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State job growth lags behind other states
State outperformed nation in creating jobs just 27 percentof time
A new report blames Wisconsin's aging population and lack of business start-ups for job growth that has lagged behind other states since the mid-1990s.
The Wisconsin Taxpayers Alliance report shows Wisconsin consistently beat national job growth rates in the late 1980s and early 1990s. But since 1996, the state has outperformed the nation in creating jobs just 27 percent of the time.
Between 2002 and 2011, Wisconsin's growth in workers between 18 and 64 trailed 33 other states. The report said the state's aging population and lack of business start-ups are leaving Wisconsin without enough working-age adults and enough new companies to sustain growth seen in other states.
The Journal Sentinel said the alliance found the rate of business start-ups averaged about 2 percent in 2011, ranking Wisconsin 49th among states.
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Court documents say there was evidence of a body being dragged at the campsite of Brittany-Jane Royal, the woman found in waters off Kalapana last month.
Authorities say her cause of death was strangulation.
The Hawaii Tribune-Herald reports the 25-year-old shared the campsite with her boyfriend Boaz Johnson, who remains missing.
Court documents also say a bundled nylon fiber rope, consistent with the marks found on Royal's body, was found at the campsite along with two clotheslines. One clothesline had been cut with nothing attached to it. The other clothesline was strung between two trees with several items of clothing and "possible trace blood evidence."
Police consider Johnson to be a missing person and have not excluded him as a suspect in Royal's death. Johnson's family believes their loved one may also be a victim of foul play.

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Stephen is fascinated by God's commitment to work in and through human history and culture—a commitment most clearly displayed in God's sending of his Son, "born of a woman, born under the law." Steve specializes, therefore, not only in the Pauline letters as inspired texts but also in the elements which form their historical, cultural and religious context, e.g., Early Judaism, Greco-Roman history and culture, and most radically, the career of Jesus, the Crucified and Risen Messiah.
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With its strong jaws and swift bite, the snake seems to have the advantage in this matchup. But this nonvenomous garter snake is no match for a shrew armed with venom.
This garter snake can eat almost anything: rodents, reptiles, insects, fish, birds-and swallow them whole.
And this shrew would make a tasty snack.
But first, the garter snake has to catch one.
The shrew lives life in the fast lane.
Under stress, its heart can beat up to 1,300 times a minute.
To maintain all that energy, it eats constantly, digging up worms and grubs in this rich garden soil.
With its strong jaws and swift bite, the snake seems to have the advantage.
But the shrew's saliva can paralyze prey.
So in this fight, the first bite wins.
The shrew goes right for the neck.
The snake's muscles go slack as the venom takes hold.
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Springfield – Ten Illinois schools have achieved a mark of excellence that's easy for everyone to see: they have been named 1999-2000 Blue Ribbon Schools.
The award, given annually by the U.S. Department of Education honors schools nationwide that excel in academic leadership, teaching and teacher development and school curriculum. Blue Ribbon schools also display exceptional community and parental involvement, high student achievement and rigorous safety and discipline programs.
The program has honored nearly 4,000 public and private schools nationwide over its 17 years, including 198 this year. Counting this year's 10 winners, 160 Illinois schools – 126 public and 34 private -- have won the Blue Ribbon awards.
"This is such a significant honor for our schools because the Blue Ribbon award honors the entire community for its work to support their local schools," said State Superintendent of Education Glenn W. McGee.
"Of course, we at the State Board know that Illinois has many excellent schools. The Blue Ribbon awards are a way of reinforcing what these schools do, sharing their good practices and letting everyone else know what their communities have probably known for a long time," McGee said.
To be nominated, schools must conduct a thorough self-evaluation involving administrators, teachers, students, parents and community members. The evaluation helps the school assess its strengths and weaknesses and to develop strategic plans.
The State Board of Education then employs outside readers including local school principals, retired administrators, teachers and others familiar with the program to evaluate the nominations. This year, 18 nominations were received and deemed sufficiently successful to be forwarded to the U.S. Department of Education.
The federal education agency reviews all nominees' applications and then visits those schools that best meet the Blue Ribbon criteria. Finally the federal review panel is reconvened to choose the actual winners.
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An ancient historical villa becomes a charming Hotel, with unique and breathtaking view over Florence. Our stunning gardens, woods and organic fields, the sixteenth-century frescoes and sculptures which have been called the "miracle" of Florence. The link between the charming and mysterious medieval atmosphere and the sumptuous and creative Renaissance era! Our ancient villa and tower were once property of the poet Guido Cavalcanti, friend of Dante Alighieri back in 1200. Contact us directly at Hotel Torre di Bellosguardo. Ask for all information about your wedding in Florence. Let your best day be unique!
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Written by Boxcar Willy on 10.03.2014 at 18:36
Jesus the 0:50-ish mark of this.
This is sounding really promising.
Written by LeKiwi on 26.03.2014 at 03:32
the generic djent riff or the generic djent riff?
Written by !J.O.O.E.! on 26.03.2014 at 03:43
Didn't you call this "disappointing" the other day, yet you've given it an 8, which is a bit wei... oh it's LeKiwi, never mind
Written by LeKiwi on 26.03.2014 at 03:46It's definitely disappointing, but if any other artist wrote this, it would be very impressive
Written by Troy Killjoy on 27.03.2014 at 01:57
Why contextualize it if you think it's great? Shouldn't matter the name of the band, it's the final product that counts.
Written by !J.O.O.E.! on 27.03.2014 at 01:58Just don't even, Troy...
Written by Troy Killjoy on 27.03.2014 at 02:00Why contextualize it if you think it's great? Shouldn't matter the name of the band, it's the final product that counts.
Written by Erik M. on 28.03.2014 at 23:20
An 8 is indeed a high rating for a disappointing album. Then again, in his case it really isn't seeing as nearly half of all his votes are 9's and 10's. Talk about being easily pleased.
Written by !J.O.O.E.! on 28.03.2014 at 23:22
LeKiwi has a somewhat unique voting ethos. So unique it's got his votes wiped by mods in the past...
Written by Erik M. on 28.03.2014 at 23:28
And guess who was (partially) responsible for that.
That having said, I've seen worse... especially those people with lots of votes of which the majority are 10's.
Written by !J.O.O.E.! on 28.03.2014 at 23:30
Different but equally as bad if you ask me. If I recall correctly LeKiwi took it upon himself to be the voting adjuster of sorts and figured that giving something a superhigh score was justified if he thought the rating was lower than it deserved. Just a fancy way of being like every other vote abuser.
Written by Erik M. on 28.03.2014 at 23:34
Indeed, but I was the one that initiated the event if I recall correctly. The funny thing was that he tried to justify it and didn't admit he was a vote abuser. Then BitterCOld got word of it and... took care of him.
Written by !J.O.O.E.! on 28.03.2014 at 23:35
You can have full credit (though Mr. Kiwi certainly put his own foot in it a bit)
Anyway, on the topic of this. Dunno what score I'll give it. Sounded good the other day but I don't really remember much.
Written by Alex F on 28.03.2014 at 23:38
Yet the average scores between you and him are hardly different. His is actually only 0.13 points higher than your's, though admittedly 113 "perfect" scores is far less irritating than a reasonable 23 (from you).
Written by Erik M. on 28.03.2014 at 23:46
True, but the rating distribution is far more important than the average rating. One can have a lot of 10's and 1's and few votes in between and yet have an average rating of a 7.5, for example. If it's a bell curve-like distribution, like is true in my case, then it can't be extreme in any sense. I vote reasonably, but I still always feel like I hand out too high scores. That's why I revise my own votes once every few months and downgrade a lot of stuff.
Written by Alex F on 28.03.2014 at 23:53
That is a perfectly valid point actually.
Written by PsychoticNK on 18.04.2014 at 01:48
Better than their debut, and that's saying a FUCK TON.


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GMP unveils plethora of Rutland energy projects
RUTLAND — Green Mountain Power loosed a barrage of new initiatives Wednesday aimed at making more power in Rutland while using it better.
Mary Powell, CEO of the state's largest utility, joined local officials for a press conference at the Paramount Theatre, addressing a crowd of about 50 from in front of a panoramic photo of the city.
She started by saying GMP had increased its projection for the amount of solar generation it intends to see installed in Rutland under the "solar city" initiative.
Powell then listed plans including the installation of solar collectors and smart monitors on 40 street lights, increasing the use of underground transmission lines, expanding the Cow Power program to include food waste and smaller farms, developing an "energy park" and energy trail in the city to aid education on renewable energy, and installing quick-charge stations capable of powering up an electric vehicle in 20 minutes.
Powell also announced pilot programs studying how to make the grid more resilient and the use of new cooling technology to shift the power load away from peak summer days.
On top of that, the utility plans to offer free working space for a year to a start-up company to be chosen later and reaffirmed its commitment to community-building efforts in the city.
"I will tell you, candidly, we're working on other things," Powell said. "Hopefully, I'll be dragging you back here in a couple months."
The press conference featured an appearance by Sen. Bernard Sanders, I-Vt., who stressed the importance of energy efficiency and renewable energy development.
"The bottom line is that virtually the entire scientific community agrees that global warming is real," he said. "We're seeing that in terms of drought, in terms of flooding, in terms of extreme weather disturbances."
All of this, Sanders said, makes cutting greenhouse gas emissions an essential challenge.
"The solution to that problem is going to be people from all kinds of sectors, public and private, working together," he said. "I don't think there is any private utility in the United States of America that had been as bold, as aggressive and as innovative as Green Mountain Power."
Sanders also emphasized the importance of combining both renewable energy generation and making new strides in efficiency. GMP's plans covered both.
While the initial goal of the solar city effort was to install 6.25 megawatts by 2017, Powell said Wednesday the utility expects to install 10 megawatts by the end of 2015. The increase in capacity takes the utility from trying to set a regional record to a national one.
"The amount of solar per capita in this city is going to be greater than any other city that we can find," Powell said.
Powell said scaling has been the chief limitation on the Cow Power program, which makes electricity from manure using digesters installed at participating farms. Powell said that they now expect to offer it at smaller farms.
"We're also working to figure out how to do it with food waste, local food waste," she said. "That would be tremendous in helping to solve more than one problem."
The effort would dovetail, she said, with an upcoming state regulation on the separation of food waste.
On the efficiency front, Powell said she hoped "ice-based energy storage" would prove to cut power use at peak times in the summer.
The idea, which the utility plans to try out at three or four city buildings, is to create large blocks of ice at night, when power costs are lower, and then use them to cool the buildings during the day. This would shift much of the power cost of air conditioning to the less expensive night hours.
Details on a number of the programs were sparse, as GMP officials said they were in the early stages.
Steve Costello, GMP's vice president for generation and energy innovation, said the scale of the "energy park," where visitors could see working examples of different renewable energy technologies, would depend on the location.
The "energy trail," he said, would likely involve maps allowing people to navigate between sites in the city and educational materials placed at those sites.
Burying power lines would happen primarily in the downtown, Costello said, and be timed to coincide with local paving projects.
Similarly, while the exact locations are to be determined, Costello said he hopes to have three electric vehicle rapid-charging stations installed downtown in the next few months. Presently, the city only has one, located at the Stafford Technical Center.
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in general, I tend to have an over supply. If I pump in between, it just goes out of whack and I end up with colicky babies, a freezer full of milk and mastitus!
I rec'd excellent advice about massaging the ducts, feeding on one side only initially and not pumping too muich, so I am able to keep the supply from going crazy, and only had a small bout of colic this time around.
BUT, one size is definately more over active than the other. If I get even remotedly engorged, the milk pours out and will continue to squirt for as long as 30 seconds after baby has broken the latch.
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Business expansions bode well for Barre Town
BARRE TOWN Business is good at the Wilson Industrial Park in Websterville, and its about to get even better.
With Vermont Creamery preparing to grow again and New England Excess Exchange planning to move its operations from Montpelier to the Barre Town industrial park once construction of its new headquarters is finished there next spring, contractors will be working through the winter on both projects.
Vermont Creamery broke ground on a 14,000-square-foot addition to its cheese-making facility last week, and construction of an 8,070-square-foot office building for New England Excess Exchange will begin this week.
Local officials are brimming with optimism about both projects even as two others are in the works.
Spruce Mountain Custom Sandblast is seeking permits to construct a 1,600-square-foot addition to its 8,536-square-foot building at the corner of Pitman and Parker roads. Meanwhile, Tenco New England remains interested in leasing if not buying the 12,000-square-foot building that now houses the towns vehicle maintenance shop as a potential home for the heavy equipment business currently on North Main Street in Barre.
Town Manager Carl Rogers said officials are pleased with what appears to be renewed interest in the industrial park.
Vermont Creamery recently acquired a building that last housed the U.S. Army Reserves as part of what company officials describe as a multiphase expansion plan. Currently that building is being used primarily for storage, but it could eventually house the administrative offices of a growing company that specializes in artisanal, hand-crafted cheeses.
Vermont Creamery, formerly Vermont Butter & Cheese, moved to the industrial park in 1989 and has been growing ever since. The new addition, which is scheduled to be finished in November 2014, will more than double the area dedicated to making an increasingly popular assortment of award-winning aged goats milk cheeses.
Renovations to the portion of the plant where fresh cheeses and butter are produced are complete, and construction of an addition that will eventually boost production capacity of aged cheeses is underway.
Groleau Construction of Barre is supervising the project, which is being financed through Peoples United Bank.
Though construction will continue through the winter and well into next year, the plant will continue to operate at full capacity. Vermont Creamery employs more than 40 workers.
New England Excess Exchange, a wholesale property and liability insurance agency that was founded in Montpelier in 1981, is poised to bring nearly that many jobs to Barre Town next spring. The company employees 35 to 40 people, who will relocate to the new building that will soon be under construction on a 90,000-square-foot lot in the industrial park. The company expects to boost its workforce to 50 full-time employees by 2015.
In a move designed to make sure that project happens, the Select Board last week approved a seven-year tax stabilization agreement with New England Excess Exchange. Essentially, the agreement grants the company a 30 percent discount on the municipal portion of its tax bill for the next seven years.
Representatives of New England Excess Exchange have indicated they should be in a position to move from River Street in Montpelier to the Barre Town industrial park in May.
Meanwhile, the towns conversations with Tenco remain unsettled, according to Rogers, who said the Select Board is waiting to hear back from the Barre company, which has also expressed interest in moving to the industrial park.
Zoning Administrator Chris Violette said representatives of Spruce Mountain Custom Sandblast are working on obtaining permits for their own modest expansion plans.
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text: Thanks mommal, that was helpful! I will still have to pump when I go back to work! I like the bond of nursing and the fact that my baby needs me, I was just so worried that he wasn't getting enough. I did talk to the pediatrician yesterday and she said basically the same thing....that he was growing healthy and that I should continue to nurse more and pump less just for convienience. Thanks again!


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Getting your drank on. Is there anything more noble? Yes, most things. Few people ever achieve stunning Hemingway levels of awesomeness whilst shitfaced. Instead they achieve things slightly more noteworthy than a hobo shitting in his own boots to keep his feet warm. And yet we still really enjoy getting a good buzz because it facilitates sharing feelings, having sex with people who otherwise would probably not tolerate us, and vomiting. So much vomiting. With all these wondrous benefits, of course drinking is a popular hobby, but dammit if some people don't have a big ol' boner on to screw with it and do it some novel, new way, as though ingestion were somehow cramping their style. Crazy sumbitches.
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Back in 2011, my fellow mirthematician Soren Bowie wrote on the phenomenon of butt chugging and how utterly false it was. While I was researching this article, I found evidence that butt chugging was in fact real, and thus, by order of Cracked management, I was bidden to copulate with Soren's mother while he was in the room! His lesson learned, Soren will never write another article that dares be in direct contrast to my own work ever again.
Butt chugging is a real thing, and a Tennessee frat boy was hospitalized as a result of it, despite later holding a press conference with his lawyer to tell everyone that butt chugging is super gross and he's totally not gay, bro. So fuck off. He then later filled his asshole with Thunderbird. I assume. Because he went to the hospital with a shitbox full of wine, and police questioned everyone on the scene who did it, too, so it's hard to argue with that. But I digress.
The idea behind the ol' butt chug is as follows -- your face hole is old and shitty. Look at it: exposed to the elements all day, smiling like a face full of fuck. Good God. Forget it. On the other hand, your precious, delicate asshole is always nestled in cotton undies, cradled like the delicate little pucker it is, and directly connected to a stank tube that's made of 10 percent mucus, 60 percent poo, and 40 percent alcohol-hungry poop chutery. And that poop tubing of yours can absorb vodka way better and faster than anything directly connected to your lame ass face orifice. And when you think about it, you dad probably gets drunk through the face hole. People in the Dark Ages got drunk through the face hole, and those people didn't even know to not shit in their own beds, probably. Idiots. Why would you want to live like them? You don't.
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"I'm putting this in my mouth. My God, did the Chinese win a war when I was on the shitter?"
The big issue with the idea of butt chugging is logic. So inserting a tube and decanting a Four Loko into your nether chasm will get you drunk faster, but what exactly is the benefit of that? What pressing meeting do you need to get to in the next five minutes that absolutely necessitates that you be there, but also be falling-down shitfaced when you arrive? When has anyone ever needed to be drunk right away? This is not a thing that ever occurs. If you need to be drunk earlier in the night, then by all means start drinking earlier in the night. But without a sufficient explanation as to why you need to be drunk really fast, there isn't really a good reason to put a hose in your asshole and try to get a whole case of Pabst up in there when you could just as easily be sitting on the couch watching TV while you drink it.
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Now that we've covered your ass, the next logical way to imbibe booze is through a hole that's already plugged -- your eye. "Logical," if you're the kind of person who posts videos of your own mild suffering on YouTube because "it's so awesome, dude!" Then later you do the cinnamon challenge, suck a condom up your nose, and eat some ghost peppers, because you are a dickhead. The media were tickled pink to discover this trend and reported on the awfulness of it while calling it a "disturbing trend" as many times per minute as the FCC would allow.
Like filling your other non-drinking holes before it, the idea of eyeball shots was labeled either a fad or a hoax by some after the initial media frenzy to share the traumatic stories with us, but, as we've learned, it doesn't matter if it was fake before the news broke the story, because it sure as shit became real after, and YouTube had hundreds of videos to back it up. Some even went back as far as 2006 to indicate that people were really this dumb before CNN and FOX told them to be this dumb.
The closest thing we have to an active Justice League, the American Academy of Ophthalmology, came out against the practice, as it is their sworn duty to oppose you putting shit in your eye, as anyone who remembers the great "Salt in Your Eye" coup of '88 can attest to. The day we all saw the blurry, watery forms of ophthalmologists landing on the beach was a day that lives on in all our hearts. They also brought with them the double-barreled attack of common sense and vague knowledge of anatomy, which thoroughly trounced the idea behind eyeball shots. Firstly, for those who didn't notice, your fucking eye is in your eye. This is why we consume most nutrients through the mouth -- there isn't a big thing plugging the gap. Secondly, your eye is sealed up pretty damn tight and has fairly small blood vessels, meaning its ability to absorb anything into the bloodstream is remarkably limited. Of all the inefficient ways to absorb alcohol, this would be the most inefficient, as it is more likely just to cause permanent damage to your vision, rather than give you a buzz. Literally the only stupider ways you could try to get booze into your body would be telekinetically or using your urethra as a straw.


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The joke is an easy one to make. Ask what's different this season about Green Bay Packers inside linebacker A.J. Hawk this year, and let Open Mic Night at the Chuckle Hut commence.
"Haircut?" Packers coach Mike McCarthy responded, clearly proud of his one-liner.
"He's got short hair," replied Hawk's ex-teammate, now-Arizona Cardinals guard Daryn Colledge, chuckling to himself on a recent conference call.
Hardy-har-har. But things have changed for Hawk in this, his seventh NFL season – he's playing fewer snaps, but playing noticeably better at the same time.
"I would just say this: Maybe a year ago, where he might have been playing 65, 70 plays a game, he's playing probably 45, 50 plays a game. Specific packages. I think it gives guys a chance to focus in on their package and what they're doing," said defensive coordinator Dom Capers, avoiding the comedy show and answering the question seriously. "I think it's the smartest way to use A.J., because I think he's had an excellent year to this point in time.
"I think A.J.'s had his best year since I've been here. I like the role we have him in. His reps, I think he's fresh and when he goes out there you see more quickness."
When the Packers line up Sunday at Ford Field against the Detroit Lions, they'll do so with only one of their preferred starting linebackers in the lineup – Hawk. Inside linebacker Desmond Bishop went down with a season-ending hamstring injury in the Aug. 9 preseason opener in San Diego; his replacement, D.J. Smith, tore the anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee at Houston Oct. 14; rookie outside linebacker Nick Perry had season-ending wrist surgery during the bye week; and star outside linebacker Clay Matthews has been ruled out with the hamstring injury he suffered Nov. 4 against Arizona.
The one constant has been Hawk, who seems to be hitting his stride – as a player and as a human being – as his 29th birthday approaches in January.
An all-football, all-the-time type during his stellar college career at Ohio State – and even in his early years with the Packers – he believes he's more of a well-rounded person now. While he's never allowed outside opinions affect him – good or bad, he says – he has almost a Zen-like mentality about it now, having endured more than his share since being the No. 5 overall pick in the 2006 NFL Draft.
"You talk about me being a meathead now, then I was. From when I was 16 to 21 or 22, I was a total meathead – lift weights five hours a day, nothing but football and working out," said Hawk, who signed a new contract in March 2011 that contained an $8 million signing bonus and has base salaries of $4.4 million this year, $4.9 million in 2013 and 2014 and $5.4 million in 2015.
"Now, I think I'm actually a much smarter person. I know how to work out, (for example). But I never pay attention to (outside opinions) now, never did growing up. Ever.
"I think I've always been – I'm not trying to use a big word or anything – but intrinsically motivated, from within. I think you have to be. I don't want to have to rely on outside forces to motivate me. I don't want to have to rely on you guys saying something bad about me to get me to say, 'Oh man, I'm going to prove these guys wrong.' That's such a waste of my energy.
"I'm not trying to be this new-age guru or whatever, but I don't want to do anything just to prove someone wrong. I'm not out there to prove anything to anybody but myself. I never use anything negative. I'm not going to sit there and say, 'The media or the coaches, I can't believe what they're saying about me, I'm going to show 'em.' No. What a waste of energy, man. I'd be exhausted by the end of the day. I'm doing it for the team and for myself."
And the team has benefitted from an improved Hawk, even if it's meant seeing less of him on the field.
His playing time has diminished because Capers has increasingly used his dime packages (either two down linemen, three linebackers and six defensive backs, or one down lineman, four linebackers and six DBs in the "Bat" dime unit). Even after Bishop and Smith went down, he opted for Brad Jones as the lone inside linebacker in those packages over Hawk.
By keeping Hawk off the field in those situations, Hawk has had to do less of the one thing that isn't his strength – pass coverage – while remaining solid in all other areas. He enters Sunday with a team-high 75 tackles, while also having registered one sack in limited pass-rush opportunities. ProFootballFocus.com has him playing 422 snaps this season – 200 against the run, 59 as a pass rusher and 163 in pass coverage – and with an overall positive grade on the season in their scoring system. He has missed five tackles and made 57 (40 solo, 17 assists) in their numbers.
"What (one) difference is, on third down, when we're playing that dime (package), the opportunities for him to be in coverages that can put him in a situation that can challenge him, I think those are at minimum," inside linebackers coach Winston Moss said. "With that being said, A.J. has gotten off to a fast start. He's been disruptive, he's really just had a focus about him this year, a tempo about him this year to where it's very pleasing to see."
For his part, Hawk isn't exactly a fan of reduced playing time – just as he didn't like it at the start of the 2010 season, when he was on the bench when Capers went to his nickel defense – but he's not one to complain. Whether or not the reduced PT has helped his production, he can't say.
"I want to play every down. I've told you that in the past," Hawk said recently in a rare mid-week interview. "People ask me, 'Does it help you, playing less? Are you a better player when you're not on the field as much?' No, I'll never agree to that. I'll never say that's true. But maybe I've turned the corner a little bit.
"I've kind of said, 'You know what? When I'm in, I don't care. I'm going to go crazy.' Maybe I do have a little more energy when I am in, but I still want to be in there 100 percent of the time."
And that much is clear. In the past, Moss hasn't been afraid to publicly criticize Hawk, saying that he needed to be more "impactful" (Moss' word) and pointing out, as far back as 2009, that Hawk was often so focused on being assignment-sure that he bypassed playmaking opportunities that were there for the taking. Before Super Bowl XLV, he praised Hawk's communication skills, and during the offseason, Moss spoke of Hawk being important to the defense in terms of intangibles and leadership, even if his productivity wasn't high.
Now, Moss says, Hawk is still fulfilling his duties but also taking a few more risks – and having fun in the process.
"I just think there's more of a, he's letting go. He's letting go. He's going out there, he's enjoying the game, he's having fun," Moss said. "He is an extremely intense guy. And not to compare it to the past, but that is either a positive or a negative, but I can say so far this year, he's maintained his intensity but he's having fun. And I'm glad to see that. On and off the field.
"Here's what I think is important: I have seen guys that have been on Super Bowl teams and defenses and they have been very similar to A.J. and they have been perceived differently. My personal opinion, what he does form a command of setting this defense up, game-in game-out, week-in, week-out, to have no panic, you don't know how important that is.
"I've always said this over the years: It's important that you execute your responsibility. But when the opportunity comes, you make the play. It's not acceptable to think that you can just go out … We're not asking you to be a robot. I don't think he's ever gone out to try and be that, but I think he doesn't have a problem if he is not the guy making all the plays. As long as he's doing his job and helping the team out, that's just as important to him.


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I hate speaking negatively about writers, or musicians, or directors, or artists of any kind. Not because I think artists are better than regular people (HAH!), but because there's almost always an inherent risk when creativity is involved, and attacking an artist when he or she fails almost always sounds like chastising someone for even attempting something risky, for putting themselves out there, and that's not a business I want to be in.
That's why I'm trying not to outright insult any of the people on this list. In fact, I'm only writing about them because I genuinely think all of these artists are great. Talented and important, and so forth. I just think they maybe lost their way, and this is my humble attempt to say, "Hey, great artists who lost your way: Be quiet and go hide somewhere for a little while."
4Tim Burton and Johnny Depp as a Team
In the last 10 years, Johnny Depp has collaborated with Tim Burton on five films. He wore pale makeup and crazy hair in four of those five (the fifth was Corpse Bride, where Depp's character, while made of clay, still had a pale face and weird hair), and while he was always enjoyable to watch, no character really stands out as particularly iconic; they're all mostly just eccentric, and they sound funny.
In this span of time, Depp has created only one character that (almost) everyone unanimously agreed was instantly iconic, and that's Capt. Jack Sparrow (from a film Burton had absolutely nothing to do with), and I'd argue that his only other great movie in this period was Rango, which a) was awesome, b) also had nothing to do with Burton and c) was really awesome. The Pirates movies made more money at the box office than his collaborations with Burton by a wide margin, and I haven't found a single critic who thinks either Burton or Depp have made their best work together in the last 10 years. I'd go as far as to say that Burton's last great movie was Big Fish, which is suspiciously the only move he made in the last 10 years that didn't feature Depp.
I really love this movie, you guys.
So, you know. Maybe knock it off for a while, guys.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not faulting them for not doing their best work together lately; no one can be expected to be constantly making their best work, and the fact that they struck gold once with Edward Scissorhands is impressive enough, forever. I am saying that when you enter into a creative relationship that is so comfortable and enjoyable, one of two things happen: 1) You challenge, enhance and bring out the best in each other, becoming greater as a pair than you ever were solo (McCartney/Lennon, the Coen brothers, Trey Parker/Matt Stone) or 2) You agree and support each other so much that you lose objectivity; you can no longer gauge your ideas on their merits, because you've turned two talented artists into each other's personal Yes Man (Ferrell/McKay).
Burton and Depp seem to be in that second camp. From the outside, it looks like they're engaged in some kind of self-perpetuating circle of unflinching reassurance and back-patting, which is dangerous for creativity. It's worse than creating in a vacuum; it's creating in a vacuum that thinks all of your ideas are great and don't need to be edited or revisited or even questioned at all. It's one thing to have a collaborator that you're comfortable with and whose rhythms you understand and quite another to have a nodding mirror image of yourself. A disagreeing voice is one of the most valuable things to have in a creative environment. It's a good way to keep one's head out of one's ass, and it's why no movie has just one guy completely in charge of everything.
That rarely works out.
Johnny Depp creating an eccentric, pale character for Tim Burton featuring Helena Bonham Carter is one of the most bizarrely specific cliches I think I've ever come across. All I'm suggesting is a little creative break. Each artist should spend some time exploring other things, maybe having a different collaboration or two, then perhaps one day, after they've had some time alone to really figure themselves out, they can get back together and collaborate again, armed with new knowledge and experiences.
Plus then Johnny Depp will have more time to make the Rango 2 movie I'm writing.
3The Red Hot Chili Peppers
At no point in the middle of practice one day did one of the Red Hot Chili Peppers stand up and say, "Hey, is anyone else just sick of playing Chili Peppers music?" I mean, other than the one drummer and the three guitarists who quit. Obviously.
When they first hit the scene, the Red Hot Chili Peppers were new, and they had an energy that almost no one else could touch, and asking them to quit now must sound crazy. Every single member of the band is great. Flea is incredible and insane, but really he deserves a ton of credit, if for no other reason than because he's probably the only bassist that an average person could actually name.
These might be three awesome bassists or just three random dudes. You don't know.
I've always maintained that Chad Smith was one of the most tasteful and dependable drummers in rock and roll, John Frusciante (who recently got just as sick of Chili Peppers music as me, and quit the band again) will certainly make every top 20 greatest guitarists for the next several years and Anthony Kiedis ... I don't know, sure has had a lot of different haircuts, I guess.
They're all so talented, and it's wonderful that they found each other, but ... come on, guys, that's enough.
Years ago, the Chili Peppers were slinging this rap-rock-funk-fusion thing that, to this day, no one else has even attempted. Honestly. I can't think of a single other band that is even trying to imitate RHCP music, because the style is just so clearly theirs. They own it.
Unfortunately, they haven't really grown in the last, at least, 15 years. They're still just writing Red Hot Chili Peppers music. Funky rock songs with awesome bass about California and fucking. That's it. And that's fine, in doses, but they've been doing it for almost 30 years. I can't name one band that should have still been playing together after 30 years. Not one.
The smartest thing that R.E.M. did was break up. It was clear that they'd reached a point where they realized, "Hey, these later albums aren't as good as our other ones. Obviously, we've already recorded all of the best R.E.M. songs. Let's just call it quits." Every artist in every field reaches a point where they exhaust their own limitations. The Simpsons was great right up until it was terrible, and it was terrible right after they'd finished making all of the great Simpsons episodes it was possible to make. If Michael Richards was still doing Kramer today, it would be the saddest thing ever. That's just the way things go, nine times out of 10. An artist is great, but if he misses the brief window where he can back out with grace and dignity, he'll just humiliate himself and end up Favreing the whole end of his career.
The Foo Fighters are a great counterexample. That's another rock band that's been around for a long time, and they're still making new music, but they haven't overstayed their welcome. The difference is that the Foo Fighters seem to be growing and evolving with every album. Their latest album is stylistically a world away from their first album, but it is still a distinctly Foo Fighteresque sound. It has everything that makes Foo great while still feeling fresh.
The Red Hot Chili Peppers have had, like, four different amazing guitar players quit the band, but they're still going. If losing two of its founding members isn't going to stop the Chili Peppers, and if they aren't going to grow and evolve (they're not), then they should really think about taking some time off.


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ATLANTA - (Nov. 8, 2012) - Leroy Myers Jr., a senior from Baltimore, won $1,000 earlier this month as a contestant in the Ford Black College Quiz show series.
Myers is the first University of Maryland Eastern Shore student invited to participate in the competition since its inception seven years ago.
Contestants were quizzed on African American history across a spectrum of topics that included the African Diaspora, arts and literature, popular music, sports figures, trailblazers, women in Civil Rights and inventors.
Myers and Aundrá Roberts, the UMES Henson Honors Program assistant, traveled to Atlanta, where the competition was taped for the BET network. It will be broadcast between late January and early March 2013.
A nervous Myers performed well enough on a quiz in a preliminary round to earn a $1,000 award that he says he'll happily apply to his spring tuition bill.
"I kind of surprised myself that I did as well as I did," Myers said. "It was a great experience. I'm glad that I went."
Among the highlights from the weekend competition for Myers was meeting TV and film actor, RonReaco Lee.
Myers spent this past summer in New York as a fellow in the prestigious Schomburg-Mellon Humanities Summer Institute program. His area of academic interest as a history major in UMES' School of Arts and Professions is Native Americans. He also has had an op-ed column on the 2012 election published by the Daily Times in Salisbury.
Among the 11 other HBCUs that sent students to the competition were Coppin State, Hampton, and Spelman, which was the host site for the TV taping.
Roberts said Myers was the ideal scholar-ambassador to be UMES' first representative at the event, and she is confident his performance will mean the university will get future invitations to participate.
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#8761 - 10/26/00 09:32 AM Re: Mogambo
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jack squat to do with gorillas
I rest my case.
"Mogambo" = "Let's get the hell out of here!"
(this translation for under 18s)
#8762 - 10/26/00 09:46 AM Re: Mogambo
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I hope you'll credit your co-translator?
#8763 - 10/26/00 02:29 PM Re: Mogambo
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... none of which has jack squat to do with gorillas or mogambo.
Ain't no one never told ya nothin' about it being wrong for to be using double negatives?
#8764 - 10/26/00 03:50 PM Re: Mogambo
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Max says it is "wrong for to be using double negatives."
One assumes this a critique of the construction "jack squat." One assumes that his objection is that "jack" has the same meaning as squat, permitting one to say "He don't know jack" and "He don't know squat" without altering the meaning of either. Not so, learned one. The clause "You don't know jack" is a shortening of "You don't know jack shit" where the last word is omitted for decency's sake. Squat is a colloquial verb meaning "to defecate" and a noun meaning "defecation." Thus, the construction "jack squat" restores the entirety of the clause, using a synonym in the last position. Eh?
#8765 - 10/26/00 03:54 PM Re: Mogambo
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Posts: 1981
Oh how good it is to be amongst true intellectuals!
#8766 - 10/26/00 04:10 PM Intellectuals
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Agreed. The recent rise in the number of false intellectuals is a cause for great concern.
#8767 - 10/26/00 04:10 PM Re: discalced
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Loc: this too shall pass
tsuwm>more links than a dozen discalced nuns.
jackie>what does being discalced have to do with posting links, she said with the
distinct feeling of walking straight into a trap?
exactly nothing. and don't go walking discalced near any traps.
how many posts would Emily Post post
if Emily Post could post posts?!
#8768 - 10/26/00 04:14 PM Re: Mogambo
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Actually it was the use of "none of which" that prompted my jocular correction. I understood the phrase "Jack squat", and greatly appreciated the bowdlerisation. Since it seems that "Jack squat" means basically "nothing" I read the line to say "none of which has nothing to do with ..." I am of course rushing in where angels fear to tread, as my grasp of grammar could most flatteringly be called rudimentary. If I am as mistaken as I expect to be, your occupation, and my Mickey heritage would seem to make mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa doubly apt.
#8769 - 10/26/00 07:28 PM Re: Intellectuals
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Posts: 1346
Loc: Sussex, England
The recent rise in the number of false intellectuals
Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa!
#8770 - 10/26/00 11:37 PM Re: Intellectuals
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Loc: Seattle, Washington, USA
Misereatur vestri omnipotens Deus, et dimissis peccatis, perducat vos ad vitam aeternam. Amen.
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STEUBENVILLE – An agreement was reached today in the Lynnette Gorman case, in which the misdemeanor charge against her will be dismissed by June if certain conditions are met.
Jury selection was scheduled to begin today in the case in which Gorman, the Pugliese West Elementary School principal, had been named in a one-count misdemeanor indictment in which failure to report child abuse or neglect was charged
Her defense attorney, Dennis McNamara of Columbus, spent an hour negotiating with Angela Canepa, Ashley Rodabaugh and Scott Longo, all assistant state attorneys general, before the announcement was made around 10 a.m. today.
The agreement was read by visiting Summit County retired Judge Patricia Ann Cosgrove in a Jefferson County Common Pleas Courtroom.
The agreement states the charge against Gorman will be dismissed by June 1 but is contingent upon Gorman completing 40 hours of community service and speaking to other teachers and administrators in the Steubenville City School District on the subject of recognizing and reporting child abuse and child neglect.
"Lynnette Gorman believes that she committed no crime. She also believes that if she had the ability to go back to April 2012, she would have acted differently. School teachers and administrators should always err on the side of caution when the interests of the children are at stake. Under the law, if there is even suspicion of abuse it would be better to make a report so that an investigation of abuse can be conducted. Ms. Gorman has encouraged the school board to have a speaker from the Ohio Alliance Against Sexual Violence come to the middle school and high school in April, which is Sexual Assault Awareness Month," the agreement stated.
The agreement further states the resolution to the case is in the best interest of Gorman, the state, the school district and the community.
A special grand jury called by Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine investigating aspects of the Steubenville High School rape case returned the indictment against Gorman and three others.
The charge against Gorman was not directly linked to the Steubenville rape case, but rather involved another alleged sexual incident involving a high school student in April 2012.
Gorman initially was placed on paid leave by the school board after the indictments were announced, but the school board later allowed her to return to her job.
McNamara had no comment on the resolution, saying the attorney general's office and he had agreed to make no comment other than having the judge read the resolution in court.
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Home List of Titles Baculoviral expression of telomerase in primary human fibroblasts to rejuvenate cells for tissue engineering
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- Baculoviral expression of telomerase in primary human fibroblasts to rejuvenate cells for tissue engineering
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- Gamble, C. M.; Barton, P. A.
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- Tissue engineering involves the use of synthetic or natural materials as a scaffold to support the growth of replacement tissue or organs. The use of autologous cells to populate the scaffold avoids problems associated with rejection; however, a major limitation of this approach is the finite lifespan of primary cells in culture. This finite lifespan is due to the shortening of telomeres, short repetitive sequences of DNA located at the ends of eukaryotic chromosomes. Ectopic expression of telomerase reverse transcriptase (hTERT) is able to reconstitute telomerase activity and maintain the length of telomeres. This study investigated an alternative gene delivery vector, baculovirus, for the expression of hTERT in primary human cells. A recombinant baculovirus was used to efficiently deliver the hTERT gene to primary fibroblasts and the telomerase enzyme was found to be active. Although no increase in telomere length was detected, expression of hTERT in primary fibroblasts resulted in a significant extension of replicative lifespan. To our knowledge this is a novel attempt to use a recombinant baculovirus for the extension of cellular lifespan by exogenous expression of telomerase.
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- Research centre
- Swinburne University of Technology. Faculty of Life and Social Sciences
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- Journal of Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine, Vol. 6, no. 5 (May 2012), pp. 414-420
- Publication year
- 2012
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- 0903 Biomedical Engineering; 1103 Clinical Sciences; 1116 Medical Physiology
- Keyword(s)
- Baculovirus; Gene delivery; HTERT; Human cells; Immortalization; Telomerase; Telomerase reverse transcriptase; Tissue engineering
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- John Wiley & Sons
- 1932-6254
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- Copyright © 2012.
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Iraqi army soldiers stage on the outskirts of Hawija, 150 miles north of Baghdad, Iraq.BAGHDAD Iraqi soldiers backed by tanks retook control of a Sunni town north of Baghdad on Friday after gunmen withdrew without a fight, although violence erupted at three Sunni mosques and clerics called for the formation of a tribal army to protect Sunni cities.
The Sunni gunmen had seized Suleiman Beg on Thursday after a firefight with security forces, one in a string of similar incidents that have killed more than 150 people in clashes in Sunni Muslim towns in western and northern Iraq during the past four days. The fighting has raised concerns about a rising number of sectarian clashes in Iraq where Sunnis are alleging mistreatment by the government dominated by the Shiite majority.
Police and military officials said army units entered the town after negotiations with local tribal leaders.
The recent unrest in the country followed a deadly security crackdown on a Sunni protest in the northern town of Hawija four days ago.
In Iraqs predominantly Sunni provinces, anti-government rallies continued as preachers at protest sites called for the formation of tribal army that would protect Sunni areas from attacks by government forces.
In Samarra, Sunni cleric Najih al-Mizan lashed out at what he said were the policies of tyranny and repression adopted by Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. He said al-Malikis resignation was the only solution to save the country from the current crisis.
We call upon our tribes to form an army that can protect us from a government that does not hesitate to kill its people, said al-Mizan.
In Fallujah, Sunni cleric Ali al-Basra repeated the call to form a tribal army to protect Sunni cities. Several protesters held aloft al-Qaida flags during the rally.
The new calls for Sunnis to take up arms could further raise the tension between the government and the Sunni minority. Al-Maliki appeared on national television on Thursday to appeal for calm.
But on Friday, a bomb blast hit Sunni worshippers as they were leaving a mosque in western Baghdad after the end of Friday prayers, killing five worshippers and wounding 22 others. Minutes later, a Sunni was killed and six others were wounded when a bomb struck Sunnis near a mosque in the Rashidiyah area, 20 kilometers north of the capital. Also, a bomb exploded near a third Sunni mosque in northeastern Baghdad, killing two people.
There was no claim of responsibility for the attacks against Sunni mosques, which have now happened for two Fridays in a row. Last Friday, a pair of bombs struck outside a Sunni mosque north of Baghdad, killing at least 11 people.
Also on Friday, police said a bomb exploded shortly after sunset near a small restaurant in Baghdads Shiite neighborhood of Sadr city, killing four people and wounding 20 others. Later on, police said three people were killed and 17 others wounded after a car bomb went off in a commercial street in southern Baghdad.
Al-Qaidas Iraqi branch, known as the Islamic State of Iraq, frequently carries out attacks against civilian targets such as mosques, markets and restaurants. The terrorist group mainly target Shiites, but it has also struck Sunni targets in an attempt to re-ignite the sectarian strife that pushed the country to the brink of civil war in the years following the 2003 U.S. led-invasion.
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Two Dordt College digital media students, Daniel Kauten and Dale Vande Griend, are the creators of Students Without Borders. Their project resulted in a gold Ava Award, an international awards competition that recognizes outstanding achievement by creative filmmaking professionals.
The film is intended to explain American culture through the eyes of international students.
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This year-long independent studies project helped hone their filmmaking skills beyond traditional academic learning.
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Dorner was also charged with the attempted murder of three other police officers, including another Riverside officer who was wounded when Crain was killed. That officer, whose name has not been released, is in a lot of pain and faces "many surgeries," Riverside Police Chief Sergio Diaz said.
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Dorner accused his training officer of kicking a mentally ill man during an arrest in 2007. The LAPD ruled the complaint unfounded and kicked Dorner off the force for filing a false complaint.
Dorner challenged his firing in court and lost.
In a manifesto released last week, Dorner blamed racism and corruption in the LAPD for his termination and vowed to wage "unconventional and asymmetrical warfare" against LAPD officers and their families. He called it a "last resort" to clear his name and strike back at a department he says mistreated him.
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Randal Quan represented Dorner during the disciplinary hearing that resulted in his firing. The officer was among dozens named in the manifesto.
The retired officer told investigators he received a call from someone identifying himself as Dorner who told him he "should have done a better job of protecting his daughter," according to a federal arrest warrant affidavit.
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