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In close rangeMarch 19,2013
Once again the world faces the dreadful possibility that an aggressor this time a rogue nation widely believed to be delusional may try to make good on its threat to attack our country with a long-range missile armed with a nuclear warhead.
North Korea may have the worlds most inscrutable political and military leadership, so when that leadership personified by the immature and inexperienced Kim Jong Un warns it is prepared to launch a pre-emptive nuclear strike, then the threat must be taken seriously even if it is probably just so much chest-thumping bluster.
There are valid reasons for concern. In December, North Korea launched a long-range rocket, although we were told it was designed simply to put a satellite into orbit. Months earlier, a powerful mobile missile one that Pentagon analysts believe could reach the United States was seen in a North Korean military parade. The fact it is mobile means it could be moved from place to place and therefore made more difficult for our side to spot.
Last week, a North Korean government agency mocked the puppet authorities and despicable reptile media that have criticized the continued expansion of the nations nuclear capabilities. Those puppet authorities are just across the border in South Korea, a reliable ally of the United States. The North Koreans also announced they were nullifying the joint declaration on the de-nuclearization of the Korean Peninsula that was issued after the Korean War of the 1950s.
It would be comforting to believe that North Korea is engaged in the ages-old political art of saber-rattling, but Washington and South Korea dare not take that risk. So Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel announced last week that, just in case, the United States will add additional ground-based missile interceptors on the West Coast to improve our ability to defend our shores from any attack by North Korea.
Hagel told reporters that with 14 additional interceptors in place by 2017, the total would rise to 44. In all, the Pentagon reported, it plans to spend $1 billion on improving its defense capabilities.
The reason that we are doing what we are doing and the reason we are advancing our program here for homeland security is to not take any chances, is to stay ahead of the threat and to assure any contingency, Hagel explained.
His remarks prompted Chinese authorities to warn Monday that his plan runs the risk of increasing tensions with North Korea.
Bolstering missile defenses will only intensify antagonism, and it doesnt help to solve the issue, Hong Lei, speaking for the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said in Beijing.
But President Obama and his advisers understand the situation clearly. In a television interview last week, the president conceded that he doubts North Korea actually has the capacity to carry out the threatened missile attack on the United States. That is, he appears to believe Kim Jong Un is bluffing.
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When gym class is canceled due to bad weather, the students take turns telling ghost stories. To Saya's surprise, the story her teacher tells may hold a secret to her past and the mysterious covenant between humans and Elder Bairns.
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- Growers changing approach in weed resistance battle
- Application timing is critical
- Each component of a herbicide pre-mix or tank-mix with multiple modes of action is not necessarily effective for every weed or under all application conditions.
- Using herbicides from multiple mode-of-action groups may help reduce the selection intensity for resistance to a particular active ingredient of a herbicide.
- However, many factors determine the effectiveness of each pre-mix or tank-mix ingredient against the weed species of concern.
Interest in using multiple modes of herbicide action in weed management programs is increasing, according to Aaron Hager, University of Illinois associate professor of weed science.
However, each component of a herbicide pre-mix or tank-mix with multiple modes of action is not necessarily effective for every weed or under all application conditions.
For example, giant ragweed, a large-seeded, summer annual, broadleaf weed species, can be difficult to control with a single herbicide. Because of its extended germination and emergence characteristics, farmers may have to use more than one herbicide or multiple herbicide applications.
While herbicide resistance has been found in the Illinois giant ragweed population, it is not as common or widespread as herbicide resistance in other weed species. Many soil-residual herbicide pre-mixes containing two or more active ingredients are available to farmers who want to be proactive and use multiple modes of action to reduce the selection for herbicide resistance in giant ragweed.
However, "To effectively reduce the selection intensity for resistance to a particular active ingredient, each component of the pre-mix or tank-mix should have similar efficacy against the target weed species," Hager said. "In addition, each component should demonstrate similar soil persistence." Few commercial soil-applied herbicide pre-mixes satisfy these criteria when giant ragweed is the target species.
The timing of a herbicide pre-mix or tank-mix application can also influence the effectiveness of each component. For example, a farmer may choose to use Harness Xtra (or any other pre-mix of a chloroacetamide and atrazine) to control waterhemp, a small-seeded summer annual broadleaf weed species that has developed resistance and is becoming a serious problem in Illinois fields.


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This post (as with MANY others) makes you look like a hypocrite in addition to being uninformed. I believe you didn't even watch the very games you commented and debated about (because of the Time Warner dispute). That equals fail.
The fact that you have chosen to document your position which includes doubt and making yet another coaching change, without providing a valid reason as you attempted to do so with D'Antoni, equates to blatant hate.
Additionally considering that at this point (when you wrote this) we were undefeated under our new better coach can only be regarded as an epic fail where your credibility has plummeted into the abyss.
Just delete your account. You are a hypocritical hater who dosen't deserve to witness our transformation. I bet deep down inside you want us to fail. Either give Woody the same benefit of the doubt as you did with Italian league Star D'Antoni or beat it.
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Closer examination of the brains of people who have died from Alzheimer's has shown a loss of cells that release a chemical called acetylcholine ~ those cells that are used for thinking.
The first signs of Alzheimer's are loss of short-term memory for names and recent events. This then progresses to a difficulty learning new information, possibly eccentric behavior, depression and loss of spontaneity.
As Alzheimer's continues to affect the sufferer, they will lose the ability to carry out everyday activities, questions will be asked repeatedly, and they may lose the ability to recognize friends and family.
Eventually nearly all mental functions will fail, a similar symptom to those suffering from multiple small strokes and severe alcoholism.
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When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Hit a GIDP…
The fielders made the trip to Atlanta, but the hitters were a no-show…
The Yankees, looking rather pathetic and tired, kind of like their third baseman, lost to the Atlanta Braves, 4-0. Another so-so start by Chien Ming-Wang, but on this night, it really wouldn't have mattered how well he pitched. A no-hitter couldn't have pulled out a victory for the Yanks.
A-Rod is definitely looking like anything but A-Rod as his batting average continues to its freefall to the dreaded Mendoza line.
After years of clutch hits, Derek Jeter is starting to become the guy to call when you are looking to kill a potential rally.
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Cody Ransom is due to come off the disabled list today, so a move is expected. I doubt that the Yankees would designate Ransom for assignment, so that means either Angel Berroa or Ramiro Pena has to go. My guess is that Berroa has seen his final day in pinstripes.
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Regarding Ransom's return, manager Joe Girardi said, "He could help us a lot". I am not a major league manager, but sorry, Joe, I can't buy that one. The Yanks need help, but Cody Ransom is not going to be the savior.
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In last night's loss, the Yankees stranded 11 base runners. There was no shortage of candidates for the Goat of the Game. It was a disappointing loss, and the team is definitely reeling right now. At this point, you have to consider the Yankees to be lucky that they are only 5 games behind Boston. Next week, it could be much worse if things don't change.
If the Yankees had gone down fighting last night and still lost, I would have felt much better than them simply mailing it in. The lackadaisical effort is a reflection of the manager and coaching staff. Girardi said after the game, "This is going to turn and when it does it is going to be a welcome sight". I only hope that it is not too late. 5 games are not insurmountable, particularly not in July. But there is no question that the Boston Red Sox are the superior team right now. I do not recall a recent Red Sox game where I felt that the "team" had given up. They battle down to the last at-bat. That's the type of effort and attitude that the Yankees need to model.
The Yankees are now tied for second with the Toronto Blue Jays. A loss today and the Yanks are potentially in fourth place with the Tampa Bay Rays tapping on their shoulder.
The Yankees protest of Sunday's game was denied by Major League Baseball. I never expected the Yankees to get anywhere with the protest, but admittedly; it was fun to talk about. However, the Yankees need to win games because of their play, not because of technicalities.
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It's time to start hitting and fielding like May, and resume the charge on Boston. The talent and ability is there. Let's Go Yankees!
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Scott – you finally realized who the superior team is!😉 But you are right – for the last several years (really since 2004) the Red Sox never give up on a game. They play until the last out; not something I see the Yankees doing right now. I know that Wang had a so-so outing, but all the calls for his removal don't make sense. He only gave up 3 runs! I wonder how much longer Girardi will be manager of the team? The Yankees are a ship adrift while the Red Sox are sailing on smooth seas. This is a very interesting season so far. I'm enjoying it – how about you?😉
– I'm 99% sure that this was the 'final straw' for Wang. As for A-Rod… atleast he's still effective in the field, right? Check out my Yankee blog: jquist.mlblogs.com
So – another Yankees' pitcher goes to the Indians. The Yankees traded Jose Veras to the Tribe for cash. Hmmm….I wonder how he and Pavano will do together?
Okay – 6 would have been better, but 5 is still a great number!😉


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Unity crucial in Ukraine crisisMay 01,2014The New York Times said the following in an editorial:
The United States and the European Union announced another round of sanctions against Russia
on Monday and Tuesday: the Americans against Russians close to President Vladimir Putin, including the president of the state-owned oil company Rosneft; and the Europeans against senior Russian officials and secessionist leaders in Ukraine. The stated reason is that Russia has fulfilled none of the commitments it made at a meeting with Ukraine, the United States and the European Union
in Geneva on April 17, and that Russias involvement in the recent violence in eastern Ukraine is indisputable.
The action is justified, and for all of Mr. Putins bluster, the economic uncertainty generated by sanctions is accelerating Russias slide to recession. The same Russians who are cheering Mr. Putin on are rushing to get their money out of Russia. On Friday, citing the capital flight, Standard & Poors cut Russias credit rating to a notch above junk. Moreover, powerful Russians like Igor Sechin, Rosnefts president, like to see themselves as globe-trotting chief executives, and not as Putin cronies.
Yet given Mr. Putins demonstrative disdain for the Geneva agreements, along with the aggressive behavior of Russian troops massed on Ukraines borders and the continued occupation of administrative and security buildings in southeastern Ukrainian cities by Moscow-directed secessionists, such targeted penalties are not likely to change Russias behavior. And the sort that would coordinated United States-European Union sanctions on financial institutions, the energy sector or defense industries have proved very difficult to construct, largely because of the substantial difference between American and European exposure to Russias economy.
About a quarter of the European Unions gas supplies come from Russia, and despite years of talk about reducing this dependence, little has been done. European Union trade with Russia, moreover, amounted to almost $370 billion in 2012, compared with United States-Russia trade of $26 billion. This includes some huge sales, like the two helicopter carriers France is building for the Russian Navy as part of a $1.6 billion deal signed in 2011. What that means is that any sanctions that really bite will cost Europe a lot more than the United States.
But there will be other costs if Europe and America do not join in a unified response. Among other things, a weak and fragmented response would call into question a long-standing trans-Atlantic commitment to protect international law and democratic values against the kind of aggression Mr. Putin is engaging in. And optics here are important: The decision of Gerhard Schröder, the former German chancellor, to meet with Mr. Putin on Monday in St. Petersburg and embrace him in a bear hug sent an unacceptable signal that some prominent Europeans are willing to ignore Mr. Putins brutish ways.
One result has been pressure on President Obama, largely from Republicans in Congress but also within his own administration, to act unilaterally. That would be a mistake, and Mr. Obama has been right to maintain a unified front with the Europeans even if that has slowed and weakened the response. As he correctly told reporters in Asia, if America were to block certain arms sales to Russia unilaterally, European contractors would simply move in.
Acting separately would also fit into Mr. Putins efforts to split the United States from Europe, and East Europeans from West Europeans, by consistently painting the United States as the orchestrator of discord in Ukraine. But Ukraine is very much a European crisis. It was an accession treaty offered by the European Union that touched off the current crisis, and it is the European Unions eastern members who are most threatened by Mr. Putins efforts to revise the post-Cold War order.
Europes concern over the economic repercussions of broader economic sanctions are understandable. But that should not lead to any myopia about the danger Mr. Putin poses and the need to rein him in. His authoritarian behavior at home, his disdain for the Geneva agreement and, most recently, the capture of a European military observer mission in Slovyansk should persuade all European leaders that, as Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier of Germany told the magazine Spiegel, Weve slid into the worst crisis since the end of the Cold War. That crisis will only get worse unless the West is prepared to unite behind serious economic sanctions that hurt Russias financial, energy and military sectors.MORE IN CommentarySure, you can buy your uncle a necktie that he wont wear, or your niece an Amazon certificate... Full StoryA lot of serious long-term national issues simply werent addressed in the recent national election. Full StoryI have written on the anomaly of the separation of the private and public sectors in our society,... Full Story
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A UNC-Greensboro student was arrested after more than $12,000 in counterfeit money was found during an investigation, campus police said.
Symone Vannessa Brown, 19, of Charlotte, was charged with one felony count each of uttering a forged instrument, forgery of an instrument and obtaining property by false pretense. UNCG police said she is currently a registered student.
UNCG police allege Brown tried to use a fake $100 bill to buy a gift card Tuesday at the Walgreens on Spring Garden Street. A total of $12,882 in fake bills, mostly in $100 denominations, were found while executing a search warrant after her arrest, police said.
Police released an image of a fake $100 bill, which contained the signature "Moe Money."
Brown was arrested Tuesday and placed in the Guilford County Jail under a $3,000 bond. UNCG police and the US Secret Service are still investigating.


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The Network was established to expand the availability and access to clinical trials for all the people of North Carolina. The Network has evolved from an informal collaboration of community physicians into an organization of hospitals and oncology practices that participate in innovative studies of emerging new treatments.
Network affiliates serve a vital role by helping to conduct clinical research to improve the cancer care of tomorrow and to provide patients in their communities' access to these novel therapies. The Network has become a major force in cancer research, publishing numerous manuscripts and abstracts in medical journals and presenting results of studies at national and international meetings.
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Summer letters illustrate Xcel/Boulder rift
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The letters were obtained by the Boulder County Business Report on Wednesday.
Xcel's filing with the Public Utilities Commission on Tuesday seeks to limit the amount of new incentives paid out to its Boulder customers through the programs between now and the time the city begins operating its own electric utility. Boulder earlier this month sent Xcel a notice of intent to acquire by the power of eminent domain the company's assets and infrastructure necessary to form a utility.
Since all Xcel customers pay into the incentive programs through riders on their bills, Xcel said it doesn't want its non-Boulder customers to be subsidizing the renewable-energy benefits that would eventually be enjoyed by the city's utility.
In its filing, Xcel noted that it would drop the application with the PUC if the company and the city could agree to terms on how the city would compensate Xcel when Boulder forms its utility. Boulder officials have long said they're interested in reaching such an agreement if Xcel could provide it with detailed information related to the company's contracts with customers and how much assuming the contracts would cost.
City officials say the information Xcel has provided so far is not detailed enough. Xcel disagrees.
In a letter sent to city manager Jane Brautigam and city attorney Tom Carr on Aug. 22 last year, Xcel attorney Paula Connelly outlined what Xcel believed the costs would be for Boulder to assume any new rebate and incentive contracts signed between the company and Boulder customers from Oct. 1 to when the city begins operating its utility. Sorting out potential compensation or transferring of contracts signed before then would be hashed out in condemnation court.
Since most of its Solar Rewards incentives for residents with solar panels are paid out over 20 years, Xcel is requesting that Boulder take over those contracts once its utility is operating. The cost of doing so, Xcel said in the letter, would be about $496,000 annually. That's based on the number of new contracts the company anticipates signing with Boulder customers given past participation levels. The actual amount could be more or less depending on how many new customers sign up.
For demand-side management programs – such as rebates for installing energy-efficient appliances that are usually doled out at the time of purchase – Xcel's letter stated that it collected $2.8 million in 2011 and $3.5 million in 2012 from Boulder customers for the programs. The amount the company says it paid out to participating Boulder customers in those years, however, was $4.6 million in 2011 and $4.8 million in 2012. Had the city agreed to pick up the difference in those years – like Xcel is requesting the city do for new DSM contracts signed from this point forward – that cost would have been $1.8 million in 2011 and $1.3 million in 2012. Those aren't the amounts Xcel is requesting in a potential deal with the city but rather were intended to give the city an idea of what the costs of such an agreement would be.
"They know, based on what we've given them, what their spending is each year for each of those programs and the participation level," Xcel spokeswoman Michelle Aguayo said Wednesday. "That's what they need to know."
The city disagrees.
"They seemed to us to be potentially inflated numbers, and we needed additional numbers to be able to do calculations and verify them," Boulder spokeswoman Sarah Huntley said.
In response to Xcel's Aug. 22 letter, the city sent a letter on Sept. 9 that requested much more detail about how Xcel calculated those estimates. Among other things, the city requested to see all Solar Rewards contracts executed by Xcel with Boulder customers since the program began so that the city could independently analyze the potential costs of new contracts. The city also wanted a detailed accounting of Xcel's DSM revenues for the same years to verify how Xcel came up with the figures for what it portrayed as an excess benefit to Boulder customers.
Xcel denied those requests.
"We've been unable to get any kind of information (when asking for further documentation)," Huntley said.
Aguayo said the information on past contracts is unnecessary given that any agreement between the two sides would only cover new contracts signed from now until Boulder forms its utility. The information provided in the Aug. 22 letter was what is relevant, she said.
Given there's no agreement, Xcel went ahead and filed the application with the PUC to modify its programs for Boulder customers.
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If you're worried about the future of classical music, you should really hear this weekend's Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra concert, which features both a conductor and soloist of the under-30 set.
Guest conductor Santtu-Matias Rouvali led the orchestra through beautifully crafted interpretations of music by Carl Nielsen and Jean Sibelius on Friday evening. He and the orchestra were joined by cellist Andreas Brantelid in a deeply musical rendering of Dmitri Shostakovich's Concerto No. 1 for Cello and Orchestra. »Read Full Article
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1a. Objectives (from AD-416)
To sequence the complete genomes of 2500 isolates of PVY representing all identified strain and phenotype groups and to correlate sequence information with biological phenotypes.
1b. Approach (from AD-416)
Recent studies have identified an explosion of genetic and biological diversity in the Potato virus Y (PVY) population leading to a widespread distribution of damaging necrotic variants that were recently considered to be absent in North America. Nevertheless, the population structure, recombination potential, and pathogenicity of PVY strains in different environments and in prominent potato varieties remain poorly understood. Two of the co-PIs were the coordinators and principle scientists for a 3-year (2004-07) survey of PVY diversity in all U.S. and Canadian seed potato production areas. More than 4,000 PVY isolates were analyzed by multiplex RT-PCR to determine a molecular phenotype, by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays using a panel of monoclonal antibodies to determine a serotype, by bioassays on tobacco and potato to determine a necrosis phenotype. All of this information was used to categorize isolates into strain groups. Additionally, there is a growing list of collaborators willing to share representative PVY isolates from other continents. The research objective is to sequence a minimum of 2500 isolates that represent multiple individuals within each of the distinct strain groups. We will utilize both the standard bioinformatics platforms and develop unique tools to address PVY genomic diversity, phylogeny and evolution of PVY strains, and to correlate molecular phenotypes with biological phenotypes relevant to potato production and international and domestic marketing and trade. The results of the proposed research will directly result in the identification of molecular markers and sequences that can be used to develop new methods to detect and differentiate various novel PVY strains, and to quickly identify biological phenotypes. This information will also be invaluable for potato breeding programs focused on developing PVY resistance in potato and other susceptible crops.
3. Progress Report
Funding was not received for this project until April 2009. Technical support was hired in May 2009. Research has been initiated on the biological characterization of numerous PVY isolates that represent the different strain groups. Primary focus is to determine if these PVY isolates can cause tuber necrosis on a range of potato cultivars grown in the U.S. These are long term assays requiring 3-4 months to complete, therefore no data are available. Progress is monitored through email and phone conversations.
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When Orochimaru licked Anko's neck.
Anything with Orochimaru and his tongue.
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Anything with Orochimaru and his tongue.
^pretty much this lol
When I first saw Shino's manical laugh..that was pretty creepy..I was like.. O.o
sakura being saved
Rock Lee & Guy
Not apart of the manga, but I can totally imagine Might Gai doing this
Obviously everytime we got to see.. YAMATOS CREEPY FACE.
Ok sorry. xD
I think the scariest was when Orochimaru got into his "true" form (looking like a snake with a weird head) and talked there.. Sheeesh, I can't even look at the picture now..
true; she didn't deserved that, but it was still kind of funny how she wanted to kill sasuke ALONE! lol
Pretty much when shit started to hit the fan in the blood prison movie. That was god awful and felt like bleach and many other similar one's.
There was one really creepy scene in the Forest of Death when Sasuke and Naruto are both completely out of it and Sakura's the only one left. She tries to stay awake, but falls asleep, and has this dream where Sasuke and Naruto wake up and are both fine, but then she sees Orochimaru staring straight at her from a bush less than thirty metres away, with his face peeling off, it was so creepy and disturbing because it plays out just like a paedophile stalking a little girl.
Apart from that, yeah, Orochimaru pretty much covers the entire creepiness section of Naruto all by himself, but there were a few other parts:
-Kankuro vs. that stretchy guy in the Chunin Exams, the part where Dr. Stretch breaks his neck and then the head flips around and it's just the puppet, but it still has half of Kankuro's face and it's grinning; looks nightmarish.
-Gaara killing that team of ninja early on with Sand Coffin, and he uses an umbrella to shield himself from the blood.
-Gaara screaming when Sasuke hits him with the Chidori.
-The thought of NaruSasu...
-The thought of Kakasaku...seriously, he's like 26 and she's like 12 O.o
-Manda demanding 100 human sacrifices for Orochimaru summoning him, and then you realise that Orochimaru summoned him all the time during the 3rd Shinobi War; did he want sacrifices then as well?
-Tsunade's true form when she exhausts all her chakra; she looks so much older than Jiraiya or Orochimaru, probably because she's shortened her life span so much.
-Ancient Madara living all by himself attached to the Gedo Mazo.
-Danzo...just Danzo.
-That ninja from the Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist who uses the needle, Kenpachi or whatever his name is...he sews his enemies together!
-Naruto going insane after he thinks Gaara's died and attacking Deidara, you don't see Deidara's body, just Naruto's fist wailing on him with blood all over his knuckles.
-What happens to Naruto when he goes into any sort of Kyuubi forms.
-Giant hairless Kyuubi breaking out of Chibaku Tensei and breathing fire, it's like hell.
-Ibiki's head.
-Shino (and most members of the Aburame Clan) having bugs living inside his body.
-The living conditions of the people Orochimaru's captured.
-Orochimaru having a shower; and that's not because it's Orochimaru having a shower (although that's part of it), it's because he's screaming in agony and his arms are flaking and falling apart. And Kabuto's standing right outside the door, which makes you wonder if he always does that or if it's just a one-off thing. Either way, it's creepy thinking about Kabuto thinking about Orochi having a shower.
-Genjutsu...just Genjutsu...Tsukuyomi in particular.
-Kakuzu's tentacle-string things, whatever the hell they are...
-That scene from the filler episode where that girl connected her heart to Naruto's, pulled it out and squeezed it. To make it worse, it looked exactly like a real heart, not a cartoonish one.
-Pain's summons.
-Obito's massacre of the Kiri-nin. SOOOO MMUUUUUUUCHH BLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD. It was like a fountain, holy crap.
And that's my list of creepiest scenes.
lol Orochimaru.
For me it's the filler episode when the female antagonist sticks threads into Naruto's heart. Seriously that is the only thing that i actually felt uncomfortable, even When considering Orochimaru.
The creepiest thing i have ever seen would have to be by far, would have to be the Raikage. i mean, all he did was tap his arm and it dropped off. Hey, Imagine him when he goes for a bash..... DX I scare myself.
When Sasuke broke that sound guys' arms. That was so too much for me, really.
There is a lot of creepy scenes in Naruto. But there are more creepy people. Which for me was Gaara...
He just creeped me out *shivers* when he was still on the dark side. "A soul needs a purpose to live and so I concluded that my purpose is to kill everyone but myself..." and that whole "I live only for myself; I love myself..." thing was crazy.
Another one was when he partially transformed and was fighting Sasuke "Come out Sasuke! Are you afraid of me!?"
There is a lot to quote him about. But just the way he even looked was eerie.
In Shippuden he is more like a martyr. Oh well.
Probably that filler arc when a fake Kabuto linked his heartbeats to Naruto's, pulled his own pulsing heart out and squeezed it.
Every time I see Gai's "shiny" grin it makes me cringe.
When Orochimaru stuck his tongue out at Naruto in Part 1 when he was not yet formally introduced.
nagato all emaciated and with those things sticking out of his back...
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racer1 wrote:" i didnt make any personal attack"
First off seeing all this crap I had to return once again to educate you no nothing garbage mouths once again. Michaeljohn, your statement above is a joke as YOU ARE a clueless garbage mouth hater who does nothing BUT attack her with your childish rants and ignorance. You have proven to be a hater and nothing else, so cut the crap and crawl back under your rock and take your garbage mouth naysayer loser buddies here with you. All you and some others here EVER do is try and discredit Danica which is a joke in itself given who she is and how popular she is and growing moreso every day.
Someone else recently said it best--" the haters are so ignorant & so few they they cant understand that they don't matter yet they keep trying in vain to get someone to notice & pay attention to them, but for the few haters, Danica has 1000's of real fans worldwide who are doing the voting & supporting her"--period. As one proof social media-- watch her twitter & facebook followers grow by thousands almost every day--says it all-- except for you obviously ignorant posters here who couldn't see the truth "if it bit you" as the saying goes. She'll pass a million twitter followers before the season is over, as she already has the most for any driver in Nascar--so guess whos helping with the voting for her--duh?
Also far as nascar, several boos were heard throughout introductions for various drivers as mentioned here & for Danica the cheers FAR out-weighed the boos, except for those trying to make something out of nothing which the naysayers are always trying to do. The announcers even commented, those doing some booing were the old school nascar fans who don't like her being voted in as favorite driver since she hasn't been there long enough yet to prove herself--that's all. Course they probably didn't want to say or admit that some of the boos also were probably dumb a-s-s redneck, chauvinistic & sexists pigs like some here in my opinion and by your own comments, who cant stand seeing a female driver far more popular then the male drivers in their "good ole boys" series. Its a fact and always will be that for some, chauvinism and sexism as mentioned is alive & well in auto racing and they cant stand that a female like Danica knows how to beat them at their own game and some will never accept that. Struggles for female drivers making it to the top in auto racing is well known as only a few have made it but none had long lasting success. Danicas value to nascar as been said is her huge popularity and what she brings in ratings and new fans and new eyes on the series which is something new and is something that NO male driver can bring--not even Dale Jr anymore.
Also I will say SHR should be ashamed with their lousy teams and lousy peformances as it shows now for 11 races and nothing to bragg about except what Danica achieved for the team in the Daytona opener, the ONLY bright spot for the entire garbage team so far--says it all don't you think? Danica is the one drawing attention to SHR and to nascar where no other driver can and that's her value in nascar as her results don't matter at this point. Facts are, she has NO chance to get better until if or when SHR as a team gets better as when the leader and champion great driver like Tony S struggles with his car setup and even Newman, what chance does Danica have to get better as Gibson has said--he doesn't know what else to do----really?
BTW--nice to see future64 back adding some education as well to the losers here although it wont help as there is no cure for stupidity, ignorance and hatred? How many good posters have you losers ran off leaving this site to be nothing more then a garbage dump for only the nasty posters left here? Oh well--enjoy your discontent and see how far or what that gets some of you as Danica is thriving and that's probably--what bothers some of you the most--LMAO--
"Encouragement is what will make people succeed, bringing people down won't. I believe Danica will be great at NASCAR, she just needs time to learn and adapt, NASCAR is a very different beast to what she's used to. All #10 haters just unregister yourself from this teams website and screw off, I for one believe in Danica and she has my support!" --msmallpiece


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I pride myself on having a fairly good memory. Not when it comes to directions, phone numbers, people's birthdays or what my friends look like, mind you; I'm just talking about important things, like pop culture. The parts of my brain that are supposed to be dedicated to remembering where I parked my car, math and whether or not I left my front door unlocked have been reassigned to focus on random bits of pointless TV and movie trivia, because I work for a website that covers pop culture in exhaustive detail (and because I don't actually have anything worth stealing, so really, who cares if my door's unlocked?).
It always throws me for a loop, then, when I discover that one of my long-held, previously unquestioned beliefs about pop culture is completely and utterly wrong. These are just a few of the pop culture truths that I need to remind myself of occasionally ...
(See Dan as a damn Jedi in Cracked's new Star Wars mini-series.)
4The Word "Ewok" Was Never Once Said in Star Wars
The Thing You Remember
Star Wars is and was always expanding its library of weird aliens. A New Hope gave us Jawas and Sand People, The Empire Strikes Back gave us Tauntauns and Return of the Jedi gave us the ridiculous mini-Wookiees known as Ewoks.
And they were known as Ewoks, right? Someone certainly called them that in the movie, right?
But Actually ...
Now, I have pretty amazing parents, which is why some of my earliest memories involve me watching Star Wars. My whole family casually quoted that movie growing up, and not just the popular quotes ("I thought they smelled bad on the outside," "[incomprehensible Wookie howling]"), but the less recognizable stuff, too ("Threepio! Where could he beeee," "Two cruisers against a star destroyer," "[incomprehensible Salacious Crumb cackling]"). My first toys were Star Wars toys, I had light saber battles with any of the neighborhood kids who wanted to play with me (turns out none of them did) and I'm pretty sure I knew who Boba Fett was before I knew who George Washington was.
I actually still get them confused.
That said, we weren't weird or anything. No one owned a bunch of Extended Universe books, and no one wasted days clicking around Wookieepedia, because the Internet didn't exist. We didn't sit around and watch the credits to learn every character's name and find out who played what.
So how the hell have I known since I was 5 years old that the doofy freaking bears in Return of the Jedi were called Ewoks if that word was never once used in a single Star Wars movie?
"This is a buddy of mine. His name's not important; he's cool."
The fact that no one ever says "Ewok" in all of Jedi hadn't even occurred to me until I stumbled upon a Reddit link drawing attention to it last week. I didn't believe it at first. Surely Threepio must have said something like "My word! The Ewoks believe me to be a God," or Leia must have said, "We need to stay here and help the Ewok rebellion," or Han must have said, "Tonight we dine on the soft meat of our fallen hairy comrades. 'Ewoks,' or some shit. Wait, 'Ewoks'? Well that's stupid and lazy, that's clearly just a syllabic reversal on 'Wookiee.'"
Above: An Ewok, I think.
I know by heart the name of the band leader in Jabba's palace, the bald guy in Cloud City who wore that weird ear thing and every damn bounty hunter who went searching for Han Solo, because I bought a Star Wars name guidebook when I was 12 (ladies), but I will never know how I've known what an Ewok was since I was 5.
3In Humpty Dumpty, No One Says Anything About an Egg
The Thing You Remember
Humpty Dumpty is an egg.
But Actually ...
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall
All the king's horses and all the king's men
Couldn't put Humpty together again.
Nope. Not a single mention of an egg in the whole poem. I mean, egg or no egg, it's weird that the king's horses would even be involved in this kind of restoration project, but even that's not as strange to me as the fact that I have never once questioned Humpty Dumpty's egg status, even though it's never explicitly brought up. Going just by that poem, there's no reason to assume he's an egg; he could just be a guy who fell and cracked his skull open, which makes the king's desperate and futile attempt to "put him back together" much more tragic (and the involvement of the horses even more suspect).
"Look, Mr .... 'The King,' is it? Mr. The King, I'm admittedly out of my element here, but I'm almost certain this guy is extremely dead. Can I have some oats, please?"
Doing the least amount of research expected of me, I clicked around Wikipedia for a while to dig into old nursery rhymes and learned that the story of Humpty Dumpty actually used to be a riddle, the answer of which was "egg." When the answer to the riddle became too well-known, everyone stopped calling it a riddle and started calling it a nursery rhyme. This is an unsatisfactory answer to me for a number of reasons. For starters, that sounds like a really shitty riddle. "A thing fell off of a wall and broke -- can you guess what it was?" How is "egg" a better answer than "glass bowl named Humpty" or "a dude"?
Additionally, the whole riddle thing is just one possible theory. No one seems to know where this original riddle version of Humpty Dumpty is or where it came from, and there are competing theories that suggest that Humpty Dumpty was either a tortoise, a cannon or a stand-in for King Richard III of England, designed to make some kind of satirical observation about the king. That he was bad at sitting on walls? Wait, if Humpty Dumpty is supposed to be King Richard, who the hell is "the king" supposed to represent in this satire? This is so dumb.
It looks like we'll never know for sure whether or not Humpty Dumpty was supposed to be a stupid riddle, but we do know that we all grew up knowing, without a doubt, that the character in this brief nursery rhyme was absolutely an egg. And that's weird.


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Kashmir's first all-girl rock band Pragaash perform at the annual 'Battle of the Bands' in Srinagar on Dec. 23, 2012.
EDITOR'S NOTE: NBC News obscured the faces in this photo to protect the band members' identities because of safety concerns.
The only all-girl band in India's troubled Kashmir region has split up after a controversial Muslim cleric issued a fatwa against them.
However, the cleric -- Grand Mufti Bashiruddin Ahmad – is now facing a backlash with a leading human-rights lawyer planning to take him to court over his claim that the band, Pragaash, was un-Islamic and other pronouncements.
After the fatwa, the three teenage girls received online threats prompting police to arrest three people, according to several reports including one by BBC News.
Omar Abdullah, chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir, said on Twitter that he was "glad" that arrests had been made.
In an interview with India's NDTV, a band member named as Aneeka, who is still in high school, insisted that "nothing has forced us to quit."
"We quit for the happiness of our people. As the grand mufti said, it is un-Islamic ... that's why we quit," she said. NDTV pixilated her face when the interview was broadcast.
"Mufti … is a saint. He knows about our religion and must be respected," Aneeka added.
'They feel very harassed'
However, for human rights lawyer Parvez Imroz, of the Jammu & Kashmir Coalition of Civil Society, the fatwa against Pragaash was the last straw and he is now planning to take Ahmad to court.
"The lives of these girls were threatened. They feel very harassed," he said.
Imroz, who is Muslim, said the grand mufti had appointed himself to the role and set up his own "supreme court."
Ahmad's comments about Pragaash were the latest in a number of "very controversial" fatwas over the last few years, Imroz said, including calling for Americans to leave Kashmir and for Christians to appear in his court.
"We are filing the case because he's claiming to be some 'grand mufti.' Under no law is there any such title," the lawyer said. "Kashmir is very tolerant. Music … is part of our culture. These girls, they have a right to do it, but I'm telling you we are raising the bigger question about this institution in the society, this self-appointed priest and mufti who has been giving a very reactionary … view of Islam."
Imroz said he wanted the court to rule that Ahmad had no legal standing, describing him as a "non-entity."
Kashmir is claimed by India and Pakistan, which have fought two wars over the region. It is the only state in India where the majority of people are Muslims.
In comments posted on NDTV's website, some expressed their anger at the criticism of the band.
"We're heading in prehistoric era thanks to morons," one said.
"It's really disheartening to see such narrow views are still being propagated in the country," another added.
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June 14, 2012 —
While opera has long been considered an art form considered by many to be "an acquired taste," Delaware Valley Opera Company's (DVO) artistic director Carol Castel is bound and determined to dispel that myth once and for all. To that end, Castel and Co. have designed the 2012 season as a pastiche, inspired by the works of William Shakespeare, whose prolific body of work has been the catalyst for musical interpretation, enduring the test of time since his birth in 1564.
The 2012 season, "Shakespeare Sings" promises to live up to Castels' vision, which includes "attracting all factions of the community, by presenting a traditional opera (Rossini's "Otello"), Cole Porter's "Kiss Me Kate" and Otto Nicolai's operetta, "The Merry Wives of Windsor." With such a diverse program, the DVO will undoubtedly live up to it's commitment to offer up "something for everyone" and Castel continues to steer the company toward community involvement, participation and spirit.
"We want the entire community to be aware that opera is not just about singers," she shared with me in between Otello rehearsals. "Local dancers, singers, scenic designers and even jugglers are just a few of the residents we are reaching out to. We chose this season based on the variety and desire to encourage those who have not yet experienced the DVO."
Deciding to employ a "theme" for the entire season is inspired, and presenting three different form of musical theatre, attracting a new audience, sounds like a good idea. Asking Castel about the inclusion of a Broadway musical, she said, "Traditional opera is really just musical theatre of a different sort. The art form has evolved over the years and taken on many forms, which has enabled classical music [and in the case of "Kiss Me Kate"] to reach a wider audience."
A 1948 Tony-Award-winning musical with music and lyrics by Porter, the story involves the production of a musical version of Shakespeare's "The Taming of the Shrew" and the conflict on and off-stage between Fred Graham, the show's director, producer and star, and his leading lady, his ex-wife Lilli Vanessi. A secondary romance concerns Lois Lane, the actress playing Bianca, and her gambler boyfriend, Bill, who runs afoul with some gangsters.
The first production on the bill, "Otello," is a story often thought to be about race, but Castel expounded on that misconception. "The racial thing is a metaphor" she explained. "The story is about someone who is different and that theme is timeless and universal. It's really an allegory. Everyone aspires to be 'different- its an aspect of the human condition" she said.
The third offering, "The Merry Wives of Windsor," falls somewhere between the other two. Operetta "grew out of the French opera comique around the middle of the 19th century, to satisfy a need for short, light works in contrast to the full-length entertainment of the increasingly serious opera being offered up" (www.wikipedia.org [1]). Seeking to satisfy the purists, while attracting the musical theatre enthusiast and drawing young folks into an unexplored world, the 2012 season of the DVO sounds as if it will fulfill the promises offered. Seizing on the many gifts of local talents, including "some incredible voices," the community involvement provides a "rich pocket of opportunity," Castel said, and the company is excited to share.
Educational outreach is a vital part of the organization's commitment and includes "opportunities for teachers and students to participate in the professional production and performance of opera and musical theatre in our area." An outreach "Youth experience," a professional training program and workshop retreats are but a few of the programs offered, and the upcoming season, which debuts "Otello" on June 15, promises something for everyone. Visit www.delawarevalleyopera.org [2] or call 845/252-3136.


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I'm new here and must say that finding this forum has been a godsend! I thought I was all alone in my doubts and worries regarding bf.
My son is 4weeks old today, and there still seems to be no rhyme or reason as to when he eats. Sometimes he will go 2-3 hours between feedings and then other times it seems to be non-stop....like today....he eats for a hour, then 20-45 min later he's ready to eat again! He has only slept about a hour today since he woke this a.m. Fortunately, the night time is pretty smooth sailing. We can usually get him to go down in his bassinet around 10:30 or 11:00pm and he will sleep 3-4 hours then he wakes and eats then goes back to sleep. That usually takes 45min to an hour, then he's up again around 6 or 7am. That is when the inconsistentcy begins. I've tried to bf him every 2 hours to get on a schedule, but he's not having any part of it. It's just all helter skelter...and I know not bf when he's signaling he's hungry just to get on a schedule is NOT the thing to do and I haven't. I'm always ready to bf when he's ready to eat.
What hasn't helped is my DH. Every single time Zach cries, he says "he's hungry again" and is convinced that I'm not producing enough milk. He has even gone so far as to say, "this BF thing in not working." UGH!
He's seems to be forgetting all the dirty diapers we have both changed! I was fairly confident in my supply, but now I have my doubts. I did succomb to using a pump and giving some emb in a bottle. As of 2 days ago, I literally looked at Zach and said this is a team effort buddy, and we are going to succeed. I haven't pumped since. So, I guess my questions are as follows:
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The motorcycle officer delivered the baby at about 8 a.m. Thursday on the east-bound H-1 freeway near the Middle Street exit.
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While it was the mother's third child, this was the second time Keogh delivered a baby while on duty on the freeway.
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Good schools are not built just by teachers and administrators, students and parents, but by taxpayers who, year after year, reach into their pockets and often sacrifice to support rapidly rising budgets.
Those who spend public money must be good stewards. In tough times, they have even greater responsibility to prioritize spending based on reasoned assessment of what is essential and should be funded, and what, however desirable, is not essential and should await funding when resources are more robust.
That process was not in play at Wednesdays meeting in Montpelier.
The unpalatable choices for cuts presented in the Option #1 graphic that was the very first thing seen by attendees surely do not represent the lowest priority, least painful reductions that could have given some small taxpayer relief in a $17 million budget. Do teaching support positions or sports teams with a long school history really fall at the bottom of the priority list, below things like the nearly $7,000 for Ultimate Frisbee? Yet that seems to have survived, while faculty positions in six different departments and two sports teams of long standing were on the block. Why?
In a giddy, self-congratulatory atmosphere, the budget actually increased. Restoration of $3,500 for the debating club, following an emotional plea from a student, did not demonstrate effective management of priorities. We learned that the club had dwindling participation and was currently unfunded but operating. With numbers down and sustainability in question, then regrettably the club does not merit fiscal year 2015 funding.
Faced with a hard choice, the school board took the easy way out. Taxpayers will now have to reach into their pockets to add $3,500 to the recommended budget of $17,370,991.
Budget hikes nearing 24 percent in two years are not insignificant. Real increases will vary by household based on property assessments. They will be with us forever because taxes never go down.
That is why, in doing budgets, you go through a process of rigorous prioritization and cut from the bottom of the list to provide needed tax relief while working to reduce the disruption to school programs and the pain to the community.
The school board did not meet this challenge and, in my grade book, gets an F.
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The White Sox will host the annual Civil Rights Game Aug. 24 against the Texas Rangers at U.S. Cellular Field.
Major League Baseball announced the honor today with Hall of Famer and MLB executive vice president of baseball development Frank Robinson, Sox chairman Jerry Reinsdorf and Sox executive vice president Ken Williams were in attendance for the announcement as well as former Sox players Frank Thomas and Minnie Minoso.
"What we're trying to do is keep the Civil Rights Movement alive and in people's minds," Robinson said.
Unlike previous years, it is only a one-year commitment to host the event. The Civil Rights Game began in 2007 as a preseason exhibition game, and in 2009 the game was moved to the regular season. The Reds (2009 and 2010) and the Braves (2011 and 2012) have hosted the game.
"We can't allow this to be forgetten," Reinsdorf said of the Civil Rights Movement. "We can't let all the struggles that went on be forgotten.
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It's more than just a game, however. The weekend will also feature the baseball and the Civil Rights Movement roundtable discussion and a youth baseball and softball clinic. MLB also hands out the Beacon of Life Award, Beacon of Change Award and Beacon of Hope Award to those who have helped the Civil Rights Movement.
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Williams enthusiastically volunteered the Sox as hosts for the Civil Rights Game and after Robinson and MLB reached out to see if any other teams were interested, the Sox were awarded the event.
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UW-L, Western coordinate week-long active shooter training
It may be the one scenario colleges hope to never encounter, but two La Crosse campuses are preparing for it anyway.
The University of Wisconsin-La Crosse and Western Technical College have been coordinating active shooter trainings for years, but this week for the first time, they will co-host the training. It's also the first time the training will integrate officials other than police -- firefighters, EMS and 911 dispatchers are also taking part in the sessions.
Neither have ever had an active shooter on campus, but in April, a UW-L student was arrested after carrying an unloaded shotgun on campus. In May, police responded to what was reported as shots fired at Western, but the noise turned out to be part of a class project.
UW-L emergency dispatcher Kim Dearman said she vividly remembers the day she received calls of a shooter on campus.
"Lots of different emotions going through you at the same time," Dearman recounted of her experience working during the April 12 incident, which ultimately ended without a threat. "I was definitely scared. I was trying to keep track of my officers that weren't on campus that day."
Dearman said communication between first responders, firefighters and different police factions was difficult throughout the incident, a sentiment La Crosse Police Chief Ron Tischer agreed with.
"It happened so quickly, it was hard to integrate everybody into the situation," Tischer said. "That's why it's important to get the training for first responders, so they're working onthe same page with the police officers to resolve the situation."
Both are hoping the week's training will help law enforcement officials come together quickly and work cohesively to address situations like live shootings. Emergency response agencies from La Crosse, Juneau, Trumpeleau, Monroe and Vernon counties are participating in the training that will include both class-like seminars and hands-on staged incidents. Monday's session focused on rescuing injured victims in a potentially unsafe classroom setting.
"It's a very unique scenario for law enforcement officers to experience, especially on a college campus," Western's Law Enforcement Training Coordinator Kellie McElroy said in a statement. "You can talk about what you would do in the situation, but until you're in it, you can't really visualize all of the possibilities."
The trainings will take place in various buildings across the UW-L campus from Monday, July 29 through Thursday, August 1.
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President of European Central Bank Mario Draghi is on his way to a news conference in Frankfurt, Germany, Thursday, following a meeting of the ECB governing council. The ECB decided to leave its main interest rate unchanged.
The European Central Bank is overhauling the way it sets monetary policy, saying it will hold fewer meetings and publish minutes on its deliberations a bid to be more transparent as it vows to keep supporting the economy by any means available.
After the bank decided to keep its interest rates on hold Thursday, President Mario Draghi told a press briefing the ECB remains committed to take more action to help the 18-country eurozone grow faster and emerge from a period of dangerously low inflation.
To help investors understand the ECBs thinking behind such decisions, Draghi said that, starting in January, minutes will be published, a move that brings the bank in line with other major central banks. Some investors had asked for greater transparency from the ECB over the past few years, when uncertainty was high in markets amid the financial crisis.
Draghi added that from next year, monetary policy will be set every six weeks, instead of every month. That, he said, would help reduce market volatility by traders looking for action that is not always merited by economic fundamentals such as growth and inflation.
Maybe we should move to a 6-month schedule, Draghi quipped.
The ECBs policy timetable will be very similar to that of the Federal Reserve, which meets eight times a year, usually every six weeks. Draghi stressed that the ECB would not be synchronizing its meetings.
Marc Ostwald, a senior strategist at ADM Investor Services International, noted that the publication of the minutes may, however, undermine Draghis aim to have less market volatility.
With 8 meetings a year and an additional 8 meeting minutes release dates, the fact is that there will in principle be more, rather than less event risk surrounding ECB policy, he said.
Draghi on Thursday also fleshed out details of the ECBs latest plan to flood commercial banks with up to 1 trillion euros ($1.36 trillion), one of the measures it announced last month, along with interest rate cuts, to help the economy and nudge up inflation. One of the problems afflicting the eurozone is that banks often hold back from lending to businesses and households.
Draghi said the program of loans to banks will help drive inflation back to the target of just below 2 percent from 0.5 percent currently. Under the program, banks can bid for the loans on a quarterly basis, either alone or in a group with other banks. That money would have to be lent to businesses, in the hope of boosting investment.
Draghi said the recovery in the eurozone remained moderate and that inflation was subdued, but claimed long-term inflation expectations were firmly anchored.
Geopolitical risks, as well as developments in emerging market economies and global financial markets, may have the potential to affect economic conditions negatively, including through effects on energy prices and global demand, Draghi said. Markets have been shaken recently by violent clashes in Ukraine and Iraq as well as gyrations in fast-growing economies like Brazil and Turkey.MORE IN World/National BusinessWASHINGTON Long-term U.S. Full StoryNEW YORK Its not just the musical Hairspray that will air live on NBC tonight. Full StoryOXON HILL, Md. Far from the Las Vegas Strip, MGM Resorts International opens its $1. Full Story
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Holmen girls help hospitalized kids find joy
It's a case of kids helping kids.
What started out as a small idea between three girls in Holmen is turning out to have a big impact.
When Sacia Gilbertson first told her Evergreen Elementary teacher Laura Sandness what she and her friends wanted to do for their class project, Sandness was stunned.
"What I thought originally was, 'Wow, that's a great project and I have no idea how we're going to do this,'" said Sandness.
Sacia and her friends Devin Reeves and Brynn Daines created a website called KidzKare.
"It's because we're kids and we care for other kids," said Brynn.
They're caring for kids who are facing very grown-up challenges.
KidzKare is a collaboration with the Children's Miracle Network. People can donate toys or money to buy toys for kids who are hospitalized with serious illnesses.
"It probably means the world to those kids to have the feeling that someone cares," said Devin.
The toys will go to play areas like the one in the Pediatric Oncology Ward at Gundersen Lutheran.
It might look like it's well-stocked with toys, but child life specialist Jenny Noel says there's a huge need, because the toys are sanitized with heavy-duty cleaners between each patient, which wears the toys out quickly.
Plus certain toys, like stuffed animals and board games, just can't be sanitized.
"Sometimes we need to send toys home because we cannot clean them. But we also like to send toys home with kids because it's a nice incentive when they have difficult tests or procedures done or they have a hospital stay," said Noel.
Sacia said it's inspiring to know that what started out as just an elementary school project can have a real impact on other kids' lives.
"You can never really believe that you're going to make a huge change. But I guess this has really made me realize that you don't have to be older to be able to make a difference," said Sacia.
Now their hard work is being recognized in called iECHO, a magazine that shows off the creativity of kids in the La Crosse area. On Thursday morning, those three girls will get their first look at the issue that's going to feature their project.
A representative from the magazine is going to visit Evergreen Elementary to have the girls open the first box of this month's issue.
You can find a wish list of toys and find out how to donate to KidzKare on their website.
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½ lb. fresh mushrooms, sliced
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½ cup each red and green pepper strips
1 clove garlic, minced
1 can (14.5 oz.) crushed tomatoes
1tsp. dried thyme leaves
4 cups hot cooked long-grain white rice
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PLACE mushrooms, onions, peppers and garlic in slow cooker; top with chicken. Combine tomatoes and thyme; pour over ingredients in slow cooker. Cover with lid. Cook on LOW 6 to 8 hours (or on HIGH 5 hours).
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