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For more than 14 years, Chancellor Reed has helped over a million CSU students earn a higher education. Below are some of the stories of students whose lives have been transformed by the initiatives and programs that he has championed. More.
Strengthening the Student Voice
The California State Student Association has worked closely with Chancellor Reed to develop a meaningful and active student role in policy-making and governance. In doing so, the Chancellor has met with hundreds of CSU student leaders throughout the years. More.
Opening Doors to College
After graduating from high school, Kiara Cummings knew she wanted to go to college—she just wasn't exactly sure how it was going to happen. As a high school grad unsure about her future, Cummings attended a church service that she says opened the doors to college. Now a CSU Dominguez Hills student set to graduate this May, she says that her academic success all started that day at a Super Sunday service. More.
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Throughout Chancellor Charles B. Reed's tenure at the California State University, he has spearheaded numerous programs that ease the transition from soldier to student. Reaching out to military branches to help recruit student veterans, providing more services for veterans at the 23 CSU campuses and creating a seamless pathway to a productive career following military service have all been priorities under his leadership. More.
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Arturo Avila is a first-generation college grad with a degree in civil engineering. Kyla BradyLong earned her bachelor's in chemistry. Although from very different backgrounds, both share the love of science. So much, in fact, they have both decided to become science teachers.
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Four NCAA Div. III championships
PELLA—Central College sophomore Mallory Schulenberg (Kansas City, Mo., St. Pius X HS) is the Iowa Conference softball pitcher of the week.
Meanwhile, sophomore Eric Larson (Waverly, Waverly-Shell Rock HS)is the league's male athlete of the week and the distance medley relay squad is the men's track events performer of the week. Senior Dirk Lindaman (senior, Ankeny) and is the baseball pitcher of the week and senior Justin Livingston (Winterset) is the men's golfer of the week.
Schulenberg fired a three-hit shutout in a 1-0, eight-inning win against No. 24 Luther Saturday. A 5-3 victory in the nightcap led Central to a share of the conference title. Schulenberg struck out six and walked none to improve to 12-1. It's the third time Schulenberg has been cited this year. No. 14 Central (27-6 overall, 12-2 conference) heads to Cedar Rapids Thursday for the league tournament and meets the winner of Luther and Buena Vista at 4 p.m.
Larson recorded the top Division III decathlon mark at the Drake Relays last Thursday. He scored a career-high 6,717 points and finished eighth in the field, but was first among Div. III competitors. It's the first time Larson, a three-time all-American, has received athlete of the week recognition and the second time this season he's been tabbed the field events performer of the week.
Central's distance medley relay team brought down the school record at Drake with a time of 9:55.87. The crew of sophomore Drew Jackson (Johnston), senior Philip Heisterkamp (Jefferson, Jefferson-Scranton HS), senior Ben Schornack (Urbandale) and sophomore Eli Horton (Runnells, Southeast Polk HS) nearly won the event, falling to defending indoor national champion Wis.-La Crosse. The squad's mark was almost eight seconds faster than last year's school-record time.
The Dutch track and field squads compete at the Monmouth College (Ill.) Invitational Saturday for a final tune-up before the conference championships.
Lindaman captured the 10-inning complete-game win, 2-1, against Buena Vista University Saturday. He allowed six hits and improved to 4-3 while fanning seven and walking three. Lindaman, a 2012 first-team all-conference and second-team all-region pick, also posted three assists. It's his first time this year receiving pitcher of the week honors. The Dutch (17-16 overall, 9-13 conference) take on Luther College in a four-game series, starting at 1 p.m. Friday in Decorah.
Livingston is tied for the medalist lead at the halfway point of the conference tournament. He fired a 1-under-par 71 on the Finkbine Golf Course at Iowa City last Saturday, the day's best round, and shares the 36-hole lead at 82-71—153 with Luther's Andrew Peter. A two-time all-conference honoree, Livingston helped the Dutch slice 28 strokes off their first-round score to vault from a 2-shot deficit to a 13-stroke lead. Central, which has won 30 league titles, including the past four, wraps up the 72-hole tournament Friday and Saturday at the Elmcrest Country Club in Cedar Rapids.


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State College, Pennsylvania
August 9â12, 2004
Oh shoots 75, leads Girls Division by four strokes
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. â William Miller of McMurray, Pa., fought his way to a 1-over-par 73 and a share of the lead with Timothy Kelly of Staten Island, N.Y., in Wednesdayâs second round of the Nike Golf Junior at Toftrees Resort. In the Girls Division, Angela Oh of Maple Shade, N.J., carded a 3-over-par 75 and cruised to a four-stroke lead with a two-day total of 149.
The second installment of the Nike Golf Junior at Toftrees Resort is a 54-hole stroke play event conducted by the American Junior Golf Association. The tournament features 92 of the nationâs premier junior golfers, ages 12-15, from 21 states and Canada. The Nike Golf Junior All-Star Series, created in 1998, is a collection of 10 events designed to give younger AJGA members an opportunity to play competitive golf.
Miller, who began the day three strokes back at even par, struggled to a 2-over-par 38 on the front nine, but battled back with birdies at Nos. 13, 16 and 17 to shoot 35 on the back nine and force a tie at 145 with Kelly.
âI just wanted to play a steady round,â Miller said. âThe hole locations were a little tougher today, so I just tried to pick my spots. It could have been lower â I played the par-5s pretty bad and you need to take advantage of them out here.â
Kelly found the going tougher in Wednesdayâs second round after firing a first-round 69, but was able to hold on to a share of the lead and meet his goal of playing in Thursdayâs final pairing.
âI put myself into some bad spots,â Kelly said. âI attacked the course today, playing aggressively just like I did yesterday, but the putts didnât fall.
âI feel pretty confident going into the final round, but I donât want to get ahead of myself.â
Both players will be vying for their first AJGA win. Millerâs previous best finish in an AJGA event came at the 2004 Solutions Consulting Junior Classic, where he tied for fourth, and Kelly placed 10th at last yearâs Nike Golf Junior at Toftrees Resort.
Jed Dirksen of Hampton, Iowa, shot 74 and stands alone in third place with a two-day total of 149. Michael Soowal of Blue Bell, Pa., and Matthew Loftus of Ridgefield, Conn., are tied for fourth with two-day totals of 151.
In the Girls Division, Oh put herself in position to get her first win in an AJGA event, but hopes to perform better in Thursdayâs final round.
âToday was kind of steady, but I donât think I played as well as I could have,â Oh said. âHopefully Iâll do better tomorrow. Iâm playing fairways and greens and Iâm going to try to shoot something in the low-70s.â
Oh finished third at last yearâs Nike Golf Junior at Toftrees Resort.
Defending champion Natalie Sheary of West Hartford, Conn., shot a 4-over-par 76 and trails Oh by four strokes heading into the final round. Sheary says she needs to focus on her putting to contend for her second Nike Golf Junior at Toftrees Resort title.
âIâm hitting nice shots into greens but three-putts are killing me,â Sheary said. âIâve made some bogeys where if I thought more I could have prevented them. Iâm hoping to pull together tomorrow â Iâve got to make some birdies.â
Kate Durnan of Mendham, N.J., and Hayley Milbourn of Baltimore are tied for third place with two-day totals of 157.
The American Junior Golf Association is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to the overall growth and development of young men and women who aspire to earn college golf scholarships through competitive junior golf. The AJGA has a membership (boys and girls ages 12-18) of approximately 5,000 junior golfers from 50 states and 30 foreign countries.
Titleist, the AJGAâs National Sponsor, has been the catalyst and driving force behind the Associationâs success since 1989. Rolex Watch USA, a supporter of the AJGA since 1983, became the inaugural AJGA Premier Partner in 2004.
Final-round tee times begin Thursday at 7 a.m. off the No. 1 tee. For more information about the Nike Golf Junior at Toftrees Resort, please contact tournament headquarters at (814) 238-6951.
The Foundation
The Achieving Competitive Excellence (ACE) Grant program provides financial assistance to junior golfers who wish to play in AJGA events. Its goal is to give top-flight golf opportunities to young golfers regardless of financial resources. This program helps to fulfill the AJGA's mission of developing young men and women who aspire to earn college golf scholarships through competitive junior golf.
What is Leadership Links?
Leadership Links is a new program whereby the AJGA is able to further its mission to help develop young men and women by teaching charitable giving skills and service-oriented practices at an early age. This program gives juniors all the tools necessary to donate their time, talent and resources to local charities and the AJGA youth development programs. Please click here to learn more about the program and the different opportunities available.


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7-3-10 PNC Park
I had seriously considered going to Cleveland today rather than dealing with the sellout crowd at PNC Park. However, I decided I just didn't feel like driving four hours round trip for the fourth day in a week.
So, I gave PNC Park another try. One small thing going in my favor would be that the gates would open at 4:30 today, as is the PNC Park policy for Saturday games.
Upon entering, batting practice hadn't yet begun and the pitchers were throwing in left field.
Evan Meek noticed Nick and I hustling around looking for easter eggs and shouted, there's one up there, gesturing towards the upper general admission bleachers.
After a lengthy search, no ball would be found.
After batting practice finally began, I would get ball #1 tossed to me by Pirates starting pitcher Brad Lincoln.
During the second group of Pirates hitters, I would snag a Garrett Jones home run in left field. It was an opposite field shot that was a row in front of me, and I ended up trapping the ball against the bleacher on a short hop here:
I do believe that I will attend over 85 games, but so will Nick Pelescak, so the question may end up being who attends more?
As for the Total Balls in one season – its too early to tell if I'll be able to continue to average over 6 balls per game.
I won't be in action on July 4th, but have several trips lined up for next week.
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Being on pace for those two records is pretty exciting. I'm envious of the fact that you'll get to more than 85 games — awesome! Good luck in the second half.
Been reading the blog for a while, just started actually using my blog though. Anyways I was at the 6/15 CWS vs. PIT game and read the blog to see you were there. Now I'm not much of a ballhawk but I will go out for BP. I got two balls that day, one from Andruw Jones and one from another White Sox. I'm pretty sure I saw you in left field that day. Either it was you or Nick as one of you made a nice leaping catch. Hope the rest of the season goes well for you. I'd like to make it back to PNC one day but that could be hard as I live in Louisiana.
Two balls isn't bad at all. Just read your blog. If you want your pictures to show up better, try checking the USE THUMBMAIL box when you are uploading them and set the pixels to 550. Otherwise the pictures will look squished in your blog. I had the same problem with I started mine.


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CALLICOON, NY — The 27th annual Callicoon Street Fair will be held on Saturday, July 30, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Vendors will line the streets with a wide selection of merchandise, art, antiques, crafts and food. There will be live music by Fiddlin' Around and the French Woods Jazz Band. Visitors can follow up a day at the fair and in town by attending the 8 p.m. Under the Moon in Callicoon concert (see page 18). Call 845/887-3016.


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Feb. 22, 1959: Portales News-Tribune: Tumbling weeds from soil bank's acreages have just about put the cattle back on the basis of the open range. Fence posts have snapped all across the plains from the strain of tumbleweeds pushed before high winds.
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Two regional organizations that focus on promoting healthier diets while building community have organized a series of workshops to provide opportunities to learn more about traditional foods. The latest session focused on raw milk and the health benefits of cultured dairy such as yogurt, kefir and butter.
Pennsylvania dairy farmer Mike Hardler fielded questions during the meeting sponsored by the Upper Delaware Chapter of the Weston A. Price Foundation and the Upper Delaware Chapter of Slow Food USA. Hardler explained the regulations, liabilities and methods of handling cow and goat milk that he employs in Pennsylvania, which differ significantly from those in New York State.
Hardler said that he is able to sell his raw milk both on the farm and at retail stores in Pennsylvania. In New York State, however, raw milk sales are limited to on-farm selling only, and these opportunities are few for consumers seeking the benefits of drinking raw milk, for which consumer demand is increasing.
The program, which started as a Slow Food/Weston A. Price class on making cultured dairy products in the home kitchen, ended up attracting farmers, conservation specialists and agricultural planners from both sides of the Delaware River. The issues of whole milk marketing (including non-homogenized milk) and developing value-added milk products such as cheese, yogurt and kefir were discussed.
"It's certainly not for every dairy farmer" said Hardler, "you have to be a people person to direct market anything. And,without my family support and help it would be impossible."
Jennifer Mall, of the Sullivan County Division of Planning and Environmental Management, was on hand to explain how the Tonjes Dairy Farm in Callicoon was able to add value to their milk by developing a line of cheeses and cultured dairy products that are sold at retail stores in the area, local farmers markets and Greenmarkets in New York City. More than 10 years ago, Sullivan County recognized the need for local dairy farmers to diversify and was able to design and develop a mobile cheese-making unit.
The gathering ended in the kitchen of Hills Country Inn, where the process of making kefir and yogurt on a home scale was demonstrated by Weston A. Price Upper Delaware Chapter leader Lucia Rudenberg-Wright.
The series has included sessions on nutrient-dense broths and fats, as well as working with whole grains, seeds, nuts and legumes. Two workshops remain.
The first, on July 22, will focus on fermented veggies and drinks using lacto fermentation as the traditional method of pickling garden produce with salt instead of vinegar. The process helps to replenish the digestive tract with healthy flora and will focus on sauerkraut, pickles, kimchee, ginger ale, beet kvass, kefir and kombucha. The second, on August 19, will tackle healthy snacks without processed and refined sugars for children and adults. Snacks to be explored include fudge, muffins, cake icing, crackers, beef jerky and crispy nuts.
The sessions are held at Hills Country Inn in Callicoon Center and run from 12:30 to 3:30 p.m. at a cost of $30 each. For reservations or more information contact Maria Grimaldi at 845/482-4164.


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Miyazaki's films are awesome!
Two relatively new movies from Ghibli!
First we have the new-old Kari-gurashi no Arietti/The Borrower Arrietty: Here's the trailer
You only get the teaser trailer! If you've seen 'The Borrowers', then you'll kind of recognize the theme, however, this time it's Ghibli-style!
Next up is one I'm about to watch after I post this post!
Kokuriko-zaka Kara/From Up on Poppy Hill
I don't know about it, so I can't say much, but I've seen the trailer and I'm NOT(am I making this clear??) going to sleep until I've watched this, huzzah!! \(ಠ益ಠ)/
Edit: *finished the movie:(╯ಥДಥ)╯︵ ┻━┻ WORTH IT!
Edit#2: Here is also the trailer for the movie 'Children Who Chase Lost Voices From Deep Below' which I posted about before~
Kakashi's seiyuu voices a character here as well!
Same creators behind '5 cm per second'.
No dub yet~ Subbed version exists though.
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awesome list! i'll +rep it simply because it does have the best of the best of anime movies. some are so badass they surpass live-action movies imo.
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awesome list! i'll +rep it simply because it does have the best of the best of anime movies. some are so badass they surpass live-action movies imo.
I'd like to say the Batman series by Nolan are pretty damn good, but since they're irl and anime not, I'll settle with not comparing and enjoying both!
Have you ever seen Arrietty? It's good, as is the newest one they've made 'From up on poppy hill'.
A new movie recommendation!
Berserk: Golden Age Part I
Here's the trailer(activate annotations(usually already activated, so just in case you don't see any subs), the red speak-bubble, for subs):
Important info: It is important that I mention that this movie might not be suited for those younger than at least 18, even though the movie is less ruthless towards the mind than the manga and anime, it can still rouse emotions and cause traumas if you're not well understood in what's going on. The movie is quite safe though, comparing to the manga/anime, but a bit violent still
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Grave of the Fireflies is damn sad
5 cm per second is one hell of a tear jerking movie, i still can't get over it
summer wars is fantastic, i love it
spirited away brings back my childhood days
by the way, your movie list is awesome!!!
My favourite is Spirited Away but I really want to watch Naruto: Road to Ninja
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My favourite is Spirited Away but I really want to watch Naruto: Road to Ninja
It'll be subbed and uploaded eventually
Why not watch Mononokehime/princess mononoke meanwhile waiting? It's a really good movie as is many of Ghibli produce~
I've watched totoro, spirited away, the girl who leapt through time and grave of the fireflies; this movie really made me cry
*WHISPER OF THE HEART is also very nice
New-old movie!
I'ts called "A Letter to Momo/Momo e no Tegami".
I haven't seen it myself, but it's supposedly in Miyazaki class according to many critics, so I do have high hopes. I'll be back with my own input soon enough~ \(^o^)/
Oh, and this movie supposedly took the creator many years(8 I think, if not 6), so the graphics are to be enjoyed especially!
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^ The craziest and most visually pleasing movie I've ever seen
So I finished watching 'Tekkonkinkreet', and I would recommend it to anyone whom is interested in watching a rather high class anime movie:
Not for everyone, at least 15, was it? Well, it's not for cildren is what I'm trying to say, as there's plent of violence.
Watching the trailer should be enough for you to draw this conclusion yourselves, still a good movie worth waiting a couple of years for
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Another Masterpiece from Makoto Shinkai ( 5 centimeter per Second, Voice Of The Distant Star, The Place Promised in Our Early Days )
Kotonoha No Niwa ( Garden Of Words )
We have met, for each of us to walk forward.
Takao, who is training to become a shoemaker, skipped school and is sketching shoes in a Japanese-style garden. He meets a mysterious woman, Yukino, who is older than him. Then, without arranging the times, the two start to see each other again and again, but only on rainy days. They deepen their relationship and open up to each other. But the end of the rainy season soon approaches...
Read more at http://myanimelist.net/anime/16782/K...PSw3KbB5fYJ.99
I've seen most. Sky Crawlers and Sword of the Strangers are my favorites out of them. Redline is also a really good movie.
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Dragon Ball Z - Battle of Gods
Howl's Moving Castle also..
anyone else saw the serie of movies Kara No Kyokai!
the animation the sound tracks the story were all amazing,it's a must watch.
any of inyuasha movies
I love the Spirited Away and Howl's Moving Castle. These two is the best for me.
5centimeters for second looks interesting.
I recently watched a good movie,
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Angelo State's Kacie Easley, Kaycee Taylor and Alix Dean hit consecutive home runs in the fourth inning of the opener and the Rambelles, ranked second in NCAA Division II, went on to a 12-4, 7-2 Lone Star Conference South Division softball sweep of Eastern New Mexico University on Friday at Zia Field.
ENMU coach Laura Sigwing said Saturday's finale in the three-game series has been canceled due to a storm system, which was expected to move through the area.
Easley drove in four runs with a pair of two-run homers, and she also tripled to finish 3-for-4. Dean, meantime, went 3-for-3 as the Rambelles (26-2, 5-0 South) pounded out 12 hits in a game shortened to five innings by the eight-run rule.
Sarah DeMoss doubled, stole third and scored on catcher Michelle Anderson's throwing error in the top of the first in the opener. Brittany Astle hit a two-out, two-run triple in the second while Easley's first home run keyed a three-run third for a 6-0 lead.
In the fourth, Nicole Smith walked with two out and Easley, Taylor and Dean followed with consecutive round-trippers for a 10-2 lead.
The Zias (7-19, 0-5) broke through against Angelo's Chelsea Nelson (13-1) for two-run homers by second baseman Rebecca Quinones in the third and designated player Jessica Childers in the fourth. Nelson went the distance on a five-hitter.
The Rambelles jumped on Cruickshank (4-8) for three runs in each of the first two innings in the second game, including RBI singles in the second by Nicole Smith, Taylor and Chelsey Walters. Walters added ASU's final run with a one-out solo homer in the top of the fifth.
ENMU scored in the third on a single by Quinones, a walk to Michelle Anderson and a two-out, two-run triple by shortstop Melissa Williams.
April Haywood (10-1) scattered eight hits in the complete-game win, walking four and striking out three. Cruickshank also went the distance, allowing eight hits with five walks and three strikeouts.
Smith and Walters were 2-for-4 for the Rambelles, while Quinones went 3-for-4 and Alex Mayo Otis 2-for-4 for the Zias.
Angelo extended its winning streak over the Zias to 15 games, dating to an 8-4 victory on April 22, 2006, in Portales that gave ENMU a split of the four-game series.


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I Hate Joe Nathan (In a Baseball Context, Of Course)
Whenever Joe Nathan enters the game against the Sox, history has shown us that it's time to light the cigar, the way Celtics coach Red Auerbach did after his team had the game in the bag. Prior to last night, Nathan was 3-1 against the Pale Hose in his career with a 1.54 ERA and 17 saves, though my memory tells me we haven't done THAT well. And, frankly, it doesn't make me feel any better that the 2009 All-Star also dominates most other teams.


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Last week, pictures of the future Backup King of England giving someone a naked Heimlich maneuver spread around the Internet, proving conclusively that being a prince is awesome. There has since followed an awful lot of chatter about whether this is a scandal, and how much of a scandal it is, and what this means for Harry, other than the obvious point, that being a prince is awesome.
"Nice one, universe!"
Something similar happened a couple of years ago when photographs of Michael Phelps enjoying weed products made the rounds. Again, this wasn't a scandal as much as it was a confirmation that 23-year-olds like to party. Sure, he was an Olympic athlete, but those can't all be killer robots, can they? He was just a kid enjoying life; sure, he later called it a mistake, but even that felt like public relations SOP. Weed isn't a mistake. It's not like he wiped his ass on a hand towel or something.
But what these incidents bring to light is the far more interesting question of who was on the other side of the camera. Probably not friends of the Olympic Toker and the Royal Ass, not per se; more like friends of friends, or assholes of friends, or some combination thereof. Someone who saw an opportunity to take a picture that would make them a ton of money. That's an asshole thing to do for money, but the really shocking thing is how often you see this happen when no money will ever change hands. People post these kinds of photos of their friends on the Internet all the time.
I've even seen this in person with my friends, on evenings when we've gathered for one of our regular naked drug roundtables. Someone will be doing something that's fantastic and hilarious, but that could possibly be embarrassing if exposed to a wider audience, like crapping into a champagne flute or reading aloud from Ayn Rand or something. And some pea brain, some friend of a friend, will pull out their phone and - Click - take a picture.
"What the fuck are you doing?" I'll shout at him, pulling my sombrero low to conceal my face. "Have you any idea what the consequences of that could be? No? Well then, unless you want me to cock-whip some sense into you, allow me to list four reasons why you should delete that picture right now."
And here's what I tell him next, as my hips slowly gyrate, building up a really intimidating momentum:
4It Can Actually Cost Your Friends
We're posting more and more information about ourselves on the Internet every day, just spraying it all over the goddamned place, like we're trying to mark our territory with tweets that smell like our piss. And depending on where we do this and how tightly we rig our privacy settings, a huge amount of this is visible to everyone, whether it's our Facebook profiles, our Twitter accounts or our racist Urbanspoon rantings. And that's all just stuff that we post; there's absolutely nothing stopping your friends from putting shit about you out there.
"I know Andy was drunk when he said it, but I still think the world needs to know his thoughts about how night elves control the media."
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I did the vast majority of my stupid youthful shit in the pre-Facebook era, back when sharing nude pictures involved rendering charcoal drawings by hand. But despite this lack of visual evidence, I have no difficulty remembering the most hilariously incriminating parts of my youth. The friend who set the dorm on fire. The pair of friends who went rollerblading down that hill sharing the two Rollerblades between them. The blimp thing. It was all fucking fantastic, and all thankfully completely undocumented, because man, do I like being able to walk the streets. Pictures of those events wouldn't do anyone any good (except for whoever insured that blimp) because everything that needs to be remembered about those nights -- the flames and sirens and tear-choked laughter -- is already remembered perfectly.


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"I went inside to get my change for the gas, and they thought I was already loaded up and closed all the doors and took off," he told the TV station.
The man said he left his phone in the van, and tried to call it from the gas station without success.
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- Watanabe, Mitsuru; Juodkazis, Saulius; Matsuo, Shigeki; Nishii, Junji; Misawa, Hiroaki
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- We report the readout of three-dimensional (3-D) memory of bits from their photoluminescence (PL). The bits were recorded inside vitreous silica by optical damage (micro explosion), which was induced by 150 fs single pulse irradiation at the focal point. The bit can be written by 0.2–0.5 µJ energy pulses at 400 nm or 800 nm (the pulse energy was given at the irradiation point and had an intensity of about 1015 W/cm2 when a high numerical aperture of NA = 1.3 objective lens was used for recording). The readout was obtained by the PL of the 3-D pattern of damaged bits, which were excited by quasi-continuos (repetition rate of 82 MHz) fs-irradiation at much lower pulse intensity (by a factor of 106) in order to exclude secondary damage. The readout was performed by the oil-immersion objective lens of NA = 1.3. The wavelength of PL excitation was 400 nm for one-photon and 800 nm for two-photon excitation of PL with the single pulse energy of less than 1 pJ. We found that the crosstalk of PL readout is the same as that for the transmission imaging and measures 4 µm in the inter-plane distance for the case of one-photon excitation and can be reduced to 3 µm when a reflection-type readout system is used together with two-photon excitation (theoretical axial bit size for fabrication of a given optics was 1.4 µm). Two-photon readout of 3-D memory in silica is demonstrated for the first time.
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- Japanese Journal of Applied Physics: Part 1: Regular Papers, Short Notes and Review Papers, Vol. 39, no. 12A (Dec 2000), pp. 6763-6767
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- Defects; Femtosecond laser fabrication; Glass; Optical data storage; Optical properties; Photoluminescence; Three-dimensional memory; Vitreous silica
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- 0021-4922
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October 20, 2011 - People all over the world reacted to the death of ousted Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi, including a local man who was born in Libya and later fled to the United States. Links: Local Man Reacts to Qaddafi's Death | More News on Libya(Photo Credit: John Moore/Getty Images)
Penn State Child Sex Abuse Scandal
November 4, 2011 – Scandal breaks at Penn State as former Nittany Lions defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky is arrested on charges of child sexual abuse. Links: Retired PSU Coach Arrested On 40 Counts | More Penn State Sex Abuse Scandal News(Photo Credit: Mark Wilson/Getty Images)
Joe Paterno Dismissed From Penn State
November 10, 2011 – In the aftermath of the sex abuse scandal, the Penn State Board of Trustees dismissed long-time, legendary football coach Joe Paterno as well as Graham Spanier, the university's president. The move caused some students to riot in the streets of State College. Links: Paterno, Spanier Out | More Joe Paterno News(Photo Credit: Rob Carr/Getty Images)
Allegheny County Executive Race
November 8, 2011 – Democrat Rich Fitzgerald defeated Republican D. Raja in the race for Allegheny County Executive. Links: Fitzgerald Declared Winner | More Rich Fitzgerald News | More D. Raja News(Photo Credit: KDKA)
Syracuse Sex Abuse Scandal
November 28, 2011 - Syracuse University's long-time assistant basketball coach Bernie Fine faces allegations from Zach Tomaselli that Fine molested him in a local hotel room in 2002 following a Pitt-Syracuse basketball game. Links: Syracuse Abuse Probe Has Pittsburgh Connection | More Bernie Fine News(Photo Credit: Jim McIsaac/Getty Images)
Mother, Kids Die In Homewood Fire
December 15, 2011 – A mother and three of her young children were killed when fire broke out overnight at their home in Homewood. Links: Fire Claims Lives Of Mom, Kids | More Homewood Fatal Fire News(Photo Credit: KDKA)
East Washington Police Officer Fatally Shot
December 18, 2011 – East Washington Police Officer John David Dryer was shot and killed during a traffic stop on I-70 in Washington County. Links: 1 Officer Killed, 1 Wounded In East Washington | More Officer Dryer News(Photo Courtesy: Dryer Family)
Highmark-UPMC Fight
December 22, 2011 – Battling health care giants UPMC and Highmark agreed to extend a regional health care contract by a year. Links: UPMC, Highmark Buy Time With Extension | More Highmark News | More UPMC News(Photo Credit: KDKA)
Reassessment Rage
December 28, 2011 - Residents in the City of Pittsburgh and in Mount Oliver received their updated reassessments sending most into sticker shock. City Residents Receive Property Reassessments | More Property Assessments News(Photo Credit: KDKA)
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Tenmetsu combines precision lines and stunning contours with three subtle LED tones to create a look never before seen. The continuous line that runs between the lenses and through the wrist band provides perfect balance and a design edge.
The dark acrylic lenses positioned between the watch case and LED module have been carefully designed and engineered precisely so that the LEDs beneath diffuse creating Tenmetsu's unique lighting effect.
The polished alumite finish used to coat Tenmetsu is extremely difficult to apply. You will not find such a pristine finish in any other watch. The finish is bright, durable and smooth to touch.
Tenmetsu uses advanced, low energy Japanese LEDs to create a high level of brightness whilst offering lower power consumption to ensure battery longevity. Thirty LEDs are used in Tenmetsu allowing a transition between LED colors through each lens.
An animation has been engineered into the LED module so that once every minute for twelve minutes after the time is displayed, the LEDs move in a sweeping formation changing from red to green to yellow. A character enhancing feature that brings the watch to life.
Tenmetsu displays the time and date in sequence by color when the button is pressed. Red LEDs indicate 15 units, yellow LEDs indicate 5 units and green LEDs indicate 1 unit. A combination of lights indicate hours, then minutes, then the month, then the date. See the video demo or download the PDF manual below for more details.
Each part of Kisai Tenmetsu has been individually designed and manufactured, including the case, strap and uniquely programmed display. Like all watches from Tokyoflash Japan it is a limited edition design which means that it is guaranteed to be an original design that not many other people own.


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and a sense of humor! After being squirted in the face, soaking through my shirt, answering the door with my boob hanging out of my tank top... the list goes on and on, I am glad that I have a sense of humor!
and a sense of humor! After being squirted in the face, soaking through my shirt, answering the door with my boob hanging out of my tank top... the list goes on and on, I am glad that I have a sense of humor!
Mother to Emily June, b. Sept 18, 2005 and Lucy Quinn, b. 1/20/2012
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Excitement on the Side: Who doesn't love a confident woman with long boobs...
Really I found that I didn't (and still don't) need anything except my breasts and nursing bras. I have a nursing pillow but its not all that useful, and I have some breast pads and found that they didn't really help me, nor did I need them after the first few weeks. But then again, I don't really leak much. Some women do. I also found nipple cream a waste of my money. But some women find it useful. Also, I have never had a breast pump, but I don't give bottles of breast milk or leave my baby with anyone. When I have wanted some breast milk expressed for other reasons, I hand express- it wasn't very hard to learn. I think the must haves then are, in my opinion, then:
-good supportive friends and LLL leaders phone #'s
-a good (make sure its got good info) informative breastfeeding answer book, like LLL's.
-other good supportive breastfeeding-friendly reading material, like the New Beginnings magazine
-nursing bras
-maybe nursing pads to go in your bra
-lots of receiving blankets to catch spit-up and wayward spraying
Rent or buy a bunch of your favorite movies, or get some good books or magazine subscriptions--then park yourself! Newborns nurse often, and you'll be doing little else for the first weeks. It's hard to resist the urge to tidy, or do too much, or run too many errands. But you must "bum around" to build that supply! You might want a pretty comfy robe that you can wear to greet well-wishers.
Well here is where I am nervous! LOL I have another daughter who will be 25 months when this baby is born! She is very active too! So I am a little worried!Originally Posted by LLLJamaLama
I'm concerned about this, too. I have a 4-year-old, a 2 1/2-year-old, and am scheduled for my c-section this Thursday. When my 2nd was born, my 1st was only 17 months. Breastfeeding seemed too overwhelming & I wimped out. Hopefully I'll be calmer this time, and delegate more work to my hubby, parents, etc.
Individual differences, but this is what worked best for me:
Boppy--dd and I were glued to it during the early weeks and beyond
comfy chair/rocker
Water and easy nutritious snacks
The Womanly Art of BF book
Pure lanolin cream
Motherhood nursing bras and tops, including sleep bras
Adult support (accept whatever is offered)
Sleep--it is true/try to sleep when baby does, forget about house pretty etc. Once she's a toddler, it'll be a mess most of the time anyway
Easy change cotton baby sleepers (forget all the snaps/buttons esp when you're home--look for zipper/elastic closure nightgowns for quick and easy changes because baby is constantly going)
If you choose disposables, the Diaper Genie is a godsend
Back to work
double sided electric pump with battery back up
Someone you really trust to care for your beloved child
I have one child but with a 2nd child coming and a toddler, I know our visits to Moms so my dd can play with the older child and I can visit/help Mom or hold baby if she wants have been very welcomed.
Absolutely nothing other than your breasts and the baby. Women all over the world have bf for thousands of years without anything else.
This was what I was going to say! Glad I read all the posts!Originally Posted by LLLCarmen


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Home List of Titles Perceptions of police and youth justice conferencing: cultural issues to consider
Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.3/238192
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- Perceptions of police and youth justice conferencing: cultural issues to consider
- Author(s)
- Sivasubramaniam, Diane; Goodman-Delahunty, Jane
- Abstract
- Research involving Hofstede's (1980) power-distance variable suggests that low power-distance participants emphasise procedural justice considerations in fairness evaluations, whereas high power-distance participants emphasise distributive justice concerns. Since power-distance tends to vary across cultures, this represents an important consideration in the way participants from different cultural backgrounds respond to mediation procedures. It has been found that perceived bias in an evaluative mediation procedure leads to a qualitative change in the way low power-distance participants assess that procedure. This project examined the way in which high power-distance participants determine fairness in an evaluative mediation procedure, in which they perceive bias against them. The study then investigated differences in the ways in which high and low power-distance participants determine fairness in a facilitative mediation procedure, such as Youth Justice Conferencing (YJC). Conferencing processes in Australia can be divided into two broad categories: police-convened and other models. Based on evidence that young people of ethnic minorities often view police as untrustworthy, the bias condition in this experiment was manipulated by the use of a police (bias) vs. civilian (no bias) convenor. Results are discussed in terms of their implications for procedural justice theory, for debate on YJC policy, and for culturally relevant police practices.
- Publication type
- Conference paper
- Source
- Paper presented at 'Controlling Crime: Risks and Responsibilities', 17th Annual Conference of the Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology, Sydney, Australia, 01-03 October 2003
- Publication year
- 2003
- Keyword(s)
- Fairness judgments; Perceptions of bias; Procedural fairness; Youth justice conferencing
- Publisher
- Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology
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- Copyright © 2003.
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Nintendo of America said that 80% of female gamers in the U.S. prefer Wii game console over other video game systems. The company claims that this is a result of purposeful effort to enlarge the video game market.
"This didn't happen by accident. It's the result of a deliberate attempt to expand the market," said Reggie Fils-Aime, the president of Nintendo of America, at an event of BMO Capital Markets, reports Kotaku web-site.
According to Mr. Fils-Aime, 80% of female gamers prefer, Nintendo Wii, 11% choose Microsoft Xbox 360 and 9% favor Sony PlayStation 3. The data is based on data obtained by Nintendo of America itself, hence, it should be taken with a grain of salt. Still, it is rather likely that simplistic casual games appeal to women more than high-end shooters or role-playing games on PS3 or X360.
What should be kept in mind is that there are 33.3 million male gamers and 11.7 million female gamers in the U.S., according to Nintendo. Even though the amount of women playing video games is by far lower than the amount of men who play console games, the number of female gamers is very significant.


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These forums are dead....
smh....anywho, for those of you who did not see it, the Knicks won a nail biter against Boston. Danilo Gallinari led the way with 10-15 shooting and 31 points, including a clutch shot with 36 seconds left to give the Knickerbockers the lead (and yall said he couldnt hit a clutch shot). Earl Barron has 17 points and 18 rebounds, 8 of which were offensive. Lee was playing his natural position tonight, and finished with 13 and 11, on a poor 6-16 shooting. Nevertheless, the celtics tried to rally in the 4th, but the Knicks barely held them off.
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They're too busy hating Gallo. When he plays well, this site goes quiet.
I liked the way Lee fked with that Byatch garnot in the 3rd quarter.
And I used to like that sucker when he was in Minny. SMH. I guess that what being on Celdicks do for you. Make you a cry byatch.
Where's MSG's Cellslut hate thread!!!!?????
I missed the game **** it... What a brilliant win. The Red Barron.... Massive game!!!!!
Gallo bring LeBron on the Madison Square Garden
Yankees are back...that's the Boston-NY game I have been watching...
Good line from Barron and Gallo. Poor numbers from Lee, but that's just an off-night. My dad said Barron looked pretty good from what he saw...anyone watch it?
I watched the whole game and had an orgasm the whole way throughout. I was hoping MSG would make a new thread with the new KG-gets-destroyed-by-MANU picture, but nonetheless it was a great game. Gallo was amazing. The Barron dude was actually good, and he hustled. Lee had a nice game overall. It was a fun game to watch, and I'm so glad the Celdicks lost.
Blah blah blah, thats basically the premise of the Gallo-haters arguments.
That bum rondow proved once again that hes lacks confidence and consistency at times. Smh @ this little chicken head homo makin the all star team
Garnsoft done fell off...4 rebounds? Hes softer then Channing Frye
The paperwork has been completed, the Bumston Scumtics are officially Larry Holmes Status
Go off on them smeltdicks MSG. That should be funny.
Lately they all try to copy THAT BYATCH garnyet and try to get primadona tratment. Even fking Perdikcs. He look mad when things dont go his way like he is some superduper and deserve some shyt.
And what a coinkydink that both Walt Frazier and Mike Breen pointed out the fact that Gallinari is inconsistent and needs to play like that more often. Even Mike Breen said that perhaps someone should nudge him in the chops to get him to play better. But I'm sure they're crazy, right?
P.S.-You said you had orgasms to watching Gallinari play? How gay.
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The title of the league to join: TotalRLSCLeague13
Code: 336624
Our NRL Fantasy League has been rejigged and re-branded - Super Coach for 2013
Click here to read about the Fantasy League Competition for 2013 - Coming Here Soonish
We will be running this competition on this forum during the 2013 NRL season.
In the meantime you may want to take a look at the changes that have been made to team selection, with players to be changed right up to kick off in their match from what I can see at first glance.
So all our slumbering giants hibernating in the off season. You'd better start getting your thinking caps on instead of your nightcaps...
...after all there's only 20 days to the kick off of the 2013 NRL season - that's only just under 3 weeks to the start!!!!
Make sure you are ready to join us at the start of the season.
We'll be setting up our TotalRL NRL Super Coach (Fantasy) League for 2013 for everyone to join at some point in the near future - watch this space for details.
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A kitchen served as a classroom Tuesday for some La Crosse middle school students.
The Cooking Club at Lincoln Middle School baked hundreds of pies. All of them will be enjoyed next week at the La Crosse Community Thanksgiving Dinner.
It's something the school has been doing for at least 20 years, and every year it gives the students a challenge. "The hardest part about making a pie is probably focusing all the time, because you have to make sure it doesn't burn and it's not cooked, or not cooked not right or anything, it's probably just getting it perfect," said 6th grader Enya Szymanski.
The students baked about 450 pies.
The La Crosse Community Thanksgiving Dinner is next Thursday from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the La Crosse Center. There's also a worship service before the meal at 10:30 a.m.
Organizers are looking for volunteers and donations.
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Last month, Van Jones, the author of The Green Collar Economy and new "green" advisor to the White House, gave a powerful lecture for the launch of our new Whole Systems Healing initiative. He did a terrific job of connecting the dots and explaining how green jobs (renewable energy) are a way to improve health, the economy, and the environment. We cannot solve big challenges like global climate change by thinking in silos. We need to connect the dots and see how interrelated the choices we make really are.
When it comes to health reform, a systems thinking approach is essential. I just returned from Europe, where I met with colleagues from Germany, Ireland, and England. We discussed health reform initiatives in our respective countries. One trend that stood out to all of us was the evolving role of consumers. People are demanding choices and a more active role in determining/managing their healthcare experiences. The British handbook of the National Health Service (NHS) Constitution, for example, explains patients' rights; advises them to take personal responsibility for their health and well-being; follows the course of treatment to which they have agreed; and provides the system with positive and negative feedback about their healthcare experience.
The focus on keeping people healthy and improving ways in which we manage disease is certainly at the forefront of U.S. health reform deliberations. I had the honor of testifying in February at a Committee hearing of the U.S. Senate entitled Integrative Health: Pathway to Health Reform. I spoke about the need to shift our system from one that focuses primarily on disease to one that emphasizes wellness and health promotion. Watch the hearing [3].
I also presented at the Institute of Medicine (IOM) Summit on Integrative Medicine and the Health of the Public about the need to expand use of integrative therapies [4] and healing practices as well as the roles of nurse practitioners, Naturopathic physicians, Traditional Chinese Medicine [5] practitioners, chiropractors, massage therapists, and other providers. In each of these settings, I was proud to refer listeners to this Taking Charge of Your Health website. Read about the summit [6].
In partnership with Life Science Foundation [7], we created this website to give consumers information and tools that would enable them to more effectively navigate the health system, explore integrative therapies, and develop a personal plan for health and well-being. When we launched the site three years ago, health reform discussions were not focused on consumer empowerment or the importance of personal responsibility to any great extent. What a difference a few years can make!
We've re-launched a new version of the site this month, adding lots of interactivity and new features such as the Conditions section, where we explain how integrative therapies can work effectively in conjunction with conventional medicine. The new website is far more user-friendly and you can easily create a personal plan [8] for your own health and well-being.
I hope that you find the website to be a useful tool when you "connect the dots" and take charge of your own health [9]. I also encourage you stay abreast of the health reform conversations occurring on local, state and national levels. There is much at stake and we all need to contribute bold, creative ideas for change!
[1] http://www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu/our-experts/mary-jo-kreitzer-rn-phd
[2] http://www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu/sites/default/files/images/thumbnails/mary%20jo.jpg
[3] http://help.senate.gov/Hearings/2009_02_26/2009_02_26.html
[4] http://www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu/glossary/3#term46
[5] http://www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu/glossary/3#term39
[6] http://www.iom.edu/?ID=52555
[7] http://lifesciencefoundation.org/
[8] http://www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu/lifestyle
[9] http://www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu/navigate-healthcare-system/why-do-i-need-take-charge


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The latest threat to the West's small businesses and working families comes in the form of new and redundant Interior Department regulations on hydraulic fracturing (fracking), which will add an entirely new permitting and monitoring processes to the already astonishing federal bureaucratic maze.
Since nearly every well drilled in the West requires the use of fracking technology, these duplicative new rules will make energy development on public and tribal lands even more burdensome and costly, while diverting much-needed jobs, revenue and economic activity from Western states. Fracking is already heavily regulated at the state level, and these duplicative regulations will not add commensurate environmental protection. In fact, states have successfully regulated fracking for more than 60 years, including on public lands, without any incidence of contamination of underground sources of drinking water.
What these new regulations will do is cause delays and uncertainty that will further increase energy costs and divert limited resources from investment that grows the economy and creates jobs. Currently, state and federal permitting functions have many areas of overlap, but while states take an average of 30 days to process a permit, the federal government takes 298 days. The new rules will only exacerbate that inefficiency and further disadvantage public lands states like Colorado compared to other regions of the country.
Western Energy Alliance estimates that the costs from the new regulations will be about $127.2 million annually, and could range as high as $175.7 million. Since that exceeds the $100 million threshold for a major rule, we believe the government needs to slow down and do a thorough economic analysis. Considering the potential to generate over 100,000 new jobs and billions of dollars in investment in coming years, the costs to society from further slowing oil and natural gas production on western lands should be thoroughly considered. Western energy producers are committed to continued environmental improvements and balanced use of our federal lands, but in order to continue supplying domestic energy and helping to rebuild our economy, we need a more efficient and predictable regulatory environment.
Kathleen Sgamma is the vice president of government and public affairs for Western Energy Alliance. She can be reached at 303-623-0987.


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At about 4:10 p.m., Raul Moreno, 23, failed to yield at a stop sign when his white Dodge 4X4 crossed U.S. Highway 281 headed west. An 18-wheeler driven by Enrique Avila, 52, headed south on Alternate U.S. Highway 281, hit Moreno's pickup near the back mid section. The pickup spun around and traveled sideways across the highway and struck a tree on the west side of Alternate U.S. Highway 281, according to Department of Public Safety Trooper Raul Garcia.
The pickup narrowly missed a utility pole and lost a fuel container from its bed on the highway. Avila's tractor-trailer rig came to a stop on the highway nearby with major damage to its tractor.
Moreno sustained back injuries and was transported to South Texas Regional Medical Center in Jourdanton by Acadian Ambulance Service, according to Garcia. Garcia added that Moreno appeared to not have life-threatening injuries.
Dave Mauricio who lives nearby the intersection said he was in his house when he heard the wreck. "It was a loud boom, so I came out to see what it was," he said. "For me to hear it way over (at my house), it had to be loud." In addition to the DPS and Acadian Ambulance Service, the Whitsett Volunteer Fire Department was at the scene and aided in freeing Moreno from his pickup. Also, the Live Oak County Sheriff's Office responded to the accident.


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From Mysteriorum Liber Tertius, April 28, 1582. "They are proper to every King and prince in theyre order."
A version of the Ensigns was published in Pat Zalewski's Golden Dawn Enochian Magick which shows all the lowercase letter "B"s in the Ensigns as numeral sixes. This version is a fairly recent invention, first appearing in print in the 1960's.
An much older version created by the pseudonymous "Dr. Rudd" shows the names of various traditional demons written on the Ensigns. Rudd's notion was that the letters stood for the names of these demons, and the number of times the letter appeared signified the number of times the demon was to be invoked.
Neither of these versions, nor Dr. Rudd's notion, has any justification in the diaries.
The versions shown below were prepared from scans of the diaries, cleaned up to remove the dirt and smudging from four centuries of aging. It can be seen that the characters "b" and "6" are quite distinct.
(Images courtesy of Clay Holden and the John Dee Publication Project.)
The Ensign of Venus
The Ensign of Sol
The Ensign of Mars
The Ensign of Jupiter
The Ensign of Mercury
The Ensign of Saturn
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Special guest, Pat Harden, Volunteer Coordinator for Nurses in Touch Home Health and Hospice, gave the members a presentation on their Volunteer Program. This program supports a 16 county area and provides a wide-range of services to its clients. It was a very informative and interesting presentation.
Congratulations to Vernon Janssen of Runge, who won the Spring Baskets lap quilt. The OKMH Auxiliary wishes to thank each and every one who purchased a raffle ticket during this fund-raising event. All proceeds from our fund-raising events directly benefit the Otto Kaiser Memorial Hospital. Thank you in advance for your continued support of Auxiliary efforts.
Congratulations are also in order for the four area high school seniors who have been selected as our scholarship winners for this year. These students will each receive a $400 scholarship to apply toward their advanced education for careers in health care related fields. They are: Lillian Vickery, Kenedy; Bridgette Matula, Karnes City; Jennifer Kotara, Falls City; and Robert Molina, Runge. We wish each of you much success in your future careers.
Welcome aboard to our newest member, Marilyn Malik. We're happy to have you join us.
Our next business meeting will be held Thursday, June 6. The meeting will be a luncheon meeting honoring our OKMH Board Members. Meeting will begin at 11 a.m. and will be followed by luncheon and fellowship.


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The following news release was issued Monday by Congressman Randy Hultgren's office:
Congressman Randy Hultgren (IL-14) will be named a Friend of Agriculture by the Illinois Farm Bureau Tuesday for his exceptional voting record on Illinois Farm Bureau federal priority issues in the current session of Congress. The presentation will take place from 12:30-1:30 p.m. on Tuesday, October 16 at the McHenry County Farm Bureau, and the press are invited.
WHAT: Presentation of the Illinois Farm Bureau's Friend of Agriculture Award.
WHEN: 12:30-1:30 p.m. Tuesday, October 16, 2012.
WHERE: McHenry County Farm Bureau, 1102 McConnell Road, Woodstock, IL 60098.
WHO: Adam Nielsen, Illinois Farm Bureau, Dan Volkers, McHenry County Farm Bureau, Congressman Randy Hultgren.
As a member of the agriculture committee, Hultgren helped write the House version of the farm bill that won bipartisan support. The bill would enhance risk management programs for farmers while cutting $35 billion from the federal deficit over the next decade. Hultgren also voted for trade agreements with South Korea, Colombia and Panama that will boost U.S. agricultural exports by $2.5 billion per year and opposed excessive regulations on farm dust, child farm labor, and pesticide applications.