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LANCASTER - Five L-L League basketball teams will continue their quest for District 3 gold when the semifinal rounds tip on Monday.
Perhaps the biggest surprise is that Lancaster Catholic's girls' team is not one of them.
The Crusaders, seeded No. 3 in AAA and with a perfect 26-0 record heading into Saturday's quarterfinal round, dropped a 59-53 decision to Susquehannock and was banished to the consolation round.
Lancaster Catholic was the defending district champ and was in the state championship game last season - and returned a big chunk of that team this season.
Hence that 26-0 start, including Section 4 and L-L League championships.
The Crusaders take on Berks Catholic on Tuesday and need a win to go to States; the top six AAA girls' teams from District 3 advance to the PIAA playoffs.
So who's left in the winner's bracket?
On the boys' side, there is one L-L League team in each classification:
McCaskey in AAAA; Donegal in AAA; Columbia in AA; and Lebanon Catholic in A.
On the girls' side, there's just one team still standing: Annville-Cleona in AA.
District 3 boys' basketball playoff brackets.
District 3 girls' basketball playoff brackets.
McCaskey vs. York, Tuesday, 6:30 p.m. @ Giant Center
Donegal vs. Berks Catholic, Monday, 6:30 p.m. @ Giant Center
Columbia vs. Trinity, Wednesday, 8:30 p.m. @ Giant Center
Lebanon Catholic vs. New Hope, Monday, 6 p.m. @ East Pennsboro
Annville-Cleona vs. York Catholic, Monday, 6 p.m. @ Penn Manor
* McCaskey topped York 79-65 on December 28 in the title game of the Tornado's holiday tournament; Devonne Pinkard scored 24 points and Diante Cherry added 23 points in the victory. McCaskey will bring a 25-game winning streak into the rematch against York; winner goes to the district final vs. Harrisburg or Wilson, set for Saturday at 1 p.m. at the Giant Center.
* McCaskey coach Steve Powell has 397 career victories.
* Semifinal losers will play in third-place games. The only L-L League team not officially in States yet is Annville-Cleona; three AA girls' teams advance to States, so the Little Dutchmen need at least one more win to play in the PIAA playoffs.
As for consolation-round contenders, there are four L-L League teams still alive - three girls' teams and one boys' team.
Lancaster Catholic's boys' team, which fell to Donegal in the quarterfinals, will play two more games; District 3 send seven teams to States, so win or lose Monday vs. Bishop McDevitt, the Crusaders will play no worse than in the seventh-place game on Thursday.
The three girls' teams still alive for a trip to States: Manheim Township and Lampeter-Strasburg in AAAA and, as mentioned, Lancaster Catholic in AAA.
Lancaster Catholic. Bishop McDevitt, Monday, 8 p.m. @ Lebanon
Manheim Township vs. Hershey, Monday, 6:30 p.m. @ Lebanon
L-S vs. Cumberland Valley, Monday, 5 p.m. @ Lebanon
Lancaster Catholic vs. Berks Catholic, Tuesday, 6 p.m. @ Penn Manor
* Bishop McDevitt beat Lancaster Catholic 55-52 in a non-league game at Catholic on January 5. The winner advances to the fifth-place game; the loser goes to the seventh-place game, and must win there to make States.
* If Manheim Township and L-S either both win or both lose, they'd clash in either the fifth-place or seventh-place game on Thursday. L-S knocked out Manheim Township in the L-L League semifinals with a fourth-quarter comeback.
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French President François Hollande has proposed banning homework as part of a series of policies designed to reform the French educational system, according to ABC News.
"Education is priority," Hollande said in a speech at Paris's Sorbonne University. "An education program is, by definition, a societal program. Work should be done at school, rather than at home."
The reasoning behind the proposed ban?
According to a statement from an official at the French Embassy, "When it comes to homework, the President said it should be done during school hours rather than at home, in order to establish equal opportunities."
Homework favors the wealthy, Hollande argues, because they are more likely to have a good working environment at home, including parents with the time and energy to help them with their work.


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Hemlock woolly adelgid, a tiny bug that poses a major threat to hemlock trees, has arrived in Warren County.
Signs of the invasive bugs were spotted by Kirk Johnson of Friends of Allegheny Wilderness while he was in the Webbs Ferry boat launch area of the Allegheny National Forest.
ANF Silviculturist Andrea Hille went with Johnson to the site where he found cottony, white tufts at the bases of needles on hemlock branches. She took samples and sent them to U.S. Forest Service Entomologist Rick Turcotte for confirmation.
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Allegheny National Forest Silviculturist Andrea Hille uses a loupe to take a close look at a hemlock twig suspected of being infested by hemlock woolly adelgid.
From there, the samples were sent to the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture.
Both the state and the feds confirmed Johnson's evaluation - Warren County is now positive for hemlock woolly adelgid. "The Hemlock Woolly Adelgid has been confirmed in Warren County," Department of Agriculture Deputy Press Secretary Nicole Bucher said. "This is an insect that has been in Pennsylvania since the 1960s and devastates the state tree the Eastern Hemlock."
The pests were found on the national forest, but that they were in Warren County, Pennsylvania, took precedence. "It's a big deal when we find something in a new county," Turcotte said. The department "does all of the final determination."
Johnson has been keeping his eyes open for signs of the creatures, but he didn't want to find them.
"This is a day I've been waiting for with trepidation for 10 years," he said.
"It kills hemlocks," Turcotte said. "In areas it's been there a while, we have seen extensive mortality."
Hemlock makes up about seven percent of the tree population on the Allegheny National Forest.
There used to be a greater percentage of hemlocks. Because their numbers have already dwindled, the trees have become even more valuable. "Now it's more important ecologically," Hille said. "Hemlocks are home to a huge number of insects."
The popularity of the tree with insect species is part of the problem regarding hemlock woolly adelgid. Birds that land in a hemlock to snack on some insects might carry HWA to the next tree they visit.
During their crawler phase, the adelgids can also be carried by the wind, Turcotte said.
They are also spread by human activity. "They've been moved around a fair amount on nursery stock," Turcotte said.
There is no "landscape scale" treatment for hemlock woolly adelgid, he said. "You can't treat a forest." Once identified, individual trees can be treated with chemicals. There are also biological agents that can be used on a small scale.
Due to limited funding, the Forest Service has to evaluate the extent of problems like an area of hemlock woolly adelgid infestation and what action is required.
"We need to delineate the extent of that infestation now," Hille said. "As a forest, we have that site and the one along the Clarion River, we're going to have to determine how we're going to approach those sites."
The public can help slow the spread and minimize the damage.
Johnson said he makes a habit of taking a look at hemlocks. Until two weeks ago, he had not found anything troubling. When he did, he contacted Hille and showed her the problem area.
"He did all the right things," Turcotte said.
The agencies have experts who know just what to look for, but their numbers are limited.
"The first thing is you have to find it," Turcotte said. "It's really hard to find, especially at a new infestation."
"That's why having the public's help is a major component of any of our insect and disease programs," he said. "We always tell people to do, if they see dying trees or something unusual in the trees, let the land manager know."
"It's amazing how something so tiny could be so devastating to a whole species of tree," Johnson said.
"They feed at the base of the needles... on the food reserves in the twigs," Turcotte said.
After the trees lose that source of nutrients, they decline and stop producing new growth, he said. Most of the trees' photosynthesis takes place in new growth areas.
Over a period of five to seven years, the tree dies.
Every hemlock woolly adelgid on a hemlock is female, Turcotte said. They essentially clone themselves twice a year, laying 50 to 300 eggs each time.
"They have a complicated life cycle," he said. The creatures spend the second half of their lives on spruce. In that stage, some of the insects become male.
Johnson, who is executive director of Friends of Allegheny Wilderness, is arranging a volunteer survey for hemlock woolly adelgid for Sunday, Sept. 8, in the proposed Cornplanter Wilderness Area.
"Members of the public with an interest in helping can contact FAW at firstname.lastname@example.com to sign up or to ask for additional information," he said.


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Cut grass smell is key to healthier dairy products
Dairy products could contain a higher proportion of healthy omega-3 fats all year round, thanks to a discovery reported in the Society for Applied Microbiology's Journal of Applied Microbiology.
Scientists at the BBSRC strategically-funded Institute of Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences (IBERS) at Aberystwyth University discovered that the molecules that give cut grass its distinctive 'green odour' kill off bacteria that convert healthy omega-3 fats into saturated fats in a cow's gut. IBERS receives strategic funding from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC),
Dr Sharon Huws, Coleg Cymraeg lecturer in Animal Science at IBERS who led the research,said: "We've known for a while that milk contains a greater proportion of the healthy omega-3 fats in the summer than in the winter, and now we know it's probably down to the antimicrobial effects of the green odour products from grass.
"Obviously cows can't be outside all year round but we could, for example, supplement their winter feed with one or more of these products."
Approximately 4% of whole milk is made up of a mixture of different fats.
Too much saturated fat in the human diet can lead to health problems, including cardiovascular disease. But a proportion of the fats in milk are omega-3 fatty acids, which are generally considered good fats and are thought to have a number of health benefits.
The ratio of omega-3 to saturated fats in milk varies across the year and this research potentially answers why in winter, when cows are often housed inside and may not be eating fresh grass or silage, milk is less healthy overall.
Dr Huws added "Of course, it's not just milk that would be healthier with the supplemented feed, it would also be all the various products produced from whole milk - butter, cheese, yoghurts, milkshakes, and more."
This is good news in a world where the population is set to reach 9Bn by 2050 and the need for nutritious, affordable, accessible, and safe food has never been as important.
The research is ongoing with funding from the Welsh Government with links to industrial partners Waitrose, DairyCrest, Wynnstay and Volac.
Notes to editors
The article referred to is: "Fatty acid oxidation products ('green odour') released from perennial ryegrass following biotic and abiotic stress, potentially have antimicrobial properties against the rumen microbiota resulting in decreased biohydrogenation", Sharon Huws, Mark Scott, John Tweed, Michael Lee, DOI: 10.1111/jam.12314
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To arrange an interview with Dr Huws, please contact Nancy Mendoza, Society for Applied Microbiology, on 07920 264596.
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ILGear has received an exclusive look at the new gear to be worn at the LXM 949 event Saturday at Orange Coast College in Orange County, Calif. This is the first LXM Pro Tour event for 2012 and will feature the likes of Kyle Harrison, Mikey Powell, Shamel and Rhamel Bratton and rookie Sam Bradman out of Salisbury.
Check out the Champion jerseys and apparel, STX gloves and pads, Cascade helmets with custom Headwrapz LXM graphics, Easton shafts and gloves and an Adrenaline duffle bag. Pretty sweet gear.
What is Sole, you ask? Bike company out of Venice Beach, Calif., that will be custom-making a bicycle for the MVP of each LXM Pro event this summer.
The LXM Pro event starts at 4:30 p.m. PST, followed by the Adrenaline High School All-American Game at 6:30. For more information, check out LXMPro.com.
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Those crimson "sale" ads, placed invitingly at the stores' entrances, are as important to retailers this season as the twinkling Christmas trees and other holiday trimmings.
Stung by last year's dismal season, retailers know recession-weary shoppers are searching for deep markdowns and super discounts. Otherwise, they may not open their wallets.
That describes LuAnn Calandrino, who shopped Macy's department store clutching a stack of ads in one hand.
"I'm not going to pay full price for anything," she said.
Determined to reverse months of declining sales, merchants are adopting several strategies to draw in customers, from running sales earlier in the season to promoting more practical goods.
Forecasts say this holiday season should be less bleak than in past years, but how much depends on who you ask.
The National Retail Federation predicts holiday sales will decline 1 percent from last year while the International Council of Shopping Centers expects sales to rise about 1 percent.
In 2008, the severe recession took its toll. Holiday sales fell 2.4 percent from the previous year, the first decline in more than 15 years, according to the U.S. Commerce Department.
"Last year, the game was not won by the retailers — they had too much inventory and they had to do some fire-sale pricing," said Ed Bentley, a retail specialist from Deloitte & Touche, a national accounting and consulting firm that predictsholiday sales will be flat.
While many retailers are sticking to a promotional strategy, shoppers should not expect 2008's deep, deep discounts, Bentley said.
"I think retailers and shoppers realize there aren't going to be the deals of last year," Bentley said.
But consumers have grown accustomed to not paying full retail, according to Deloitte's survey.
About half the respondents said they expect to see discounts of 50 percent or more on everything from electronics and toys to apparel.
Consumer fears
Calandrino, the Ada mother of two shopping at Macy's, walked away from a ceramic Dutch oven she had been eyeing for a gift for herself after seeing it on the Rachel Ray show.
Why? She refused to pay $10 more after missing a sale earlier in the week.
"I don't want to pay full price when it's going to be on sale," she said.
Calandrino's frugality reflects the majority of those surveyed by Deloitte: 74 percent say they won't buy unless an item is on sale.
There is a good reason. More than a third of those shoppers say they fear losing their jobs or having their pay cut. But the majority also believe the economy will improve in 2010 — twice the number who felt that way last year.
Despite those rosier expectations, those polled plan to spend less on gifts. The average budget is $452 compared with $532 in 2008, and $569 in 2007. That is a 20 percent drop in two years.
The National Retail Federation's survey shows the average budget is $683.
To the stores
Where are people shopping this holiday season?
59 percent: Discount retailers such as Walmart, Meijer and Target
Anxious to get their share of a shrinking budget, retailers have entered into a heated price war.
Walmart Stores Inc. fired the first volley by offering toys and hotly-anticipated books and DVDs for less than $10.
Target and Amazon.com. responded almost immediately.
Meijer Inc., which has a Midwest footprint, continues to hold its own against Walmart and other national discount retailers.
This year, the Walker-based retailer announced its early November prices matched or beat national competitors on 90 percent of identical toys. On a 95-toy sample, the retailer claimed it's overall price was $68.19 less than Walmart, $181.21 less than Target and $187.32 less than Toys R Us.
"The message is that we are going to be very competitive with every national retailer," said Meijer spokesman Frank Guglielmi.
"This year, we amped it up even more in terms of promotions and sales. We are expanding on what we did last year that customers really liked."
Meijer lowered the price on 400 toys — 25 percent more than last year.
For the third straight year, the retailer released its Black Friday deals almost two weeks before the biggest shopping day of the holiday season.
Industrywide, retailers first began rolling out deals in October.
These early sales are drawing crowds; a line more than 20-people deep snaked around the Grandville Kohl's store last weekend.
With her arms weighed down by more than a dozen pieces of clothes, Donna Kahny wasn't complaining about the long lines.
She figures she bought $300 of gifts for her grandchildren for about $150 after combining store sales with a 30 percent discount coupon the retailer sent her.
The Grand Rapids woman thinks she will have all her shopping wrapped up by Thanksgiving so she won't need to take advantage of Black Friday deals.
"I don't remember seeing so many 40 or 50 percent off sales last year," said Kahny, standing in line at the Kohl's store at RiverTown Crossings. "Which makes you wonder if they are marking it up at the beginning or trying to get rid of it."
Shoppers who hold out for deep discounts may see items disappear from the shelves, Bentley warned, because retailers are maintaining leaner inventories to avoid last year's fire sales.
Retail experiments
Inventory volumes are at 2002 levels, according to the National Retail Federation report.
Another way retailers are keeping costs down is by experimenting with pop-up, or temporary, stores.
In October, Toys R Us opened 80 pop-up stores in malls or shopping centers, and more than 260 Holiday Express stores inside its Babies R Us stores.
All will close by mid-January, although customers can still make returns and exchanges at other stores, said Bob Friedland, spokesman for the Wayne, N.J.- based toy store chain.
"It's really about being in a convenient space for shoppers and making sure we can provide toys no matter where people are shopping," Friedland said.
Shoppers are also experimenting with different strategies. One is using less plastic as credit card companies raise their fees.
"More people are paying with cash," said Duane Slathar, a sales manager at the Brookstone store in Woodland Mall.
That observation is confirmed by a National Retail Federation survey, which shows a quarter of shoppers will buy with cash — a 9 percent spike over last year.
With October's retail sales the highest since April, merchants hope consumers are ready to spend.
Store manager Scott Wojton said the Barnes & Noble book store at Woodland Mall has been bustling since it opened earlier this month, adding, "We are cautiously optimistic that sales will be better than last year."
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Ricardo Vaz Te has pledged his commitment to West Ham United after scoring the winner in the 3-2 Capital One Cup third-round win over Cardiff City.
Having submitted a transfer request at the end of August after becoming frustrated at a lack of first-team action, Vaz Te ultimately remained at the Club and has been urged to show his worth by manager Sam Allardye and captain Kevin Nolan.
After scoring for the second Capital One Cup tie in succession, Vaz Te confirmed his ambition to show them, his squad-mates and Hammers fans why he believes he can be an important player for West Ham United.
Vaz, you must have enjoyed playing and scoring the winner against Cardiff on Tuesday evening?
RVT: "Obviously I enjoy playing and that's the reason I came here and I'm in this business. I guess we all want to play but we can't all play at the same time, but I got my 90 minutes on Tuesday and I was really pleased. I can only keep knocking on the manager's door saying 'I deserve to play and I'm ready to play' and I'm glad we won.
"In the past I have created chances and score goals. I've been asked to play different positions and I tried to adapt as much as possible for the benefit of the team.
"Obviously, I try not to be selfish. This season I have found myself in a bit of a pickle because I noticed that I wasn't going to be picked as the first option. I think I deserve to be the first option so it has been very frustrating. I was happy to get the 90 minutes and now I have to keep showing that I deserve to play."
Your goal came at a great time, with just two minutes of normal time remaining?
RVT: "At that stage, it was hard for Cardiff to react so it was a killer goal, I guess. I was very pleased for myself and for the team as well.
"I think we deserved to win. We played better than Cardiff throughout but we lost ourselves a bit in the second half and gave them the chance to come back into the game when we should have buried them. In the end, we got the result, we won 3-2 and I'm pleased for everybody."
It was an important result for the squad, wasn't it, particularly after the disappointing defeat by Everton on Saturday?
RVT: "It's always good to win because you build momentum, you see. Winning is a habit and the quicker we get that habit, the better. Obviously, it's easy for the fans to panic when we don't win or we draw and we've lost two games at home now, but we've got a good team and we're going to keep on fighting.
"They shouldn't panic because we're going to get results. It's fine."
Ravel Morrison scored the opening goal and played a part in the second. As someone who also played in the Premier League as a teenager, what do you make of him as a player?
RVT: "He's a very talented young lad. I can say he's the biggest talent I have ever seen [in a team I have played in]. I have played with Nani and all sorts.
"It's up to him to become as good as he can be. If he stays focused and hungry and shows he wants to keep improving and always learning [he can go far].
"He has to show the desire and commitment because, in this life, to be the best or the best you can be you can't think you have done it all. You can't settle. You have to drive for more.
What was the reaction like from your squad-mates after you made your transfer request and then ultimately remained at the Club?
RVT: "The players know the business and it's hard. They don't hold grudges. None of us hold grudges. We're all professionals. Obviously I expressed my desire to leave because I want to play. I'm not 18 any longer and I can't keep playing those games.
"The players have been wonderful. They know my intentions, obviously, and know I have huge respect for each individual and the manager and the Club. I didn't do it to hurt anybody - I just want to play."


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An unpublished poem that Winston Churchill wrote 115 years ago has been discovered and the original draft will shortly go on auction. Called Our Modern Watchwords, the ten-verse poem is characteristically imperialist in theme and tone and waxes forth about Britain's vast empire. It is written in blue crayon on the official stationery of the Fourth Hussars, where Churchill was a cornet. Churchill, who has the distinction of winning the Nobel Prize for both peace and literature, is known for his elegant and fiery essays and speeches, but not for writing poems. However, he was fond of quoting poetry and won the headmaster's prize at Harrow for reciting from memory the 1, 200-line The Lays of Ancient Rome, by Thomas Macaulay. The newly discovered poem has been called "passable" and "heavy-footed", and is clearly influenced by Tennyson and Kipling. Here's an extract:
The shadow falls along the shore The search lights twinkle on the sea The silence of a mighty fleet Portends the tumult yet to be. The tables of the evening meal Are spread amid the great machines And thus with pride the question runs Among the sailors and marines Breathes there the man who fears to die For England, Home, & Wai-hai-wai.
Exhuming Neruda
The body of Nobel Prize-winning Chilean poet Pablo Neruda will be exhumed for an autopsy seeking clues to what killed him. Neruda died days after the 1973 military coup that ended the life of his close friend, socialist President Salvador Allende. With Gen Augusto Pinochet's forces killing prominent leftists, friends had a plane waiting to carry Neruda into exile. Neruda was hospitalised with cancer at the time, but friends have said that the official cause of extreme malnutrition was suspicious because Neruda weighed 220 pounds. Forensic scientists have said it would be very difficult to determine from his remains whether drugs were given in doses big enough to kill him. One is reminded of Neruda's immortal words when Pinochet's soldiers came to raid his house:
"There are no weapons here but words. "
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Event Details
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September 20, 2014 at 4:00 PM until 9:00 PM
Location: DeKalb Outdoor Theater 301 Center Street, Auburn, IN 46706
Link: http://www.cupbearercafe.com
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The incredibly talented band, Seventh Day Slumber along with Nine Lashes and DaysEye will be performing at the DeKalb Outdoor Theater located in downtown Auburn, Indiana. This will be a family event that includes a kids area from 4-6 pm with a rock climbing wall, a bouncy house and for the adults, corn-hole, archery tag, band merchandise, give-aways and more food vendors than you can shake your fist at!
Most importantly, lives will be changed as we listen to the testimony of Joseph Rojas and the lyrics of the songs these inspiring bands sing. Proceeds from this concert will assist in creating a support stream of sustainability for "Inspiration House of DeKalb County" essentially providing transitional housing for the marginalized and the imprisoned members of our region while glorifying Jesus Christ through obedience to Him. You won't want to miss this once-in-a-lifetime event!
Special thanks to Jeremy Holderfield, the Axe Man of Seventh Day Slumber for reaching out to us on Facebook to put this concert together!
Gates open at 4pm. Concert will be 6pm-9pm. Tickets are $10 in advance or $15 the day of the concert. Get your tickets at www.cupbearercafe.com.
The Cupbearer and Inspiration Ministries is also proud to partner with Destiny Rescue to fight child trafficking! Find out more at the concert or by visiting www.destinyrescue.org.
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It's dad's night at a Route 46 diner, where the father is sit ting with three of his kids.
The 15-year-old girl, a high school freshman, orders a grilled Caesar wrap. It's chicken fingers
from the kid's menu for the 10-year-old boy and the 9-year-old girl.
Dinner table talk, America, 2007. Very typical. How's school, how's this, how's that?
And then it happens.
Somebody brings up Jamie Lynn Spears and she lands like a dead octopus on the table. Brit
ney's little sister, star of Nickelodeon's Zoey 101, pregnant at 16.
She announced/confessed it to a celeb magazine called OK! You know the rest.
Zoey 101 is about the cool times of a cool high school kid. Of course, the audience is not cool high school kids. They're already too cool. The audience is 9- to 12-year-olds; kids who want to grow up to be cool high school kids.
The 15-year-old says of Jamie Lynn Spears, "How sick is that?" and she means sick as in sick, not sick as in cool. The 9-year-old doesn't believe it.
''How can she have a baby? She's not even married!"
All eyes turn to the dad, who has that dad-in-the-headlights look, but only momentarily. The
9-year-old is the last of six, the baby of the family, so the father knows a thing or two. One thing he knows is a Route 46 diner is not the place to have a birds-and-bees conversation with his little girl, not with her big sister on the other side throwing "duh?" looks, and her
brother discreetly giggling at the guy in the next booth discreetly belching.
So he says, "Well, you don't have to be married to have a baby. You should be. But you don't have to be. But you should be."
''But then how is she going to have a baby?" she asks.
The big sister says, "She has a boyfriend," with that "duh?" tone. But before the word "sex" can
come out of the big sister's mouth, the father shifts gears.
''The interesting thing to me," he says, "is what happens now. I heard they have a new season already filmed. You think they'll keep showing it or take it off the air?"
''They'll keep showing it!" the big sister says with authority. "It's a popular show." And at that moment the father can't decide whether he's happy or sad she is already jaded.
Because, forever, the father has railed against the vapidness of celebrity culture. "When celebrity replaces knowledge, there are grave implications for the future," is his favorite quote (Richard M. Nixon), and the kids have heard it so many times it's a family joke.
The little sister seems satisfied to let it all drop. Maybe she doesn't want to risk any more attitude from the big sister. Or another spew from her dad. Either way, she goes back to her chicken fingers.
The father looks at her. The Last of the Mohicans, he calls her. The baby. He still calls her that
sometimes, as in "somebody hold the baby's hand," when they're crossing a busy parking lot, or "keep an eye on the baby" when they're in a busy store. And, not one single time, has she ever complained about it. Not once has she said, "I'm not a baby," even though she watches a show about cool high school kids.
Nickelodeon isn't sure what to do with Jamie Lynn Spears and her show. The cable network is thinking about airing a special about "love and sex" so kids can talk about it all. No thanks, the father thinks. I'll talk to my kids about love and sex when I think the time is right, not when you guys do. Not because your child star got herself knocked up. Not here, in a Route 46 diner.
And while the father is thinking all this, the brother and little sister begin debating about
Santa Claus. The little sister insists Santa is real, even though she concedes her brother's point that all the Santas in the malls are different. Then 10-year-old says, "Dad, is Santa Claus real? Just tell the truth."
Reindeer dad in the headlights. "If you still believe in Santa Claus, then he's real," he says.
The 9-year-old comes back quick. "You said 'still.' What do you mean, 'still?'"
''You know, that's what I love about you," the father says. "You always pick up on the littlest de
tails. You're so smart that way."
She is not to be deterred.
''So why did you say 'still?' You said, 'if you still believe in Santa Claus. Does that mean
someday I won't?"
''No," the father says, "all it means is if you believe in Santa Claus, he's real. If you don't, then
he's not."
And just before she asks her daddy if he still believes in Santa Claus, the 10-year-old saves him.
''It's like 'Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus.' We read that in school."
When the famous editorial was printed in 1897, Virginia was an 8-year-old girl. One hundred and
ten years later, little girls are very much the same. But these days, in a span of a five-minute conversation, a father must discuss a teen idol's pregnancy with a little girl who still believes in Santa Claus.
After dinner is the little girl's Christmas pageant. She has a narrator's part and steps to the
micophone in her black velvet pants, dressy white blouse and a shiny red hairband.
She reads clearly, but carefully, the way third-graders do, about how the Star of Bethlehem
caught the attention of the shepherds. As she speaks, some of her catechism classmates come on stage, dressed like stars. The audience smiles, and the father gets
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Humane Society
receives donations
Donations have been made to the Warren County Humane Society in honor of Pam Lyle and in memory of David Harrington, Donald Gheres, Helen Campman, Kenneth Lynn, Mark Salapek, Mary Jane Grey and Samuel Thomas.
Adult Diploma
open house
The Warren Forest Higher Education Council will hold an open house on from 4 to 5 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 16, at Hi-Ed. Information will be available on the adult high school Diploma Program beginning in September.
Classes will be held on Tuesdays and Thursday from 5 to 8 p.m. September through May at the Hi-Ed Council located on the state hospital grounds at 589 Hospital Drive, Suite F, North Warren.
The application fee is $100. Scholarships are available. For more information, contact Donna Smith at 723-3222, or go online to www.hi-ed.org.


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Thursday, October 12, 2006
LIVING Page 04 EXCHANGE ALLEY
Quick, easy catfish stew is latest rescued recipe
By JUDY WALKER
How to grow a papaya tree
"Thanks for all your help in keeping us eating better at home than any other place in the U.S., " writes D.D. of Uptown. She is one of several people with a copy of "Down Home Healthy-Family Recipes of Black American Chefs Leah Chase and Johnny Rivers, " a booklet published by the National Cancer Institute in 1994.
R.W., formerly of Lakeview, wanted this recipe for the easy-to-prepare meal.
Catfish stew and rice
2 medium potatoes
1 (14 ス-ounce) can tomatoes, cut up
1 cup chopped onion
1 (8-ounce) bottle clam juice or water
1 cup water
2 cloves garlic, minced
ス head cabbage, coarsely chopped
1 pound catfish fillets
1 ス tablespoons spicy seasoning (below)
Sliced green onions for garnish
2 cups hot cooked rice (brown or white)
Peel potatoes and cut into quarters. In a large pot combine potatoes, tomatoes and their juice, onion, clam juice, water, and garlic. Bring to boiling; reduce heat. Cook, covered, over medium-low heat for 10 minutes. Add cabbage. Return to boiling. Reduce heat; cook covered over medium-low heat for 5 minutes, stirring occasionally. Meanwhile, cut fillets into 2-inch lengths. Coat with seasoning. Add fish to vegetables. Reduce heat; simmer covered for 5 minutes or until fish flakes easily with a fork.
Serve in soup plates, garnished with sliced green onion. Top with an ice cream scoop of hot cooked rice.
Hot 'n' spicy seasoning
Makes 1/3 cup
シ cup paprika
2 tablespoons dried oregano, crushed
2 teaspoons chili powder
1 teaspoon garlic powder
1 teaspoon black pepper
ス teaspoon red (cayenne) pepper
ス teaspoon dry mustard
Mix together all ingredients. Store in airtight container.
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SEEKING SOUP: F.G., formerly of Lakeview, now of Metairie, writes that she is searching for the artichoke soup recipe that was in one of the newspaper cooking contest inserts. It was not based on cream, and it used equal parts of canned artichoke hearts and jars of marinated ones.
"I recently had stuffed artichoke soup at Chateau Coffee in Kenner, and it was really close, if not exact. I hope you can help me. Thanks, " she writes.
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HOW TO GROW YOUR OWN PAPAYA TREE: S.R. responded with great information about papayas after M.W. of Metairie wrote that she didn't like the fruit on hers. S.R. has experience growing, harvesting and using backyard papayas in our area.
"You must let them get a bright golden or yellowish color, " she writes. "Once they begin to ripen they can be picked and brought inside, where they will continue to ripen till ready to eat.
"The inside will vary in color from a yellowish color to a blood red color. The red ones can be eaten right out of the shell with just a little sprinkle of cinnamon and sugar. I prefer to cook the yellowish ones."
Papayas are very easy to grow, S.R. says. Save the seeds after you buy a papaya, and dry them. Plant three seeds in a small peat pot. "If at first you don't succeed, try again, " S.R. says. "Once they take, you can transplant them where you have room. They grow as tall as coconut trees and just about as round. You do need a male and female. Once they have established their gender, they are ready to be put in their permanent place. The flowers on the male trees extend from these long tentacles. Flowers on female plants hug the tree trunk."
S.R.'s favorite dishes to prepare with the fruit are papaya cake, papaya crumb pie, and papaya cobbler. "But you can make papaya cobbler by just buying a simple cobbler mix from any grocery and following the instructions, " she writes. Substitute papaya for the fruit. "I always add brown sugar, sprinkled on top."
Papaya cake
1 cup chopped papaya
1 cup grated coconut
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 stick of butter
1 cup honey
1 cup apple sauce
3 cups whole wheat pastry flour (or unbleached baking flour)
3 tablespoons baking powder
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1 teaspoon nutmeg
1 teaspoon cloves
Mix wet ingredients, mix dry ingredients; then mix wet and dry. Pour into oiled cake pans. Bake at 350 degrees for 30 to 40 minutes, or until a knife or toothpick inserted in the middle comes out clean. Use your favorite icing.
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More papaya help came from one of our online readers, M.W. of Las Vegas, who also lived in Ocean Springs, Miss. for a few years. She writes, "I lived in Hawaii for many, many years, and have cooked or tasted many papaya recipes. Here are a few of my favorite papaya recipes that I make when I can find Solo variety papayas (my favorite variety).
"The very large Mexican variety of papaya are not as sweet, but can be used just the same, just adjust the sugar and spices upward to taste. Please enjoy these recipes with Aloha."
Several of the recipes she sent combine equal amounts of papaya and pineapple. Here is one of the savory dishes that combines the flavors of papaya with citrus, soy and brown sugar.
Baked chicken with papaya sauce
Makes 8 servings
ス cup butter or margarine
1 cup flour
1 teaspoon seasoned salt
4 pounds chicken pieces
1 cup orange juice
2 tablespoons lemon juice
ス cup brown sugar
1 tablespoon cornstarch
1 tablespoon soy sauce
ス teaspoon salt
2 cups sliced papaya
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Melt butter in large baking pan. Combine flour and seasoned salt. Dredge chicken pieces in flour mixture; arrange in baking pan, skin side down. Bake for 40 minutes; turn and bake 20 more minutes. In a saucepan combine orange juice, lemon juice, brown sugar, cornstarch, soy sauce and salt; cook until mixture thickens. Gently stir in papaya. Pour papaya mixture over chicken and bake 10 minute more.
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DUTCH BABY: "I am looking for a recipe called Dutch Baby pancake, I believe, which came from The Times-Picayune. It was from at least three years ago and during the renovation of our home, it was lost or mis- placed. . ..It was delicious and reminds us of the Dutch Baby pancake at Taste of Bavaria in Ponchatoula, " writes B.B. of Metairie.
Puffed oven pancake with fresh fruit
Makes 4 servings
fruit topping
2 cups fresh fruit (blueberries, blackberries, raspberries, sliced strawberries, sliced peaches or a mixture)
1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice
1 to 2 tablespoons sugar
Sprinkle fruit with lemon juice and sugar. Set aside for 15 to 20 minutes to allow flavors to blend.
puffed oven pancake
2 eggs
ス cup flour
ス cup milk
ス teaspoon pure vanilla extract
3 tablespoons butter
Toasted sliced almonds, optional
Confectioners' sugar
Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Whisk together eggs, flour, milk and vanilla until blended. Melt butter in ovenproof 10-inch skillet over medium heat. Pour in batter, swirling to coat pan evenly; then place in oven and bake until golden and puffed, about 15 minutes. Transfer to serving platter and top with fresh fruit mixture, toasted sliced almonds (if using) and a light dusting of confectioners' sugar. Serve immediately, cut into wedges.
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STAY SAFE: Now that we can safely eat spinach again, here are a few timely reminders from the Centers for Disease Control's (CDC) Division of Bacterial and Mycotic Diseases. The most important thing is to wash your hands with soap and water before, during and after preparing food.
Avoid cross-contamination. Wash hands, utensils, cutting boards and countertops after they have been in contact with raw meat or poultry and before they touch other food. To help prevent the spread of bacteria such as E. coli, consider a surface sanitizer that is specially formulated for use on pre-cleaned food contact surfaces with no rinsing required.
Always wash your produce. Remove and discard the outermost leaves of a head of lettuce or cabbage. Rinsing all fresh fruits and vegetables thoroughly in running tap water will remove visible dirt and grime. If you are able to boil your produce, this can help to eliminate the bacteria. Bacteria can also grow well on the cut surface of a fruit or vegetable, so it is important to take care not to contaminate these foods while slicing them up on the cutting board.
Cook meat, poultry and eggs thoroughly. Using a thermometer to measure the internal temperature of meat is a good way to be sure that it is cooked sufficiently to kill bacteria. Eggs should be cooked until the yolk is firm.
Refrigerate leftovers promptly. Bacteria can grow quickly at room temperature, so refrigerate leftover foods if they are not going to be eaten within four hours.
Lastly, report suspected food-borne illnesses to your local health department. The sooner an incident is reported, the sooner a potential outbreak can be controlled.
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Exchange Alley seeks to rebuild recipe collections. Send requests or recipes (along with a phone number, your name and where you live) via e-mail with ALLEY in the subject line to: firstname.lastname@example.com. Send mail to: EXCHANGE ALLEY, Food section, The Times-Picayune, 3800 Howard Ave., New Orleans, LA 70125-1429.


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NFL Potential Matters None to the Greatness of Tim Tebow
He may very well go down as the best college football quarterback ever. Tim Tebow has done everything there is to do in the college game. He's been a great ambassador, an unbelievable player, and a true leader of men.
Everyone gets caught up on the notion of Tebow in the NFL. Whether he succeeds or not in the pros should never be a reflection on his incredible career as a Gator. There have been many remarkable college football players that I will always remember as some of the very best, regardless of what they did in the NFL. Tommie Frazier was one of the most successful quarterbacks ever. He won two National Titles for Nebraska. Danny Wuerffel, Tee Martin, Vince Young, Doug Flutie, and Don McPherson all come to mind off the top of my head.
Many have talked about Tebow as a perfect fit in the Wildcat formation in the NFL. I don't see that at all. The most successful quarterbacks in the Wildcat are quick. That's what makes the Wildcat successful…while the defense has to make a split decision on who has the ball…the quickness of a qb can find that small crease and turn it into a nice gain. If you have seen Michael Vick run the Wildcat for the Eagles, even he has struggled, because it is clear he has lost his quickness being out of the game.
If Tebow shines in the pros, I think he will be more like Daunte Culpepper. He is a big physical quarterback that can shed a blitzing DB or safety and still make a pass down field. Tebow needs to continue to develop his passing game to make it to the next level.
One other spot I could possibly see Tebow in the NFL is at tight end. He could be physical enough to block, and because he is a quarterback, he could transition nicely into the passing game as a receiver. Remember former Colts tight end Ken Dilger was a quarterback at Heritage Hills.
I was not overly impressed with Tebow against LSU. It had to be hard for him to play his style game after such a serious injury. Tebow even said himself he was more of a game manager. What I learned the most about the Florida/LSU game is that LSU is not very good. I've seen the Tigers against Washington, Georgia, and Florida, and I haven't been impressed. They are a solid team, but nowhere near an elite team. As you would expect from a Les Miles club, the Tigers strength is defense, but the offense is average at best. It was hard to gauge how good Tebow was in that LSU game because of the lackluster performance by LSU.
I am not a Gators fan at all. I have always rooted against all Florida teams. However, I admire and hope for the best for Tim Tebow. He is fearless, talented, and most importantly he is a winner.


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The Gnu's World
Serengeti Wildebeest Ecology and Life History
Publication Year: 2014
Published by: University of California Press
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How can I possibly acknowledge all the people who deserve thanks for their encouragement, support, friendship, and hospitality over the 50 years since I began research in Africa? Going over progress reports and papers written as long ago as the sixties, I realized that I had forgotten...
Introduction: The Author's Fifty-Year History of Wildebeest Research
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My purpose in writing about the natural history of the wildebeest is twofold: to give the antelope that once dominated the plains of eastern and southern Africa a book all to itself and to repay my debt to the animal that I have studied off and on for half a century while privileged...
1. Africa: The Real Home Where Antelopes Roam
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The diversity and abundance of antelopes sets Africa apart from all the other continents. Africa has 72 to 75 different species, and Eurasia has 12; the other continents have none. The American pronghorn, adapting to similar plains habitats, looks a lot like an antelope but actually is so...
2. African Savannas: Understanding the Tropical Climate, Vegetation, and the Gnu's Ecological Niche
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This chapter is intended as a primer on Africa's climate and vegetation as an aid to understanding the kinds of habitat that constitute the wildebeest's ecological niche. Inhabitants of the north temperate zone often have little understanding of tropical climates beyond knowing it's warm...
3. Introducing the Wildebeest's Tribe: Similarities and Differences among the Four Genera and Seven Species
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A wholly African tribe or clade ( = branch) of the bovid family tree in origin and distribution, alcelaphines reached their peak two million years ago, when there were over eight genera with at least fi fteen species. Though now pared to four genera and seven species, this tribe...
4. The Four Wildebeest Subspecies and the Status of Migratory Populations
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C. t. taurinus, blue wildebeest or brindled gnu. Namibia and South Africa to Mozambique north of the Orange River, from Mozambique to Zambia south of the Zambezi River, and from southwestern Zambia to eastern and southern Angola. Slate blue coat with conspicuous dark...
5. Increase and Protection of the Serengeti Wildebeest Population
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The Serengeti ecosystem lies on the high interior plateau of East Africa west of the Gregory Rift Valley. From the heights of the Crater Highlands (3,000 m), the land slopes down to Lake Victoria, at 920 m. The Serengeti plains are situated at an elevation between 1,600 and 1,800 m...
6. Serengeti Grasslands and the Wildebeest Migration
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The gnu's specialization for a particular range of grassland habitats, conveniently identified as acacia savanna, was outlined in chapter 2 and compared in chapter 3 with topi and hartebeest, two members of the same tribe with which it associates in the Serengeti ecosystem...
7. Social Organization: Comparison of Migratory and Resident Populations
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While serving as resident naturalist at a Masai Mara resort some years ago, I was often asked to explain the erratic, "stupid" behavior of wildebeest at crossing points. They can behave rather mindlessly, I have to admit. Even with no obvious deterrent, like basking crocs (often...
8. Male and Female Life Histories
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The natal sex ratio of wildebeest is equal.1 It remains equal as long as both sexes stay with their mothers and/or in herds of females and young. Calves remain dependent on their dams until weaned by nine months. From then on through the next calving season (February–March), most...
9. Cooperation and Competition among Twenty-Seven Ungulates That Coexist with the Wildebeest
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The Serengeti ecosystem supports twenty-eight ungulates together with ten large carnivores that eat them. This is an extraordinarily rich and diverse ungulate community (fig. 9.1). How can all these species coexist with the wildebeest, which outnumbers them all put together and is so...
10. The Amazing Migration and Rut of the Serengeti Wildebeest
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The rut of the Serengeti wildebeest is like nothing else on earth. Some half a million cows are bred during three weeks of frenzied activity. Yet surprisingly little of the activity actually involves mating. Most of it involves herding, chasing, and fighting among the bulls that are currently...
11. The Calving Season: Birth and Survival in Small Herds and on Calving Grounds
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Eight months after the rut, the cows that became pregnant during the three-week peak produce their calves. Assuming a 95 percent pregnancy rate and that 80 percent of the cows bred during the rut, over 400,000 calves would be expected in a population of 1.3 million wildebeest...
12. Serengeti Shall Not Die? Africa's Most Iconic World Heritage Site under Siege
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That the Serengeti migratory ecosystem remains largely intact would seem to defy the odds, for all other African migratory ecosystems (apart from the floodplains of South Sudan, where the kob and tiang migrations miraculously survived the civil war) have been severely disrupted...
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Page Count: 368
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PLAINSBORO — After talk of leaving the state, a major transportation equipment provider and chassis leasing business has decided it will remain in the township thanks to an incentive grant from the New Jersey Economic Development Authority.
Plainsboro-based TRAC Intermodal, which employs more than 500 across the country, has been awarded $9.8 million in tax credits over 10 years by the state. As a result, it will be consolidating and relocating its headquarters to 82,283 square feet of space at 750 College Road East, moving from locations elsewhere in Plainsboro and South Brunswick.
"It's not so much what the grant does for us, but it's a win-win for everybody because we stay here and keep our employees in New Jersey and our state gets tax revenue from that," said David Hamm, senior manager of communications at TRAC Intermodal.
The company, which provides domestic and marine freight-moving equipment in the United States, Canada and Mexico, was considering leaving the state and moving to Pennsylvania, according to Gregg Carpene, chief legal officer of the company.
"We were looking for the best deal we could get — there are Bucks County areas where we could've established headquarters without too much inconvenience to certain people and more convenience to others," he said.
"The grant was a big factor in keeping us here."
The grant is through the Grow New Jersey Assistance (Grow NJ) Program, which is meant to create and retain jobs in the state.
According to Hamm, TRAC Intermodal's revenue has been growing 20 percent annually since 2011.
"We're growing and we've been hiring," he said. "We have open positions on our website that we're actively hiring for."
The new location in the Forrestal Center is more than 23,000 square feet larger than the current two locations at 211 College Road East in Plainsboro and 2 Independence Way in South Brunswick. Hamm said the move to the new space should happen during the first quarter of next year.
TRAC signed the lease to rent the space for 10 years and nine months at a rent of approximately $23 million over the term.
Lt. Gov. Kim Guadagno met with employees on July 23 to congratulate them on receiving the grant.
"I congratulate TRAC Intermodal for choosing to not only stay, but grow their business in the Garden State," she said in a statement.
Last month, Sandoz Inc., a major pharmaceutical company that manufactures and markets generic drugs, moved its headquarters to 100 College Road West in Plainsboro rather than moving to Pennsylvania after receiving a similar $9.1 million incentive package from the EDA.
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On new dollar coins, "'In God We Trust' is gone!"
-- Chain email
On the campaign trail recently, Mitt Romney brought up an issue that sounded familiar to to PolitiFact: the question of whether "In God We Trust" has been removed from U.S. coins.
Appearing in Virginia Beach, Va., on Sept. 8, 2012, Romney recited the Pledge of Allegiance, then continued, "The promises that were made in that pledge are promises I plan on keeping if I'm president, and I've kept them so far in my life. That pledge says 'under God.' I will not take 'God' out of the name of our platform. I will not take 'God' off our coins and I will not take God out of my heart."
The focus on God invoked the Democrats' recent decision -- later reversed -- to remove "God" from the party's official platform at the Democratic National Convention.
President Barack Obama's campaign took Romney's comment as a veiled dig at the president. Obama campaign spokeswoman Jen Psaki fired back, "Look, this is nothing more than a desperate attack based on a false premise by the Romney team and its sad that the debate has been driven to this level of discourse. The president believes as much that God should be taken off a coin as he does that aliens will attack Florida. It's an absurd question to be raised."
Romney didn't directly accuse President Barack Obama of removing "In God We Trust" from the nation's coins, so his comment isn't rated on the Truth-O-Meter.
But that claim has circulated for a few years in chain emails. And since the issue has emerged in the presidential campaign, PolitiFact returned to the question of "In God We Trust" and coins that it initially dealt with in 2010.
The original chain email never really went away. A reader forwarded it to PolitiFact for fact-checking as recently as Aug. 28, just days before Romney's speech in Virginia Beach.
So what's the truth?
You can see the full story via PolitiFact Ohio. Then come back here to comment.


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Film review of the movie by Stephen
Gaghan with George Clooney
Article added on August, 21, 2006
Stephen Gaghan is the writer and
director of the film Syriana (2005), a story inspired by Robert S.
Baer's book, See No Evil (order the book from
Amazon.com). Gaghan explained in a Washington Post online chat on
November 15, 2005 that the movie is only loosely inspired by
Baer's book and that its title, Syriana, stands for "man's perpetual
hope of remaking any geographical region to suit his own needs, a dream that
in the case of the Middle East has been going on at least since the time of
Caesar in 80 B.C." The entire Middle East is composed of borders
artificially drawn by colonial powers. Furthermore, the current U.S.
administration's ambitions
to reshape the region - although rather to democratize it than to redraw the
frontiers - are well-known.
The film's storylines are works of fiction, but they are partly inspired by
real events and the current stakes of geopolitical dimensions, which mainly
include politics regarding oil and terrorism. The C.I.A.'s and other
intelligence agencies' failures, the U.S. administration's poor handling of
the Middle East and the energy crisis, the greedy U.S. oil industry and
its equally unsympathetic Arab political and economic competitors and
partners are part of the plot. Syriana is - in Hollywood terms - a
politically correct movie, although Gaghan asserts that he is not a
"liberal" (in the sense of U.S. politics), but a "Kentucky moderate".
Gaghan has previously written the screenplay for Traffic (2000; order
the DVD from
Amazon.co.uk or
Amazon.de). The film won him an Oscar for the Best Adapted
Screenplay in 2000. It was directed by Steven Soderbergh, who won the 2000
Academy Award for Best Director for it. It explored the "war on drugs".
The background of Syriana are other failed "wars", the one "on
terror" as well as the one for the control and exploitation of natural
energy resources. As in Traffic, the spectator has to follow several
parallel stories taking place in various locations and involving a handful
of key characters. However, Syriana is neither intellectually,
nor artistically or technically on the level of the great Academy Award
deserving movies. It is a film worthwhile watching, but not The
masterpiece, as some critics have argued.
The different narration strands are thought to illustrate the complexity of
today's world. Yet, a master such as director Pedro Almodovar would have
handled the multiple storylines in a more refined and competent way. Stephen
Gaghan's concept and some of his ideas deserve credit, the execution however
lags behind his ambition.
The character of the career-conscious and boyish energy analyst working in
Geneva (Matt Damon), who reconciles in the end with his wife and refuses to
play dirty games on the geopolitical chess board, is too simplistic a
figure. Not all of Gaghan's figures are schematic. Sometimes ambition and
idealism, greed and healthy self-interest fight within a character.
Difficult father-and-son relations complement the picture. To understand all
the innuendos, one has to watch the movie more than once.
A Golden Globe and an Academy Award for George
Clooney for Best Supporting Actor in Syriana is too much of an honor for
a good, but surely not the year's best performance. Taking on 30 extra
pounds and growing a beard are not enough. Clooney deserved an Oscar for his
part in
Intolerable Cruelty opposite the equally brilliant Catherine
Zeta-Jones, but comedies are too often overlooked for awards.
Syriana is not a simple comment on what has happened since 9/11. On
one hand, it is a piece of fiction, on the other it goes beyond what the
large public considers today's great conflicts. In the film, China and
Kazakhstan are powers involved in the fight for the control of vital energy
resources. This sounds prophetic. These are two of the additional players
often ignored but already active in the global conflict involving the
world's oil and gas dependency.
Lawyers, lobbyists, arms dealers, aspiring politicians, financial advisers,
secret agents, terrorists (and/or freedom fighters), Arab princes and
several father-son family dramas create a complex picture, which seems to be
overshadowed by conspiracy theories, probably nurtured by the secrecy of the
current Bush administration, itself partly a refuge of paranoia. If only Gaghan's skills as a director were up to this difficult task.
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Most people in the United States consider Thanksgiving the official food holiday, so Christmas doesn't get the acknowledgement it truly deserves for being a big day for delicious turkeys, colorful side dishes and tasty desserts.
Sure, many of us will use family recipes and call Mom to get last-minute cooking tips, but some of us will be in the dark about what to prepare and just how to prepare it.
Of course you can pull out that dust-riddled cook book that you've had since your first apartment, but many times you've tried the recipes that you've liked already, while ignoring the ones you didn't.
Or you can jump on your laptop and search for a particular recipe online and hope you find something that catches your eye and palette, but how do you know if what you're cooking will actually come out good?
To help in this particular area, the website Punchfork.com gathers the most popular recipes from top cooking sites like Bon Appetit, Simply Recipes and Picky Palate and lets you know which ones are considered the best.
The site is kind of like Indeed.com or Kayak that allows you do a specialized search of a bunch of sites with a single entry.
Social data
Punchfork says it uses social data from sites like Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest to gather which recipes have garnered the most chatter amongst the Internet community, and the company says it creates a ranking system which determines which recipes are not only the most popular, but churn out the highest quality dishes.
Users of Punchfork can either search the site by a particular dish they're craving or browse the site and bookmark the recipes that catch their eye. You can even search for recipes according to the ingredients that you have left over in your refrigerator.
You can also do a filter search and look for recipes that follow a particular diet or eating preference like a vegetarian diet, gluten-free or a low-sodium diet and you can also conduct broad searchers like typing in the word "holiday" for example, which brings up multiple pages of dishes and desserts that you can prepare for Christmas, Hanukkah or Kwanza.
And once your search results are available, huge colorful photos of the dish are displayed, just so you know how the finished product is supposed to look once it's done.
What's trending?
Punchfork also lets you sort recipes by which ones are trending on Twitter or on blogs, and you can search for recipes that have just been added to the site. You can also seperate searches by the most Facebook "likes" a recipe has received.
The company says its search options differ dramatically from other recipe sites that display information with no rhyme or reason, where the user doesn't know which dishes and recipes are the absolute best and which ones may be worth a try.
You can also put your own recipes on Punchfork, which could be a good test to see if the dishes that you've come up with will be liked and admired by others who supposedly know a lot about food.
Also, if you're a budding chef who wants to make a little name for yourself, throwing out a couple of recipes and getting credit for them can only help you get popularity among the food community.
Like many successful start-up sites these days, Punchfork uses social networking to its maximum benefit, allowing users to share dishes and discuss them back and forth, which makes searching and trying recipes much more fun than thumbing through a cookbook or going to just one website for dish ideas.
Punchfork's founder Jeff Miller says he got the idea for the site by just thumbing through food publications while shopping.
Foodie magazines
"The inspiration for Punchfork came from the foodie magazines at the grocery checkout line," said Miller in an interview with Forbes . "There's something very tantalizing and thrilling about leafing through page after page of delicious-looking pictures of food."
"The idea for Punchfork was simply to take that experience of browsing amazing food photos, relocate it to the web and blow it up 1,000 times larger with an automated feed in real time from the best food bloggers. The problem is that nobody wants to read a magazine with 50,000 pages. There has to be some form of curation involved," he said.
Punchfork also has an app for Apple devices that can be downloaded for free in the iTunes store.


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The Buffalo Bills secondary is the team's main strength coming into the 2010 season. The depth at both free safety and strong safety is starting some exciting training camp battles that will be surely interesting to watch.
With Donte Whitner entering a contract year, will he finally live up to the potential expected of a No. 8 overall pick? Will George Wilson find a way to beat out Whitner for the starting strong safety, although naturally a free safety?
This slideshow previews the current players on the roster, and what will be expected for the season.


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HAMILTON — With a chorus of applause from more than 400 people, many of them sporting her name on blue-and-white stickers, Assemblywoman Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-Mercer) accepted the formal endorsement of the Mercer County Democratic Committee tonight in her bid for the seat of U.S. Rep. Rush Holt (D-12th Dist.) in Congress.
Watson Coleman, a Ewing resident, received more than 60 percent of the vote at Stone Terrace by John Henry's tonight, but committee officials declined to disclose exact percentages.
"We're going to work very hard. We're not going to take anything for granted or assume anything," Watson Coleman said shortly after the endorsement was announced. "We're going to have boots on the ground. We have a very good team and we're going to prepare for the primary election and then look forward to the general election."
Watson Coleman is opposed in the primary election by Sen. Linda Greenstein (D-Middlesex), Assemblyman Upendra Chivukula (D-Somerset) and Princeton resident Andrew Zwicker.
Greenstein received over 25 percent of the vote tonight, which campaign manager Matt Bonasia said was a sign of "strong crossover support" between counties.
The Greenstein campaign will now look toward bridging those Mercer County supporters with her home base in Middlesex County, where more than 81 percent of county Democrats have voted to endorse her, Bonasia said.
"This puts us in a fantastic position down the homestretch to go after a lot of the suburban voters that Linda has been going after in every cycle she's fought these hard elections," Bonasia said.
The 12th District includes parts of Mercer, Middlesex, Somerset and Union counties. Watson Coleman's win yesterday was her second county endorsement in the primary race, with the formal endorsement of Union County Democrats locked up earlier this month.
In a separate event tonight, the Somerset County Democratic Committee awarded their endorsement to Chivukula, a Franklin Township resident.
In their 90-second speeches before the Mercer Democratic convention, both Watson Coleman and Greenstein laid out their legislative resumes, with emphasis on environmental, women's and immigration issues and their own commitment to fighting for the district against both Republican and Democratic leadership, wherever local interests are at stake.
"We have some serious issues in Washington," Watson Coleman said. "We need to make sure that trade agreements are fair, that our workers here have an equal opportunity to earn money and be a part of manufacturing here in the United States, particularly right here in the 12th District."
"I've never shied away from leading the fights worth fighting, even when it meant bucking the leadership of my own party, Greenstein said. "As your Congresswoman, I will continue the fight for progressive issues against right-wing forces waging multiple wars on women, the working class and middle class. "
Zwicker turned heads with his own 90-second speech, relating his own similarity to Holt — like Holt, he is a physicist, at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory in Plainsboro — and asking voters to buck against "county politics.
"Is this primary going to be about returning to business as usual or are we going to continue to show the state and the country that it's not just our values that are progressive, but it's how we elect our leaders?" Zwicker asked.
The winner of the Democratic primary on June 3 will face Franklin Township resident Alieta Eck, a former Senate candidate and the only declared Republican candidate for the seat.
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This cigar is rich and complex. Lot's of spice with some fruit are citrus on the end. Bueatiful construction, for some reason smoking this cigar made me think of the winter and seemed to go along quiet well with a med coffee.I would rate this stick 89. thanks
got this cigar with the medium bodied sampler #8.... let it sit in at 70/70 environment for a week... not impressed at all. dry, nothing impressive. it had flavors, but it was overidden with dry. I hope the next one is better. wouldn't buy again.
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The Sporting News thinks former St. Paul's football star Mark Barron will go from All-Rookie to All-Pro this season. The Sporting News named Barron to its 2013 NFL Preseason All-Pro team, along with another former Alabama standout from Coastal Alabama - Atlanta Falcons wide receiver Julio Jones of Foley.
Barron had an up-and-down first season with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, who gave up an NFL-worst 4,758 passing yards in 2012, but he still made the Pro Football Writers' All-Rookie team.
The Sporting News expects Barron to have a big season in the revamped Tampa Bay secondary: "With Ed Reed and Troy Polamalu nearing the end of their careers, the future looks bright for playmaking safeties. Barron is an absolute thumper and will benefit greatly from moving to strong safety. Barron will have plenty of tackles, and the takeaways will come, too, with playing in an upgraded secondary that includes Darrelle Revis and Dashon Goldson."
The Sporting News paired Barron with the San Diego Chargers' Eric Weddle as its preseason safeties.
Jones was chosen at wide receiver with Calvin Johnson of the Detroit Lions on the TSN preseason team.
Jones went to the Pro Bowl in his second season in the NFL last year, when he caught 79 passes for 1,198 yards and 10 touchdowns. He helped the Falcons reach the NFC championship game by catching 17 passes for 241 yards and two TDs in the playoffs.
"Some young pass-catchers are trying to catch up to Megatron, and Jones, with his combination of size, strength and speed in a prolific passing offense, is the one who best fits the profile," The Sporting News wrote.
Another former Coastal Alabama prep star was listed as one of the three defensive tackles to watch this season. The Detroit Lions' Nick Fairley, who played at Williamson and Auburn, was behind first-teamers Gerald McCoy of Tampa Bay and Geno Atkins of the Cincinnati Bengals.
Barron will be in action again when Tampa Bay continues its preseason schedule at the Miami Dolphins at 6:30 p.m. Saturday. Jones and the Falcons visit the Tennessee Titans at 7 p.m. Saturday. Fairley and the Lions host the New England Patriots in a preseason game at 6:30 p.m. Thursday.


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Binghamton, NY (WBNG Binghamton) Hundreds of people in the community sat down to enjoy a free meal Thursday at Binghamton High School. The annual Thanksgiving dinner is entirely funded and served by volunteers.
Thanksgiving Day is about spending time with friends and family. For some, they have a free hot meal to be thankful for.
"It's like being in a restaurant that you've never been before and you couldn't ask for anything more ever in your lifetime," said Bruno Gregory of Binghamton, "Actually I don't think I'll ever cook Thanksgiving at home anymore I'll always come here."
More than 300 students, staff and volunteers at Binghamton High School make the Thanksgiving dinner an annual success.
"I just like hearing their stories I never thought they'd tell us so many stories but it's nice," said Kristyn Fisher, Junior at Binghamton High School.
The service is above expectations for people dining in for the first time.
"Oh let me tell you something," Gregory said, "This was fantastic, how they come over and they're running around all over the place."
Student volunteers took full plates of food and serve them to each table. They were prepared to serve more than 1,500 people.
"I actually wanted to try something new this year," said junior Erika Guzman, "You know talk to more people get involved with school activities and everything."
For some students, this was their first year lending a hand, others have been coming back year after year to help send a special holiday message.
"Just really hoping that the community really sees what Binghamton High School is all about," said Binghamton School's National Honor Society President Kathryn Dura, "You know with all the misconceptions out there it's really important that people see how dedicated the students really are.'
This was the 19th year Binghamton High School held its Thanksgiving Dinner. The dinner is funded through donations collected by Binghamton's National Honor Society.


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In a large bowl, combine salad greens, 1 c. cheese, ham and turkey strips, eggs, tomato, and croutons. Add dressing; toss salad well. Arrange on four serving plates. Top with bacon, if desired and remaining 1/2 c. cheese. Variation: Salad ingredients may be arranged attractively on four serving plates and served with the dressing on the side.
In a large bowl, combine the wild rice, corn, scallions, dill, mint, nuts, and onion. Add the vinegar and oil, and toss to combine. Season to taste with salt and pepper. If possible, cover and refrigerate 30 minutes before servings. Keeps 24 hours. Note: for the corn, cut the kernels off 1 leftover ear of cooked corn, or used defrosted frozen, or canned corn. Yellow and white corn are equally good. Makes 4 servings.
Cook green beans in salted water until barely tender; cool. In a shallow bowl, layer green beans, tuna, cucumbers, olives and potatoes. Drizzle dressing over top. Refrigerate until served. Toss salad when ready to served. Toss salad when ready to serve. Makes 6 servings.
Sauté onion in oil until onions are tender. Add vinegar, sugar, salt, mustard, and pepper; mix well and bring mixture to boil. Add potatoes, bacon and parsley; toss gently. Serve warm. Makes 4 to 6 servings.
Cut the radish or radishes into the thinnest possible slices, using a vegetable slicer or very sharp knife. Place them in a plastic container with a lid, or in a self-sealing plastic bag. Cut the carrots diagonally into the thinnest possible slices. Add them to the radish. Add the rice vinegar, sugar, and salt to the vegetables. Pour in 1/4 c. water. Seal the container and shake until the sugar is dissolved. Refrigerate 2-4 hours. Peel the cucumber. Halve it lengthwise and seed it. Cut the cucumber lengthwise into the thinnest possible slices. Cut these crosswise, making 1/1/2-inch strips. Add the pickled radish mixture. Shake with the dressing. Drain off the dressing. Arrange the salad in a serving dish. Cut the scallion into 1/1/2 inch-long pieces. Cut these lengthwise into fine strips. Sprinkle the scallion over the salad. Serve chilled or at room temperature. This salad should be served the day it is made. Makes 4 servings.


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An Asian studies major at Vassar College, where she is an incoming junior, Julia Elizabeth Lindsay Martin will study this fall at Temple University in Tokyo, during which time she hopes to work as a volunteer English teacher. She is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Massie Martin Jr., her mother née Elizabeth Belle Wynne.
At Vassar, Julia is a member of the crew team, and served as freshman adviser to the Student Government Association.
Earlier, at Isidore Newman School, she was editor in chief of the yearbook, a Cultural Awareness Committee leader and a Summerbridge New Orleans teacher, and was active in track and field, including cross country.
Julia enjoys photography in her spare time, and she has worked as an assistant wedding photographer for Maile Lani. She plans to pursue a career in education and photography.
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I read an interview somewhere with the BSU athletic director that the reason for that (high profile teams not wanting to come to Boise) is because of the capacity of Bronco Stadium. It only seats 33K, so there's less money to be made for the visiting team.
Personally I think that's a crock; the Alabama's and the Texas's like to schedule creampuffs out of conference so they can pick up an easy win.
It is a crock. That is why you schedule a home and home. You get the all the money when they come to your place and they get all the money when you go to theirs. I would think BSU would be an attractive draw for schools that don't sell out early season non-conference games.


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After a restful morning at Christoph and Taryn's apartment, we left Bratislava today on the 11:54am train to Budapest, Hungary. As predicted, it was very hard to say goodbye to both C&T; it will be quite some time until we see them again, and the family time together was so awesome (as well as very relaxing and rejuvenating!).
The train ride from Bratislava to Budapest took under three hours, and once again, we enjoyed a very pleasant (first-class with our Euro Rail passes!) trip, lunching on board in the sweet dining car and enjoying the scenery
After dropping off our gear and enjoying a cup of tea in our room, we headed out for a brisk evening walk along the Danube River, where we saw spectacular night views of the river, the Chain Bridge, and Castle Hill. We then looped back around to Vorosmarty ter (Vorosmarty Square), just around the corner from our hotel (and the Metro stop we jumped out at to get to our hotel this afternoon). This square is one of Budapest's largest and most famous – in the center of the square is a statute of the 19th century poet after whom the square is named. (Bizarrely, in the winter, this statute is protected by a big plastic bubble that, apparently, kids love sliding on…!)
Of course, as we had seen earlier in the day, there were more markets set up in this Budepest square, and (conveniently, for us) Vorosmarty's Christmas markets (or Karacsony, "Christmas fair") are the largest and most popular in the city. We now understand why they are so popular – these markets were our favorite of all the Christmas markets we've seen in Prague, Bratislava, Vienna, and now here! We loved their vibe – they had a real "local artisan" feel, and both the foods and crafts selections were diverse, unique, and funky. (The actual market stalls themselves also had a lot of character, many decorated as open-ended living or dining rooms with wallpaper up and/or brick fireplaces installed!) To top it all off, the markets had a huge performance stage that was jam-packed with acts by Hungarian folk singers, bands, ensembles, and dancers throughout the day and night – so we were entertained by more than just people-watching as we walked around and ate our food
[By the way, here's my (maybe overly PC) side note on the markets: I keep on referring to all these markets we've visited as "Christmas markets" – and not holiday markets – because that is what everyone calls them, and there seems to be no reference at the markets to anything but Christmas-related observations and traditions…]
Despite the cold evening, we were at the markets for a few hours, and ended up having dinner from several different stalls. I enjoyed hot apple cider while Murray had his first Hungarian beer (Soprani) – and then we started off with Pomposh, a traditional Hungarian meal of flattened bread dough baked in a clay or wood-fired adobe oven and topped off with sour cream, garlic, onion, thick chunks of ham, and cheese – sort of like a white pizza on focaccia, only way better.
From there, the food took off – we tried a traditional smoked sausage with spicy mustard and rye bread, and a cabbage roll with pork and sauerkraut. We also tried Langallo, a variation of the Pomposh I described above (and better even than the Pomposh!). Our diverse dinner was topped off with another one of those wonderfully hot, doughy sweet bread "tunnels" (what we've seen called "trdelniks" in other countries, but what we've been referring to as "turtlenecks") – only in Budapest, they were called "kiralyi kurtoskalacs" and they were the longest, most caramelized version yet! We had such a fun, delicious evening (albeit cold!!!).
After the markets, we rolled back to our Gucci hotel, where I luxuriated in a long bath and cozied up afterward in a big, fluffy hotel robe (the bath/comfy robe were just as delicious as all the food we'd eaten earlier in the evening). Joy. Murray and I also decided to order a movie to watch before going to bed, which was a wonderful and relaxing way to unwind from the day. I could get used to this sort of life…


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I can't tell a very large difference between raw goat and raw cow milk. There is a difference in taste, yes, but I can't imagine how someone could like one and not like the other. Find one preferable, maybe. I've never tasted a "sourness" in raw goat milk, save for when it's actually souring. I've never tried pasteurized goat milk to compare.
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I am looking to implement a simple mean-variance optimization script with the R statistical package, specifically using RMetrics libraries (e.g., fPortfolio).
The project will entail some minor amount of data gathering and cleansing (from a source like Yahoo Finance - or I can provide to you in csv) and then implementing the fPortfolio functions in a straight-forward way. Importantly, I need to output various graphs that are not standard in the fPortfolio package, but totally doable. I suspect the full project would be 15-25 hours end to end and I'd need this completed in 2 weeks time maximum.
I will conduct a short (paid) trial project for which I will pay up to $75 for a very simplified version of the full project. I will select the top couple of applicants and will pay all who *successfully* complete the simplified project, and use that as a basis for hiring the full project. No payment for non functioning code.
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