We can continue to push Iran out, back, and say to Iran "we will give you the privilege of sitting down and talking with us based on our preconditions." As that goes on, Iran continues, most likely, to develop nuclear activities, it continues to enhance its position with a significant population in the Middle East, which is a direct threat against Israel, a direct threat against the interests of the United States, a threat against Iraq. In fact, the United States solved two of Iran's biggest problems: Saddam Hussein, and the Taliban. Why did Iran cooperate with the United States and work with the United States after the US first invaded Afghanistan? Because it was in their interests. I don't think it was because they wanted to do us a favor. It was clearly in the interests of Iran not to have that problem on their Eastern border. Drugs, terrorists – that is not in the interest of Iran.
Now, these are realities that I believe we must factor into a comprehensive component of a strategic, diplomatic effort to bring the nations of that region into some alignment of common interests. We're not going to get everybody in the same way, on the same page, at the same time, but surely, at least this is my opinion, if we continue to push countries back away and out and we don't engage, then it is very predictable what the outcome is going to be. When I think of jobs and improving people's conditions, I think of what, for example, Stef Wertheimer has been doing in Turkey and Israel. I suspect most of you, if not everyone in this room is aware of what Stef Wertheimer has been doing over the last few years. He has five very hi-tech industrial base firms in Turkey and Israel. They're planning twenty more. I've been there. I've seen them. Here he has Palestinians and Israelis and Jews working side by side in these plans, and he is helping educate their children. They have futures, they have opportunities. This is not some idealistic dream, in fact it's happened. It's working because he understood a long time ago, as many do, that we have to get underneath this. What is it that drives people? What is it that drives extremists and the terrorists? Variations to the answer I recognize. But unless we begin to direct our attention and focus on this underlying dynamic as Stef has done and others, then we will never get to the next stage of resolving the problem and getting where Israel needs to be, should be, (and where) the Palestinians need to be, should be: a two state solution.
I believe that this new President and this new Vice President and their new team that will take office January 20th are committed to make every effort to do that in different ways. I think that they will examine new approaches. I can't speak for this administration and wouldn't dare try, but I know the people in this new administration and I know the commitment they have. I know because I've talked directly for long lengths of time to President-elect Obama and Vice President-elect Biden about this. This is possible, this is doable. But unless we recognize the regional component of the Middle East and until we start to understand that we cannot take any of these challenges and deal with them in capsules and compartments…
Iran has everything to do with the outcome in Iraq, the outcome in the Israeli-Palestinian issue, of the Middle East itself, the stability of those Persian Gulf countries, of oil. The Russians are connected into this. We have to set up a whole new framework of a Russian-U.S. relationship. India has a piece of this and I believe, and I was in Afghanistan and South Asia twice this year, that until we are able to come up with a comprehensive policy for that strip of land from Iran through India – Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India – all four of those countries have to be dealt with with a larger regional context. When we're talking about Iran, I believe that it will require some kind of security guarantee. I believe it is going to require some easy to do breakthroughs, like an intersection, a commercial exchange of flights. We can do those kinds of things. One of the things that I think is on track now is. Gordon Brown has now instigated his own initiative as we know. The new French President has been very active the last year in this. I've already mentioned our friends from Turkey. I've had long conversations with President Olmert about this. The Syrian-Israeli peace is a logical next piece in how this plays out. It's a logical next piece. We have to also know, understand, and remember that all this is imperfect. There is not a perfect solution and plan and never will be. It's imperfect. But, we need to keep a wider lens view of all this. Isn't it better to work our way through some accommodation and getting on these higher plateaus of resolution so we can get the larger dynamics of this in place so we can work on the underlying parts of the problem? We don't have any choice today in a world that's as complicated and interconnected as the world we live in. If we do not make progress in the Middle East in the next four years, then we run the risk, not just the Middle East, but South Asia, and every area of the world that is in some state of turmoil, we run the risk of the problem becoming so big, so overpowering, that no nation, no set of nations, is capable, nor will they have the capacity to deal with it. That's the kind of risk we run. 6.5 billion people on the face of earth today, we're going to get to 8 billion people on the face of the earth. Think of the resources here- water, oil, energy of all kinds. Think of what has to happen in the world over the next few years- growth, opportunity. All of things must be factored into this wider lens policy.
That is where I started my comments tonight – seems to me, leads back to the strategic epicenter of the Middle East, the Israeli Palestinian issue. Why do I say that more than any other reason? It is the one issue, the one issue alone, the Israeli-Palestinian issue alone. Fixing that alone is not going to fix every problem in the Middle East. We understand that. We have religious hatred. We have centuries of it. We have regional, tribal issues. Yes, all complicated. But that one issue, the Israeli-Palestinian issue shapes almost every other issue, not just the optics of it, but the reality of it. It is allowed to – as it plays itself out to dominate relationships, to dominate the people who would like a different kind of world. I know that there is a lot made on the issue of – well it's important, but it certainly doesn't affect everything. It does. I don't know any other way to gage this, then you go out and listen to the leaders. You listen to Jewish leaders, and you listen to Arab leaders. You sit down with all the leaders with all those countries, and I have many times, different leaders, and they will take you right back to the same issue. Right back to this issue. Now I am not an expert on anything, and I'm certainly not an expert on the Middle East. Most of the people in this room, especially those that were on the panels tonight know a lot more about this issue than I do. But I do listen. I do observe. I am somewhat informed. That informs me that when the people of the Middle East themselves tell me that this issue has to be dealt with or there will there will not be a resolution to any other issue in the Middle East.
One last point on this. When we survey the next year, the next six months, we are going to see an interesting evolution in the Middle East at a very interesting time of a confluence of events in the world. The world, by the way, is living through that great historic confluence. Today, the fusion of power. The greatest economic diffusion of power that the world has ever seen. At a rate we can't even calculate. We are changing relationships, geo-political centers, and strategic dynamics at a rate we've never seen before. Energy is driving that and so many other factors are driving that. So we have an opportunity as this great world confluence comes at a very interesting time, a dangerous time, but a time of some significant crisis, not just financial crisis, but crisis in these areas, to really change things…to really do some things that we have needed to do but the status quo has drug us down or for some reason it has inhibited the ability to get it done- leadership, whatever it is.
This is a very precious historic moment. A time of great global transformation.</strong> When you look at the next 6 months in the Middle East, look at the set of elections that is going to occur: in Israel, most likely in the Palestinians, the Iranian Presidential elections, more elections in Iraq…a very interesting time. What we need to do, it seems to me, in the United States, and our allies, and our friends, is encourage this time of possibility by encouraging the moderate leaders in the Middle East, encouraging people who do have a role to play, strengthen their sense of purpose, strengthen who they are, and that's possible. This time will not come again for a long time, if ever. I believe that's the kind of world we're living in, with the kind of possibilities that are at stake. That's why I said at the beginning of my comments that this organization has a very important role to play and to continue to play because this organization is a voice of moderation. It is a voice of reality. It is a voice of common purpose. You can make a difference. Policy is influenced by real people. Institutions, constitutions, governments, they don't change anything. People change things. It is individuals who make things happen, and I don't know of a better role model or an individual to point to than Yitzchak Rabin. What Yitzchak Rabin did, what he represented, what he still represents is hope that in his memory, in his honor, but for his courage and boldness, we can come back with a Rabin too. It takes leaders on the other side. Sadat, Begin. It will take a unique set of leaders to do this. It's possible. Leaders change the world. Governments and ideology don't change the world, leaders change the world. It is within our power to change the world, and we must not fail or squander this moment. I am grateful for the opportunity to exchange some thoughts on this very important issue. I am continually encouraged that we have people like you who are willing to continue to stay committed to this great cause. It is about the future of your children, your grandchildren; you know that, the future of the world. The stakes are as big as they have ever been. But I also think, as much as the 21st century challenges are as big as they've been, so are the opportunities, so is the capacity and the capabilities we have to deal with them.
Thank you very much.
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Inbal Pezaro recovered from a slow start to give Israel its first medal of the 2012 London Paralympics.
The five-time Paralympic medallist added a bronze to her collection after a miraculous comeback in the 50m freestyle final.
She said: "I'm happy to have given Israel a lucky start to the Games."
Pezaro, 25, had finished runner-up in her heat at the Aquatics Centre.
She won a silver and bronze in Athens in 2004 and a further three silvers in Beijing in 2008.
Pezaro, who was born with a blood problem in her spinal cord which causes a disability involving in her lower limbs, has further medal hopes in three other races at the Games.


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Somehow it felt like it should have come on a bigger stage.
Somehow, the eighth PIAA wrestling coach reaching 500 wins, and the first one in the epic and storied history of Lehigh Valley wrestling, needed brighter lights and a bigger moment than a second-round consolation match in the PIAA District 11 Class AAA tournament.
But you take your historic moments where you find them, and Easton coach Steve Powell found his in a 52-9 rout of Pocono Mountain East Saturday afternoon at Freedom High School.
For Powell, 500-113-3 after hammering the overmatched Cardinals, the landmark is one of many in a career filled with them.
"I can't imagine a better place to pursue a career in wrestling than Easton," Powell said.
And it's hard to imagine a better match for Easton wrestling, one of the great public school athletic programs in the nation, than Powell.
"He's an encyclopedia of wrestling," said Powell's longtime assistant, Barry Snyder, who has been with Powell for at least 300 of those wins.
Powell's combination of intensity, knowledge, and that certain cleverness that distinguishes the exceptional coaches from the merely good ones makes him perfect for a sport that rewards all three characteristics.
"He's tough on us in the room," Easton junior 285-pounder Tom Austin said. "But what he really cares about is focusing on bringing us all to our potential as wrestlers, with all those years of experience he has."
But what makes Powell one of the greatest coaches to ever lead any kind of team in Pennsylvania is, simply, that this is a man in love with what does.
"I've never had a job," Powell said. "I could never imagine having any career than I have had. I love teaching physical education. I wanted to be a wrestling coach from the time I was in high school (in West Chester, Pa., 30 miles west of Philadelphia). They couldn't keep me out of West Chester University's wrestling room. I have never wanted to do anything else than this."
Asked about memorable dual meets, Powell smiles and starts talking about epic wins over ... guess who?
"I remember some of those great epic Phillipsburg matches," said Powell, who knows well that no small part of his accomplishment at Easton is that 26 of those 500 wins have come over the Stateliners.
Powell hasn't made Easton wrestling what it is by himself, which he makes sure you know, praising his predecessors Bob Zarbatany, Dave Crowell, his assistant coaches, his boosters, and even us media types a little.
"Easton is such a great place to do well for the sport of wrestling," Powell said.
And a great place for a man and his passion to come together to benefit the young men of a place where wrestling of any kind will always be on center stage.


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Editor's note: Pet columnist Karen Steinrock will be conduct a live chat, offering her comments and answering your questions on PennLive.com as the final competitions in of the Westminster Kennel Club dog show air from 8 to 11 tonight.
While no midstate exhibitors advanced to Group competition in today's breed judging at the Westminster Kennel Club dog show, they all agree it's simply an honor to show at Madison Square Garden.
A landseer Newfoundland named Elle, owned by Trish Fornadley of Glenville, in York County, was the only midstate dog to earn an Award of Merit in today's competition—recognition that has her floating on cloud nine.
"I'll be screaming it from the mountaintops!" she exclaimed. "I will treasure that ribbon forever."
Other locals that were part of the breed competitions that took place earlier today included "Ares," a Newfoundland owned by Lynne Hamilton of Camp Hill and handled by daughter Alexis Ditlow. Ares was first in the lineup, greeting the judge with a bit of drool he casually flung off his hand. But judges see Newfoundland slobber as an occupational hazard. No big deal.
Golden retriever Oak Lane's Surf's Up, owned by Dave and Sandi Christenson of Dillsburg waged one of the toughest battles of the day competing against 60 fellow Golden retrievers in the largest breed competition. Though ribbonless today, "Hobie's" Grand Champion credentials will follow him into retirement.
A Brittany Spaniel "Carrolltown Count Lancelot," owned by Lynda Martin of Carlisle also did not place in a field of 18 competitors. Other exhibitors included Kandy Adams of Hanover with Newfoundland "Fancy," Morgan Miller of New Bloomfield with Bedlington terrier "Roadie," and Lisa Chiado of Mechanicsburg with Clumber Spaniel "Desmond."
In Monday night's Toy Group competition, "Roger" the Pekingese, handled by owner David Fitzpatrick of East Berlin, placed third — somewhat of a surprise for the young newcomer, who is distantly related to last year's Best in Show winner "Malachy."
Miniature Poodle Surrey Sugar Baby, owned by Ron Scott and Debbie Burke of Dillsburg, had a bittersweet swan song, this being her last show. She won her breed Monday but did not place in Monday night's Non-Sporting Group.
Tonight's group competitions promise to be even more electrifying than Monday's. Most of the top-ranked dogs won their breeds today. Competition will be fierce among Sporting, Working and Terrier breeds in their quest for Best in Show honors.
Today's breed winners include many top-ranked dogs, including a German wirehaired pointer, English Springer Spaniel, Golden Retriever, Doberman Pinscher, Kuvasc, Wire Fox Terrier and Scottish Terrier. Each will compete in their respective groups. The winners of those groups will join the Affenpinsher, Bichon Frise, Old English Sheepdog and the American Foxhound in the Best in Show ring.
Tonight's show airs live on USA network from 8 p.m. to 11 p.m. Jr. Showmanship finals precede the televised coverage at 7:30 p.m.


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Robert Sanford Havoc Pennington (born c. 1976 ) is an American computer engineer and entrepreneur. He is known in the free software community due to his work on HAL, GNOME, Metacity, GConf, and D-BUS.[1][2]
Havoc Pennington graduated from the University of Chicago in 1998. After graduation, he worked at Red Hat as a Desktop manager/engineer for 9 years, ending in 2008. He was also one of the main developers of the Debian GNU/Linux distribution, and also founded the project freedesktop.org in 2000.[3][4] He promoted the idea of the Gnome Online Desktop in 2007.[citation needed] For a time,[when?] he led the development of the 2006-2009 Mugshot project. From 2008 until June 2011, he worked on a consumer product for the startup company Litl (hardware, and proprietary software and services). Since then, he has worked for Typesafe.
- Havoc Pennington, GTK+ /Gnome Application Development, Sams, ISBN 978-0735700789, 1999.
- ^ Roberts, Jonathan. "Interview with Havoc Pennington". Free Software Magazine. Retrieved 26 February 2013.
- ^ Roblimo. "Havoc Pennington Answers". Slashdot.org. Retrieved 26 February 2013.
- ^ Rayiner Hashem & Eugenia Loli-Queru. "The Big freedesktop.org Interview". OSnews.com. Retrieved 26 February 2013.
- ^ Loli, Eungenia. "Havoc Pennington: Linux has its Nails on UNIX's Coffin". Retrieved 3 January 2013.
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The Peace Pole Project
The Peace Pole Project is an official project of The World Peace Prayer Society (WPPS) headquartered at The World Peace Sanctuary in Wassaic, NY. WPPS is a non profit, member supported, non-sectarian organization with NGO status at the United Nations. The sole mission of WPPS is to unite people across the world through the universal peace message, "May Peace Prevail on Earth."
History of the Peace Pole Project
The Peace Pole Project was started in Japan by Masahisa Goi (1916 – 1980), who dedicated his life to spreading the message, "May Peace Prevail on Earth". Mr. Goi was greatly affected by the destruction caused by World War II and the atomic bombs which fell on the city of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. His desire to assist in the creation of world peace was answered when in 1955, the Peace Message, May Peace Prevail On Earth, came to him in a moment of great inspiration and deep prayer.
After Mr. Goi authored the Universal Peace Message in 1955, a great number of people gathered in support of his vision and activities to spread the Peace Message were promoted throughout Japan. Soon after, Peace Poles inscribed with the Peace Message began to appear in various locations across Japan initiating the start of The Peace Pole Project.
The Peace Pole Project was first introduced to the United States with the opening of The World Peace Prayer Society offices in San Francisco and New York in 1986, The International Year of Peace.
Peace Poles are now the most recognized international peace symbol and monument the world over with more than 200,000 Peace Poles standing in almost every country throughout the world.
The Peace Pole Makers, USA
Owners of the original Peace Pole Makers USA were Carol & Joseph Spaulding from East Jordan, Michigan. They began to craft Peace Poles for the Peace Pole Project in 1985. In 2001, the business was sold to current owner, Dave Moffat whose Peace Pole Making facilities are currently located in Maple City, MI.
Here is a link to a YouTube video about The Peace Pole Makers USA that Jerry Leggett at PeaceBubble.org made in July 2008.
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Down in sunny Tampa Bay, Florida, longtime Republican Party state committeewoman Carol Carter forwarded her colleagues a jokes about 'blacks' and Katrina that tickled her funnybone:
From: Carol Carter
Friday, January 30, 9:30 AM
Subject: FW: Amazing!
I'm confused
How can 2,000,000 blacks get into Washington, DC in 1 day in sub zero temps when 200,000 couldn't get out of New Orleans in 85 degree temps with four days notice?
Carol Carter
How indeed, Carol? How indeed?
Unfortunately for Carol, someone was not a Team Player and she got in trouble for her little ha-ha. As the outrage began to build, she chose to send what I call a Judo Apology-- something that contains the word 'sorry' or 'apology' but is actually a passive-aggressive indictment of the offended party:
From: Carol Carter
January 30, 5:54 PM
Subject: Earlier e-mail
I have been asked to send this apology for my earlier e-mail. I am sorry that it was received in a negative manner. I do hope that we are going to be allowed to keep our sense of humor.
As you can now see, it went to very few people. I did add Todd Marks in this apology, as he is in the mix now. I am also sorry to learn that some of these persons are not real team players. There really was no reason for this to go beyond those that I e-mailed (8 people). This was not an e-mail blast as I do not have that capability.
There's that Team Player phrase, always a red flag.
In any case, we may or may not be allowed to keep our sense (sic) of humor, but Ms. Carter has not been allowed to keep her job.
That's ok; she'll have lots more time now to collect and forward hilarious chain e-mails about poor people in New Orleans murdered by governmental incompetence.
Re: Fw: Amazing!
I'm confused
How long does it take an ignorant, racist political hack to clean out her desk after embarrassing her entire party?
As you can read in the initial St. Petersburg Times article about the controversy, it's not the only time the Hillsborough County branch of the party has called attention to itself for its racial attitudes in recent months.
Florida Republican chairman Jim Greer, contacted by the Times, had what (even to my cynical ears) sounds like a genuinely angry, frustrated, and disappointed reaction:
"I'm pretty much done with those sorts of inappropriate and, and -- I am at a loss for words," Greer said. "I just came back from Washington, D.C., working to get our first African-American elected as (Republican National Committee) chairman. It's one thing to have a person express their thoughts and humor. It's another to have a leader of the Republican Party. I'm just done with it."
Those interested can learn more about the Hillsborough County Republican Party at their website, currently announcing the group's 'Lincoln Day Dinner.'
Bonus question: What's the difference between a 'racial joke' and a 'racist joke?'


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Tibbers has been doing very very well since I brought him in. He behaves like a normal cat now for the most part. He sits on my lap sometimes and is okay with being held and carried. I don't even have a hard time clipping his nails! Luckily, he stopped lashing out at me and will actually bat my hand away (without using claws) when he's annoyed as opposed to his previous habit of scratching without warning.
Tibs is also allowed full access to the apartment now. He stays in my room usually though, which is fine with me. He is a little uncomfortable with my roommates or strangers, but that's also okay with me. I feel like we have a special bond since he trusts me much more than anyone else.
The only thing he does differently than the other cats I've had is that he's much more reclusive. He spends most of the day sleeping under my bed but he doesn't seem to do it out of fear. I think he just likes the solitude of it. He comes out to visit me throughout the day though!
OH MAN one more thing. Tibbers is ABSOLUTELY in love with the other cat we have here. He will follow her around and always trys to sit with her. She and him are definitely friends now, but she doesn't share the same admiration that he does for her. It's cute to watch him endlessly seeking her approval though!
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Thanks again for all the help and support you guys. I would have given up a long time ago if it wasn't for all of your kind words!
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Yay, so happy for Tibs! And beautiful photos!
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Hey guys,
I'm back with another question for you all. Tibs is still doing well, he's healthier now and is very cuddly and happy. However, maybe 3 weeks ago, he started peeing on my roommates bed. I thought it was just because she had piles of clothes on her bed and he liked the feel of them, but after cleaning everything, he just peed on the bed again. We used an enzyme cleaner and steam cleaned the mattress, so it was a thorough cleaning.
I'm pretty sure that it's territorial urination. He only pees on the spot that my roommates cat sleeps on. The two get along fine though so it seems odd. I don't think it's a medical thing, there's no blood in his urine and he drinks a lot of water. He also doesn't strain in the litterbox or anything. He got a clean bill of health from the vet last time I took him in, which was a few days before the peeing started, so I;m pretty sure it isn't medical.
The only options I've been able to think of to stop it though are preventative measures and I'm worried that he'll start back at it whenever he gets an opportunity. Do you think that covering my roommates bed with a tarp when it's not in use would help? I've considered those motion detector things that will make noise when cats are near to deter them, but my roommate's cat sleeps there so I don't want to upset her. Besides that, I'm not sure what else I can do to curb the situation quickly. I've been feeding him his meals on a tray on the bed and have been considering confining him to the bathroom for awhile until he builds up a better relationship with his litter box.
Does anyone have any advice for me? I really don't want to have to replace the mattress or continually wash my roommates bedding, but I'm not sure what the best route to take is.
Thanks in advance!
Also sorry if this isn't the best place to post this, but I figure urinating inside is a common ex-stray problem and I already had this post going, so hopefully it's ok!
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Matrix is my little rescue from the outside world.
His previous owners moved here from (I think) Indiana. He spent the entire first 10 years of his life outside.
They were used to him feeding himself (probably not too difficult for a farm cat), but it can be a bit more challenging in Mesa suburbs.
Long story short, I stole him and brought him inside and he is one HAPPY kitty. He likes sitting on the windowsill, but spends most of his day sleeping, considering I won't let him steal ALL my blankets at night.
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Hmm. There are plug in diffusers which emit a hormonal scent or something to calm cats down from anxiety or depression. The enzyme cleaner like Nature's Miracle should help with cleaning.
I know what you're going through, but with me it was a 13-14 year old dog who pooped on my roommates bed o-o
Maybe with the kitty it's territorial but I don't know enough about cat behavior. Has he been neutered yet? I know you stated that he was, but maybe his testicles just hadn't dropped at that point. I don't know.
Let me just say though. He's one lucky cat! He's adorable. Cats are never happier long term outside. Ferals are a different story, but with disease and a fractioned life span and all the dangers, I doubt they're really that happy outside.
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It's probably territorial. I find it can help to make the "favoured" area impossible to wee on (hard on a bed but placing something that blocks the cat but could be easily moved works) - sometimes it just a case of breaking what has become a habit.
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What a sweet kitten! Frankly, I think all cats enjoy the outside, but I think they can all get used to being indoor cats. At 4 months old, he is fairly "trainable" to your lifestyle.
Since you were able to handle him, I wonder if he was simply dumped.
If he has been neutered, someone knew enough to do that, thankfully.
We had a feral cat spray our home in WI; we caught him and had him fixed and he never left (of his own choosing). He refused to let us touch him till I continued to feed him and slowly sing-song to him each time I put the plate down. He finally let me touch him. We moved and he came with us (and the other 2) and he won't leave our side.
Sometimes I think people don't understand that animals bond and tossing them out because it is "convenient" is just cruel.
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A Southeast Portland family has been taken to shelter by the Red Cross after their home was damaged by smoke and fire Sunday morning, Portland fire officials said.
All three of the family's pet cats were killed, including one that firefighters tried without success to resuscitate using animal-sized equipment.
Fire officials have not determined the cause of the fire or estimated the cost of damage to the home in the West Powellhurst neighborhood, said public information officer Ron Rouse.
Residents of the one-story home in the 2300 block of Southeast 113th Avenue, near S.E. Division Street and I-205, were able to get out before firefighters arrive. One person was treated at the scene for smoke inhalation.
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TRENTON — A bill that would strengthen oversight of New Jersey's 600 adult foster homes and the 1,200 people with developmental disabilities who live in them won final passage in the Legislature today.
The Assembly passed Tara's Law (S599) by a 78-0 vote, and now heads to the governor's desk for consideration.
The bill is named for 28-year-old Tara O'Leary, who died in 2008 from starvation and neglect while she was under the care of a licensed foster home or "community care residence" in Bloomsbury. A state case management also was supposed to making monthly visits to O'Leary, who died weighing 43 pounds.
Among the many new requirements, the bill would require foster home providers to undergo evaluations to see if they are fit to continue caring for a disabled person, and require case managers' supervisors to visit the foster home residents every two years.
"The tragedy of Tara's death is that it was preventable," said Patrick Diegnan (D-Middlesex), one of the sponsors of the bill. "When it comes to the developmentally disabled, clear chains of communication are a literal lifeline to survival. Systemic breakdowns in that chain simply cannot be allowed to occur again."
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MOBILE, Alabama - South Alabama left-handed pitcher Hannah Campbell was named second-team All-America Wednesday by the National Fastpitch Coaches Association.
The honor makes Campbell the first-ever Jaguars' player to be named an All-America selection. She was selected as the pitcher at-large on the second team.
"I'm excited,'' Campbell said. "I want to start off by thanking coach (Becky Clark) and Jerry (Partsch, strength and conditioning coach) the coaching staff and the team and my catcher behind the plate. I can't be successful without them. You can't be successful on the mound without someone to call pitches and a great defense behind you. That's how I feel. I'm just really happy.
"I wanted to tell my parents as soon as I found out. I just want to thank everyone. I couldn't get this without everyone else helping me to get there.''
Clark, who led her team to a Top 25 ranking this season and its second consecutive Sun Belt Conference tournament title, said Campbell is deserving of the recognition.
"It's a huge honor, especially considering she's the first All-American in program history,'' Clark said. "It's not only a reflection of what she's done all year but also what our team has done all year. We're very proud of her and all the work that she's put into it. I think this is just the beginning. I think there are many more accolades for our athletes in the coming years.''
Campbell, a 6-foot-1 junior from Satsuma, posted a 22-9 record this season. She had 39 appearances and 27 starts, pitching 25 complete games with six saves. She posted a 1.08 earned run average that was No. 2 in the country; she entered the regional tournament with the best ERA in the nation. Campbell produced four shutouts, pitched 207.2 innings with 168 strikeouts. Opponents batted just .184 against her.
"I think that I have a pitching staff that does it the right way,'' Clark said. "They work hard and they do what they are asked to do and they work together and they have great attitudes. Just the fact they do it the right way is important. So when you have a young lady who is recognized for her efforts, not only has she had success but she's had success the right way.
"It's an awesome thing and it says a lot about Hannah as a person.''
Campbell was joined on the All-America list by two other Sun Belt Conference players -- Louisiana-Lafayette outfielder at-large Brianna Cherry (second team) and catcher Sarah Draheim (third team).
As for players from in-state schools making the list, Alabama was represented by four players: outfielder Kayla Braud (first team), outfielder Haylie McCleney (second team), second baseman at-large Kaila Hunt (second team) and utility selection Jackie Traina (third team).


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Jerron Love is one California's emerging young basketball stars and yet he is only a high school freshman.
What makes him so popular? He has been a YouTube sensation with some of his crazy crossovers and no-look passes. LeBron James is a fan of the young star by working with him in an animated cartoon online.
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Jerron Love recently moved from New York to California to test the waters of West Coast basketball before college. Bleacher Report's Chris Chavez was able to interview Jerron Love before basketball season kicks off in California.
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There are 10,151 analyst ratings on the 500 stocks in the S&P 500. That's an average of just over 20 analysts covering each stock in the index. What would we all do without those 53 analysts covering Intel (the most for any company)? Or the 49 covering Apple and Cisco?
It's probably not a surprise to anyone that the majority of analyst ratings are "buys." It's just the nature of the business. Of the 10,151 ratings on S&P 500 stocks, 5,416 are buys (or 53.4%). That wouldn't seem so out of the ordinary if the rest were sells, but just 504 of the 10,151 ratings are sells (4.96%) -- the rest are "holds."
Below are the 40 stocks in the S&P 500 with 80% or more buy ratings. Only one stock in the index has 100% buy ratings -- Washington Post (WPO). But before you go wondering how a newspaper company could be the most loved stock on Wall Street, realize that only one analyst covers the stock. The S&P 500 stock that is really probably the most loved is Celgene (NASDAQ:CELG). There are 25 analysts covering CELG, and 96% of them recommend buying it. Mastercard (NYSE:MA), Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL), CMS Energy (NYSE:CMS), Thermo Fisher (NYSE:TMO), and Republic Services (NYSE:RSG) are the only other names in the index with more than 90% buy ratings. Visa (NYSE:V) isn't far behind at 89.5%. With Mastercard and Visa ranking third and eighth in terms of buy ratings, analysts are definitely bullish on credit cards even though the two stocks are down roughly 20% year to date. Other notables that one might expect to see on this list (along with Apple) include Google (NASDAQ:GOOG), Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS), Cisco (NASDAQ:CSCO), and Coca-Cola (NYSE:KO). Some other names that investors might not realize are so loved by analysts include Halliburton (NYSE:HAL), Peabody (BTU), Archer-Daniels-Midland (NYSE:ADM), and Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT).
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This is so corny, but the sweetest moments we have are when I wake up to see Luke with the most blissful look on his face and his arms wrapped around a booby
This is so corny, but the sweetest moments we have are when I wake up to see Luke with the most blissful look on his face and his arms wrapped around a booby
NOT corny at all! Check out my ramblings here to really know "corny" (I think it's all precious and sweet!!):Originally Posted by toriandlukesmom
My Morning Girl - Co-Sleeping Benefits!
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I just read that..it brought tears to my eyes! Last night I came home from work and my sister (who is also my nanny) said "well we got off schedule, so he's not hungry" (usually he is starving upon my arrival!). After changing into my nightgown, I took him on my lap facing me and was talking to my sister about their day, and when I looked down Luke had this look of utmost concentration, brows furrowed and all, and was grabbing my gown trying to figure out how to get the nursing flaps open! We laughed and watched him and when he started grunting and fussing I nursed him and he gave me the biggest grin! He may not have been hungry, but he sure needed his mommy!
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Yes, P-T-M, I too love the "is he a good baby question" . I either want to ask them for a list of what constitutes a good baby or say " yep, since I am bringing him up my way, of course he is" When people are around me a lot too, they will ask "does he ever cry?" as if he should cry a lot. and I say "not much at all" - and they reply with amazement and joy for me - then I get the inevitable question about "when are you going to put that baby down?" as I am either holding / wearing him...and that leads to the you have to let him learn about the world on his own, blah blah.. but that too is another discussion...
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THE first sale at new premises for Ipswich auctioneers Lockdales, now at the former officers' barracks in Martlesham Heath, included two pieces of silver and enamel ware of the type associated with the Solvychegodsk region.
In the 16th and 17th centuries, Solvychegodsk, or Usolsk as it was then known, was a commercial, handicraft, and cultural hub of Northern Russia and especially famous for these wares typically decorated to a white ground with colourful flowers, exotic birds and characterful folk portraits.
It was this category of wares that so often inspired the Imperial workshops in the late 19th century.
Usolsk enamels are rare visitors to the UK auction market but, courtesy of the same Suffolk deceased estate, Lockdales could offer both a 6½in (17cm) bowl or chasha decorated with flowers to the interior and a bird to the foot (estimate £2000-3000) and a lobed box and cover with a portrait (estimate £600-900).
The auctioneers had been reluctant to date the pieces but even several weeks prior to the sale there were signs that both, deemed mid to late 17th century in date and in relatively good condition, would far exceed expectations.
On March 1, the bowl sold at £44,000, the box for £22,000. Both lots, subject to 15% buyer's premium, sold to a Russian buyer who attended the sale in person.


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The Jets head into this Sunday's game still unified in the locker room. It would be easy for the team to start splitting based on how the season has gone thus far. That doesn't seem to be the case though.
"Coach Mangini stresses that in a time like this, in a time of adversity, that we all stick together," Kellen Clemens said yesterday. "And he's leading by example in doing that. That means a lot to the guys in the locker room that there's no rats jumping from the ship right now. It's important that we keep that mentality."
Staying together is a good thing because once it goes the other way it can get very ugly. That's not to say this season has been a thing of beauty by any means but it could get a lot worse if players start taking sides.
That is the reason Mangini is staying with Pennington. He doesn't want his players to get the idea that he is panicking. He said many times last year that he approaches every game the same, win, lose or draw the week before. It is that temperament that drives us fans crazy but could help this team get through the tough spot that its in now.
"I think our guys have handled the adversity really well," Chad Pennington said. "I think that's a testament to their character and the type of people that they are. We're all angry and frustrated and disappointed in what has happened in the past six games, but we all understand that the only way you can turn it around is to stay together, keep working, stay positive and keep talking to each other.
"Once you become divisive or once you start arguing and doing those types of things, nothing good can happen."
The players are certainly buying into what Mangini is selling them. At 1-5 that is about all you can hope for of your team at this point. The players continuing to believe in the coach and in each other.
The next step, of course, would be to actually get a win. That would go a long way towards righting this "unified" ship.