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Laos continues to suffer from warfareApril 03,2013
I have just returned from being in Laos for a month. I found the country to be beautiful and the people to be extremely gentle and kind. These positive experiences had a strong underlying black current as I visited caves where villagers lived for 10 years during the 1965 to 1975 period of the time of the Vietnam War. In villages, onions were growing in the shell casings and fish were being raised in the bomb craters.
I visited two educational centers, Mines Advisory Group that had films and exhibits dealing with cluster bombs and other nondetonated bombs. It became clear to me that the Laotians, after 38 years, are still suffering the effects of the U.S. secret war. In fact, each of these unexploded artifacts represents a war crime perpetrated by the U.S. government on the Laotian people in defiance of the U.S.-signed neutrality treaty with Laos. The U.S. dropped more bombs per capita on Laos than on any other country in any other war. There were more than 2 million tons of ordnance dropped during 1964-1973, and it is estimated 30 percent did not detonate.
As I traveled by minibus through the country, I saw Mines Advisory Group teams searching the land so farmers could extend their fields without fear for their lives and their familys lives. I began to understand how MAG says that this contamination is a key cause of poverty in Laos and is one of the prime factors limiting the countrys long-term development. Mines Advisory Group works in Laos, but it emphasizes that these munitions are still being used in warfare in many countries today with the same devastating results on these populations.
I am very thankful that Sens. Leahy and Feinstein have introduced a bill, the Cluster Munitions Civilian Protection Act of 2013, to restrict the use and deployment of these dangerous cluster munitions. Please let them know that you support their efforts. Thank you.
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"It feels great to be 5-0 but, we still have a lot of football to play", said a very excited T.J. Garcia. "Coach Miller said we needed to do a better job of wrapping up and being aggressive. That is exactly what we worked on at practice all week and it paid off for us tonight. We came out hitting hard and we did not let up."
The Longhorns came out firing as they intercepted a pass on Woodsboro's first possession giving them the ball on the Eagle 14 yard line. That momentum would be short-lived as the Eagle defense would hold on four plays. Jared Martinez sacked a Longhorn runner for a six yard loss and David Carmichael knocked a pass down in the end zone. The Longhorns managed to score but, an illegal block negated the only highlight of the evening for them.
Facing a third and nine on the Eagles very next possession, Andy Villareal ran 51 yards around the left side to give his team a first and goal at the Longhorn two yard line. Debray Bonner muscled his way in on the next play for the Eagles first score. Garcia kicked the extra point to give the Eagles a 7-0 lead after one quarter of play.
Midway through the second quarter Lionel Brown intercepted a pass to give his team the ball back at the Eagle 37 yard line. Bonner busted through a gaping hole and outran everyone for a 63 yard touchdown. The two point conversion failed and the Eagles led 13-0.
On the Longhorns very next possession, Carmichael alertly recovered a fumble giving the Eagles great field position at the Longhorn 38 yard line. The Eagles took advantage as two plays later quarterback Tyler Quesada scampered in from 28 yards out for a touchdown. Bonner hit Jacob Nesloney with a pass for the two point conversion to extend the Eagles lead to 21-0.
With less than three minutes left in the first half, the Eagles faced a third and long from their 16 yard line. Quesada found another big hole in the line and raced 82 yards to give his team a first and goal at the Longhorn two yard line. Two plays later, Quesada threw a perfect high pass to receiver Logan Moses who, "out-beasted" his defender for a touchdown catch. The extra point try was no good and the half ended with the Eagles leading 27-0.
"We did not come out aggressive and they did", said lineman Mikey Barraza who recorded several tackles and a fumble recovery on the night. "We got hit first, regrouped, and then came out fired up. Our line knows that if we do our job, our teammates will take care of the rest. A lot of us rotate positions on both sides of the ball and we are always ready to help wherever our team needs us."
The second half began with the Longhorns trying to regain momentum as they attempted an onsides kick. Daniel Ochoa alertly recovered for the Eagles near midfield giving the Longhorns a sign of things to come. On the very next play, Quesada heaved a 51 yard bomb to Villareal for a touchdown. Quesada would also sneak in for the two point conversion to extend the Eagles lead to 35-0.
The Longhorns misfortunes would continue on their next possession as Martinez recovered a fumble at the Longhorn 30 yard line. Several plays later, Quesada scored from the six yard line. Garcia kicked the extra point to make it 42-0 after three quarters of play.
The Eagles would add one more score in the fourth quarter as Bonner ran one in from 24 yards out for his third touchdown of the night. Garcia again kicked the extra point to finish the Eagles scoring on the night.
"We would like to invite our whole community to come out for our homecoming game against Benavides", said Garcia and Barraza. "This is our last game before district play starts and we will do our very best to give y'all a homecoming victory. It really means a lot to all of us to have our fans rooting for us at our games."
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Nuclear radiation from bomb tests and power plant accidents causes slightly more boys than girls to be born, a new study suggests. While effects were seen to be regional for incidents on the ground, like Chernobyl, atmospheric blasts were found to affect birth rates on a global scale.This all sounds pretty scary. It is true there is a problem but the article and the study it is based on are a hack job which overlooks the real probable reason for the imbalance. In total, the article presents obvious holes in logic, a contradictory area of study, and leaves out an obvious cultural geographical variable.
First the article cannot get what the range of study was. At first the article states the study range was 1975 to 2007; however, in the next paragraph the article notes scientists found an increase in male births compared to female births from 1964 to 1975. How is this possible? Either the article is poorly written or the scientific study look at the ratio of girls and boys at 11 years old and younger to get data for 1964 to 1975 births. This ignores variables such as immigration, emigration, and kids dying.
The second hole is mentioned in the article but still overlooked. The Nuclear Test Ban Treaty banned all nuclear tests except those underground. The treaty went into effect in 1963. Any atmospheric radiation-fueled shift in baby gender should have been in full effect by 1975. There really should not be any noticeable change therefore from 1975 to 2007.
The area of study is poorly chosen. For a report which claims "global scale," the study area is only Europe and the United States. Japan, a great test case which had stable boy-girl ratios until recently (well after the two atomic bombs were dropped), is left out of the study. Also, look below at the map of nuclear detonations and the map of prevailing winds.
|Map showing that most nuclear tests were in Asia or the Pacific. Image obtained from VizWorld.
|Map showing the prevailing winds. Study only the United States and Europe for this study makes no sense. Map obtained from Wheelock College.
The cultural reason behind an imbalance is completely missed by the study and National Geographic. The cultural explanation came to mind when I read ""The closer the country was to Chernobyl, the stronger the effect [of more boys to girls]," and "[f]or example, more males were born relative to females in neighboring Belarus than in France, hundreds of miles away," in the article. The article tries to blame this on the Chernobyl disaster but the real reason is probably misogyny. The more one leaves Western Europe and goes into Eurasia the more sex selection abortions take place. Daughters are viewed of lesser worth than sons. This is a global trend but is worst in Asia. In the 1980s ultrasound tests became cheap enough for the masses to use them and a rise in abortions against baby girls started. More abortions per capita as well as targeted abortions have damaged Eastern European countries with a lack of baby girls.
|Map of Abortions Worldwide. Note an increase in Eastern Europe compared to Western Europe. Misogyny takes care of the gender imbalance. Map by Wm Robert Johnston.
The study and article seem poorly done. It is more of a hack job by politics-driven scientists than a serious look at why there are more boys than girls being born.


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Lee will average good numbers but it seems like his rebounding numbers aren't as high as people anticipated if he continued to get full minutes. He averaged 10 rebounds a game off the bench one year and since then his rebounding numbers have gone from 8 a year now to 6 a year.
I agree that his numbers are dipping down when he has averaged 29 minutes a game the last two seasons and including this season.
Lee and Nate are the players that teams want.
We should use Lee and Nate to package guys like Curry and Malik in a trade and get maybe another 1st round pick.


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The Bulldogs came out fast and opened up to a 10-0 lead, but the Pirates countered back and tied up the game at 14 all.
Cory Moya hit back to back three pointers and Marcos Cruz converted a steal into a layup to put TR up 28-18 going into the half.
The second half was all Bulldogs as they pressured and swarmed the Pirates, outscoring them 48-6 to finish the game.
Leading scorers were Tanner Johanson with 15 points. James Means and Marcos Cruz both poured in 13 points each.
On Nov. 30, the Bulldogs traveled to Charlotte and edged out the Trojans 74-58 for another win.
Early TR seemed to be in control as they lead 35-24 going into the half, but the Trojans turned it into a shootout as they rallied in the third and closed the deficit to three going into the fourth quarter.
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Verdict is in and the 6th seed means nothing!? You are silly! So answer me this...do we have a better roster than any of the teams ahead of us? Which one of those teams should we be ahead of if only we had a different coach?
It means a lot and is not a moral victory like an all-star birth as you suggest. It factually gives us a playoff birth and a chance at a chip. We were the 8th seed and made the finals so anything is possible. Probable? No, but possible! Further you are ignoring that we have a big gaping 14+ million dollar hole in our roster!
Further, you keep repeating this mantra of the difference between teaching and preaching defense pretending to have some insider information on what goes in practices that we all don't have. Now, you use the Kiyamanesque induction of D'ants inner motives and have concluded that his talk about defense is only for media consumption!
Lets get a bit of prespective thats actually based on fact:
What did JJ have to say?It's worth noting that Jeffries was a bit of an anomaly: the only Knicks starter who was on the court purely for his defense. Coach Mike D'Antoni loved Jeffries' length and his versatility – he could guard all five positions and switch on every pick-and-roll.
Jeffries, in fact, presents a strong counter-argument to those who contend that D'Antoni cares only about offense. Jeffries was easily the Knicks' least skilled offensive player. Yet he started 37 of 52 games this season and was sixth in minutes per game (28.1). He led the Knicks in charges drawn.
[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]"I think that Mike's a realist,'' Jeffries said. "Defending, like anything else in the NBA, is a talent level. And you can't have people that are not great defenders and expect them to be great defenders. Just like you can't have people that aren't great scorers and expect them to be great scorers. He put me out there to be a defender and he puts guys out there to be scorers. He does focus on defense, but if you don't have defensive players, then you're not going to be a great defensive team.''
Check to the mate! He is backing up everything I have always said...it's the roster not the coach that will determine how good a team is on defense. You rather blame a system while ignore the roster that forced us to play small which in turn causes us to be out rebounded and give up more points as a result of the extra possessions.
You keep pretending to read minds and cling to a preformed "verdict" in spite of new information all you want but it does not fool me.
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Yes. You play your players. You need to sacrifice short term sometimes for the long term. MDA likes small teams... it is why he is always going to have an empty ring finger... our team is small b/c of the coach. Our team is a poor defensive team b/c of the coach. He likes offensive players over defensive.... we are in this position b/c of the coach.... not the players.
Dude, you formed this opinion when we were 3-5 on November 12th! It's no wonder you have taken the idiotic stance that the 6th seed means nothing.
I also noticed that you failed to answer my direct questions so let me ask again:
Do we have a better roster than any of the teams ahead of us?
Which one of those teams should we be ahead of if only we had a different coach?
Joe Johnson>Fields
Gallo>Marvin Williams
Amare>Josh Smith
Walker,Williams= Pachuila, Wilkens
How are they a better team again?With a no-nonsense coach we would have about 30wins already.How do you lose to the Cavs,Kings and Clippers? Small Ball is how
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I dare anyone to go back (if you can find it) and look at old JVG post game interviews when he speaks on defense. You can clearly see he is more passionate about it, thus it comes across as genuine. Dantoni seems like he's just mentioning it to satisfy the masses.
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1. Heat
2. Celtics
3. Knicks
4. Bulls
5. Nets
6. Pacers
7. 76ers
8. Cavs(if they get bynum)
1. Thunder
2. Lakers
3. Clippers
4. Spurs
5. Memphis
6. Denver
7. Utah
8. Wolves
Heat Cavs= Heat
Celtics 6ers= celtics
Knicks Pacers= Knicks
Bulls Nets= Toss up. I'll say bulls
Bulls Heat= Heat
Celtics Knicks= Knicks.
Knicks Heat= Heat
Thunder Wolves= Thunder
Lakers Jazz= Lakers
Clippers Denver= Clippers
Spurs Memphis= Memphis
Thunder Memphis= Thunder
Lakers Clippers = Lakers
Thunder Lakers= Lakers
Lakers Heat= Toss up. I'll go heat just because they have more chemistry
Orange and blue, yesterday, today, and tomorrow...
1. Miami
2. Boston
3. Indiana
4. New York
6. Chicago
1. Oklahoma
2.Los Angeles Lakers
3.Los Angeles Clippers
4.San Antonio
5.Memphis Grizzles
Playoff predictions
East First Round
1.Miami v 8. Washington=Miami
2.Celtics v 7. Philadelphia= Celtics
3. Pacers v 6. Bulls= Bulls (rose will be back by then)
4. New york v Brooklyn= New york (would make for epic 7 game series)
Second round
Miami v Bulls= Miami (6 game series)
New York v Celtics= New York (it will go 7 games)
ECF Round
Miami vs New York= Miami To the finals
West Conference first round
1. Oklahoma vs 8. Minnesota/Utah= Oklahoma (first round sweep or 5 games)
2. Lakers vs 7. Dallas= Lakers (6 game series)
3. Clippers vs 6. Denver= Clippers (7 game series)
4. San Antonio vs 5. Memphis= San Antonio (every sleeps on san antonio every year and they get the job done I'm not doubting this team anymore)
Semi finals
Oklahoma vs San Antonio =Oklahoma
Lakers vs Clippers= Clippers (nash and paul cancel each other out. If dwight is apart of this team then lakers over clippers obviously)
Western Conference finals
Oklahoma vs Clippers= Clippers
Oklahoma vs Lakers (with dwight howard)= Lakers
Finals based on dwight decsion
Lakers vs Miami= Lakers (too many weapons with kobe gasol nash and dwight (o My) easy to exploit that Miami has no interior presence or effective point guard)
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poster formally know as JeffVanGundyPLEASE!
There are many reasons to be highly optimistic about this season from a knicks fan perspective. Most pundit's and experts are placing the knicks in the 7-8 top teams in the league (i.e. 3rd seed in the East). That is based off a perception that the Knicks are the same team last year that ended 7th but have added value at the 1 with Felton and the bench is stronger with the additions of Kidd and Camby.
My perception is that this is not just the same team as last year. Look at Melo and Tyson in USA jersey's and tell me that they are not more fit and focused. Melo in particular took a lot of the criticisms of his game to heart. This included his conditioning and his playoff performance. With a focus on being a better athlete and a better crunch time performer we have essentially bettered ourselves at the 3/4 without having to make a move. I fully expect Melo to play at a Lebron/Kobe level next year and it is essential to our team's success.
Our 2nd superstar, STAT had an off year last year after hurting his back and having weight issues he was not looking comfortable out there. However we had no one to run the point and STAT is a finisher, not a play maker. STAT also took the criticism hard. Evidenced in his reply to a fan on twitter. He was emotional and fired up about it. He knows he needs to perform at a higher level and is working his ASS off in the gym and soon with The Dream. Couple this with the fact that Felton is back and STAT had a terrific year with Felt at the point. Both were all-star caliber at that time and STAT was even in MVP discussion. If we see THAT STAT back, we are dominant at the 4/5, especially against teams like the Heat who have size issues. Word is that STAT has been working on his mobility and defense. Should he come in as a better 2 way player then we are looking at one of the most stacked front court combo's since Duncan/Robinson and perhaps ever when you consider the next part of the BIG 3...
Tyson Chandler - DPOY and all around dominant force on the court. He routinely intimidates Dwight "i'm superman" Howard. The guy is pure defensive effort and smarts. He quarterbacks the defensive effort with tenacity and intelligence, getting Melo and STAT to increase their defensive effort just by chirping in their ear and pointing out ways to improve. He protects the rim like it was his wife, never allowing players an easy shot or lay-up. Couple this with the fact that he is playing with the best of the best in the Olympics and I expect that he will improve his offensive game this year to give us a great 2-way Center. No center since Ewing has given us this kind of effort and ability (and that includes Cambyman)
Bringing me to my next point; The additions to our bench: Kidd and Camby. These are two of the most savvy and intense vets out there. They give complete effort and know what it takes to win. In Kidd we have a player who knows how to play with Tyson Chandler and improve his offensive game. Not to mention it's another guy with a ring on the team, that experience in the playoffs is HUGE. Where a guy like Shump might get jitters, Kidd will be a ROCK who can come in at the 1 or 2 and give us solid minutes.
Camby will be able to adequately provide minutes to rest Tyson who took a beating last year. Allowing Tyson/STAT/Melo those minutes to rest is huge as we could not rely on Jorts to do that. Camby will help in the area of rebounding and defense, providing mentor-ship to our Big 3. I am especially excited about the potential of the lineups we will see him included in as he has an adequate offensive game and jump shot to boot. Couple him with Melo at the 4, Novak and JR and Kidd/Felton and you have great floor spacing and deep ball threats at every position, for one example.
The real Wild card here is Felton. The guy is hoping to eb the starting guard for the knicks and he just can't do tha if he doesn't come with the intensity and conditioning that he had the first time around. His speed was one of his assets as a D'antoni PG but putting on weight, even if you lose it, often affects your overall speed. However if Felton comes back focused and determined to "shut everyone's mouths up" and we see a player that at least plays to his 2010-11 potential we have a new "diamond in the rough" that will have us all asking "Lin - who?"
When you look at the competition that is also a great year for the Knicks fan base. Yes, Miami has added in Ray Allen, but ray is not the player he used to be. Add to this that the Heat are coming off a championship and some of that hunger in Lebron may be sated. There are also questions about Bosh's health and ability to continue to play at that level as an undersized big man. Some championship hangover perhaps? It hit Dallas last year in a big way.
Pacers have not improved, the Celtics have gotten worse, The 6ers are worse, the bulls are hurting. No team in the east outside of Miami can compete with us.
In the west with Nash and potentially D12 in LAL colors there is reason to believe that they could dominate like the Lakers did with Shaq and Kobe. However Kobe is not the same player he was, Dwight is not the same player Shaq was and Nash will have a lot on his shoulders. OKC will be hungry but can they keep the team together, can they improve it? I don't see how. The Spurs are good but they need to improve their defense, I don't see that happening unless they make a move for a defensive big man (hard to find). Out side of those teams i'm not worried about them getting to the finals. Clippers are overrated and will have to worry about the health of Griffin's legs. Grizz are only as good as they were last year and extra years and wear and tear on big men like Zach Randolph are showing their signs.
Outside of the Lakers i'm not concerned with the West.
So there ya have it, my reasoning's on why you should be ECSTATIC about this Knicks team.
Oh and as a small P.S. Shumpert should be ready in the new year and will add a dimension of athleticism and defense for us at the 2 spot. He is a top-rated defensive player and has lots of potential on the offensive end. Add him into the mix and we have Depth, Defense, Scoring, Size, Hustle and Heart. All seemingly the right mix for a championship squad.
Agree with most of your points. I would add that this team respects their coach and will play hard for him.
The only thing that bothers me is Stat. He is a big Xfactor. Is he going to be effective alongside Melo and Tyson? We will see, but there are a lot of reasons for optimism.
You seem to have so many funny and insightful things to say, but I have to wonder what motivates this kind of sh i t.
I'm astounded that so many people have Boston as the 2 seed. I see this as their year of declination. They still have the talent to pull off 2nd, but their success is circumstantial.
Knicks will stomp Celtics or Indiana - and meet Heat in East. Conf. Finals.
Melo and Amare will have a blast with new roster. Novak - lights out, finally a real contract, job security and financial stability. Jr will have a blast BOMBiNG on teams and pulling off youtube worthy dunks. Fun all around for entire team.
At the same time, I agree, I'll try to offer more depth to my posts and maybe some more diversity of ideas.
Still, I don't see the Knicks finishing above 6th in the East. We got: Miami, Indiana, Brooklyn, Boston, that's four right there. I don't know D-Rose's injury situation, but even without D-Rose, you got Thibs in Chicago and that's going to be a solid team either way. If you have D-Rose returning at some point during the season, they're easily going to finish ahead of us.
Realistically, best case is a 5 seed, worst case being an 8. I think we're a lock for the playoffs, but I don't think we have a chance at homecourt.
And when you get to the playoffs, I don't trust this guy Woodson at all. His record is pretty bad, and that's not even considering Melo's terrible playoffs history.
Bottom line, I'm not optimistic, and this sentiment is a reflection of the current state of the Knicks; it's not something I'm wishing on them.
Bottom line is you are a knick hater. GTFO of this forum
Knicks, Smelld!cks, Gacers and fishNets is definitely gonna be a race, but certainly not one I'd label the Knicks as underdogs in.
Honesty: the best policy.


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Being 180 Degreeable
To quote a local legend who has as many haters as he does supporters, "sit back, relax and strap it down!" because I'm about to do something I don't ever do. Ever.
That's right, folks. I'm gonna admit to some mistakes.
Three of them. To be exact.
Now since such an occasion is as rare as Amy Winehouse is sober, y'all might wanna bookmark this for future reference (I'm sure my perverse and oft headstrong colleague, Mr. Krause, has already done so). The truth is, in order to be a true progressive — someone who is always striving to be, to do, to get better, at any and everything — one must be able to call out his own mishaps, learn from them, and then grow from them.
After being a slave to nicotine for 12 long years, on December 30, 2009, I had an epiphany (not to mention a scary heart palpitation) which forced me to quit smoking — cold turkey — forever and ever. That 180 degree turnaround inspired me to get healthy, to learn about nutrition, to educate myself on how to feel good.
And it worked. Physically and emotionally, I have never felt better in my life!
One year ago, as we stewed over the 2010 Hall of Fame ballot, I was quite adamant in my belief that Roberto Alomar didn't qualify as a lock for the Hall. My reasoning had nothing to do with the spit-take sitch, and everything to do with my memory of how bad he was in a Mets uniform. Unfair as that assessment is/was, I went back and looked at his numbers and came to the realization that he was one of the best second basemen of all-time.
And after years of being bullied by my rowdy college mates for not seein' what they saw in Natalie Portman as Queen Amidala during those Star Wars prequel disasters, I finally realized what the problem was: my first and lasting impression of sweet Natalie was as a 13 year-old girl engaging in strange and subtle sexual tension with a scruffy lookin' Jean Reno. How could I be turned on by that?!?!
Of course, then there was this… and then, there was THIS.
So yeah, me and my manliness can both attest to a completely deserved and sexified 180 turn around in that regard. Just in time too, now that Natalie is off the market and devoted to makin' babies.
Oh well. There's always Padme's body double!!!
Hate me 'cuz the Constitution still allows it, just don't hate me 'cuz I'm right.
Happy Friday!
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All's forgiven. My wife thinks Alomar is the best too. Amy Winehouse sober? Wow now that would be impossible. Even Keith Richards thinks she has problems.
—Mark Gauthier
Very glad you stopped smoking and are Mr. Healthy now! That's no small feat. Clap clap clap for you.
Jeff, I agree that the Star Wars prequals are an abonanation…and that Natalie looked nice at least in Episode II…but dont' get me started. Darth Vader building C3P0? Boba Fett a clone? The Force is now a STD? Excuse me…I just threw up in my mouth a tad…
Congrats on your personal well being, though. It takes a strong person to do what you've done.
'Minoring In Baseball'
Thanks y'all!


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"I'm just looking forward to going up again and seeing everybody," said Kirby Fukunaga, who lives on Oahu.
It will be the seventh time in 20 months Fukunaka will be heading back to Japan and back to the same areas most devastated by 2012's earthquake and tsunami.
"We packed a couple suitcases with toys for the kids, and lot of snacks from Hawaii, hopefully cheer them up," he said.
Weeks after the tsunami, Ishinomaki, in Japan's Tohoku Region, was unrecognizable.
KITV4 reporter Lara Yamada traveled there and met Kirby and his friends, who were on a personal mission to bring food and help.
Twenty months later, he's still on that mission, one filled with heartbreak, but not a heart broken.
"The debris is still there, piled up on the side of the road. You'll see it. mountains of debris," said Fukunaga. "For now, they're working really hard every day."
Today, there are temporary homes by the thousands.
For each road scraped clean there was a reminder of what happened, including a clock stuck in time.
For each town cleared of debris there was a shell left behind, including a school where 89 children had died.
Yamada caught up with Kirby again in that same trip, but this time in a fishing village called Kobuchihama, where countless oysters, considered some of the best in the world, were destroyed.
Today the oysters live again.
"It's good news. It's good news the oysters are back," said Fukunaga.
The Wakame, or seaweed, with no factories, is hand-picked now by the boat load and by the buckets.
"Some people are taking action, moving on on their own," he said.
In Ishinomaki, an hour from any another store, is a tiny shop named after Kirby's fundraiser "We are One."
That tiny store, thanks to a San Francisco nonprofit, is about to become five times the size.
"A lot of kids saw the wave coming. A lot of kids saw their friends get swept away," said Fukunaga.
It's what he said keeps his mission moving forward so many months later, that, and the people living beyond the nightmare.
"Nobody knows what's going to happen, but the people we met along the way, they're trying to move forward. They're just doing it," he said.


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Battlefield 3 ReviewBy Matt Keil - Posted Oct 27, 2011
Battlefield 3, the first numbered entry in the main Battlefield series since 2005, comes in hot with a brand new campaign, co-op missions and the top-notch multiplayer action fans expect, this time on consoles as well as PC.
The Pros
- Absolutely gorgeous
- Exceptional multiplayer with improved interface
- Deep unlock system that constantly rewards the player
- New co-op mode with good level of challenge
- Some of the best sound design ever
The Cons
- Nonsensical, boring single player campaign
- Campaign does little to teach you the basics for multiplayer
- Can't set up private/bot games
Battlefield 3 Review:
While the offshoot Bad Company series has dabbled in Call of Duty's territory in recent years, Battlefield 3 is clearly Electronic Arts going all in on the military shooter war. Battlefield 3 offers everything a Modern Warfare title offers, from a dramatic single player campaign to a mission-based co-op mode to robust multiplayer with a carrot-on-a-stick unlock system. It stumbles in some places, but EA DICE has offered up a game that has it where it counts, and is potentially the first true competitor to Activision's 800 pound gorilla of a franchise.
Let's start with the stumbling. For the first time in a main Battlefield game, Battlefield 3 includes a full-featured single player campaign, complete with story and cinematic setpiece moments and everything. The trouble is, while the campaign throws as much stuff as it can manage at you, none of it is particularly involving or exciting. The story revolves around a Marine named Blackburn, who is suspected of traitorous conduct and spends the game narrating flashbacks of his actions to two interrogators who are either CIA or Military Police (it's never stated for certain).
The flashbacks are the individual levels you play, and the interrogators doubt every single thing Blackburn claims. It's an odd framing device, in large part because the two guys hound Blackburn with doubts about things that would have been part of military record due to other witnesses being around to corroborate the story at the time. Blackburn is either unaware of this or unwilling to defend himself, and the impression I was left with is that whoever wrote Battlefield 3 is not aware of the level of record keeping that goes on in the U.S. military.
Bland of Brothers
So the campaign doesn't make sense. Big deal, the Modern Warfare campaigns don't make much sense, either, right? But Modern Warfare is big, loud, and crazy like a Michael Bay film. Battlefield 3 is somehow smaller and more folded in, sort of like a TV movie of a Tom Clancy book. Things happen, some of them very cool uses of the Frostbite 2 technology, like collapsing buildings and such, but they never hit the level of spectacle that the Call of Duty games routinely occupy.
Battlefield 3's campaign exists in a strange grey area between a blockbuster action film and a ripped-from-the-headlines documentary, and ends up feeling flat as a result. The Bad Company campaigns suffered from this to a degree, but the likeable characters and snappy dialogue of B-company carried you through. Battlefield 3 has no characters to speak of, although an attempt is made to make your numerous companions stand out at times. Still, when the inevitable casualties began to mount, I felt nothing but confusion as to which mildly sarcastic guy we'd lost.
There might be some redeeming value in the campaign if it helped teach you skills that would be useful in multiplayer, but it doesn't even manage that. You never fly a plane in the solo game, you just ride along as a gunner in an F/A-18 in a level that plays exactly like a lightgun game. It even apes the famous AC-130 stage at one point, but instead of actively firing at your targets you spend much of the time pointing at them so other planes can take them out.
The only time you're given actual control over a vehicle is in the tank sections, like the one shown off at E3 2011. These give some taste of the open nature of the best Battlefield maps, and are the only time the campaign manages to set itself apart from similar titles. Awkwardly timed QTE sequences are peppered throughout, as well, adding some insult to injury. It's pretty to look at, and the sound design is second to none, but it's a shame that the campaign didn't play to the strengths of the franchise, namely the larger spaces and use of vehicles that have always set it apart from everything else on the shelves.
Where it counts
With all that said, any fan of the franchise knows that Battlefield is not about the campaign. The series is all about playing with other people in huge online skirmishes that involve every aspect of warfare imaginable, and Battlefield 3 is no exception. The multiplayer encompasses both the familiar competitive mode and a newly added mission based two-player co-op mode. Co-op is similar to Modern Warfare 2's Spec Ops mode, but instead of numerous bite-sized tasks, Battlefield 3 offers six more involved and complex missions. They're fairly length and highly varied in objectives, and have enough randomization to them that playing more than once isn't a chore. Don't expect them to be pushovers, either, because they do not skimp on the difficulty. Even on normal, you will not simply walk through them. Best of all, weapons unlocked in co-op counts toward your overall multiplayer profile. Given how important unlocks can be in the competitive arena, co-op can be used as a valuable place to XP grind a bit in relative peace.
Competitive multiplayer will be familiar to veterans of the series. Two teams go head-to-head on any of nine new maps. The classic Battlefield game type Conquest returns, in which teams try to control flag points in order to score points and deplete the enemy team's reserves by "bleeding" their ticket count down to zero. The more points you control, the faster the bleed rate. Bad Company's Rush mode has also been transplanted over, which sees the teams battling over pairs of M-COM targets. One team defends them, one team attacks them and tries to plant explosives on the M-COMs. If both are destroyed, the defenders fall back to a new pair until they either run out of fallback positions or they reduce the attackers' reserves down to zero. Other permutations are present, such as Team Deathmatch and squad-based variants of Conquest and Rush, but you'll find that the vast majority of players stick to the main two gametypes.
Finest Hour
Both primary gametypes are great, and at this point DICE has them honed to a fine art when it comes to designing their maps to support both. After many hours of play, I have yet to find any real bottleneck points in any of them, and they all feel nicely distinct from one another. The phenomenal Frostbite 2 tech lets almost any structure be damaged to the point of just leaving a skeleton standing, and there's little more satisfying than blowing the wall out from in front of that sniper who's been harassing your squad for the last few kills.
As always, vehicles of every kind litter the maps (with the exception of Operation Metro), from Jeeps to Infantry Fighting Vehicles to jet fighters. Most of them are easy to use, but Battlefield 3 continues the tradition of making the aerial vehicles extremely difficult to master. The jet fighters and helicopters take a high level of skill to fly effectively, and it would have been nice to have a way to practice with them. Inexplicably, the campaign lacks any piloting opportunities and there's no way to create a solo game to tool around in, so you're stuck trying to learn the ropes while under live fire.
If you're just after the multiplayer, Battlefield 3 is a no-brainer. It has a scope and variety that simply doesn't exist in any other multiplayer shooter. It can be tough to start out, and you'll rage as you're blindsided by players who know the map better than you and picked off by snipers in hiding places you didn't even realize were there, but you'll keep playing that "one more game" thanks to the sheer amount of things to do and the endless things to unlock for your soldier. The campaign is an all-around disappointment, but nobody in their right mind should let that stop them from picking up DICE's finest multiplayer offering yet.


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Brendan DeMelle | June 8, 2011
By Brendan DeMelle • Wednesday, June 8, 2011 - 16:04
Check out this excellent video version of Bill McKibben's recent Washington Post op-ed "A link between climate change and Joplin Tornadoes? Never!"
Narrated and illustrated by Stephen Thomson of Plonomedia.com, the video is a great visual representation of McKibben's widely-circulated op-ed.
Watch here, and share this widely:
Dan J replied on Permalink
Don't forget the massive drought in China.
Jason replied on Permalink
Good video, although for any
Good video, although for any real skeptic (not talking about deniers here), this would not be compelling at all, and its important not to give deniers the idea that we consider this to be good evidence for climate change. That is, unless there were actual data available on the number and severity of weather events over say the last 100 years. Anybody know if any organization has attempted to compile this data?
NicholasV replied on Permalink
Bill McKibben has no understanding of meterology or climatology
There is nothing "excellent" about Bill McKibben's op-ed. It is utter twaddle.
McKibben evidently has absolutely no understanding of climatology or meteorology, if he did he would realise that it was very difficult, if not impossible to attribute any individual weather event, severe or otherwise to global warming (I nearly wrote climate change - but climate is the result of weather, not the cause of it. Climate change does not cause changing weather, long term changes to the weather cause the climate to change).
To draw the conclusion that global warming is changing weather patterns around the world and so increasing (or decreasing) the likelihood of different weather types, severe or otherwise, effecting a region, you need to demonstrate that the frequency of occurence of a weather type of specified severity has changed. You also need to demonstrate a plausible physical cause for this change that can be demonstrated to be an effect of global warming on weather patterns.
This kind of statistical analysis has been done for some weather types (droughts, rainfall, hurricanes etc) for some regions of the globe and there is indeed some evidence that the frequency of occurrence of severe droughts, category X hurricanes, high rainfall events, is changing. But there is probably not enough evidence to draw confident conlcusions in most cases, so far. However, to draw knee-jerk conclusions as McKibben has done is junk science.
Lets consider the recent major outbreaks of tornadic storms over the Midwest and southern USA. Tornadoes occur there each year, some years there is more than others and which parts of this region most experiences them and when, changes too. This annual variation reflects temporal and geographic differences in the magnitudes of the thermo-dynamic and kinematic ingredients necessary to produce tornadic storms (supercells). There is as yet no strong evidence that global warming has resulted in long term persistent changes to weather patterns and thus the spatial-temporal variation in the magnitudes of the ingredients, although there are good reasons to think that continued global warming might do this and so change the tornado and convective storm climatology of the USA. However, the meteorology of tornado formation is complex. Tornadic storms can form under a wide range of environmental conditions and thus different absolute and relative values of the different requisite ingredients. This in itself, suggests global warming will not greatly effect tornado climatology to the degree that regions of the US that experience tornadoes frequently each year, will become tornado free. The exception to this is deep-layer and boundary layer windshear. High windshear through the troposphere and within the boundary layer (~lowest 2Km) is an essential ingredient for tornadic storm formation, providing other ingredients are present. If global warming changes the seasonal climatology of the strongest winds through the troposphere over the USA, then changes in tornado climatology there are likely. Numerical climate models suggest this may indeed occur in a future warmer world.
Albatross replied on Permalink
Nicholas, You seem to
You seem to contradict yourself. You say McKibben's piece is 'utter twaddle', but then go on to say that there is scientific evidence that extreme weather events (you did not mention heat waves) are on the increase around the globe. You did not mention that the increase in these phenomena is actually quite well documented in the scientific literature, and that there is also compelling evidence that they may be in part being exasperated by the warming and attendant increase in moisture in the atmosphere. Insurance data corroborate that– why would weather-related natural disasters be increasing so much more rapidly than other natural disasters…? So there is evidence claim that extreme weather events are on the increase, well most of them.
As for the tornadoes, there I do agree with you, at least in part. Had I been consulted on that I would have urged them to not refer to tornadoes, but rather to severe thunderstorms.
Yes, vertical wind shear, especially low-level wind shear is a necessary ingredient for supercells which may or may not spawn tornadoes. Now while model projections suggest that vertical wind shear in the mid-latitudes will decrease as the planet continues to warm, those same model projections show an increase in low-level moisture and a concomitant increase in convective available energy (CAPE). Several recent studies point out that the reduction in wind shear will be offset by the increase in CAPE, leading to an increase in severe storms (see below). This is from a post I made recently at SkepticalScience:
"In recent years a few papers have been published on how severe storm environments might change as the USA warms and as low-level moisture increases. Note that they do not speak to trends in tornado occurrence per se, and keep in mind that only a small percentage of supercells actually produce tornadoes, but a consistent pattern of increasing severe storm potential is evident.
Van Klooster and Roebber (2009, J. Climate):
"In this work, the authors present a "perfect prog" approach to estimating the potential for surface-based convective initiation and severity based upon the large-scale variables well resolved by climate model simulations. This approach allows for the development of a stable estimation scheme that can be applied to any climate model simulation, presently and into the future. The scheme is applied for the contiguous United States using the output from the Parallel Climate Model, with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change third assessment A2 (business as usual) as input. For this run, relative to interannual variability, the potential frequency of deep moist convection does not change, but the potential for severe convection is found to increase east of the Rocky Mountains and most notably in the "tornado alley" region of the U.S. Midwest. This increase in severe potential is mostly tied to increases in thermodynamic instability as a result of ongoing warm season surface warming and moistening."
Trapp et al. (2009, GRL)
"Our study shows that the frequency of severe thunderstorm forcing increases in time in response to the A1B scenario of GHG emissions. This is also true for severe-thunderstorm forcing that is constrained by the occurrence of convective precipitation. The rate of increase varies with geographical region and inherently depends on (i) low-level water vapor availability and transport, and (ii) the frequency of midlatitude synoptic-scale cyclones during the warm season. The current report provides further evidence of the effect of anthropogenic GHG emissions on long-term trends in thunderstorm forcing [Trapp et al., 2007a; Del Genio et al., 2007]."
Trapp et al. (2007, PNAS)
"We use global climate models and a high-resolution regional climate model to examine the larger-scale (or "environmental") meteorological conditions that foster severe thunderstorm formation. Across this model suite, we find a net increase during the late 21st century in the number of days in which these severe thunderstorm environmental conditions (NDSEV) occur. Attributed primarily to increases in atmospheric water vapor within the planetary boundary layer, the largest increases in NDSEV are shown during the summer season, in proximity to the Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic coastal regions."
Del Genio et al. (2007, GRL)
"For the western United States, drying in the warmer climate reduces the frequency of lightning-producing storms that initiate forest fires, but the strongest storms occur 26% more often. For the central-eastern United States, stronger updrafts combined with weaker wind shear suggest little change in severe storm occurrence with warming, but the most severe storms occur more often.""
Remember too that storms can still ingest sufficient low-level vorticity (in the presence of sufficient CAPE and bulk shear) to form mesocyclones if they interact with mesoscale boundaries (such as outflow boundaries, drylines) and those are almost all present.
What will be interesting to see is what happens with the great plains low-level jet. It is a major reason for the extremely strong low-level wind shear that is oftentimes present over tornado alley, and its strength is, IIRC, not necessarily related to meridional temperature gradient but is classified as a barrier-type jet.
NicholasV replied on Permalink
Harold is that
Harold is that you?
"Insurance data corroborate that– why would weather-related natural disasters be increasing so much more rapidly than other natural disasters…?"
You say weather related disasters incidents are on the increase globally. This is moot. Are they? or is it that there better communication and more observations being made, greater awareness and records kept? I would not advise use of insurance claims as a measure of the increase in severe or extreme weather events. There are too many other factors influencing these for them to be a very reliable proxy. Such factors include, population growth, increase in numbers insured especially in the developing world, locally and globally to name but two.
Re Heat waves. I did not mention these, but did refer to weather types generally. But i agree. There was a recent study that suggested there is some extreme summer heatwaves in Europe are now becoming more frequent.
The point of my message was not to dispute that extreme weather events or severe weather is on the increase or that weather patterns are changing as a result of global warming. I expect they are. It would be surprising if they were not. But just because there has been a lot of weather related disasters recently does not mean there is a clear trend, or indeed the weather disaster rate is unusual. However, i also pointed out and i think this is important, some types of extreme weather event may become less frequent than now in a warmer world. The is a quid pro quo in this respect.
My point was that for McKibben to make the very easy and simplistic claim that these are the result of global warming (or climate change [sic]) is flawed science and statistical illiteracy. This is because you cannot make such claims about individual weather events or indeed temporal clusters of weather events (look up Poisson clustering) as this year (apparently). Extreme weather events by definition are infrequent, but they do happen and would still happen infrequently without global warming occuring. To make such claims requires careful statistical comparative analysis of weather records for at least two equally long periods in the recent and more distant past. At the moment although I agree there is some statistical evidence that some regions are experiencing a greater frequency of extreme weather events and/or more severe weather events, and perhaps of greater severity more frequently, the increases being seen are subtle and not so far greatly different from the historical climatological ranges of severities and frequencies of occurence.
To give you an example why one has to be careful about Poisson clustering, there has been an abnormal number of magnitude 8 or 9 earthquakes in recent years. Is this indicative of a change in plate motion patterns and rates? Should we be concerned. Or is it simply the random statistical outcome of a set of causally unrelated events, i.e., a Poisson cluster.
BTW the term "severe thunderstorm" is not a good one to use. Thunderstorms that produce severe weather are identical in structure and physics to thunderstorms that produce weather that does not exceed the formal severe weather definitions. They are just bigger, more vigorous and energetic, to put it simply. There is no such thing as a severe thunderstorm. There are only convective storms, some of which produce weather types that are more severe than the weather types produced by others. If the storm does not produce severe weather it is not a severe storm and storms are not distinguishable.
Albatross replied on Permalink
Nicholas, No, but I do know
No, but I do know Harold. But flattery won't get you everywhere…
I am busy right now, but re insurance claims…think about it, why would people be disproportionately affected by extreme weather events than other natural disasters? Populations are also rapidly increasing the vicinity of tectonic plates and volcanoes…and those factors you suggested as possible explanations apply to other natural disasters as well, why the discrepancy? Later you say "there has been an abnormal number of magnitude 8 or 9 earthquakes in recent years", indeed, and yet weather-related costs are still outpacing other natural disasters. Not surprisingly Munich Re would disagree with you.
"However, i also pointed out and i think this is important, some types of extreme weather event may become less frequent than now in a warmer world. The is a quid pro quo in this respect."
An unsubstantiated and highly confident claim (you say "this is"), and I beg to differ regarding quid pro quo– some numbers and peer-reviewed citations please. And Munich Re and other re-insurers would not be so concerned if that were the case.
"There is no such thing as a severe thunderstorm."
Now that gave me a laugh. A supercell is very different to an airmass thunderstorm in terms of its structure (not to mention the environment in which it develops is very different)– it has a rotating updraft, amongst other things. Even severe storms without rotation often have WERs or BWERs, not so in an airmass thunderstorm. I'd love to be at the table when you try and convince Harold and Chuck and others in the know that "Thunderstorms that produce severe weather are identical in structure and physics to thunderstorms that produce weather". Finally, one doesn't necessarily need to rely on surface reports to warn a storm– NWS uses radar derived parameters all the time to warn severe storms.
Let us cut to the chase– do you agree that we need to dramatically reduce our GHG emissions?
Munich Re keeps track of
Munich Re keeps track of disasters:
http://www.munichre.com/en/reinsurance/business/non-life/georisks/natcatservice/annual_statistics.aspx http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/business/news/article_1637985.php/Disasters-cost-insurer-Munich-Re-almost-a-billion-euros


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For Immediate Release
October 17, 2011
Illinois State Board of Education begins budget development for FY 2013
SPRINGFIELD – The Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE) is launching a series of public budget hearings as it prepares its Fiscal Year 2013 education budget recommendation for the Governor and General Assembly. The series will begin with a 4 p.m. hearing Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2011 on the fourth floor Board Room at the Illinois State Board of Education offices in Springfield and continues with four more public forums in the coming weeks across the state.
"Public feedback in the budget making process is extremely critical in these tough economic times because it provides insight into local priorities and puts a face to the more than two million students served through state funds in Illinois public schools" said Finance and Audit Committee Chairman James Baumann. "We know that local school districts have already made difficult decisions in the past couple years as they address declining state and local revenue as well as an unknown future. We will continue to advocate for increased education funding and welcome citizen input at these hearings as we draft a comprehensive education budget recommendation."
Local funds, specifically tax revenue, account for about 55 percent of all school funding in Illinois while state funds account for 30 percent and federal funds fill in the remainder at about 15 percent. The ISBE has consistently advocated for increased state funding in recent years but has seen an overall decline of $650 million from Fiscal Year 2009 to the current year, Fiscal Year 2012, through the state budget making process.
As part of the budget process, Governor Pat Quinn appointed a new Education Funding Advisory Board (EFAB) in 2009. After more than a year of meetings and analysis, that board recommended a $4 billion increase to education, which would provide an $8,360 per-pupil Foundation Level versus the current $6,119 per-pupil Foundation Level. The EFAB recommendation includes an increase in the per pupil amount of the Supplemental General State Aid Poverty Grant to better help students from low-income families.
Those who are unable to attend one of the five public hearings are encouraged to email any guidance or feedback to ISBE at: email@example.com. The ISBE's Finance and Audit Committee's public budget hearings for Fiscal Year 2013 will be conducted at the follow dates and locations:
- Wednesday, October 19 — 4 p.m. to 6p.m. — Springfield — ISBE Office, 4th floor Board Room, 100 N. First Street, Springfield
- Monday, October 24 — 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. — Edwardsville — Jon Davis Wrestling Center, 6168 Center Grove Road, Edwardsville (Across the street from the high school)
- Thursday, October 27 — 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. — Champaign — Ford Counties Regional Office of Education, Robeson Pavilion Room A & B, Champaign Public Library, 200 W. Green St., Champaign
- Tuesday, November 1 — 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. — Wheeling — Wheeling School District 21, Administration Office, 999 W. Dundee Road, Wheeling
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Sirotkin assumes Senate seat of late wife, Sally FoxBy Neal P. Goswami
VERMONT PRESS BUREAU | February 12,2014MONTPELIER Michael Sirotkin was sworn in Tuesday morning as the newest member of the Vermont Senate, claiming the seat held by his late wife, Sen. Sally Fox.
Sirotkin, a former lobbyist with Sirotkin & Necrason, spent the past few weeks divesting his interest in his former firm after being appointed by Gov. Peter Shumlin. Senate President Pro Tem John Campbell administered the oath of office inside the Senate chamber.
Fox, 62, a Democrat from South Burlington, was in her second term in the Senate when she died Jan. 10 after a battle with lung cancer. She was serving on the Senate Health and Welfare and Appropriations committees at the time of her death. Fox previously served 14 years in the House.
There is no seat in this chamber or in this state that I would rather sit in than the seat of my lovely and beautiful wife, Sally, Sirotkin said in his first remarks as a senator.
Several candidates had stepped forward and announced their interest in being appointed to Foxs seat. Most backed out, however, when Sirotkin made it known he would seek the seat to honor his late wifes wishes that he fulfill her term.
Sirotkin will serve out the current term through the end of the year and will need to win election in November if he wishes to continue holding one of the six Chittenden County Senate seats.
Sirotkin thanked his colleagues and the Senate staff for the very warm and supportive welcome Ive gotten since my appointment was announced two weeks ago.
He also noted the support extended to him since Foxs death.
I want to thank the people in this chamber for all the love and support extended to Sally over the last month. I want you all to know its made a difference to me and my family, he said.
Sirotkin cast his first vote just minutes later when the Senate passed a bill allowing bars and restaurants to serve beer tasting flights.
The appointment led to changes in committee assignments that were announced Tuesday. Sirotkin was assigned to the Agriculture and Institutions committees.
Meanwhile, Sen. Ann Cummings, a Democrat from Washington County, moved to Appropriations from Institutions and to Health and Welfare from Economic Development. Addison County Democratic Sen. Chris Bray was moved from Agriculture to Economic Development. Sen. John Rodgers, a Democrat from Orleans County, was appointed vice chairman of Institutions, and Chittenden County Sen. Ginny Lyons was made vice chairwoman of Health and Welfare.
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Luke Bryan - Lyrics? On Your Hand? BAD!
The country singer admitted to checking the lyrics, but also checking his watch during his performance on Tuesday night.(CBS/AP) Luke Bryan says he is sorry for consulting the lyrics to the national anthem written on his hand during his performance at the MLB All-Star game.
"I had a few keys (sic) words written down to insure myself that I wouldn't mess up.. I just wanted to do my best. I promise it was from the heart," the singer wrote on Twitter.
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"I had a few keys (sic) words written down to insure myself that I wouldn't mess up.. I just wanted to do my best. I promise it was from the heart," the singer wrote on Twitter.
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Roseanne Barr -- Just Plain UGLY
On July 25, 1990, Barr performed "The Star-Spangled Banner" before a baseball game between the San Diego Padres and Cincinnati Reds. What will go down in history as probably the worst rendition ever, Barr offended many including President George H.W. Bush, who called her rendition "disgraceful." (Photo: AP) Click Here for Video
Anita Baker -- Really Bad
Baker butchered most of the Star Spangled banner before Game 4 of the NBA basketball finals between the Boston Celtics and the Los Angeles Lakers on Thursday, June 10, 2010, in Boston. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer) Click Here for Video
Hillary Clinton-Unintentionally Bad
At a campaign stop in 2008, the Secretary Of State wasn't aware her microphone was hot. Well, we all herard why mics should stay off! (Photo:YouTube) Click Here for Video
Hockey Girl--Bad and Sad
In 2006, this young singer forgot the words to the National Anthem twice, and when she returned to try again, she slipped and fell on the ice. (Photo: YouTube) Click Here for Video
Kat DeLuna-Bad
At a September 2008 Dallas Cowboys-Philadelphia Eagles game, Kat DeLuna gave an overwrought, pitchy rendition of the anthem that got the pop star booed by the whole stadium. (Getty Images/Scott Boehm) Click Here for Video
Michael Bolton – Bad
Before the the 2003 ALCS at Fenway Park, Bolton forgot the words, paused and looked at his hand "cheat sheet." Ouch. (Getty Images Sport/Ezra Shaw) Click Here for Video
Carl Lewis - Really Bad
The Olympic runner should stick to running. His 1993 National Anthem performance won him boos, not medals. (Photo: YouTube) Click Here for Video
Christina Aguilera—Bad
The Grammy winner's version was more like the Star Mangled Banner since she forgot some of the words during her performance at Super Bowl XLV (Getty Images/TIMOTHY A. CLARY AFP) Click Here for Video
Whitney Houston – Amazing
Houston gave us goose bumps when she nailed her rendition of the National Anthem before Super Bowl XXV in 1991. (Getty Images Sport/George Rose) Click Here for Video
Beyonce -- Really Good
Beyonce gave an amazing performance when she sang the National Anthem before Super Bowl XXXVIII in 2004. (Getty Images Sport/Frank Micelotta) Click Here for Video
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The University of Notre Dame Australia
A university as unique as you. Notre Dame.
The University of Notre Dame Australia (est. 1989) is a unique national Catholic university with more than 11,000 students across its campuses in Fremantle and Broome, Western Australia, and Sydney in New South Wales.
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The Law and Behavioural Science double degree is designed for those who wish to supplement their training in law with a thorough understanding of human behaviour.
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Notre Dame provides an excellent standard of pastoral care for students and training for the professions, and is one of the highest rated universities in the country , with one of the highest graduate employment rates (82per cent).
Notre Dame is a university that is 'in the world and for the world', with students playing an active role in the local, national and international community.
At Notre Dame, students receive an excellent education for their future professions grounded in high levels of on-the-job and practical experience.
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Notre Dame's professional courses in the areas of accounting, education, human resource management, law, management, medicine, nursing and midwifery, and physiotherapy all meet accreditation requirements of the relevant state, national and/or professional bodies.
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Units in philosophy, theology and ethics are part of all undergraduate degrees at Notre Dame. The aim of the Core Curriculum is to develop in all students the capacity for critical reflection and reasoned argument. The units bring students of all backgrounds together to ask: how does developing our grasp of knowledge and truth change us, our workplaces, our families and our choices?
Notre Dame's foundation campus is located in the historic West End of the port city of Fremantle, roughly 18 kilometres from the Perth CBD. It operates in beautifully restored buildings, which have produced a university of great character. The university campus is within walking distance of the famous Fremantle Cappuccino Strip, the Fremantle Markets, Bathers Beach, the Esplanade and public transport. The Institute for Health Research is based on the Fremantle campus.
The Broome campus, established in 1994, provides a unique learning environment for students in WA's iconic Kimberley region. The campus' mission is to be an effective force for reconciliation among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and non-Indigenous Australians. As a Registered Training Organisation, the Broome campus offers a number of VET courses in education, health and community services, and nursing. It is also the home of the Nulungu Research Institute .
Notre Dame's Sydney campus, established in 2006, is comprised of two sites — Broadway and Darlinghurst — both located in the vibrant social hub of the harbour city. Broadway is at the heart of Sydney's university precinct, only a short walk from Central Station and not far from Darling Harbour, the Chinese Gardens and King Street Wharf. Situated to the east of the CBD, the Darlinghurst site is located close to Kings Cross Station, the Art Gallery of NSW and the Sydney Botanical Gardens. The Institute for Ethics and Society is based on the Sydney campus.
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Notre Dame offers both full-fee places and Commonwealth Supported Places (CSPs). CSP students are expected to be granted to most commencing students enrolling in biomedical science, education, health and physical education, medicine, nursing and physiotherapy courses. Domestic students may be able to defer their tuition fees through the federal government's HECS-HELP and FEE-HELP loan schemes.
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Justine Ralph
'My aspiration is to do some kind of good in the world. I want to fight for the vulnerable when they aren't able to fight for themselves and to make a difference,' says aspiring international human rights and refugee lawyer, Justine Ralph.
Justine is currently studying a Bachelor of Laws / Bachelor of Arts, majoring in Social Justice, at The University of Notre Dame Australia's Fremantle Campus.
Since being part of the Notre Dame community, Justine has been tireless in her outreach endeavours and pursuit of social justice in local and international communities. In 2013, she was part of the university delegation to World Youth Day where she completed mission work in Peru and Brazil.
Justine has also worked with staff on the Fremantle Campus to find a placement for the unit 'Social Justice, Service-learning and Community Engagement', where she currently teaches English to refugee students.
'Notre Dame has developed the way I think about the world. If you really take what you learn on, you can genuinely become a better version of yourself.'


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Marlan J. Gary has a business to run, and his business is death.
But that doesn't mean he's any less sad and frustrated when the family of a young person killed by violence or drunken driving or drugs comes into his office seeking his services.
So when Gary, who owns a funeral home at 2500 Cleveland Ave. in North Linden, was contemplating a new message for the billboard he rents at Leonard and Woodland avenues, he turned to an advertisement in the form of an admonishment.
"Put down the guns, stop doing drugs & don't drink & drive," it reads. "We don't want your business that bad!"
Gary said the message, which also includes his contact information and price point, "just came to me."
"It's always sad when we get those types of families that come through that have experienced a loss … but especially if it's something that could have been prevented," he said.
His funeral home markets toward a lower- and middle-income market, he said, and has served several families who have lost someone to violence or other non-natural causes.
"Whether it's drinking and driving, drugs, homicide — if we can keep just one person from doing one of those things, then I think we've done our job and it's money well-spent," he said.
Carol Williams, executive director of the National Funeral Directors and Morticians Association, said the message is in line with the anti-violence stance her Georgia-based organization takes. Since January, it has held several rallies in Chicago and Louisiana focusing on the issue.
"We're tired of burying our children," she said. "A lot of people think it's all about the money. But, no, we don't want to get phone calls that one of our children is gone."
Advertising such as Gary's develops good will, said Doug McIntyre, CEO of Cult Marketing in Columbus.
"The overarching motivation is to create awareness and some kind of positive emotional connection with the target audience," he said. "It will create good will and appear, from a funeral-home perspective, as someone who is caring, nurturing and sensitive."
Lots of companies do the same thing — from Nationwide Insurance putting its money and name on Nationwide Children's Hospital to others touting environmental practices, he said.
"They're taking a PSA-type approach to their marketing and, yes, it is going to get awareness and people talking," said Scott Mylin, an executive creative director at SBC Advertising.
"I wish more clients had giant guts like that."
In the week since the billboard went up, Gary said he's heard only positive things. He has advertised on the billboard for about four years, and said he often changes the message to celebrate Christmas or Black History Month.
"It lets people know that we exist and that we have an affordable price," he said. "But more important, it lets people know we care more about them than just getting their business.
"We care about their well-being and families' well-being. We want you to live a long time."


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by Anton Shilov
Microsoft Corp. has issued a statement that retracts a promise made by the company's own chief executive officer to release the next-generation Windows 8 operating system (OS) in 2012. Apparently, officially, the company still has not scheduled the launch of the new OS and thus does not want to make any promises.
"It appears there was a misstatement. We are eagerly awaiting the next-generation of Windows 7 hardware that will be available in the coming fiscal year. To date, we have yet to formally announce any timing or naming for the next version of Windows," a statement by Microsoft reads.
On Monday, Steve Ballmer, chief executive officer of Microsoft Corp. said that the company's next-generation Windows operating system would be released in 2012, which is ahead of publicly known schedule, which is officially kept confidential.
"We are obviously hard at work on the next version of Windows. [...] Yet, as we look forward to the next generation of Windows systems, which will come out next year, there is a whole lot more coming. As we progress through the year, you ought to expect to hear a lot about Windows 8. Windows 8 slates, tablets, PCs, a variety of different form factors,: said Steve Ballmer, chief executive officer of Microsoft, during his keynote at Microsoft Developer Forum in Tokyo, Japan.
Unofficial sources have implied different launch timeframes for Windows 8 over the recent quarters. Some believed that the next OS is due in 2011, other think that the successor for the Windows 7 is scheduled to arrive in 2012 and there also those, who claim that Windows 8 is set to land in 2013.


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Interleague: Dodgers at Anaheim
My beloved Dodgers are at Angel Stadium or like I like to call it the "Rat House" you see, Angel Stadium had a problem with rat infestation. I know a guy that works for the pest control company that helped them clean the place. He told me Friday that he stocked the place so that I would go to the stadium. He was joking but I told him no thank you very much, I'll watch the games on TV.
For the first game, Billz could not hold on to the lead so we lost 5-4
Weaver vs Weaver
The Weaver brothers who are local boys match up tonight! Imagine the parents! Who are they rooting for? I imagine they want a tie and leave it to the bullpen. Good luck Jeff Weaver! Make us proud that you are wearing the BLUE!
Here are some pictures I took of Dodger fans at Dodger Stadium during the last Dodger Angel series:
Let's Go Dodgers! I LOVE LA!
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Maybe the brother can settle this game in the parking lot before they even hit the mound. lol
This should be a great match up for both teams. Both Jeff and Jered are going in different directions in their careers and I think this is the first time he has gone up against his brother.
I know they were team mates at one time with the Halos, but Jeff did not make the cut and was given his walking papers.
Wow, that means we could have a brother-against-brother grudge match with the loser leaving town.
Sorry not WWE material, but it should be a great game to watch.
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Congrats to Jeff and the Dodgers for winning tonight. Great match-up of brothers. And you're right: the parents must have been on the edge of their seats!
Hey Colia! When I saw the guy with the t-shirt I asked if I could take a pic. Wish I had that t-shirt.
They actually interviewed both of them together and they seemed like they were having fun and looking forward to pitching against each other but the interview at the end, Jeff said he was glad it was over. I am glad my Weaver ended up with the W!
Jane! Yes, that was a great matchup that I was so looking forward to watching. They showed the parents and they kept rooting for both. I love how they had two jerseys on. It looked like half a jersey from each team.
I can only imagine how the Weaver parents must have felt! Great game!
Yes, that was a great game! Now to the rubber game! Go Dodgers! I see your team won the first two against the Braves
The freeway series was wonderful. I am soooo glad Russell finally got his homerun. Love the picture of the True Angles in L.A. I watched last nights game from home and of course they kept showing Kobe Bryant's face on tv….specially when our Kersh did that amazing play. GOOOOO DODGERS…AND SEE YA SATURDAY!
That was wonderufl seeing Russ get his first HR! Love how the boys gave him the silent treament for just a minute. It was such an enjoyable series! Can't wait till Saturday! Is going to be fun, fun fun!


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Colorado's Front Range skiers, like two-plankers anywhere, are tribal. There are the Colorado Springsians who call Monarch home. The Boulderites who spend entire winters at diminutive Eldora simply to avoid driving I-70. The bump sluts of Mary Jane. And the Vail and Summit county pragmatists who brave traffic weekend after weekend simply because they bought Epic passes early and want to push their per-run cost into sub-ten-cent territory. If you're one of them—or even if you're passing through Denver from out of state—you should know that another truly sublime ski experience exists just 45 minutes from that city's downtown. Just off I-70 at the base of Berthoud Pass, there's a catskiing operation called Powder Addiction. PA's savvy guides—like Eric Tolland, pictured above—led by snow-safety maven and catskiing-ops veteran Jamie Wolter know exactly how to read wind and weather to find you soft, safe slopes. And if you're already in the big city, you won't have to drive five hours to get to them.
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