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Martinez was presented with a proclamation thanking him for his leadership and his work ethic during his four-year term as the city's mayor.
"He has a love for this community that I've not seen in a lifetime," said the new mayor, David Carabajal.
Carabajal said Beeville residents saw many improvements in facilities, services and in its economy between 2009 and 2013, while Martinez was presiding over the City Council.
"His legacy is firmly cemented in this community," Carabajal said.
The new mayor was joined by other council members including new Mayor Pro Tem Libby Spires, new Councilman George P. "Trace" Morrill, III and Councilman John Fulghum in congratulating Martinez for his service to the community.
Martinez thanked the voters of Ward 2 for giving him the privilege to serve them on the City Council.
He also thanked his family for tolerating his absences during his tenure as the head of the City Council.
"Just last week, I was able to take my kids to a movie on a weekday," Martinez said.
Council members then witnessed the swearing in of Emily Espinoza as the new deputy city secretary.
Espinoza is replacing Kristine Horton as the deputy to City Secretary Barbara Treviño. Horton, transferred to the city's finance department.
In other business, the council voted to:
— Take no action a street closing request in the 400 block of West Carter Street for a "2012 Mini Youth Spectacular" on June 15. The council will entertain that request again at its June 11 meeting.
— Table a request from the city staff to consider entering a contract with Hudson Energy to keep electricity costs down before electric providers begin increasing rates this year.
— Appoint Fulghum and Morrill to establish an application form for citizens interested in serving on city boards and commissions.
— Authorize the use of city street maintenance funds for the purchase of paving material and tack oil for this summer's seal coating program. The material, including transportation expenses, is expected to cost $15,300.
Council members were also informed that the city's wastewater treatment facilities at Moore Street and at the Chase Field Industrial and Airport Complex are nearing capacity.
Ballí said the city must have a plan in place for expansion of the facilities by the time they reach 75 percent of capacity. She told the council that the city's engineering firm of record, Urban Engineering of Corpus Christi, already has prepared a preliminary plan for that expansion.


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Rated 100! on RateBeer.com. Ranked #2 IPA in the World! AleSmith IPA used to be known as "Irie Pirate Ale." However, some nasty patent attorneys think the name is too similar to another brand, so we had to "cease and desist." It's a darn shame, but it beats an obnoxious legal battle, in both expenses and Excedrin. Don't worry though,...
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The golden state: a history of the region west of the Rocky Mountains; embracing California, Oregon, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, Idaho, Washington Territory, British Columbia, and Alaska, from the earliest period to the present time ... with a history of Mormonism and the Mormons. By Rolander Guy McClellan : Philadelphia, Chicago, Union pub co; W. Flint & company; 1872 MoA
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Ryan Zimmerman Nationals Jersey Shirt Giveaway
Recently, the Nationals made news when they signed Ryan Zimmerman to a $100 million, six year contract extension that runs through 2019. The deal featured a full no trade clause, and made him the highest paid third baseman in the game behind Alex Rodriguez.
I'm giving away a shirt each week as we head to opening day.
To date, I've given away away a Matt Wieters shirt to Joey Orr,
a Brandon Phillips shirt to Matt Jackson,
a Dustin Pedroia shirt to Stephen D,
a Phillies shirt to Connor,
and this Dodgers shirt shirt to Matt Jackson.
This week, I'm giving away this Ryan Zimmerman shirt:
It says Nationals across the chest:
And has Zimmerman's name and number on the back.
A great shirt for a Nats fan, or for a ballhawk that might want to throw this on when the Nationals are taking BP to get a few balls tossed their way. (If you're in Pittsburgh, that would be early Mat when the Nationals visit PNC Park).
The winner can choose their shirt in a Medium, Large, or 2XL.
With the option, the contract will keep Zimmerman in a Nationals uniform through 2020, his age 35 season. What does everyone think of the contract? Too much?
The Nationals handed out a $126 million, 7 year deal to Jayson Werth, and it turned out to be disastrous after only one year. Werth is a mere shadow of the player he was before signing the deal. Hopefully Zimmerman doesn't become injured or just fade – because that would seriously hinder the Nationals ability to compete for the next six years. The Nats are going to need to come up with big time cash to keep Stephen Strasburg in a few years, and will probably want to lock up Bryce Harper too.
By the way, here's how you win the shirt:
I post blog entries every day. All you have to do is leave a comment or retweet my blog link on twitter.
So, again, to enter:
1) Leave a comment.
You can enter up to seven times per week simply by leaving a comment. Non-pertinent, spam, or inappropriate comments will not be accepted. If you comment multiple times on the same blog entry, it still counts as one entry. For example, if you commented on three different blog posts from this week, you'd have three entries. If you'd comment three times on the same blog posting, it would could as one.
2) Retweet (RT) my posts on Twitter
You can find me on twitter under 333greystreet. Simply retweet my daily posts of my blog link and I'll count that as an entry. My blog is connected to my twitter so that I automatically tweet once I post a new entry. Each day, I'll search who's retweeted me and enter those users into a hat along with the commenters. By the way, you do not need to retweet my every tweet, only the tweets that announce a new blog post and url. For example, if I tweeted, 'Rerun of the Pirates Opening Day 2011 on tonight,' if you retweeted it, it wouldn't count as an entry.
At the end of the week on Sunday, I'll have Olivia, Amy or myself choose a name from a hat and announce the winner.
Good luck!
It's been a busy day around here with more season tickets arriving, buying MLB The Show 2012, and keeping up with spring training box scores!
There's only 30 more days until Opening Day!
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Imm gonnna win… go A's!
We should play sometime Erik! My psn is Scoonz215
Finally a Nats shirt !🙂 Great !
Too much money for Zimm ?? No way..worth every penny and even more ! Face of this team..top 3 3rd baseman in MLB..If he's healthy, and he WILL, he can put over 100 RBI year after year..plus that great defense on the corner…awesome player !
You realize he's taken, right?
I like Ryan Zimmerman a lot especially since he's been through a lot with the Nationals, I'm just not entirely convinced he's worth the money especially sunce he's been injured. I feel like the Nats overpaid for him out of loyalty
Its a nice jersey shirt. I hope to win this!
I hope I win this shirt, Im not a big Nats fan but im going to a Marlins vs. Nationals game in Miami and hope to catch a commemorative, so this shirt will help a lot
only 100 million?
that a very nice shirt
By the way my name is Ethan Jesse
Love the shirt, love Ryan Zimmerman. Do you know if we can still buy this shirt? Don't see it on their website.


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"I've been a podcast listener for over two years. It's really been a blessing and helped me grow from a cafeteria Catholic to a real one."
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"The [secular] sense of right and wrong is so delicate, so fitful, so easily puzzled, obscured, perverted, so subtle in its argumentative methods, so impressionable by education, so biased by pride and passion, so unsteady in its course, that in the struggle for existence amid the various exercises and triumphs of the human intellect, the sense is at once the highest of all teachers yet the least luminous."
~ John Henry Newman, "Letter to the Duke of Norfolk", from the article on Morality by G. H. Joyce.


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Open season for TAG grants
August 1, 2012 —
The Upper Delaware Council (UDC) is accepting applications for its Technical Assistance Grants (TAG) program. Applications from the UDC's member municipalities must be received by 4:30 p.m. on Friday, August 31.
A special meeting of the UDC's Project Review Committee will be convened on Tuesday, September 11, at 6:30 p.m. to meet with applicants and review their proposals. Approval of FY 2013 grant awards is expected at the Thursday, October 4 monthly UDC meeting to be held at 7 p.m. Both meetings will be at the council's building on Bridge Street.
Since the non-profit organization's inception in 1988, the UDC has awarded $687,492 to help subsidize 201 non-construction projects. A funding pool of $30,000 has been budgeted for FY 2013.
The River Management Plan for the Upper Delaware Scenic and Recreational River authorizes the UDC to provide technical, planning and financial assistance to participating governments for projects related to implementation of the plan.
Application forms, grant criteria, contract guidelines and a directory of past projects are posted at www.upperdelawarecouncil.org and available for download.


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April 7, 2011 —
On the morning of March 23, I received a phone call from my friend and neighbor, John Keator, who told me that he had a duck in his woodstove. I asked, "You have a what in your woodstove?!" John is an avid and competent birder, and it was quickly determined that there was some sort of waterfowl in his woodstove. I grabbed a few items and left for John's house.
I arrived and John turned on the lights to the basement where the woodstove was, and there was a dark eye peering back at me. Through the smoke-stained glass, it appeared to be the size and shape of a mallard. John slowly opened the stove door just enough for a pair of hands, and I grasped the feathered interloper so it would not fly throughout the house and hurt itself.
Once we got it out of the woodstove, we could see that it wasn't a mallard at all; it turned out to be a female wood duck. Wood ducks are cavity nesters; they will nest in a woodpecker hole or at the hollow at the top of a broken off snag. She may have thought that the chimney would make a nice nest cavity, but she got a bit more cavity than she bargained for; a confined space rescue was now in the works for her.
Luckily, the stove was cold, and it was a large diameter, straight drop to the woodstove with no chance of entrapment in the flue. We gave her a quick checkout and all looked good. John opened a cellar window and I placed her on the outside ledge. She stood there, perhaps getting her bearings for a few seconds, and then she vaulted off the ledge. She weaved between two white pine trees and flew out of sight toward the far shore of Walker Lake, perhaps re-evaluating her nest selection location criteria during her liberation flight.


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- Title
- H I mapping of galaxies in six Group Evolution Multiwavelength Study groups
- Author(s)
- Kern, Katie M.; Kilborn, Virginia A.; Forbes, Duncan A.; Koribalski, Barbel S.
- Abstract
- Here, we present Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA) H i maps of 16 H i sources in six Group Evolution Multiwavelength Study groups that were previously observed with the Parkes telescope. The higher spatial resolution of the ATCA allows us to clearly identify the optical counterparts for the first time---most being associated with low surface brightness late-type galaxies. New integrated H i maps and velocity fields for each source are presented. We find several interacting systems; one of which contains three galaxies within a common H i envelope. Extended H i structures in the sample are more consistent with tidal effects than ram pressure stripping. We identify two H i detections with previously uncatalogued optical galaxies, and add a total of six newly identified group members to the NGC 3923, 5044 and 7144 groups.
- Publication type
- Journal article
- Research centre
- Swinburne University of Technology. Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies. Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing
- Source
- Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 384, no. 1 (Feb 2008), p. 305-315
- Publication year
- 2008
- Keyword(s)
- ATCA; Australia Telescope Compact Array; Galaxies; Galaxy evolution; GEMS; Globular clusters; Group Evolution Multiwavelength Study; NGC 3923; NGC 5044; NGC 7144; Radio lines; Surveys
- Publisher
- Blackwell Publishing
- 0035-8711
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- Copyright © 2008 Royal Astronomical Society. Author's final draft reproduced here in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher.
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"Preface Research for this paper was conducted while serving as a water/sanitation Peace Corps Volunteer in the Philippines from 2006 to 2008. After two months of cultural and language training I was assigned to the Municipality of San Joaquin, Iloilo on the island of Panay. In San Joaquin I worked with counterparts from the municipality and community on various projects related to water resources, solid waste management, and coastal resource management. One of these developments was a pilot project of Biosand Water Filters (BSFs) which eventually resulted in providing a supplemental livelihood for a local I befriended. Towards the end of my service I became interested in assessing the best strategies for starting and sustaining BSF projects. I interviewed four of my fellow Peace Corps Volunteers and a Non-Governmental Organization employee all of whom worked on BSF projects within the Philippines. This paper is a collaboration of those experiences written to benefit future implementers of the BSF Technology. Furthermore, this paper is submitted to complete my master's degree in civil engineering at Colorado State University in conjunction with the Peace Corps Masters International program."
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Fort Worth, Texas 76196
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Inmate Information: 817-884-3116
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It is my great honor to serve you as the 34th elected Sheriff in the colorful history of Tarrant County.
Nowhere in the country is the office of Sheriff held in higher esteem than the state of Texas. From small "one-horse" counties to thriving metropolitan metro areas, Texas' 254 Sheriffs are as diverse as the counties we serve. All Texas Sheriffs embrace and honor the past, when "Old West" lawmen ruled with frontier justice and a six-shooter. Today, all Texas Sheriffs embrace modern crime-fighting, technology and the latest trends in criminal justice.
I invite each of you to explore our website not only to learn about the Sheriff's Office but to also learn about the talented and dedicated staff who make this agency the very best it can be.
I could not be more proud of the efforts of the some 1,400 dedicated employees who serve the citizens of Tarrant County around the clock 365 days a year. They are the backbone of this organization and truly make TCSO the very best it can be.
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A cold, clear January morning. We have strapped on snowshoes and are tramping the trail that runs from Badger Pass to Dewey Point above Yosemite Valley.
A dozen of us show up, snowshoe novices all. Karen, our leader ― this is a Yosemite Association hike, so we have a leader ― has given us introductory tips, the main one being "Don't step on your own snowshoes or you will fall on your face."
The morning is bright but cold, "28 degrees," Karen reads from her thermometer. Last evening's storm has feathered the trail and surrounding forest with snow. There are stops for water, for granola bars. Sooner than expected, we reach Dewey Point.
Here we gape. At 7,385 feet, the point is a granite prow that lunges out over Yosemite Valley. But I'm not awestruck. I'm befuddled. I can't tell where I am. All I see are massive gray granite walls outlined in snow, gorgeous but strange. I could be in the Himalayas. "Where," I ask Karen, "is Half Dome?" Karen stares at me quizzically. "Right there," she says. She indicates the large rock face looming straight in front of us. Oh.
But that's the point of visiting Yosemite in winter. The chance to see it new. In 1872, John Muir wrote ―
No. As much as I revere Muir, he's part of the problem. Yosemite is one of those places that too many people have loved too well for too long. John Muir's words, Ansel Adams's photographs, countless postcards and family snapshots ― all of these make it hard to visit Yosemite without feeling like you've already seen it a thousand times.
In winter, I hoped, things would be different. So I brought my wife and son up for a long weekend in January, looking to be astonished.
With a 9-year-old boy in tow, we also required snow fun. On our first day, he and I take the park bus from Yosemite Valley up to the Badger Pass tubing area. Here we climb into specially designed inner tubes, as pneumatic and brightly colored as Teletubbies, and slide down a slippery snow track.
I reach bottom first and rise from my tube. Gaining speed behind me, my son makes a realization: If he steers his speeding inner tube into my shins, he will send me flying into the air. So he does.
At this point I have my own realization. In winter, with far fewer visitors than in, say, July, Yosemite is a very small town. As I tumble upward, everybody looking at me is somebody I've already seen elsewhere in the park. Hello again! I want to say, I'm about to break my wrist!
As I land, I try to take solace in another bit of Yosemite winter wisdom, one shared by longtime park ranger Dick Ewart: "When people fall down in the summer, they swear. When people fall down in the winter, they laugh."
Yosemite winter days possess their own rhythm. Even the most routine national park activity ― the easy nature hike ― takes on the meditative pace of a pilgrimage.
On our second morning, we follow a ranger through a snow-softened valley meadow, acquiring the requisite bits of natural history. In winter, Yosemite's bears do not hibernate, the ranger says. "They're in a state of torpor. They hole up in their dens." But marmots do. "It takes five days for a marmot to wake up in spring."
Mainly, though, we drink in the Yosemite Valley: the play of bare oak branches against snow, the Merced River flowing dark as tea, and on all sides, the rising granite walls striped by silver waterfalls ― Yosemite, Bridalveil. The tops of both of these falls actually freeze at night, the ranger tells us. Yosemite is, you realize, an inherently wintry landscape, carved out by glacial ice. No wonder it shines in the snow.
One thing that surprises you about Yosemite in winter is that it is quietly, deeply romantic. I learn this fact on my snowshoe hike the next day, when, late in the afternoon, with all of us a little tired and happy for a chance to rest, Karen the guide pauses to tell us a story.
The story is about ravens, birds so common in the park in January that they could serve as Yosemite's winter totem. A couple of years earlier, Karen says, she'd been snowshoeing this same trail and had spotted a raven couple standing in the snow in front of her. Or a potential couple. The male flew down to present the female with a piece of bright green glass. The female raven was thrilled. She skittered around in the snow as if saying, Really? For me? Then both birds shot up into the air, circling each other, cavorting, in love.
Typical courtship behavior, an ornithologist friend told Karen dismissively. But Karen thought the moment represented something more. Ravens mate for life; the shining gift could have sparked decades of true love. Now, Karen says, each Valentine's Day she and her husband exchange pieces of green glass.
That night I have dinner with my wife and son at the Ahwahnee hotel. Rustic, regal, it is one of those public spaces that make everyone look their best. In its candlelit dining room, all adults are distinguished and glamorous, all children (including ours) strangely well behaved, like children in Masterpiece Theatre.
We order our wine. We order our Shirley Temples. We see snow falling softly outside, white petals against the enveloping night. I feel phenomenally fortunate. After a second glass of wine, I tell the raven story. If I had a piece of green glass, I say to my wife, I would give it to you.


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Danica Patrick will drive for Turner Motorsports in her 10-race commitment to this year's Nationwide Series schedule, sources tell espnW.com. Driving for JR Motorsports in her first full-time Nationwide season last year, Patrick produced the highest final points finish (10th) among women in NASCAR history. She will begin her partial campaign in NASCAR's second-tier series on Feb. 23 at Daytona International Speedway in conjunction with her first full Sprint Cup season with Stewart-Haas Racing the same weekend. Turner Motorsports was a fit for Patrick not just because it fields Hendrick Motorsports-produced Chevy like Stewart-Haas. Richard Childress Racing vice president of competition Mike Dillon told espnW.com in November that his organization had discussed the possibility of Patrick driving his team's #33 Chevy, saying "we would love to run Danica. We think we could do a lot with her." Dillon's team already had re-signed three-time Sprint Cup champion Tony Stewart, who has six wins in 13 Nationwide starts at Daytona, for the opener, however, and Patrick's management team preferred the continuity of allying with one organization for her supplemental program. Though not all details concerning Patrick's remaining schedule have been finalized, she is expected to race it with Turner. Patrick's Turner Motorsports car would be sponsored by GoDaddy.com, sources said. Her schedule is expected to include events at Talladega and Watkins Glen.(ESPN.com)(1-2-2013)
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text: Dead Alien Found in Russia 12>0x6a656666 posted:4/18/2011 11:32:14 AM Dead Alien Found in Russia (Google Translation)Previous months were about one hundred people witnessed a large object that came down. Within hours, a large team of scientists, military and secret service on-site at the crash site to study Russian media reports said.Despite all measures taken by the Russian authorities, the film still leaked. Earlier, the FBI put all sorts of secret documents about alien life on the Internet. www.telegraaf.nl/buitenland/9566922/___Dode_alien_gevonden_in_Rusland___.html Check out the link. Video included :)0x6a656666 posted:4/18/2011 11:36:46 AM narxes posted:4/19/2011 4:50:03 AM well he looks ill. i think he got a cold.narxes posted:4/19/2011 4:54:14 AM atleast when u look at the movie u can see there really small like 90 cm. that makes me think of a photo from WOII same hight same shape who knows.http://www.sott.net/image/image/18977/full/_small_alien_pic.jpgnarxes posted:4/19/2011 5:01:59 AM ow and alsow this one, the santiago chile alien same size same shapes.http://thetruthbehindthescenes.files.wordpress.com/2010/09/accidental-alien-sighting-in-parque-forestal-chile.jpgdivinity posted:4/19/2011 10:41:44 AM the organism does not have any genetalia, there is no dried up blood or bodily fluid in the areas, and there should be ... considering his leg is missing from the thigh down... no sign of a crash or anything... honestly it looks like the thing was placed there and is a fake. but who really knows.spiritech0 posted:4/19/2011 12:09:44 PM Like those "cops and lawyers" amusements on tv preach... The victim's body was moved to throw off the investigation. I choose to beleive.gary107 posted:4/19/2011 1:54:28 PM in most reports the 'little people" or little women are said not to have body hair. Wonder if they all are clones from the same template? They are said to live over 300 years, but never develope sexually, they remain in the Garden. 0x6a656666 posted:4/20/2011 5:58:43 AM rt.com/news/dead-alien-siberia-body/ The tiny "dead alien" is just skin from chicken filled with bread, reports the website 7d.org.ua. Police questioned the men who claimed to have found the "body" and they allegedly confessed to creating it themselves.The chief editor of the local Kabansk-Info newspaper initially thought that it was the body of an infant in the video and alerted the police. Officers immediately started the investigation and identified the alleged author.... spiritech0 posted:4/20/2011 10:33:27 AM SO... the KGB CSI have a chicken-determinometer that can trace this awesome artwork of rotting food back to its creator... Riiight. Maybe the cameras near the military base identified his gait and DNA, and that's how they found the culprit. Sighhh.Move along, citizens. There is nothing to see here.divinity posted:4/20/2011 12:56:26 PM How about whyy is it in the middle of no where missing an arm and leg?... lets start there.spiritech0 posted:4/20/2011 2:17:19 PM According to the Cry Wolf report, its near a Russian military base. According to tradition, they don't walk in the Macy's Parade or your local Bar-B-Q festival... You know, on foot in heavily populated areas like Times Square... My thought process is that we should start with the authorities and their method of discovering comrade Hoaxer.coolkid21 posted:4/21/2011 11:15:00 AM I believe in this stuff. I just can't understand why people always try to say things like, "Oh, it's been proven to be a fake." by who? The GOVERNMENT? The same people who lied to us about all these disasters, the war, 9/11, panics, depressions, everything? Listening to the government isn't getting us ANYWHERE. Dig a little deeper into your own mind and stop being so close minded.spiritech0 posted:4/21/2011 12:15:42 PM Now that's one cool kid. The truth is here. Trust someone.Stevengb1 posted:4/24/2011 11:21:11 AM This is def Bs. HIs flesh looks pretty fesh , wheres the blood? wouldnt he have some kind of suit or equipment in such harsh climate if he was intelligent enough to come from another world? If he did fall from an aircraft he would have been injured alot more than that.f1refly posted:4/24/2011 6:07:51 PM In Reply To:coolkid21 posted:4/21/2011 11:15:00 AM I believe in this stuff. I just can't understand why people always try to say things like, "Oh, it's been proven to be a fake." by who? The GOVERNMENT? The same people who lied to us about all these disasters, the war, 9/11, panics, depressions, everything? Listening to the government isn't getting us ANYWHERE. Dig a little deeper into your own mind and stop being so close minded.the 2 russian teens who made the movie confessed after investigation by police, who also found the fake alien body, partly made from a local butcher shop. Yes its fake. If you believe in this stuff, then its ironic you mention others to be open minded, by believing, your immidiately subject to close out anything that defies your beliefs. If your open minded, then take the evidence for and against into account the same and never come to conclusion until its been properly recognized as fact...even then questioning never hurts.eastghostcom posted:4/27/2011 4:44:10 PM So that's what happened to the Geico Geckko !paranormalisnormal12 posted:5/5/2011 10:51:18 AM this fool looked like he got jumped and jacked of his limbs by the maffia guitarmonica1124 posted:5/6/2011 6:51:32 AM OMG!! that was fantastic, he looks like attacked by wild animal, he`s left hand and right leg are missing.. but, this is cool!!narxes posted:5/6/2011 8:33:09 AM The Troll is out there Some where. Please log in or become a member to add a post.


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|Pre-service training will probably be the most intense period of your Peace Corps service, as you will need to gain the knowledge and experience necessary to successfully serve as a Volunteer in just 10 weeks. While the training period will be extremely busy, it should also be a time of excitement, discovery, and self-fulfillment. The effort and challenges of adapting to a new culture will draw on your reserves of patience and humor but will be handsomely rewarded with a sense of belonging among new friends.
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For information see Welcomebooks
The training center is located in Santa Lucia
Milpas Altas in the department of Sacatepequez. This is a small town settled along the road that runs between Antigua and Guatemala City. Some parts of training will be done away from the center depending on the program.
Technical Training
Technical training will prepare you to work in Guatemala by building on the skills you already have and helping you to develop new skills in a manner appropriate to the needs of the country. Peace Corps staff, Guatemalan experts, and current Volunteers conduct the training program. Training places great emphasis on learning how to transfer the skills you have to the community in which you will serve as a Volunteer.
Technical training will include sessions on general environmental, economic, and political situations in Guatemala and strategies for working within such a framework. You will review your technical sector's goals and will meet with the Guatemalan agencies and organizations that invited the Peace Corps to assist them. You will be supported and evaluated by the training staff throughout the pre-service training to build the confidence and skills you will need to undertake your project activities and be a productive member of your community.
Language Training
As a Peace Corps Volunteer, you will find that language skills are the key to personal and professional satisfaction during your service. These skills are critical to your job performance, will help you integrate into your host community, and ease your personal adaptation to the new surroundings. Therefore, language training is the heart of the training program, and you must successfully meet minimum language requirements in order to complete training and become a Volunteer. Experienced Guatemalan language instructors teach formal language classes five days a week in small classes of four to five people. The Guatemalan language is also introduced in the health, culture, and technical components of training.
Your language training will incorporate a community-based approach. You will have classroom time and will be given assignments to work on outside of the classroom and with your host family to learn the language. Our goal is to get you to a point of basic social communication skills so that you can practice and develop language skills more thoroughly once you are at your site. Prior to swearing in as a Volunteer, you will work on strategies to continue language studies during your two years of service.
Cross-Cultural Training
As part of your pre-service training, you will live with a Guatemalan host family. This experience is designed to ease your transition into life in your site. Families have gone through an orientation conducted by Peace Corps staff to explain the purpose of the pre-service training program and to assist them in helping you adapt to living in Guatemala. Many Volunteers form strong and lasting friendships with their host families.
Cross-cultural and community development will be covered to help improve your skills of perception, communication, and facilitation. Topics such as community mobilization, conflict resolution, gender and development, and traditional and political structures are also addressed.
Health Training
During pre-service training, you will be given basic medical training and information. You are expected to practice preventive healthcare and to take responsibility for your own health by adhering to all medical policies. As a trainee, you are required to attend all medical sessions. The topics include preventive health measures and minor and major medical issues that Volunteers may encounter while in Guatemala. Sexual health and harassment, nutrition, mental health, and safety issues are also covered.
Safety Training
During the safety training sessions, you will learn how to adopt a lifestyle that reduces risk in your home, at work, and during your travels. You will also learn appropriate, effective strategies for coping with unwanted attention and about your individual responsibility for promoting safety throughout your service.
Additional Trainings during Volunteer Service
In its commitment to institutionalize quality training, the Peace Corps has implemented a training system that provides trainees and Volunteers with continuous opportunities to examine their commitment to Peace Corps service while increasing their technical and cross-cultural skills. During your service, there are usually three training events. The titles and objectives for those trainings are as follows:
- In-Service Training: Provides an opportunity for Volunteers to upgrade their technical, language, and project development skills while sharing their experiences and reaffirming their commitment after having served for three to six months.
- Mid-Term Conference (Done in conjunction with technical sector in-service): Assists Volunteers in reviewing their first year, reassessing their personal and project objectives, and planning for their second year of service.
- Close of Service Conference: Prepares Volunteers for the future after Peace Corps service and to review Volunteers' respective projects and personal experiences.
The key to the training system is that training events are integrated and interrelated, from the pre-departure orientation through the end of your service, and are planned, implemented, and evaluated cooperatively by the training staff, Peace Corps staff, and Volunteers.


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Kai allowed
No subs
No stealing
Terrain: kirabi/taka battleground
Demon in sig.
Post bio and i'll go first
Gaara, you go :p
Well now that your'e here, i guess its time for me to defeat you.
As my opponent appears before me, i perform slam my hands to the ground and cause 2 pillars of rock to emerge from underneath you skewing you. As the pillars emerge from the ground, i send kuro along the left side (your right). I then tunnel underground and appear behind you, before complely emerging from the ground i form a chidori, after emerging from the ground, i shape multiple senbon from the chidori and send them at you.
(Raiton: Chidori Senbon) - Lightning Release: One Thousand Birds Needle
Rank: A
Type: Offense
Range: Short/Mid
Chakra Cost: 30
Damage Points: 60
Description: The user reshapes the Chidori in their hand into the form of countless senbon. It has more specialized speed than the normal Chidori and can cause damage throughout multiple places on the body. Although it's not stated, this technique probably takes on Chidori's characteristics such as its ability to cut through almost anything and numb parts of the body.
(Doton: Ganchūsō) - Earth Release: Stone Spikes
Rank: C
Type: Attack
Range: Short-Mid
Chakra Cost: 15
Damage Points: 30
Description: This technique lets the user create a few rock pillars that will protrude from the ground to skew the target. The rock pillars will even pass through obstacles to reach their target
(Doton: Moguragakure no Jutsu) – Earth Release: Hiding like a mole technique
Rank: C
Type: Supplementary
Range: Long
Chakra cost: 15
Damage points: N/A
Description: The user changes earth into fine sand by channeling chakra into it, allowing the user to dig through it like a mole. While underground one can sense what is happening on the surface and use the information to launch a surprise attack on the enemy. Once can also hide deep in the ground, escaping to a depth where the enemy cant reach. It also appears that after digging, the ground can be returned to its original state, leaving no trace of where the user entered the earth.
Nooby move ftw being rushed, i'll get this sometime this week if i can
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Herp Dep dies the end lol
Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeesssssssssssss sssssssssssssssssssss!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
My turn :crazy:
OT: Let me win, I have a noob bio.
"Herp derp dies"
Originally Posted by DrProof
My turn :crazy:
OT: Let me win, I have a noob bio.
me too >_>
Originally Posted by -Broly-
"Herp derp dies"
get out >_>
-Aizen comes in-
Aizen: Herp Derp wanna fight me?
Can i get first move?
4th raikage find a partner and I'll take gaara and we can 2v2
Tybone should be here any minute
post below reserved for tybone
I'm not Tybone
tempted to report >_>
jk you wanna double up?
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Hansborough owns STAT.
Mike Woodson's first real handle of the reins.
GT OST - The MSG theme song that was. Press play
A look at the Pacers
As you can see in the picture above, the Pacers do not have a definitive aspect to their game that really sets them apart from their opponents.
The reason behind their uncanny winning season is effort, hustle and desire.
They defend, they run, they get back and, most of all, they are hungry.
In order to gain at least one victory out of 2 consecutive contests, the Knicks MUST match that desire.
These 2 games will set a mark for the rest of the season, IMO. Especially if we drop the first game, I would be very intrigued as to how we react in the following game if that occurs.
A more in depth look at the Pacers of late
Pacers' coach Vogel has tweaked his bench rotations, keeping either West or Granger -- sometimes both -- on the floor with the reserves, and it has worked wonders for the Pacers. The second unit got them back in the game with a 16-7 run in the second quarter against Philadelphia on Wednesday, and stretched the lead from one to 13 in the minutes bridging the third and fourth periods.
Expect a BENCH BATTLE
In consecutive victories over Portland and Philadelphia, Indiana has gotten 91 points from its second unit, including 47 tonight. ... Hill and Hansbrough, who scored 14, combined to make 13 of 19 shots. ... Indiana forwards Granger and West combined to shot 16 of 25.
Key to Victory.
● The front court. Melo, STAT and Tyson. Will we see Melo on the block? Establishing an inside - outside game for this team has been something I, and others, have been yearning for. Will Coach Woodson implement it? I believe Lin's game would benefit from good interior passing.
● We need the bench to come out gunning. Our propensity to let leads balloon rather than be cut down will be under surveillance as always, and we need the bench to score and exert energy from the get go.
Indiana's impressive win over the 76ers.
The Starting 五
Some say that his recent struggles are due to the X Ray capabilities of his goggles, and that he finds a trouser snake quite the distraction - hence the poor performances.
Gets what he wants.
Laundry Folds
Bathes in the tears of widows. Wicked.
Cunning Lingus
Comes in fortune cookies. Creamy.
The Man Handler
I bought his beard.
knicksonline.com poster in the spotlight
Another fine addition to the site. Knows his stuff, posts hard, does well. Deserves a sloppy BJ.
Crazy⑧s Knick On UAV
Iman "Pistol Grip Pump" Shumpert
He's been a defensive revelation in the back-court. As I believe that this will be a battle of the benches, I think Shump's defensive presence is pivotal to keeping the Knicks in the game.
I am working on doing this with my mind.
Knicks by 4.
Novak and Smith need to stay as hot from downtown as they did against Portland. Everyone needs to be hustling hard as the Pacers will not roll over and quit if they are down.
Will we ever win a championship again? Id like to think so!
Good thread!
I feel we'll be able to overcome Indy if we continue our cohesion as squad that spaces the floor and get open shots. We can overwhelm Indy but also disappoint ourselves, story of the Knicks.
If we keep up the defensive intensity we will win both of these games easily. Our team is much better than the Pacers and it's about time we start showing this.
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SHOTS FIRED: RT @Pacers: "We have two games against New York... very winnable games" @dgranger33 postgame
Granger F**k him!! lets school this boy
"I'm more concern how Melo is gonna play with Lin" Joe Budden
LET'S GO! LET'S GO! LET'S GO! LET'S GO! LET'S GO! LET'S GO! LET'S GO! LET'S GO! SMH, why am I saying this?
The Knicks will go 2-0. The Pacers are overrated. They're going to lose in the first round of the playoffs, this year.
Jeremon Linbury
Lets go with a Pacers sweep...go Knicks (Any chance Spike can get Dolan to sell him the team..lol)


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May 15, 2013 —
NARROWSBURG, NY — There will be something for almost everyone at River Rocks Poetry Jamboree (PoJam, for short), the all-day event on May 18 in Narrowsburg that marks the 20th anniversary of the Upper Delaware Writers Collective (UDWC). From 1 to 10 p.m., seven individual events, all free of charge, will celebrate the art and craft of writing: a parade; a panel discussion; an afternoon wine and cheese reception; a book launch and signing; an open microphone session; a poetry reading followed by a Q&A session; and an evening reception with refreshments.
River Rocks PoJam kicks off at 1 p.m. with a parade of 22 student poetry contest winners (accompanied by drummers and stilt walkers, as well as families, friends and supporters) that starts at the Narrowsburg School. The parade will wend through Narrowsburg via Bridge and Main Streets and end at the Tusten Theater, where the awards ceremony for winners of the poetry writing and poster design contests will take place. (The poem that won first prize for Melissa McMonagle, a freshman at Eldred Central School, is appended to this article.)
A panel discussion featuring professional writers from several genres follows at the Delaware Arts Center (DAC), beginning at 3:30 p.m. Participants include Vera B. Williams, Kevin McDonough, Rilla Askew, Paul Austin and headliner Salita Bryant. A wine and cheese reception will be held afterward.
At 5 p.m. there will be a book launch for "River Rocks Anthology: the Best of 20 Years of the Upper Delaware Writers Collective." UDWC members will read selections and sign books at the DAC. Afterward there will be a break in events, to permit all to enjoy a leisurely dinner.
Festivities resume at 7:30 p.m. with a half-hour open-microphone session followed by readings from the poet of honor, Bryant. Bryant, a poet and scholar, earned a Ph.D. in Literature, an M.Ed. in Clinical Counseling, and a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) degree in poetry. Winner of multiple prizes and awards, including Spoon River Poetry Review Editors' Prize and Boulevard's Emerging Poet's Award, Bryant is assistant professor of English at Lehman College in the Bronx, NY and author of "Addie Bundren is Dead," a book of poetry based on William Faulkner's novel, "As I Lay Dying." Bryant will answer questions from the audience after her reading, and the day's events will draw to a close with a reception catered by Natural Contents Kitchen.
Begun in 1983 as an informal group of writer friends, the UDWC has since grown to 24 members. Founding member Mary Greene describes her organization: "Our mission is to advance the literary arts in the Upper Delaware Valley region. At heart, we are a poetry workshop group with a focus on craft, meeting monthly to discuss our poems and generate new writing."
River Rocks Poetry Jamboree Schedule
Saturday, May 18, 2013:
1 p.m. Student Poets Parade/Contest Winner Readings, Narrowsburg School to Tusten Theater
3:30 p.m. Panel Discussion, Delaware arts Center – Krause Recital Hall
4:30 p.m. Wine & Cheese Reception, Delaware Arts Center – Krause Recital Hall
5 p.m. River Rocks Anthology Book Launch and Signing
6 p.m. Dinner Break – No events
7:30 p.m. Open Mic, Delaware Arts Center – Krause Recital Hall
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|Highgear was born in the Appalachian Mountains in 1999, when outdoor enthusiast Mike Hosey had a vision to create his own unique line of compact and user-friendly outdoor navigational tools. Aiming to enhance our customers' experience of the natural world, Highgear evolved significantly in 2001. Watches, hand-held navigational devices, and pedometers were added to the product base, while infusing the entire line with top notch design.
At Highgear we are passionate about the outdoors. We spend our time skiing Sugar Mountain, biking Bent Creek, hiking Pisgah National Forest, and paddling the French Broad River. This is where we field test our products. We measure durability, accuracy, and reliability, and then spend hours brainstorming how to make improvements on intuitiveness, design, and function. The result is a line of high-performance tools that make outdoor adventure easier and more fun.
Our mission goes beyond simply providing a great product at a fair price. We are in business because when we look out the window, we see an extraordinary playground just waiting to be explored. We believe our enthusiasm and commitment is communicated through our products, and our blend of technology and design provide you with the very best "tools for adventure". Our mission is to enhance Outdoor Experience and Active Lifestyle through Innovative Products.
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|Highgear is a serious contender in the winter sports market with the release of many ski- and snowboard-specific altimeter watches. These sleek, contemporary styled watches pack an abundant amount of features into a small, low profile package offering the ultimate fitness and training devices for snow sport enthusiasts.
The watches sensor-related features include a ski chronograph and altimeter that measures rate of descent, real-time accumulated descent values and total number of runs. Displaying sea level and actual pressure in both millibars and inches, the barometer performs updates every minute to provide the most current weather forecast. The mineral glass lens can stand up to any wear and tear skiers and riders might put them through.
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2011: An earthquake measuring 9.0 in magnitude strikes 81 miles east of Sendai, Japan, triggering a tsunami, killing more than 15,000 people and causing a nuclear emergency. Another 6,135 people were injured and 2,694 people left missing. It was the most powerful known earthquake ever to have hit Japan, and one of the five most powerful earthquakes in the world since modern record-keeping began in 1900.
2011: Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker signs a measure to eliminate most union rights for public employees, a proposal which had provoked three weeks of protests at the Wisconsin State Capitol building in Madison.
2011: NFL owners and players break off labor negotiations hours before their contract expired. The union then decertified and the league imposed a lockout that would last more than four months.
2010: Merlin Olsen, a former NFL player who also starred in the TV shows "Little House on the Prairie" and "Father Murphy," dies of peritoneal mesothelioma at the age of 69 in Duarte, California. Olsen, a member of both the Pro Football Hall of Fame and the College Football Hall of Fame, won the Outland Trophy at Utah State as the nation's best college interior lineman. He was drafted with the third overall pick by the Los Angeles Rams in 1962 and played his entire 15-year career with the team, earning a spot in 14 Pro Bowls.
2009: Recent graduate Tim Kretschmer, 17, shoots and kills nine students and three teachers at Albertville-Realschule, a secondary school in Winnenden, Germany. After fleeing the scene and killing another three people, Kretschmer fatally shot himself during a shootout with police at a car dealership in a nearby town. Another nine people were injured by Kretschmer in the shooting, which led to tightened weapons restrictions in Germany.
2007: Actress and singer Betty Hutton, celebrated as a blond bombshell of Hollywood musicals and comedies in the 1940s and 50s, dies from complications of colon cancer at the age of 86 in Palm Springs, California. Hutton appeared in movies such as "Annie Get Your Gun" (pictured), "The Greatest Show on Earth," "Happy Go Lucky," "The Fleet's In" and "Miracle of Morgan's Creek."
2006: Slobodan Milosevic, the former Serbian and Yugoslavian president charged with war crimes and crimes against humanity in connection with the wars in Bosnia, Croatia and Kosovo, is found dead from a heart attack in his cell in the UN war crimes tribunal's detention center in The Hague, Netherlands.
2004: Simultaneous explosions on four rush hour trains in Madrid, Spain, kill 191 people and wound 1,800 more. The official investigation found that the attacks, which came three days before Spain's general elections, were directed by an al-Qaeda-inspired terrorist cell. A total of 21 people were found guilty on a range of charges from forgery to murder for their roles in the attacks.
2002: Two columns of light are pointed skyward from ground zero in New York City as a memorial to the victims of the World Trade Center terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. It initially ran as a temporary installation until April 14, 2002, and was launched again in 2003 to mark the second anniversary of the attack. It has been repeated every year since on Sept. 11.
1997: Paul McCartney is knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for his services to music.
1994: The comedy "Four Weddings and a Funeral," starring Hugh Grant and Andie MacDowell, opens in theaters. The movie became an unexpected hit, earning nearly $250 million worldwide and being nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture.
1993: Janet Reno is confirmed as U.S. attorney general by the United States Senate. She would be sworn in the next day, becoming the first female attorney general in American history. She went on to become the longest serving attorney general in the 20th century.
1992: Filmmaker and producer Richard Brooks dies of congestive heart failure at age 79 in Studio City, California. Brooks directed the movies "Blackboard Jungle," "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof," "Elmer Gantry," "In Cold Blood" and "Looking for Mr. Goodbar," earning an Academy Award for Best Writing (Adapted Screenplay) for "Elmer Gantry." He was nominated for another seven Oscars, including Best Director nominations for "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof," "The Professionals" and "In Cold Blood."
1989: Actor Anton Yelchin, best known for his roles in movies such as "Star Trek" (2009), "Terminator Salvation," "Fright Night" (2011), and "Like Crazy," is born in Leningrad, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union, which today is Saint Petersburg, Russia.
1985: Mikhail Gorbachev becomes General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union three hours after the death of his predecessor, Konstantin Chernenko. Gorbachev was the party's first leader to have been born under Communist rule. As de facto ruler of the USSR, he tried to reform the stagnating Party and the state economy by introducing glasnost ("openness"), perestroika ("restructuring"), demokratizatsiya ("democratization") and uskoreniye ("acceleration" of economic development).
1978: Bobby Hull of the Winnipeg Jets joins Gordie Howe by getting career goal number 1,000 in a game against the Quebec Nordiques.
1977: The disaster film "Airport '77," starring an ensemble cast including Jack Lemmon, James Stewart, Joseph Cotten, Christopher Lee and Olivia de Havilland, premieres in theaters. The second sequel in the "Airport" franchise, the movie continued the box office success of the series, earning $30 million, and received two Academy Award nominations for Best Art Direction and Best Costume Design.
1971: The sci-fi movie "THX 1138," directed by George Lucas in his feature film directorial debut, premieres in theaters. The movie stars Robert Duvall and Donald Pleasence and depicts a dystopian future in which the populace is controlled through android police officers and mandatory use of drugs that suppress emotion.
1971: Actor and stunt performer Johnny Knoxville, best known as a co-creator and cast member of the TV and film series "Jackass," is born Philip John Clapp in Knoxville, Tennessee. Knoxville has also appeared in movies such as "The Dukes of Hazzard," "Men in Black II," "Walking Tall," "The Ringer," "The Last Stand" and "Bad Grandpa."
1970: Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young releases "Déjà Vu." The album, Crosby, Stills & Nash's second and first as a quartet with Neil Young, would top the pop album chart for one week and generated three Top 40 singles: "Teach Your Children," "Our House" and "Woodstock."
1969: Actor Terrence Howard is born in Chicago, Illinois. Howard is best known for his movie roles in "Mr. Holland's Opus," "Ray," "Crash," "Four Brothers," "Iron Man" and "Hustle & Flow," and on TV in "Empire." He earned Golden Globe and Academy Award nominations for his role in 2005's "Hustle & Flow."
1968: Otis Redding posthumously receives a gold record for his single "(Sittin' on) The Dock of the Bay." Redding died at the age of 26 on Dec. 10, 1967, just three days after recording the song, which would become his biggest hit and the first posthumous No. 1 record on both the Billboard Hot 100 and R&B charts.
1968: Singer-songwriter Lisa Loeb, who launched her career in 1994 with the song "Stay (I Missed You)" from the "Reality Bites" soundtrack, is born in Bethesda, Maryland.
1966: Nation of Islam members Talmadge Hayer, Norman 3X Butler and Thomas 15X Johnson are convicted of the Feb. 21, 1965, murder of Malcolm X.
1964: The movie "Becket," starring Richard Burton as Thomas Becket and Peter O'Toole as King Henry II, premieres in theaters. The movie would go on to earn the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, and was nominated for 11 other awards, including Best Picture, Best Director and twice for Best Actor, for both Burton and O'Toole.
1957: Adm. Richard E. Byrd, the aviator and explorer who claimed that his expeditions had been the first to reach the North Pole and the South Pole by air, dies of a heart ailment at the age of 68 in Boston, Massachusetts. While there is some doubt about his North Pole claim, his South Pole claim is generally supported by a consensus of those who have examined the evidence.
1955: Oscar F. Mayer, the Bavarian-born American entrepreneur who founded the processed-meat company that bears his name, dies in his sleep at the age of 95 in Chicago, Illinois.
1952: Author Douglas Adams, best known as the author of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy," which began in 1978 as a BBC radio comedy before developing into a series of five books that sold more than 15 million copies in his lifetime, is born in Cambridge, England. Adams, who also wrote the novels "Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency" and "The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul," died of a heart attack at the age of 49 on May 11, 2001.
1950: Bobby McFerrin, the Grammy-winning singer and conductor best known for his 1988 hit song "Don't Worry, Be Happy," is born in Manhattan, New York.
1950: Film director Jerry Zucker (left), who directed the movies "Airplane!," "Top Secret" and "Ruthless People" with Jim Abrahams (right) and his brother David Zucker (center), is born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Zucker also went on to direct the movies "Ghost," "First Knight" and "Rat Race," and co-wrote the scripts for the "Naked Gun" movies.
1946: Rudolf Höss, the first commandant of the Nazis' Auschwitz concentration camp, is captured by British troops. He was hanged in 1947 following a trial in Warsaw.
1941: Nine months before the United States would enter World War II, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Lend-Lease Act into law, allowing American-built war supplies to be shipped to the Allies on loan. Formally titled An Act to Further Promote the Defense of the United States, the act effectively ended the United States' pretense of neutrality in the war.
1936: Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia is born in Trenton, New Jersey. He was appointed by President Ronald Reagan in 1986 and was the longest-serving justice currently on the court at the time of his sudden death at the age of 79 on Feb. 13, 2016.
1934: Sam Donaldson, a broadcast reporter, news anchor and a one-time White House correspondent, is born in El Paso, Texas.
1931: Entrepreneur and media mogul Rupert Murdoch, the founder, chairman and CEO of global media holding company News Corporation, is born in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. News Corporation, the world's second-largest media conglomerate, owns Twentieth Century Fox, HarperCollins and The Wall Street Journal among its holdings.
1926: Ralph Abernathy, a pastor and civil rights leader, is born in Linden, Alabama. A close associate of Martin Luther King Jr. in the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Abernathy was with King in Memphis, Tennessee, when he was assassinated. He took up leadership of the SCLC's Poor People's Campaign after King's assassination. He died at age 64 on April 17, 1990, from two blood clots that had traveled to his heart and lungs.
1918: The first cases of "Spanish Influenza" in the U.S. are reported. In the early morning, an Army private reported to the hospital at Fort Riley, Kansas, complaining of fever, sore throat and headache. By the afternoon, the hospital had more than 100 cases. In a week, there were 500. Over the course of that spring, 48 soldiers died at Fort Riley from what was later identified as a new strain of influenza. The strain, which got its name because the pandemic received greater press attention in Spain than in the rest of the world, would become the worst epidemic in American history, killing more than 600,000. Worldwide, the disease killed between 50 and 100 million people.
1903: Lawrence Welk, the musician, accordionist, bandleader and television impresario who hosted "The Lawrence Welk Show" from 1955 to 1982, is born in Strasburg, North Dakota. He died at age 89 on May 17, 1992, from bronchial pneumonia.
1895: Shemp Howard, best known as a member of the Three Stooges comedy team, is born Samuel Horwitz in Manhattan, New York. He was an older brother of both Moe Howard and Curly Howard as well as the "third stooge" in the early years of the act. He would rejoin the trio in May 1946 after Curly suffered a stroke. He died of heart attack at the age of 60 in November 1955.
1888: The Great Blizzard of 1888 begins along the eastern seaboard of the United States. Over the next four days, it would shut down commerce and result in more than 400 deaths.
1861: The Constitution of the Confederate States of America is adopted. The document is similar to the U.S. Constitution, but there are crucial differences in tone and legal content, and having to do with the topics of states' rights and slavery.
1851: The first performance of the opera "Rigoletto" by Giuseppe Verdi takes place in Venice, Italy. The tragedy had a successful premiere and is considered by many to be the first of the operatic masterpieces of Verdi's middle-to-late career.
1824: The United States Department of War creates the Bureau of Indian Affairs, then known as the Office of Indian Affairs, with Thomas L. McKenney appointed as the first head of the office.
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Final Thoughts Before Phantasy Camp: Redux
Last year on this date, I gave my last words before heading down to Phillies Phantasy Camp for the very first time. Please, indulge me as I do it again.
The Phantasy Camp experience for me last January was more than just a chance for me to look silly in a real MLB uniform and play baseball with former Phillies players. It was a form of therapy. It was a tribute. And it was exactly what the doctor ordered.
Tomorrow, I'm traveling to Florida as a seasoned vet. This time, I pretty much know what to expect. And I could not be happier about it.
Unfortunately, I may not get that same exact sense of awe that washed over me on that morning when I first saw that Phillies jersey with "Sargent 31", but others will. I may not achieve that same high playing on the pristine grounds of Bright House Field, but others will. I will not get starstruck hanging out with players whom I watched on the TV and listened to on the radio growing up, but others will… and I am really excited for those folks!
I've had a lot of people who are going to camp for the first time, write me with every question conceivable over the last several months. They all have that same child-like anticipation that I had last year. And like a parent with his children on Christmas morning, I think I was more thrilled to talk about the Camp than they were. Just like my dad who always put himself second, I will be just as enthusiastic for the newcomers (and my returning friends) as I will for myself.
This is a truly special experience. That is what it's all about.
Now, take us out Killer!
*Like last year, I will not be 'live blogging' from Camp, but I will be putting up daily recaps starting next Monday 1/23. The urge may come over me to send out a Tweet here and there, so if you happen to do that sort of thing, why don't you follow me @BTSargent?*


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Iowa's lumber milling industry grew rapidly after the Civil War and the Mississippi River towns boomed with milling as the major industry. Iowa lumber was shipped all over. Steamboats carried it south and railroads took it east and west. Some of the wealthiest citizens in towns like McGregor, Guttenberg, Dubuque, Davenport and Muscatine were mill owners. For a while Clinton held the reputation as the largest producer of finished lumber in the world and boasted of 17 millionaires in lumbering and related businesses. Planing mills, such as the M.A. Disbrow and Company, in Lyons, Iowa—now called Clinton—mass produced doors, windows, staircase posts, pillars, moldings and all sorts of fancy gingerbread ornamentation that covered many older Victorian homes in the mid-1800s. Homebuilders, who thumbed through the Disbrow catalogue, took part in a kind of mail-order architecture. Whole front porches, bay windows, fancy scroll work were clearly displayed in the catalogue so practically any town or farm house could be shown off with the latest gothic or Queen Anne style. The Disbrow firm was quite successful and later opened branches in Omaha, Cedar Rapids and Cheyenne, Wyoming.
By the late 1890s, the vast pine forest in Minnesota and Wisconsin were logged out. There had been no plans to reforest the area and the wasteful logging methods lead to the gradual decline of the industry. After a 50-year boom period, the Mississippi River was no longer choked with huge log rafts. Most of the lumber barons moved their operations to pine forests in the South or Pacific Northwest. And many of the mills that once dotted the riverbanks were left to decay. Some were converted to grist mills.
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text: If you can imagine how cool it would be to be identified by the US Government as having supernatural abilities that only exist in a tiny fraction of the population, then you can imagine how cool this show is. Known as Alphas" and led by Dr. Lee Rosen, this small team of extraordinarily gifted individuals works to mitigate the work of rogue Alphas (i.e., those who haven't been enlisted to the cause of Justice) and crime in general. At NBC's SyFy store, you'll find the first season in its entirety in a smattering of memorabilia to show the truth about your fandom of the show and perhaps identify yourself as an Alpha in your own right!


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Breer case ready for next steps
BARRE Convicted kidnapper Harley Breer Jr. phoned in to court Thursday to discuss how his pending trial on charges including sexual assault, domestic assault and burglary will proceed.
Breer, 42, and his standby counsel Kelly Green called in to Washington County criminal court for a motion hearing that laid out when depositions would begin next week and how Breer would be transported to them.
After some discussion, Judge Thomas Zonay said Green would have to coordinate with Court Operations Manager Paula Tremblay to get Washington County sheriffs deputies to take Breer to the court in Barre for the depositions.
Having the Department of Corrections take Breer was briefly discussed, but Breer shot that down, saying he did not want to sound paranoid but that he has motions before the court about records he wants from the department and did not want anyone from Corrections at his depositions.
He is being held without bail at Southern State Correctional Facility in Springfield. He was convicted in a high-profile 1999 kidnapping and spent eight years in jail. Now Breer is accused of beating a woman with whom he lived in November 2011. He allegedly stole her car and went on the run before being found.
The issue that took up most of the hourlong conference call concerned the alleged victims cellphone.
Breer wants to make sure the woman still has a phone and SIM cards cards that hold a cellphones data that he believes can help his defense. An attorney representing the woman filed a motion to keep Breer from getting the phone because he said it is an extreme request and violates the womans privacy.
A lengthy discussion ensued among Breer, Zonay, Green and States Attorney Tom Kelly about what Breer was really looking for and how it affected his case. In the end Green said she would contact the alleged victims attorney to see if the woman would bring the phone and cards to court at Breers next scheduled hearing Tuesday to show they exist, not so Breer could inspect them.
Zonay will hear arguments Tuesday about the motion to quash, and he said Thursday he would take the matter into consideration and rule promptly, but would not rule from the bench on the matter.
During Thursdays hearing, Breer made several comments about wanting a speedy trial and expressed his displeasure with how everyone got to go home after the hearing, but he has been in jail for 15 months.
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Home improvement retailer Lowe's has teamed with the Boy Scouts of America to provide the Lowe's National Eagle Scout Project Impact grant for candidates working on their Eagle Scout project.
Please use the Eagle Scout Service Project Workbook, No. 512-927, as documentation. Submit copies of pages 6 through 10 with the grant application to your local council.
Submit any questions regarding the Lowe's National Eagle Scout Project Impact grant to firstname.lastname@example.com.
A generous contribution from the Lowe's Charitable and Educational Foundation has made it possible for local councils to present selected Eagle Scout candidates with a $100 prepaid gift card to be used toward their service projects.
Life Scouts who are planning a construction-based project may apply.
Local councils will be notified of their allotment of awards, which will be figured based on a percentage of each council's three-year average for Eagle Scout Awards earned.
The council or district Eagle project review board will determine which projects qualify for a Lowe's grant. The local council will distribute its allotment of the $100 prepaid gift cards to recipients. Cards must be used to purchase building materials and equipment for the Eagle candidate's service project. The gift card may be used at any Lowe's location or any place that it is accepted.
To qualify for a Lowe's National Eagle Scout Project Impact grant, the individual must
The Boy Scouts of America thanks the Lowe's Charitable and Educational Foundation for its generous support of Scouting across the country. Through this unique program, thousands of Life Scouts who are hard at work on their Eagle Scout service project will benefit from the contribution. Communities and organizations will benefit, too.
Your first concern during any project should always be safety. Wear appropriate safety gear—including safety glasses, masks, heavy gloves, and even ear protection—when needed. Learn how to use the right tools for the job. The Home Repairs merit badge pamphlet is a good resource.


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