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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (March 18, 2010) – Several European leagues are starting to wind down their regular seasons and many present and former members of the U.S. Men's National Volleyball Team will be participating in league playoffs.
With one week left in the regular season, Fenerbahce, the Turkish League team of Gabe Gardner (San Clemente, Calif.), has won the regular season title by sweeping Ziraat Bankasi, 25-15, 25-23, 25-19 on March 14.
Gardner scored 10 points for Fenerbahce on seven kills, two blocks and one ace.
Fenerbahce will play either Maliye or SGK in the first round of the playoffs.
Istanbul Buyuksehir Belediye (IBB), the Turkish league team of Ryan Millar (Palmdale, Calif.) and Scott Touzinsky (St. Louis, Mo.), was swept by SGK, 20-25, 17-25, 25-27 on March 14. Touzinsky led IBB with 11 points on 11 kills. Millar, who started the first two sets, scored three points on one kill, one block and one ace.
IBB will face either SGK or Maliye in the first round of the playoffs.
Halkbank, the Turkish team of Evan Patak (Pleasanton, Calif.), defeated Galatasaray, 3-1 (20-25, 25-18, 25-22, 25-22) on March 14. Patak substituted in the match but did not score.
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The following athletes are training at the USA National Team Center at the American Sports Centers in Anaheim, Calif.:
Rich Camerlengo (Hope International)
Jonathan Charette (Opp, Fullerton, Calif., BYU)
Tyler Hildebrand (S, Mesa, Ariz., Long Beach State)
Tom Hoff (MB, Park Ridge, Ill., Long Beach State)
Jayson Jablonsky (OH, Yorba Linda, Calif., UC Irvine)
Cody Loe (MB, Chatsworth, Calif., Cal State Northridge)
John Parfitt (OH, Anaheim Hills, Calif., Pepperdine)
Mark Ribeiro (OH, New York, N.Y., Springfield College)
Jacob Schkud (OH, Santa Monica, Calif., Hawaii)
Joshua Stanhiser (MB, Loma Linda, Calif., Hawaii)
Dustin Watten (L, Long Beach, Calif., Long Beach State)
Matt Werle (S, Meadville, Pa., Juniata College)
Matt McKinney (Santa Ynez, Calif.) was briefly in Anaheim, but has now joined Quasar Massa Versilia in Italy's Serie A2 League.
World Championship Tickets Now on Sale
Tickets for the FIVB 2010 Men's World Championship went on sale on March 16 beginning the countdown to the competition, which runs Sept. 24-Oct. 10 in Italy.
Matches are set to be played across the country, with stages taking place in Milan, Verona, Modena, Reggio Calabria, Torino, Trieste, Florence and Ancona. The winners will be crowned in Rome on the final day of the tournament.
Tickets are priced between 10 and 50 euros depending on the stage and more information can be found at www.volley2010.com or by e-mailing firstname.lastname@example.com.
Brazil will be hoping to make it a hat trick of titles in this year's competition after winning both the Argentina 2002 and Japan 2006 tournaments.
Ball's E-Book Now Available
Lloy Ball's biography, The Biggest Mistake I Never Made, is now available for download.
The book details the life and career of Ball, a four-time Olympian, including his experience in Beijing when the U.S. Men won the gold medal at the Olympic Games.
The E-book costs $9.95. For more information, click here.
The NET Live
The NET Live is an Internet radio show hosted by former U.S. Men's Team player and two-time Olympian Kevin Barnett along with current team member, two-time Olympian and 2008 gold medalist Reid Priddy.
The show is usually broadcast at 10 a.m. PT on Mondays and features interviews with a variety of volleyball personalities along with banter by the two hosts and sidekick/engineer Dan "Kinda Good" Madden.
Click here to listen to the show.
You can also download the podcast from iTunes by clicking here.
With one match left to go in the regular season, Zenit Kazan, featuring Lloy Ball (Fort Wayne, Ind.) and Clay Stanley (Honolulu, Hawaii), looks to have the Russian Super League title well in hand after winning its last two matches.
On March 13, Kazan defeated Tyumen Tyumen, 3-1 (25-17, 25-16, 23-25, 25-23). Ball started all four sets at setter and scored seven points on one kill, four blocks and two aces. Stanley played only as a substitute and did not score.
On March 17, Kazan beat Iskra Odintsovo, 3-1 (25-17, 25-19, 22-25, 25-16). Stanley started all four sets and scored13 points on 10 kills, two blocks and one ace. Ball started all four sets and scored six points on four kill and two blocks.
Lokomotiv Novosibirsk, the Russian team of David Lee (Alpine, Calif.) and Reid Priddy (Richmond, Va.), is in third place in the league after going 1-1 in its last two matches.
On March 13, Novosibirsk swept Dynamo Yantar, 25-20, 25-14, 25-20. Priddy led Novosibirsk with 15 points on 11 kills, two blocks and two aces. Lee added 12 points on seven kills, three blocks and two aces.
To view photos from the match, click here.
On March 17, Novosibirsk fell to Dynamo Moscow, 2-3 (20-25, 22-25, 25-20, 25-15, 10-15). Priddy scored 14 points on 10 kills, three blocks and one ace. Lee added eight points on six kills and two aces.
Finally, Fakel Novy Urengoi, the Russian team of Kevin Hansen (Newport Beach, Calif.) and Sean Rooney (Wheaton, Ill.) sits in fourth place after losing its last two matches.
On March 13, Fakel was swept by Ural Ufa, 22-25, 18-25, 19-25. Rooney led Fakel with 12 points on nine kills and three blocks. Hansen started all three sets at setter and scored one points on one kill.
To view photos from the match, click here.
On March 17, Fakel lost a 2-3 (19-25, 25-22, 21-25, 8-15) decision to Lokomotiv Belogorie. Rooney scored 11 points on eight kills, two blocks and one ace. Hansen started all five sets at setter and scored three points on two kills and one block.
The final matches of the Russian regular season will be March 21.
The Italian Serie A League is also headed into the homestretch with one match remaining in the regular season.
Marmi Lanza Verona, featuring Max Holt (Cincinnati, Ohio), secured the final spot in the playoffs with a 25-21, 26-24, 25-22 sweep of Yoga Forli on March 14. Holt scored nine points on seven kills, one block and one ace.
On March 17, Verona was swept 23-25, 23-25, 18-25 by Lube Banca Marche Macerata. Holt started only the first set and did not score.
Verona will have the final weekend of the regular season off before facing league-champion Itas Diatec Trentino in the first round of the playoffs.
Prisma Taranto, the Italian Serie A League team that includes Donald Suxho (Korce, Albania), will be finished next week due to finishing in the bottom half of the league, even though it won its last two matches.
On March 14, Taranto defeated Esse-Ti Carilo Loreto, 3-2 (19-25, 25-22, 29-27, 22-25, 15-6). Suxho started all five sets at setter and scored three points on two kills and one ace.
On March 17, Taranta beat RPA-LuigiBacchi.it Perugia, 3-1 (25-22, 25-27, 25-21, 25-19). Suxho started all four sets at setter and scored three points on two kills and one ace.
Riley Salmon (League City, Texas) started the first two sets and scored four points on four kills as his Brazilian league team Vivo/Minas was swept by Fatima/Medquimica/UCS, 18-25, 19-25, 20-25 on March 13.
Middle European Zone
Hypo Tyrol Innsbruck, the Austrian club team of Russell Holmes (Fountain Valley, Calif.), fell to the aon hotVolleys, 2-3 (20-25, 22-25, 25-21, 25-17, 11-15) in the semifinals of the league playoffs on March 13.
Unicaja Almeria, the Spanish league featuring David Smith (Saugus, Calif.), concluded the regular season in first place in the league with a 3-1 (25-23, 23-25, 25-16, 25-23) victory over C.V. 7 Islas Vecindario on March 13. Smith scored nine points on seven kills and two blocks.
Almeria will play CMA Soria in the first round of the playoffs.
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During the 2014-2015 academic year all sports combined did over 6,000 hours of community service
The Life Skills Program has incorporated a built-in structure for our student-athletes to earn points by attending the many wonderful student development programs offered through the Living Learning Community within the Residence Halls. Research states that students who engage and make connections within their first semester of college have higher levels of college satisfaction and tend to persist and stay in college. Our goal is to have first-year student-athletes connect with their peers (outside of Athletics) and concentrate on learning the campus and academic culture to better help prepare them for their later years in college.
New Mexico State University's Athletic Department has established a plan in which all student-athletes are expected to complete a 15-hour/credit requirement of Community Service. With this requirement in effect, Aggie student-athletes have been involved in the community more often than in previous years. As a way of giving back to the Las Cruces community, Aggie student-athletes visited local schools to speak to the children about making good choices, getting good grades and striving to be the best they can be. Here are more activities that Aggie student-athletes volunteered their time with: Big Brothers Big Sisters, the Lions Club, bookstore signings, the Whole Enchilada Fiesta, middle schools, sports clinics, Red Ribbon Week at local schools, homecoming for NMSU, marathons, gun shows, La Casa, Salvation Army (Dress-the-Child), Special Olympics, pep rallies at local schools, "The Big Event," WAC Tournament Family Day, "Girls Can," Spring/Fall convocation, Girl Scouts, Las Montanas High School, El Caldito Soup Kitchen and at the Nature Center.
How do student-athletes get informed so they can sign up to participate in community service activities?
Below is the process for informing student-athletes of events:
- Emails will be sent out to Coaches, SAAC & Student-Athletes on any community service events that need volunteers. A Compliance form is filled out by the coordinator of that event prior to the participation of the student-athlete. In addition, each team SAAC (Student-Athlete Advisory Council) rep or coach will make an announcement of the upcoming event. Finally, emails will be sent out to coaches and student-athletes a couple days in advance as a reminder of the event. Erica Flores, Life Skills Coordinator receives information about community service events from off campus resources (schools, agencies, organizations, etc), Residence Hall staff coordinating programs, NMSU departments and other requests.
How will my participation in these programs be recorded in order to receive my community services points?
Below is the following protocol for earning your 15-hour Community Service points:
- At each event, there will be a sign-up sheet, either by the Life Skills Coordinator, coordinator of that event, a SAAC rep, or designated student-athlete. In order to receive Community Service credits, you must sign to verify your attendance.
- If a student-athlete performs community service you must 1) Inform your coach ahead of time so they can coordinate with the Life Skills Coordinator, 2) Receive a signature from the coordinator of the event to verify your participation.
Challenging Athletes' Minds For Personal Success
The mission of the I-A Athletic Directors' Association is to prepare student-athletes for life as productive citizens in our society.
What Is CHAMPS?
The CHAMPS program focuses on five commitments that each Division I program is making in the growth and development of student-athletes.
A Commitment to Academic Excellence: Ensures that each student-athlete will have the opportunity to excel in their chosen field of study and that athletic programs will provide services to support and enhance the academic success of student-athletes.
A Commitment to Athletic Excellence: Ensures that each student-athlete will be provided facilities, coaching staff, and support services that will enable them to excel in a broad program of sports sponsored by the university. The fundamental principles of these programs will be based on a commitment to sportsmanship, equity, fair play, and integrity.
A Commitment to Personal Development: Ensures that each student-athlete participating in a CHAMPS program will be provided opportunities to focus on personal growth issues such as values clarification, goal setting, fiscal responsibility, decision making, and stress management. Each of these components will be focused toward developing a healthy lifestyle.
A Commitment to Service: A challenge to student-athletes to give back to communities and individuals that are in need. With a clearly defined program of service, our student-athletes will be given opportunities to develop the foundation for a lifelong commitment of volunteerism.
A Commitment to Career Development: Places a priority on preparing for life after college sports. The program acquaints students with the job search process, provides networking opportunities, and ultimately assists with job placement. As our programs work toward the development of the total person, the ultimate goal is to develop individuals who will have rewarding careers and productive lifestyles.

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In May, the county cut capacity from 120. County commissioners set aside most of their final $4.66 million county payment to cover next year's budget.
The paper said the commissioners decided Wednesday to spend about $400,000 of the money to bolster law enforcement for the current budget year. Besides jail capacity, the money will be used for prosecutors, one full time, the other part time.


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Like most people, runners and non-runners alike, I met the news of the tragedy at Monday's Boston Marathon with stunned disbelief.
Mike Burnstein on his way to a long-dreamed-of finish at Boston on Monday, April 15, 2013. His euphoria, however, would be short lived (see Page 4).
Like most people, runners and non-runners alike, I met the news of the tragedy at Monday's Boston Marathon with stunned disbelief. One of my son's teenage friends captured the horror succinctly in a Facebook post: "Bomb a marathon? Why?"
While we trail runners sometimes diss road running and its monotony, the reaction of the running community to Monday's tragedy at the king of road marathons makes me proud to simply call myself a runner. Not only did the tragedy link road and trail runners, it connected runners and non-runners alike.
I've never run 26.2 miles on pavement, but, the more I learn about the race, Boston (provided I could actually qualify) would be my choice. The following observations come from trail runners participating in the 117th running of the Boston Marathon on April 15, 2013. (For more accounts, please visit our Facebook page.)
IAN TORRENCE, 40, of Flagstaff, Arizona, is the lead ultrarunning coach at McMillan Running.
Accomplished trail ultrarunner Ian Torrence.
I was back in my hotel room when the bombs exploded. Had they done so an hour earlier I would have been in the middle of the horror. I'm still trying to comprehend all the events, the outcomes, and what it'll mean for every running event from here on out. Will the landscape of running be changed forever? My guess is that we will continue on as strong as ever, even stronger. Runners are a resilient bunch. If there were ever a sub-set of population that can rebound and grow stronger during a time of hardship, it'll be the runners.
I've asked myself if I'd ever return to Boston: Would this tragic incident keep me from participating in an event like the Boston Marathon ever again? I guess it wouldn't. I've considered returning to Boston next year just to spite the wicked who are responsible.
I'm a trail runner and a road runner. Though our sports may vary in a few details, the fact remains that we love what we do and enjoy whom we do it with. An event like this only cements these bonds. I saw many good friends while in Boston, both before and after the bombing. They were trail runners, road runners and non-runners, folks there only to support their loved ones in the event.


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Of all stripes politically, our roundtable of dutiful voters believe they must turn out even as they question the ballot box's power.
By ADAM C. SMITH, Times Political Editor
Published October 22, 2006
You'd think spending a few hours with dozens of well-informed, patriotic and dutiful Florida voters would be inspiring.
Try thoroughly depressing.
"I have absolutely no faith in anyone I've voted for," said Robert Oblinger, a Republican retired dentist who moved to Tampa Bay 10 years ago. "The last two major elections I voted against someone, not for someone."
Listening to the separate focus groups of Democrats, Republicans and independents convened by the St. Petersburg Times, it's clear something is stirring that's much deeper than the usual antipolitician sentiment. A lot of these voters see the Florida they've long cherished slipping away while their leaders and would-be leaders do nothing but snipe and hurl banal campaign slogans.
Lifelong Pinellas resident Bonnie Chambers, a 61-year-old independent voter, ticked off her concerns one by one: Skyrocketing insurance. Soaring housing prices. Taxes rising. Runaway growth robbing her community of its character and quality of life.
"Something is wrong, something's definitely wrong," she said somberly. "It's paradise, but they're taking it away. ... It's criminal."
Judith Thomas, a 55-year-old Democratic school bus driver trainer, is looking at retiring in a few years. She fears she'll have no choice but to leave Florida because on a fixed income she can't afford the rising costs of insurance and taxes.
And she's sick of all the campaign ads from politicians promising they'll deal with rising insurance and taxes.
"I'll be so glad when Nov. 7 is over. Every time you turn the TV on it's about property taxes and insurance. We know they're not going to get in there and work a miracle," Thomas said, as others around the room nodded in agreement. "I actually feel sorry for whoever's going to get in there to try to straighten it out, because they're not going to straighten it out overnight. And then we're all going to get mad because we voted for them and they got in there and didn't do what they said they're going to do."
With all the talk of red America and blue America, at least we found plenty of bipartisan common ground. Of the Republicans, Democrats and independents gathered at the Times: Voters of all stripes are fed up with insurance costs and the Iraq war. They don't see Florida schools improving and they're worried about affording health care and the middle class getting squeezed out of Florida.
They're generally frustrated, anxious and in many cases downright angry about where their state and country are heading.
"It's just a lack of coherent vision in domestic policy, foreign policy for the future. It seems like everything's based toward the next election," lamented 32-year-old Adam Steadman, an independent voter. "It's bickering back and forth. Who's going to regain control of Congress seems to be the biggest issue - and not where are we going to be 10 years from now, where are we going to be 20 years from now?"
Almost no one on the campaign trail today or on the political horizon inspires these voters. Illinois Sen. Barack Obama came up a couple times among Democrats and independents as someone to be excited about down the line, and Republicans mentioned John McCain and Rudy Giuliani.
Even popular outgoing Gov. Jeb Bush failed to engender much enthusiasm from the voters we met. Larry Tarantino, who recently switched from no party affiliation to Democrat, at least gave Bush strong marks for vision.
"He came in with visions of what he wanted to change. It doesn't mean I necessarily agree with what he's changed them to, but at least he had a plan," said Tarantino, who's supporting Democrat Jim Davis for governor because he has "more substance" compared with Republican Charlie Crist's "give us everything we want approach."
Among the nine Democrats, all but one planned to vote for gubernatorial candidate Jim Davis retiree Leonard Bauduin's leaning toward Crist, because, unlike Davis, Crist's campaign had responded to questions he e-mailed. But no Democrat had any enthusiasm for the Tampa congressman and nobody thought he had a chance of winning. They were unanimous in thinking Hillary Clinton would be a lousy presidential candidate.
The Republicans were lukewarm about Republican gubernatorial candidate Crist too, though nobody doubted he'll be the next governor.
Republican St. Petersburg lawyer Jim Thompson, like most of the voters, saw no one offering real solutions to Florida's property insurance crisis.
"I was canceled. Got no way of knowing where I'm going to get my insurance next, and yet we had no claims this year, no hurricanes this year, and neither Crist nor his opponent have any viable proposals," Thompson said. "We're at the end of the line here if we don't do something pretty quick. Doctors are leaving and people are leaving, and it's time to stop it."
The Sunshine State has virtually zero unemployment, leads the country in job growth and still attracts more than 1,100 transplants a day eager for a slice of paradise. But it seems voters are more uneasy than they've been in ages.
It's painfully clear from these focus groups that there are a lot of burning issues, a lot to talk about as we head into the final weeks of this campaign. Voters are hungry for substance and sincerity that they're not seeing amid the tens of millions of dollars of campaign ads. It's a good bet we'll see weak turnout in November, given the deep cynicism out there.
U.S. Senate and gubernatorial debates will be televised on public TV on Monday and Tuesday nights. Maybe, just maybe, in the next couple weeks some Florida candidates can give voters a reason to be encouraged about their leaders.
After all, even among our discouraged focus groups we found at least a few signs of idealism left.
"Margaret Mead once said that a small group of concerned citizens can change the world; indeed it's the only thing that ever has," independent voter Julia Brazier said. "I believe in that. So I'm going to continue to vote. The only thing I can do is vote."
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Muslimah Misogyny: 'Muslim Women Against Femen'
I recently reported deep concern for a young Tunisian Muslima who had disappeared after she posted topless photos of herself to protest the sharia oppression and subjugation she suffered as a Muslim girl. One controversial image showed the young Muslimah, Amina Tyler, smoking a cigarette, baring her breasts, with the Arabic written across her chest: "My body belongs to me, and is not the source of anyone's honour."
A Muslim cleric in moderate Tunisia called for her stoning death. Tunisian newspaper Kapitalis quoted preacher Almi Adel, who heads the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, saying: "The young lady should be punished according to sharia, with 80 to 100 lashes, but [because of] the severity of the act she has committed, she deserves be stoned to death. "Her act could bring about an epidemic. It could be contagious and give ideas to other women. It is therefore necessary to isolate [the incident]. I wish her to be healed."
There were rumors that her family had her locked up in an asylum. Such is the life of millions of Muslim girls that want to be free in Islamic society.
Thankfully, Amina's story went viral and gained international attention. One of the more outrageous reactions was from the Ukraine-based feminist group, Femen, who staged a Topless Jihad Day, to stand in solidarity with Amina. It's not what I would do but I loved the moxie and in-your-face action to call worldwide attention to misogyny under Muslim rule. These feminist activists held "International Topless Jihad Day" in major European cities including Berlin, Kiev and Paris. They painted their bodies with slogans such as, "bare breasts against Islamism," and they protested outside of mosques in various cities.
"We're free, we're naked, it's our right, it's our body, it's our rules, and nobody can use religion, and some other holy things, to abuse women, to oppress them," Femen member Alexandra Shevchenko said while demonstrating outside a Berlin mosque in freezing temperatures.
Finally, a well publicized response to the crushing subjugation of women under the sharia. But what happened next was ……. unforgivable. Reminiscent of the Muslim women who hold down their daughters for FGM (clitordectony), a group of Muslim women came out against the Amina Tyler supporters. "Muslim Women Against Femen" was formed to show that Femen "does not speak for all members of their community."
The members of Muslim Women Against Femen encouraged other self defeating supporters to participate in Muslimah Pride Day. They are posting pictures of themselves on social media (see below) declaring that they are not oppressed. Well, bully for them. Are they really that selfish? Self absorbed? Inhuman?
If they are not oppressed then this campaign has nothing to do with them.
Millions of women under Muslim rule are oppressed like Amina Tyler and suffer unspeakable brutality under the honor violence code of Islam. What about them? How can these Muslimahs turn their back on their sisters?
"Muslim Women Against Femen" may very well choose to wear the niqab or burka or hijab but that is their choice. They can wear purple hair for all we care. But what about the millions of Muslimah who are forced to wear it? What about the millions of Muslimahs forced into marriage, beaten or honor killed?
The utter disregard of these Muslimahs for the fate of their sisters in other lands is either a depraved lack of humanity or a strange Stockholm syndrome. The mission statement of these supremacists is; "Muslim women who want to expose FEMEN for the Islamophobes/Imperialists that they are. We are making our voices heard and reclaiming our agency!"
This exclusive self-reference, typically encountered among adolescents, accounts for the scorched earth policy of Islamic supremacists. These Muslim women have no interest in the fate of Muslimahs victimized by the sharia because what happens to those unfortunate Muslimahs has no impact on the daily life or goals of Islamic imperialists.
Why are these Muslim women fighting those who wish to help Muslim women? FEMEN were not demanding Muslimahs remove their cloth coffins or head pieces. They were tyring to help the oppressed.
Here's the thing – this whole "Muslim Women Against Femen" is based on a false premise. Nobody is stopping these girls/women from wearing head and body coverings. But what about women who don't have the liberty to choose. That's the point.Pamela Geller
About the Author: Pamela Geller is the President of AFDI (American Freedom Defense Initiative), publisher of AtlasShrugs.com and the author of The Post American President: The Obama Administration's War on America and Stop the Islamization of America: A Practical Guide to the Resistance.The author's opinion does not necessarily reflect the opinion of The Jewish Press.
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How are those Palestinian women doing? Do they have Israeli citizenship or a country yet?
Better question for the Jewish Press: "But what about the millions of Muslimah who are forced to see their husbands/children/siblings being killed/ taken away/ imprisoned by the Zionist nation?" And no, we don't force any 'Muslimahs' to wear hijab – I know a lot who choose to wear/not wear it, and we have no problem with that. I honestly think that the western women's group – as the site calls it- is trying to push their agenda to people who obviously have different values in life with them. I mean do they really want these ' women in Islamic countries' to protest outside a synagogue or any other place just because they think a woman should cover herself like they do? And yeah, don't they also 'force' Israeli teenagers to serve for the IDF? How could the Zionist Press not say anything about that?
Let's take a look at women's rights under Islam concerning the veil and the woman's general worth.
On March 7, 1979, on the eve of International Women's Day, Khomeini decreed that all women employed by the government must wear the "chador" (an all-enveloping black veil), an extension of four walls of the home. The demonstrations against this decree forced Khomeini to retreat; however, on June 29, 1980, mandatory veiling was imposed.
The schools have been segregated by sexes, thus barring women from religious seminaries and technical colleges and halting the education of girls in villages.
The school books have been revised, showing veiled women in the home, raising children and cooking. The schools are used to hunt down critics of the regime; attempts are made to trick children into releasing incriminating information about their parents.
Islamic morality demands an end to pleasure: wine, music, dancing, chess and backgammon, have been all banned. Women's part in theatre and cinema stipulates that female actors wear Islamic veil.
The Bill of Retribution, a criminal law passed in 1981, was the platform to which Khomeini "elevated" Iranian women in which it stipulated that women have half the value of men in the eyes of the law. In this Bill, a murderer may pay a sum of money, called blood money, to his victim's family in order to escape punishment by death. If the murderer is a man and the victim is a woman, the woman's family is required to pay half the man's blood money if he is to receive the death sentence; this is because her life is equal to only half of his, so the family is required to pay for the other half. If they do not pay, the man can pay them the women's blood money and be set free.
The Associated Press announced that about 130 prominent Saudi clerics and academics have warned against calls for equality and increased rights for women, saying such efforts aim to make Muslim women more like "infidel" Western types. Women in Saudi Arabia are segregated in public places, they cannot drive cars, and they must be covered from head to toe in public in this strict conservative society. Islamic laws protect women and their rights, the statement said. It said efforts to change such traditions are "a vicious campaign from (the Muslim community's) enemy, led by the American government, to divert it from its faith." The statement said equality between men and women is not possible under Islam. "Any calls for absolute equality is an illegal and illogical call," the statement said.
Do you know that if you treat your woman as Quran tells you to treat her in any civilized country you will go to jail?
2:223 Your women are a tilth for you (to cultivate) so go to your tilth as ye will,
2:228, And women shall have rights similar to the rights against them, according to what is equitable; but men have a degree (of advantage) over them
2:230, So if a husband divorces his wife (irrevocably), He cannot, after that, re-marry her until after she has married another husband and He has divorced her
4:3, Marry women of your choice, Two or three or four
4:34, Men are in charge of women, because Allah hath made the one of them to excel the other,
53:27, Those who believe not in the Hereafter, name the angels with female names.
Women in Islam do not have equal rights. Period. Go and tell your lies to those who are new to Islam. Read the above verses again. Men excel over women. They can beat the women. Women's testimony is worth half of a man. Her inheritance is half of a man.
Topless beats clueless always. Femen's critics are misguided. Tear off your subjugation! http://www.newstiller.com/world/626-topless-beats-clueless
"Topless beats clueless always." Really, then how about bottomless?
Women's demonstrations erupted in Kurdistan, Azarbijan and Isfahan as well. They chanted "At the dawn of freedom, there is no freedom." The women were attacked by Khomeini's supporters, armed with knives, who cursed them, yelling "Wear a head or get your head rapped." The men stood at windows along the parade route and exposed their genitals: "This is what you want, you whores!" The women's male supporters linked arms and formed a protective barrier around them.
What does Israel have to do with oppression of women in the ENTIRE Muslim world under Shariah? Why this maniacal obsession with Israel? Why do you bring Israel into the picture whenever the brutality of Islam is brought to light?
These FEMEN girls are radical-leftists. They're probably anti-Israel, for all you know. They protested against the Catholic Church, the Russian Orthodox Church etc. They protested against Putin, Merkel and Berlusconi, both right-wing fascist pricks. They've protested in solidarity with indigenous Brazlians from being evicted from their land by Brazilian authorities etc. They've supported TONS of such benevolent left-wing causes. You must have heard about the Pussy Riot incident.
But I like how you're trying to portray them as right-wing White colonialists and imperialists, when those are precisely the people they're fighting.
It must really suck for you Muslims that those same leftists who coddled you for so long and stifled any debate or criticism of the Religion of "Peace" have gotten completely fed up of you, no? Looks like this is the end of the "Unholy Alliance."
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[[ I mean do they really want these ' women in Islamic countries' to protest outside a synagogue or any other place just because they think a woman should cover herself like they do?]]
Too bad, you Muslim savages threw out every last Jew from your countries, eh? If you hadn't done that, perhaps we could have had this discussion.
Unfortunately, you barbarians brutally murdered, pillaged, robbed, raped and ethnically cleansed the Jews from your lands, so I guess we can't really have this discussion, can we?
Dimas Akbar, what you said is not true but typical of the cult of lies, Islam, perpetuates against the truth of which Israel represents to the world. I know that speaking your mind is not always safe. Telling the truth could bring you ostracism or worse, it could cost you your life. People who may think differently know enough to keep their mouths shut and their head on their shoulders. Abdullah Ibn Abi Sarh, who was writing down the Quran for Muhammad and who realized there were no revelations and that Muhammad was making the Qur'an up, had to escape Medina and only in the safety of Mecca he revealed what he had found. However, when Muhammad conquered Mecca , he immediately sought Abi Sarh and ordered his execution. Abi Sarh was saved thanks to the intercession of Uthman who happened to be his foster brother.
I can't understand why people attack a WHOLE religion (of 1.6 billion people) over acts commited by FEW misled people who CLAIM to follow that religion.
For example, in an article written by Shevchenko, a member of FEMEN (http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/inna-shevchenko/femen-topless-in-the-country-of-hijab_b_3034211.html) talks about:
"… million of your sisters who have been raped and killed because they are not following the wish of Allah!"
is completely flawed because:
1) Why is she and the person who wrote this article exaggerating that figure? A million? Just because you read ONE article about a woman being raped, it doesn't mean it happens to a million!
2) (For the sake of argument, let us SUPPOSE that there millions of women being killed and raped.) Who said they were being raped and killed for not following the wish of Allah? How do we know that some criminals were not committing these atrocities. ONCE AGAIN, Shevchenko and the person who wrote this article is making up lies about Muslims! Has she even felt what it's like to be a Muslim woman? Of course not, she just looks at the media outlets that have a reputation for fabricating lies about Islam.
When was the last time you heard something positive about Islam?
Have you about that MUSLIM politician in the Middle-East who donated a land worth $2 million to orphans! OF COURSE NOT, Muslims doing good deeds like that? That must be a fairy tale!
The media has destroyed the image of Islam and people like Shevchenko has been one of billions to buy into this lie and contribute to the demolition of Islam.
I ask you to research these matters yourself and I hope you'll eventually find the truth.
Cliff Pinto "Unfortunately, you barbarians brutally murdered, pillaged, robbed, raped and ethnically cleansed the Jews from your lands, so I guess we can't really have this discussion, can we?"
What about the Palestinian blood that is spilled every day on Israelis hands?
Are the Jews getting revenge for what the Musllims supposedly did? How long will this revenge last? Since 1948, Israel has been murdering countless Palestinian men, women & children with no mercy and you have the AUDACITY to accuse Muslims for this?! Shame on you.
Femen IS.. DEMANDING the removal of the Hijab.. Pamela Geller loses all credibility by using this blatant lie.. // Why are these Muslim women fighting those who wish to help Muslim women? FEMEN were not demanding Muslimahs remove their cloth coffins or head pieces. They were tyring to help the oppressed. //
The wearing of Hijab is a command from Allah.. not between husband and wife or community.. Islam does not force a woman to wear Hijab that is between her and Allah.. Islam is perfect, MUSLIMS ARE NOT.. Why do Femen not protest outside your government offices against the young women you have locked up in prison because they do not want to join the military, why do they not protest against the shaving of your womens hair and covering with a wig, why do they not protest against you? because YOU are behind them.
Cliff Pinto Naiem Giladi and other Arab Jews personally testified that it was Zionists who deliberately created strife in Arab countries in order to force Arab Jews to relocate to "Israel". They also harassed those who refused to. It was all about cheap labor and putting those Arab Jews on the front lines as a buffer between the Palestinians and the more valued white Ashkenazis.
Whoever wrote this article is totally delusional. Why don't you look at all the millions of Muslim Palestinian women at risk of being killed from Israeli Russian and Ukrainian cuckoo style colonialist murderers in occupied Palestine, Iraqi, Pakistani, Afghani, and other Muslim women at risk of being mass murdered by US bombs, alongside their husbands and children they love, and are perfectly happy with, and Syrian women likewise alongside their loving husbands and children, likewise getting mass murdered from Russian and Iranian weapons and mercenaries, and none of them giving a 'tosh' about the self-obsessed lunatic rantings of random foreign women far away who can complain about the women in their own countries getting murdered, raped, kidnapped and sexually harassed, if they want to do something about women's rights in their own countries first, instead of piling this continuous patronising pile of sh*te on the already oppressed Muslim world, who are far more oppressed by Western and Russian bombs and mass murderers in their countries than anyone else. PS. The author of this article also failed to mention the Tunisian woman was specifically asked to post her photo of the website of the Femen Ukrainian website first, so therefore Femen 'set her up' and are therefore responsible 'in law' for inciting her to perform her actions which she would have already known would be classified as a 'sex offence' not only in her own country, but pretty much anywhere in the civilised world, including Europe, which the author of this article, totally failed to notice.
Israel is far more responsible for mass murder of 'Muslim' Palestinians than any of the pile of conjecture pile of tosh, that this author seems to think she can patronisingly fail to notice, since she's probably trained in mass murdering Palestinian Muslims, herself as part of the IDF.
They're not anti-Zionism at all. The opposite. Their financial sponsors are white American male financiers, and media moguls, with connections to Russia and Ukraine, homeland of where the original Zionist political colonialist movement come from. One of Femen's sponsors already has criminal prosecutions against him for corruption in Ukraine as it is, alongside the 40+ criminal charges Femen have against them for acts of criminal violence against Christian and Muslim religious sites, 'only'. They state that they are against the patriarchy of religion, yet their sponsors are Russian Khazar descendant male Zionist 'Jews'. Many within orthodox 'Judaism' however, have repeated many times that 'Russian/Ukrainian Zionism' is not authentic 'Judaism' either. If the Jewish Press really wanted to talk about 'freedom for Jewish women' for example, then the Jewish Press would be talking instead about the Jewish women in Jerusalem who are campaigning for their right to wear the BURKA acccording to their own FREE WILL who are instead OPPRESSED by the male Russian/Ukrainian mafia dominated Israeli military colonial occupation in Jerusalem instead. Is the oppression of JEWISH WOMEN who want to wear the BURKA from their own FREE WILL mentioned in this article? No, not at all, only proving that the use of 'Femen' who are sponsored by MALE INTERESTS IN EXCHANGE FOR PAYMENT as a 'news story' is therefore nothing to do with 'freedom' for women anywhere, in particular Muslim women currently being killed by Israeli, Russian, Chinese and American BOMBS and also not even for JEWISH women who want the freedom to WEAR BURKAS from their own FREEDOM of choice, without women who are PAID to perform STUNTS by men attempting to dictate to them what to do, when nobody asked them instead.
Wow, that's a totally empty meaningless one-liner statement with no content attempting to create a 'catch-phrase' if ever I saw one. I'd personally say that it doesn't make sense however and goes against the generally commonly held views. Topless equals clueless, in the general 'sense of the word', instead. Topless bimbo = brainless bimbo. That's a pretty generally well-understood concept throughout most of the Western world, and also across the former Soviet countries of Russia and Ukraine where Femen come from as well. Catch-phrases won't change that commonly held view throughout most of the known world, where people normally consider wearing clothes so as not to die of exposure a really good idea.
Cliff Pinto @ you got it wrong actually. The Russian and Ukrainian Khazar Caucasian Zionists used mass bomb attacks against Jewish communities throughout the Middle East, as a means to 'terrorise' them and to black-mail them to be used as cannon fodder, during the first 'terrorist' campaigns against the Palestinian people in their own country and homes, so therefore Russian and Ukrainian Zionist imposters are responsible for ruining and destroying the traditional Semitic Arab Jewish positive relationships with their own Arab Semitic Christian and Muslim next-door neighbours for their own Russian/Ukrainian/Caucasian terrorist profit and gain.
Author of the article above, seen to prevent 'Muslim women' from attending an event she was involved in organising in the name of 'human rights' using a 'Muslim woman' as the reason for the event, despite these women having been accepted to attend, and then were prevented from participating on arrival at the event, and to then be asked to leave by the police, as a demonstration how the author is aiming to use discrimination against Islam using the death of a Muslim woman as a means to justify herself and her speeches, without even allowing access to other Muslim women to attend the event.
The words "hypocricy in action", come to mind.


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The new Chevy Volt from Government Motors fails to break into the Top 10 "Green Cars"!
The new Chevy Volt from Government Motors fails to break into the Top 10 "Green Cars"!
Anti-intellectualism and fascism go together like bacon and eggs.
What is even more startling is Googleing Detroit and Hiroshima or Nagasaki....then and now. Just incredible what has happened to Detroit, the city.
When the one you love becomes a memory, that memory becomes a treasure.
Interesting piece in the NY Times today about how Hyundai & Kia have brought a lot of well-paying jobs to Alabama. By improving the quality of their cars (and catering to high-mileage market), they have created thousands of jobs around Montgomery with their factories & parts suppliers.
No unions in their factories (or in any of the Asian car factories here, the article said). Workers average about $20/hour ... and have been putting in about 10 hrs of overtime/week; they've already added a second shift.
Seems like they've figured out how to create jobs: produce something people want at a price they can afford. What a novel idea!
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Jean Moule last wrote about being a 67-year-old student pilot for the Flight Training blog. She is an emerita faculty member of Oregon State University, and a published writer and artist. Visit her website. —Ed.
Who was the first American to hold an international pilot license?
Early in my training, my flight instructor introduced me to this aviation pioneer, Bessie Coleman. Steve Larsen, CFI, knew from my observations that I needed familiarity with the existence of Black women in aviation to help me, a woman of African descent, feel more comfortable in the left seat. He had connected me to another Black female student pilot as well.
Curious and inspired, I spent hours in Coleman's history. Because flight schools in the United States would not teach Blacks, Bessie taught herself French, then went to France to learn and earn her pilot's license.
Bessie was born in Texas in 1893 as one of 13 children of sharecroppers. She was gifted in math, loved books, and walked eight miles round trip to attend a one-room school for Blacks. She went to Oklahoma where she managed one term at a university, but had to leave due to lack of money. She returned to Waxahachie, Texas, and worked as a laundress. The small southern town had little to keep her challenged and engaged.
In 1915, at 23, Bessie moved to Chicago. She lived with her brothers and worked as a beautician, one time named as the best and fastest manicurist in the city. In Chicago Bessie heard and read stories of World War I soldiers and pilots as they returned from Europe. The stories opened possibilities. She and her brother, a soldier, talked.
"Those French women do something no colored girl has," her brother teased. "They fly."
Taking the challenge, Bessie decided to become a pilot. Due to both race and gender discrimination, she gave up trying to enter a flight school in the United States and began her study of French. She learned the language well enough to grasp the principles of flight and aeronautical terms in that language. Then she went to France.
She completed a 10-month course in seven months. She earned her license and returned to the United States. She earned her living barnstorming and performing aerial tricks, specializing in stunt flying and parachuting. Beyond her own support, her goal was to start a flying school for African Americans.
Bessie's high-flying skills wowed audiences of thousands. She was well known all over the United States, with huge headlines whenever she would be in the air.
During a rehearsal for a show in 1926, she leaned out of an airplane flown by her mechanic to check her parachute-landing site. The airplane began an unexpected dive toward the ground.
Bessie, unbelted and thrown out, fell 1,500 feet to her death.
The mechanic was unable to gain control of the airplane and died as well. A misplaced wrench was later found lodged in the wreckage of the engine.
Thousands mourned for Bessie. Ten thousand people attended her three funerals. After her death at age 33, others took up her cause to begin flight schools that allowed Blacks entry.
Some of those who learned to fly in her memory and inspiration in these flight schools were early enrollees in the World War II Tuskegee Airmen Division.
Now I had a family link: My grandson's great-grandfather was an instructor in that WW II division.
Bessie's legacy continues down through the years: In 1929 the aviation school she worked to establish was founded in Los Angeles. Roads, highways, and flying clubs for women were named after her. In 1995 the U.S. Postal Service issued the Bessie Coleman stamp. And every year on Memorial Day, the Tuskegee Airmen fly over Brave Bessie's grave and drop flowers in her honor.
My children have all flown commercially, as have my grandchildren. One grandchild, Chance—great-grandson of Tuskegee Airman Instructor James A. Hill—leads the rest: Before he was 5 years old he had flown on 120 flight segments.
For leading the way, I give my thanks to Elizabeth "Bessie" Coleman, the first American aviator of any race or gender to hold an international pilot license, the first person of African descent to be licensed in the United States, a pioneer in aviation education for all people, and a motivator for my own flying.
Here's to Bessie, a woman of my hue and the first American licensed to fly anywhere in the world. Here's to all those who venture into the air!
Bessie said, "Do you know that you have never lived until you have flown?"—Jean Moule
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Academic State Champions
CHASSELL – Bridge Magazine has once again named its Academic State Champions, and both Public Schools of Calumet, Laurium and Keweenaw and Chassell Township School District have made the grade.
Using a formula based on socioeconomic factors and a number of categories, Bridge ranked schools a little differently this year.
"They looked at socioeconomic issues with schools and different predictors, and what kind of scores typically happen for each socioeconomic group," Chassell Superintendent George Stockero said. "They can also look back at what happened in the past, so then they examined who's outperforming where they should be.
"It's taking the kids you have and outperforming what's expected."
Last year, nine Upper Peninsula schools were named Academic State Champions; this year, only three were honored, with the third being West Iron County. In all, 52 of the 560 schools taken into account by Bridge Magazine were named Academic State Champion, which meant the school was in the top 10 of one of a number of categories: fourth grade scores, eighth grade scores, 11th grade scores, rural schools, city schools, affluent schools and low-income schools. They also had an overall category, of which Calumet was 18th in the state and Chassell was 30th, the only two Upper Peninsula schools in the top 40. That puts both schools in the top 5 percent in the state.
In the rural school category, Calumet was named the second-best school in the state while Chassell received the fourth-best ranking. Calumet also garnered a sixth-best ranking for its 11th grade scores
In a time of constrained budgets, Stockero is happy his district could continue to perform at a high level.
"The school's very proud, especially for doing this two years in a row," Stockero said. "Everybody's making cuts and we're always doing what we can to keep services going. That is special to still get these awards knowing we are doing more with less."
Chassell also notched a third-best ranking in eighth-grade scores, meaning its eighth grade students placed in the top 2 percent in the state.
"My teachers and I are very proud of what's going on," Stockero said. "We're working very hard to make sure no kid falls through the cracks."
The formula utilized to devise these rankings was created by Education Trust Midwest Research, according to Stockero, the same group that helped lead the state development of tenure and teacher reforms. The same rankings may, in fact, be used for teachers' evaluations in the near future.
"It's a value system these people created here," Stockero said.
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Frasca's research in the use of simulation in basic flight training goes back more than 40 years to studies conducted in cooperation with Purdue University in an effort to improve the flight training experience. Sporty's use of Frasca simulation dates back more than 20 years, when the Frasca Model 142 was integrated into curriculum used as part of the University's of Cincinnati's Professional Pilot Training Program. The advancements in simulation technology and visual systems, along with the amazing capability of modern devices, have made it possible to renew our efforts at utilizing simulation to its maximum potential.
The first step in this partnership is for students at Sporty's to begin utilizing the Frasca Mentor Cessna 172S Advanced Aviation Training Device (AATD) flight simulator. The Mentor features a 200-degree visual system and Frasca's TruVision technology.
TruVision provides worldwide visuals, including more than 20,000 runways, coastlines, rivers, roads, and more, allowing the pilot to fly anywhere in the world. In addition, the Mentor at Sporty's comes with detailed satellite imagery within 150 miles of the Sporty's/Clermont County Airport (I69). This visual enhancement allows for realistic, scenario-based training, meaningful VFR cross-country flying, and even ground-reference maneuvers. Continue reading


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Ronald Engel
ST. JAMES – Ronald Engel, 65, of St. James died on Thursday, April 18, 2013, at Pleasant View Good Samaritan Center in St. James.
Services will be 10:30 a.m., Thursday, April 25, 2013, at Augustana Lutheran Church in St. James. Burial will be a Mt. Hope Cemetery in St. James.
Visitation will be 4-8 p.m. Wednesday at Sturm Funeral Home in St. James and one hour before services on Thursday at the church.


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Congratulations to Mike Schalow of Aptos, California for being the lucky winner of a brand new 2011 Nomad Carbon with the SRAM XO 1×10 all mountain kit. He bought 1 ticket (yes just one) from Another Bike Shop in Santa Cruz but it happened to be the right ticket.
We are happy to announce that this raffle raised a $10,815 donation towards the Pogonip multi-use trail. These expenses will go towards trail design, the costs of bridges and signage for the trail.
We met Mike Schalow at the post Sea Otter Aptos jump jam yesterday and he took the white Nomad Carbon that Santa Cruz Bicycles gave us to use as a display model. This was the bike that he wanted, in the color and size he wanted – which makes things easier for us. Mike is a long time SCB fan and has been riding a 15 year old Heckler. He just bought his girlfriend a new Juliana a couple of weeks ago and was planning to get a new bike. The Nomad Carbon represents a significant upgrade for him.
We would like to thank Mike Ferrentino and Santa Cruz Bicycles for donating a very compelling bike for our fund raiser.
We would like to thank all of you all for participating in this fund raiser. Your reward for participation will be a very sweet new single track trail which will connect downtown Santa Cruz to upper campus/Wilder Ranch SP/Henry Cowell SP – hopefully within a year. This trail will be a huge benefit to the City of Santa Cruz. Not only will it push out all the negative activity by displacing it with healthy and family friendly activities but it will also provide an way to increase economic activity for downtown Santa Cruz.


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A high-ranking executive of Microsoft Corp. said that while there are makers, who decided to use Google Android operating system on their tablets, which are to be unveiled during Computex Taipei 2010 trade-show, in the long-term Windows operating system will still be more popular on desktops, notebooks and slates.
"There are always lots of noises at the beginning of new category. When netbooks were introduced three years ago, it was 95% not on Windows, and three years later it is 95% on Windows," Steve Guggenheimer, a corporate vice president who oversees Microsoft's relationships with PC makers and other hardware companies, in an interview with the Wall Street Journal.
In fact, Microsoft helped tablet PCs to become valuable tools for professionals many years ago. However, Microsoft and its partners have not managed to drive tablets to the mainstream market, partly because clients did not need them, partly because there was a lack of infrastructure to consumer content on them.
At present developers of slates are focused around creation of services that allow to buy/download new content or software onto slates, whereas Microsoft still has to rely on its traditional Windows-based infrastructure, which is sometimes an overkill for solving simple problems. Moreover, there are a lot of makers, including Acer, Dell, HP and others, who decided to use Android instead of Windows since the latter did not support ARM processors, which are more energy-efficient than traditional x86 chips, yet, cannot deliver comparable performance.
But the hardware and software world is not stagnating. Next year Advanced Micro Devices plans to release x86 chips for tablets that integrate DirectX 11-class graphics along with mainstream microprocessor performance. Intel Corp. is also working on similar projects with first results due later this year. As a result, it may turn out that there will be two different classes of slates: Google Android-based systems with ARM processors inside that will not be truly powerful and Microsoft Windows-based with decent performance and x86 performance and compatibility.
Mr. Guggenheimer claims that computer manufacturers are currently experimenting with Android, but that Microsoft's support for Windows 7 will be seen as more valuable over time.
"There are two things you have to look at: Is free really free, and what does that mean over time? Windows has proven to be a phenomenal platform for our partners to make money. They know we are going to continue to build support to the operating system," the high-ranking executive said.
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Washington Post: Obama waiver allows U.S. aid to 4 countries using child soldiers (October 27)
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I have a unique semi-hollow electric guitar that's been my primary instrument for 10 years running. It has built-in Baggs electronics, but when I received it both the creator and (only) buyer were deceased. There was no one for me to address questions, and I wasn't about to tear the thing apart (then or now).
The only clue I have is a plate that can be laid across the controls bearing the LR Baggs trademark and the words "Deluxe Acoustic Equalizer". I looked through the catalog but couldn't identify the component, although it's reminiscent of an iMix. The interface has low/mid/hi, variable mids (.4k to 1.6k) and presence, as well as volume and a battery LED (it takes a 9V).
Over the years I've gained some expertise with the electronics, but now I'd like the instruction manual. Can anyone help me unlock the full potential of my guitar?


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Advanced Micro Devices is preparing a desktop processor with six processing engines, sources familiar with the company's plans revealed. The new central processing units (CPUs) will not be available this year, but are likely to boost performance of AMD's desktop platforms sometime in 2010.
AMD's processor code-named Thuban is the company's first desktop processor with six processing engines. The microprocessors will be compatible with socket AM3 infrastructure and will have integrated dual-channel PC3-10600 (DDR3 1333MHz) memory controller. It is very likely that Thuban processors will retain AMD Phenom II brand name as well as design of the code-named Istanbul chips for servers, thus, will feature 3MB L2 cache (512KB per core) and 6MB of L3 cache. The chips will be made using 45nm SOI fabrication process.
Thuban is a star in the constellation of Draco and it also means "dragon" in Arabian language. The new six-core chip should be compatible with existing AM3 infrastructure (and, quite possibly, even with AM2+ infrastructure with split power plane), it remains to be seen whether Thuban becomes a part of AMD's current high-end desktop platform called Dragon, or will power the company's next-generation Leo platform.
AMD's Leo platform will be based on the AMD 890FX and 890GX core-logic sets. The new chipsets will offer better performance and functionality, e.g., they will support Serial ATA-600, 14 Serial ATA 2.0 ports and so on, but both will only hit mass production in April, 2010, and will be formally released in May next year, according to market sources.
Provided that AMD has its Thuban processors ready before May 2010, the company is likely to start shipping them as soon as possible so that to be able to compete for the high-end desktop segment. In fact, it is somewhat surprising that AMD will only be able to offer six-core desktop chip about a year after it started to ship six-core chips for servers. Nevertheless, based on currently available information, AMD Thuban is due only in Q3 2010.
At present AMD does not position its six-core Opteron processors even for single-socket workstations and recommends its customers among makers of dual-socket workstations to stick to quad-core chips due to their higher clock-speeds compared to existing six-core central processing units. At present AMD's highest-performance six-core chips operate at 2.80GHz, meanwhile, the fastest quad-core CPUs function at 3.40GHz.
With six physical cores AMD will be able to demonstrate rather high performance in multi-tasking and applications that need to execute numerous threads at once. Moreover, as future video games that rely on DirectX 11 start to arrive, the advantages provided by six-core Thuban and Istanbul processors will be even more apparent.
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I just installed mod_rails and am curious about it's memory/cpu usage. It seems like when I load a page in development, my entire computer locks up until the request is complete. So, I'd like to see what's going on.


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The Sheriff's Office has many programs that benefit the people of Imperial County.
Our Crime Prevention Unit works with local businesses, schools and other community groups to provide presentations on safety, drugs, bullying, mandated reporting and other topics. They also provide services to homes and businesses. Click here to see some of the programs they have available.
The Sheriff's Activities League provides athletic and recreational programs for youth throughout Imperial County. Click here to see what SAL is all about.
The Sheriff's Explorer program is designed for young men and woman between the ages of 14 to 20 years of age who are interested in exploring a career in law enforcement. The Sheriff's Office has employees in both Corrections and Operations who began as Sheriff's Explorers. Click here for more information about the Explorers.


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Amnesty International's new policy calling for the elimination of penalties for anyone who provides an abortion or obtains one is still being debated in the pages of the Catholic press. The National Catholic Register editoralizes that Amnesty is "baldly misrepresenting facts in a desperate attempt to escape the consequences of its own actions." In Canada, meanwhile, the Toronto-based Catholic Register's recent editorial decrying the move brought a rejoinder from a Canadian representative of the organization who tried to explain the rationale behind the decision.
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