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How to Buy The Best Dog Carrier For Your Pet
If you're planning to travel a lot this summer and plan to take your pet with you, you want to make sure you have a dog carrier that meets your pet's specific needs. Most people think of the pet carrier's they see at a local chain store, which are often plastic cases with metal link doors. These are serviceable, but for most pets you want to get something a little more.
The first thing to decide on is the size of carrier you need. Your pet should be able to comfortably stand up and have some room to move around. Measure your dog's height and length and get something slightly larger. It shouldn't be too big or it could tip easily or your pet could slide around too much while traveling. If it's a puppy, then take into consideration how much you'll use it before they're full grown. If it's only a couple times, then consider how big the puppy will be when full grown.
Pet carriers come in all styles and colors. You can find pet slings that go over your shoulder and carriers that look like purses. And just like a purse these carriers often have a number of compartments, which can come in handy for carrying treats, or your own belongings such as a cell phone or date planner. Another advantage to the purse style is that many business owners won't know it's a carrier if you have to stop into a store for a moment.
Portable carriers are easy to stow, but you need to make sure they have the proper ventilation. A quality carrier is sturdier, but that also means they can become hotter, especially in the summer. Many have mesh on them to allow your pet to look around and a number of styles can be opened slightly so they can pop their head out.
Pet carriers aren't just used for traveling in a vehicle. If you're constantly on the go and want to keep your pet close, a sling is a great way to carry a small pet (approximately 10 pounds or less). This keeps you from wearing your pet out from walking or having to stop constantly to let them regain their strength. Slings, as do many carriers, come with d-rings that can attach to the pet to keep them from suddenly leaping out, and in the process getting injured.
When purchasing a sling, take into consideration, not just if it's comfortable for your pet, but also yourself.
Some other things to consider is how easy it is to keep your carrier clean and also if it has room to store some supplies.
Airline Approved Dog Carrier
If you and your pet fly frequently or it's just a once in a lifetime trip, you still want a carrier that meets your needs, but most importantly its airline approved. After all, the last thing you want is to get ready to board a flight and find out your pet might not be able to fly.
Each airline has different restrictions, although most are close in their requirements.
- What is the limitation on the dimensions of the carrier?
- What are the requirements for weight?
- Are pets kept in the carrier for the entire flight?
- When are they fed and given new water.
With some airlines you can stow your pet and its carrier under your seat. This is only practical if your pet fits comfortably in their carrier and that this carrier can fit under comfortably under your seat.
It's always better to call ahead before a flight if you haven't flown in a while or check your airline's website to make sure regulations haven't changed. Again it's better to know in advance then to put you or your pet under undue stress.
Designer Dog Slings and Pet Carriers
Once you've decided on what type of carrier you need for your pet, then start looking at the various styles and colors available. And if you really want to pamper your pet, then look at getting a designer pet carrier.
There are a number of designer lines available, all of which have their own unique strengths. Kwigy Bo designer carrier look like high end purses and have been featured in People, US Weekly, In Style, Shape, Lucky, Life & Style and many more.
Pet Flys carriers are more fun in appearance and as their name implies, they are designed as carry-on bags for airplanes. Tammy Arnett decided to design pet bags so she can take her dog on travels and over the past two decades travelers all over the world have utilized her carriers.
Once you've purchased a carrier introduce it to your pet in advance of the trip. This will allow them to get used it and think of it as their own. When traveling for an extended period, take along some of their favorite belongings such as blankets and toys. A carrier is designed to keep your pet safe, but there is no reason it can't be their home away from home. Even while at home.


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Salmon life cycle on display
October 5, 2012
Luke Jones, 6, his brother Matthew, 8, and his cousin Paul Rooney, 11, squatted along the bank of Taylor Creek on Wednesday to watch thousands of bright red Kokanee salmon swim upstream in one of nature's most dramatic and visible life cycles.
"It's pretty cool," Luke Jones said as one of the larger males leapt against the current.
The salmon return annually to spawn in Taylor Creek, and for the past 23 years, Lake Tahoe has celebrated the event and the changing seasons with their Kokanee Salmon Festival the first weekend of October.
"The salmon are always there. As far as I know, they've never missed the party. It's one of those cool natural phenomenon that's actually predictable," U.S. Forest Service naturalist Lindsay Gusses said.
The free family event this Saturday and Sunday will offer interactive booths run by agencies in the basin, a Japanese fish print workshop, a Wild Things onstage show with live animals, an interactive children's play that acts out the drama of the Kokanee, a salmon barbecue – no, these fish don't come from Taylor Creek – and much more.
The Kokanee, a landlocked cousin to the Sockeye salmon, are a non-native species to Lake Tahoe. They were introduced to the lake in the 1940s when a few of the fish escaped from a Tahoe City hatchery, or so the story goes, Gusses said. Since that time, Department of Fish and Wildlife biologists have introduced the salmon to the lake for sport fishing.
According to the USFS, the animals adapted well to the alpine lake. The Kokanee are a deep water fish that doesn't live on the same level as the lake trout and they're not competitors when it comes to food sources.
When the salmon are in the lake, their scales sparkle silvery-blue. They spend three to five years in the deeper water before migrating to the creek's mouth when temperatures start to cool in the fall. Only then do the fish begin to turn red as they prepare to spawn.
The males develop a hooked nose, or a kype, and a humped back. It's territorial behavior, Gusses said, because once the fish enter the stream, it's a fight for real estate. The Kokanee return to the same area where they hatched, but the traffic in the stream is heavy with other also salmon looking for prime territory.
Over the course of about a month and a half, between 20,000 and 80,000 Kokanee will battle up Taylor Creek to lay their eggs and protect the hatch for as long as they can. Once the salmon lay their eggs, the adults only have about 10 days before they die, Gusses said.
The bodies decompose quickly, but the stream still clogs with deceased salmon for a while. It's a hunters' feast, Gusses said, but you're more likely to catch a hungry mallard or raccoon than some of the forests larger predators.
"We can't guarantee bear sightings. You have to keep in mind that the bears here are black bears and they eat primarily vegetation. The fishing is a learned behavior. It's not instinctual like it is for the brown bears," Gusses said.
"And our bears here go for easier food. It's a lot of work to catch a salmon," she continued.
Once the salmon turn red, they're not fit for human consumption either, Gusses said. By the time October comes around, they fish are already pretty rotten, and it better just to sit back and enjoy the show, without dinner.

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To help ease congestion in the fast-developing area east of the Beltway, the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority launched a fast-track project to extend its Blue Line from Addison Road to the Largo Town Center. STV, as part of a joint venture design-build team, provided architectural, structural and communications design for the new $40 million Morgan Boulevard Station and communications design for the Largo Station, an award-winning project. STV also designed the Largo Town Center Station 1,979-space commuter parking garage, which includes a pedestrian bridge that connects multilevel parking on each side of the station.
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text: Dallas isn't very good. No doubt they could lose on Sunday and it'd be "par for the course". All that said, if you take a look at Cincy's schedule you see they haven't really been very good either. They split with the Browns. Lost to the Ravens by 30. wins: Giants, San Diego, Redskins, CLE, OAK, KC, JAX losses: MIA, CLE, BAL, DEN, PITT Talk about a cupcake schedule?? WOW!!! Ravens and Denver are only two good teams on there. Giants, PITT and Skins are mediocre like us. The rest are really bad teams. 2 wins: KC, JAX 3 wins: Oak 4 wins: SD, CLE 5 wins: Miami 6 wins: WAS They have 7 wins over teams with a combined 28 wins..... I believe Cincy and Dallas are very comparable teams.


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'The two teams were about to go into the second intermission tied, but the Canadiens ice the puck with 5.9 seconds left in the frame. Buffalo capitalized on the opportunity, winning the offensive zone faceoff. Gragnani and Pominville worked the puck across the crease for Thomas Vanek who sent it home for his fourth of the season.'
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With most toggles and system events being hidden deep within the Settings application, jailbreaking gives us a way to make reaching those functions easy with personalized shortcuts. Whether youre a Deck guy, an SBSettings guy, or some other kind of guy theres a toggle shortcut pane for you. A new toggle shortcut option available in Cydia today is a jailbreak tweak dubbed Usefullcons by iOS developer Rudolf Lichtner.
As illustrated by the screenshot above, Usefullcons adds toggle shortcut buttons to the home screen. Tapping on them will invoke their purpose. The iPhone has twelve of these toggle buttons and other iOS devices have less this is because the iPod touch doesnt support cellular data and doesnt have an LED flash on the rear to activate the flashlight button that would show up on the iPhone. The developer automatically blocks incompatible buttons from showing on incompatible devices to help reduce clutter.
All of the buttons from an iPhone would give you the following options from the home screen:
- play/pause iPod music
- toggle flashlight
- toggle rotation lock
- invoke voice control
- toggle Wi-Fi
- toggle airplane mode
- toggle location services
- toggle cellular data
- lock the device
- respring the device
- power down the device
- reboot the device
When one of the toggles is on, the toggle icon turns blue and when the toggle is off the toggle icon is gray. A good idea for this tweak is since it puts all these icons on your home screen, to put them in a folder for better organization. Having all of these loose icons on your home screen can cause a great clutter issue making the tweak a hit or miss for some people.
Another great part about this tweak is the ability to choose which toggle buttons will be visible on your home screen. If you think you only might be using some of these home screen buttons frequently and not all of them, you can head over to the Settings application and check out the Usefullcons preferences pane. From there you will be able to turn on or off the toggles available on the home screen. When you make changes, you will need to run the uicache command at the bottom of the preferences pane to save the changes:
Name: Usefullcons
Price: 99¢
Version: 1.0
Repo: ModMyi
Developer: Rudolf Lichtner
Editor's Rating: 3/5
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Location: Pipeline/Welcome Center
Cost: Free
Calendars: Office of the Registrar, Main Events Calendar
Audience: Current Graduate Students, Current Undergraduate Students, Faculty, Prospective Students, Staff
Priority Registration will be available to all students until Saturday, December 29th.
For more information about this event, please contact Office of the Registrar at 313.577.3541 or email@example.com.


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I've installed Backtrack 5r3 onto a VM and I'm trying to get NoMachine NX setup for remote administration however I'm having a lot of trouble!
SSH is setup and working however I can't get NX to connect. The main issue I'm having is around the user authentication, as far as I can tell I can't use the root account to login via NX. Some sites advise that configuring the server.cfg file should allow me to login as root however this didnt work.
I created a new user account, non-root, and confirmed this was in the NX users db however I'm still getting authentication failures.
Does anyone have a guide/tutorial on how to setup NX on Backtrack 5 or could anyone help me out, it is my first post


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Best Of :: Arts & Entertainment
As Father Brendan Flynn in John Patrick Shanley's Pulitzer Prize-winning Doubt, Terrell Hardcastle had what looked like the time of his life screwing mercilessly with the heads of his audience. Doubt is a play about, well, "doubt" — specifically, the doubt of a nun considering what to do about a priest whom she suspects is molesting a pupil. She isn't quite sure, of course, and neither are you. There's the rub. But you think you're sure, over and over again: big bad Sister Aloysius comes out, makes her case against the priest, and you're totally sold. You're ready to pull the bastard's eyes out. Then he appears, full of love and light and seeming good sense, and within minutes you can't imagine he's anything but the kind, wise, virtuous man he says he is. Any good actor can make an audience believe in him. Doing this after an audience has already made up its mind not to believe in him — that's not talent, but greatness.
Todd Allen Durkin is one crazy motherfucker, or at least he plays one on stage. He'll play anything but sane, a quirk that has rarely served him as well as it did in Will Eno's Thom Paine. Thom Paine is a one-man show in which the protagonist makes no sense whatsoever: he begins stories without finishing them, tells jokes without punchlines, and seems at all times ready to explode from ghastly internal pressure. The man wants to explain himself, to somehow rationalize his existence and explain away his foibles and let us know that he's really an OK guy. But in Durkin's hands, Thom didn't seem quite certain that the audience was willing to hear what he had to say; even his most lighthearted moments were shot through with intimations of impending doom, collapse, and failure. Thom could make us laugh, but he never laughed himself — his whole incoherent spiel was a tortured scream against alienation, and alienation isn't that funny. It's also seldom so painfully articulated in theater, and seldom so keenly felt by audiences at the moment of performance (so much so that several shows drew hecklers and sparked walkouts — some planted, many not). It was all so intense that you wondered, however briefly, if the event you were witnessing might transcend the stage and somehow magically cure the very malaise the playwright meant to address. It didn't, of course — the people departing Mosaic Theatre on those nights last summer were probably just as alienated and forlorn as the ones who'd arrived two hours earlier — but that wasn't Thom's failure, or Todd's. It was our own. We should just be glad they helped us realize it.
If New Times has talked too much about Pilar Uribe's year-old performance in Heather Raffo's 9 Parts of Desire, that's only because we haven't yet found anything better to talk about. The past year has seen the woman take on a more diverse and challenging array of roles than anybody in the state: she's been a neurotic talent agent, a stately professor who has both wronged her husband and been wronged by her paramour, a mother whose children were burned alive, an old beggar woman, a young girl who misses her dead father, a painter-cum-prostitute, a doctor horrified by a sudden glut of deformed babies showing up in her maternity ward, a Johnny Walker-swilling revolutionary forecasting doom for everybody, an American 20-something fearful for her relatives in a war-torn country overseas, a fat Bedouin, and a crazy street vendor. All but two of these roles came in 9 Parts, a one-woman show in which Uribe incarnated an array of diverse Iraqi women. Uribe's uncanny shapeshifting combined with the horrors in the women's stories made for a play that didn't seem quite real. One can't really believe that a woman working with few props besides a shawl could conjure a whole country in Mosaic's small auditorium, or that she could scare you as badly as she did. For all we know, the Latin American Uribe has no stake in our country's current war. But she made us feel ours.
There could have easily been a drop-off after his amazing 2005 solo debut, Needle Bed, but Lake Worth native John Ralston never succumbed to a sophomore slump. Instead, Ralston got to work immediately on what would become Sorry, Vampire, pairing up with ex-Wilco keyboardist/engineer Jay Bennett and even enlisting the vocal talents of fellow South Floridian Tim Yehezkely of the 2007 Best Album-winning the Postmarks. The result is a beautiful, endearing album that only gets better with each listen. Vampire is Ralston's dollhouse — a winding, orchestral journey through the talented songwriter's psyche, powered by a staggering array of instrumentation and layering. From the angst-ey drive of "Fragile" to the potent imagery of "When I Was a Bandage" (Little bits of cloud, go on and bite your lip/I was just a bandage when you lost your tourniquet), each track feels dense and full of detailed mystery, the aural equivalent of a Wes Anderson film. Ralston might be Florida's best songwriter. And if Vampire is any indication, he's only getting better.
Location may not be everything, but if you're an art gallery, you could do a lot worse than to be located at Gallery Center, Boca Raton's high-end mini-mall of seven individual galleries housed under one roof. On the down side, your competition is right next door. On the up side, anyone who wanders through the spacious Gallery Center complex is already likely to have art on the brain and thus be willing (and able) to shell out the equivalent of a year's salary for a prime work by a major artist. And if you're Habatat Galleries, there's the additional bonus of being the premier glass gallery in the entire region. The Boca outpost is part of a four-gallery chain that opened in Michigan in 1971 and has been focusing exclusively on glass since 1980. Along with hosting its own shows by such glass-world luminaries as Dale Chihuly, William Morris, and Dan Dailey, Habatat also curates exhibitions for museums and other institutions and offers a full line of consulting services for both experienced and novice collectors. Throw in the fact that Habatat recently presented the blown-glass orchids of Debora Moore — one of the best small shows of the season — and you've got a gallery that's first class in every regard.
At first it seemed too good to be true — an artist the caliber of Enrique Martínez Celaya setting up shop in South Florida. Then settle he did, and not in Miami or South Beach or even Palm Beach, either, but in Delray Beach, of all places. The Cuban-born exile bought a residence and built a studio there, then got busy producing the kind of work that has made him a top-tier name in art centers all over the world. His spectacular studio complex quickly became a magnet for collectors, curators, writers, other artists, and especially the Art Basel Miami Beach crowd, which trekked up by the busload. It seemed that Martínez Celaya was on his way to achieving his dream of establishing an artists colony in Delray. But the city turned on him, putting paperwork and zoning obstacles in his way, and the romance soured, sending the artist and his family to Southern California. Martínez Celaya still maintains South Florida connections — at the Museum of Art/Fort Lauderdale and the Miami Museum of Art, in particular — but gone are the days when he called the place home.


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Draper • There's an air of confidence, of inevitability on the Juan Diego tennis courts.
And though they don't want to sound arrogant or presumptive, there's little Brendan and Ryan Kempin can say to hide the fact the brothers expect to be state champions later this month.
Each is undefeated this season Brendon, a junior, perfect at No. 1 singles; Ryan, just a freshman, unblemished at No. 2 singles. And neither expects that to change to keep them from hoisting the hardware at the state meet May 17 and 18 in St. George.
"We just look at every match as a time to practice," said Brendan Kempin, the top-ranked 18U player in the Intermountain region. "Just treat it like we would a top junior in the nation and get something good out of it."
Brendon claimed the No. 1 singles title a year ago as middle brother Ryan watched, champing at the bit to play. Juan Diego finished fourth, four points back of Class 3A champion Park City, something Ryan is confident won't happen again this year.
Along with No. 3 Brenton Reyner, a state semifinalist at No. 2 singles last year, the Soaring Eagle appear to have a stranglehold on the individual awards.
"Last year it was heartbreaking to see how close they were," Ryan Kempin said. "In region, I expect at 1, 2 and 3 in singles we will win it, and I expect our doubles to do well, and keep that same pattern through state."
All three singles players claimed victory at last week's Region 10 meet as the Soaring Eagle capped an unbeaten region season.
Juan Diego coach Arthur Miyazaki said dominating the singles side doesn't necessarily guarantee overall team success. Certainly not when other schools appear to be conceding the singles tournaments and moving their best players to doubles in hopes of keeping pace with the Soaring Eagle.
"It's depth," Miyazaki said. "You could have a team make the finals in every position and out-point us. If we just win the three positions and doubles gets knocked off early, that can happen. A lot of teams are putting their best players, or their second- and third-best players at doubles. Every day is a new day."
Juan Diego's top doubles team of Ryan Lowe and Rex Alley placed second at the region tournament. The No. 2 doubles team of Nick Fuller and Dillon Kaeser placed third.
Those results, combined with the stellar singles play, makes Juan Diego the favorite to win its first state title in boys' tennis.
And with only one senior Fuller in the starting lineup, the Soaring Eagle are set to dominate the 3A field in the foreseeable future. The Kempins' youngest brother, Conner, will be a freshman next year.
The Kempin tennis bloodline runs deep to dad Kevin, who played at Weber State and is an assistant coach at Juan Diego, to mom Darlene, aunt Julie, who played at the University of Utah, and their grandparents.
"These kids have good technique," Miyazaki said. "Their father makes sure they have good technique when they are playing, so the coaching is about zoning in and attacking weakness or on footwork. It comes from their father. They have good genes."


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The History of Halloween
How did Halloween make its way to the United States? And how did our foremothers and their families practice it? This video explores the ancient origins of the holiday as well as its origins and early practices by women at the turn of the 20th century America.


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From HaskellWiki
Visual Haskell (Visual Studio integration) inactive for long time
This article talks about how Visual Haskell is this awesomely complete IDE; whereas, now in 2012, the link http://www.haskell.org/visualhaskell doesn't work and some searching around the web indicates that it is not working for the current or even the previous Visual Studio version, maybe wasn't even completed. I was not able to find a project page. Does anybody know more? If no response in the next 7 days I'm just going to replace the paragraph with "There's currently no integration with Visual Studio" --Tobster 17:58, 25 August 2012 (UTC)


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Washington : Government Printing Office
|Public Law 91-495
|Five Civilized Tribes of Oklahoma. Principal chiefs, popular selection.
|Sec. 3
|Sec. 4
|Term of office.
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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That, notwithstanding any other provisions of law, the principal chiefs of the Cherokee, Choctaw, Creek, and Seminole Tribes of Oklahoma and the governor of the Chickasaw Tribe of Oklahoma shall be popularly selected by the respective tribes in accordance with procedures established by the officially recognized tribal spokesman and/or governing entity. Such established procedures shall be subject to approval by the Secretary of the Interior.
The Secretary of the Interior or his representative is hereby authorized to assist, upon request, any of such officially recognized tribal spokesman and/or governing entity in the development and implementation of such procedures.
A principal officer selected pursuant to section 1 of this Act shall be duly recognized as the principal chief, or in the case of the Chickasaw Tribe, the governor, of that tribe.
Any principal officer currently holding office at the date of enactment of this Act shall continue to serve for a period not to exceed twelve months or until expiration of his most recent appointment, whichever is shorter, unless an earlier vacancy arises from resignation, disability, or death of the incumbent, in which case the office of principal chief or governor may be filled at the earliest possible date in accordance with section 1 of this Act.
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Nothing in this Act shall prevent any such incumbent referred to in section 4 of this Act from being elected as a principal chief or governor.
Approved, October 22, 1970.


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Features a Quad-Core Snapdragon processor for unprecedented speed and multi-tasking
The Samsung Galaxy S4 features a Quad-core 1.9 GHz Snapdragon 600 processor. This means that there are four powerful processor cores to handle the phone's most power-hungry functions and allows the S4 run multiple tasks seamlessly and also preserve battery life by shutting down the main cores when processor heavy functions are not being used.
Features new camera features such as Dual Shot and Drama Shot
Capture all of the fun wherever you are. With the Galaxy S4 you can use several new and exciting features to capture more than just single shots in order to relive those exciting memories. Dual Camera allows you to take simultaneous photos and videos from both the front and rear cameras, allowing you to capture the 'I was there' moments.
Additionally, Drama Shot allows allows you to capture a sequence of photos within one frame to create a collage that tells the story better than a single photo could.
Smart Pause and Smart Scroll for intuitive use and enhanced productivity
The Smart Scroll feature of the Samsung Galaxy S4 knows what you're doing and intuitively moves along with you – automatically scrolling up or down emails or websites when you tilt the phone from one side to another. Whenever you look away, the Samsung Galaxy S4 makes sure to pause whatever you're watching, so you don't miss anything. Amazingly, Smart Pause resumes where you left off when you look back at the screen again.
Break language barriers with Samsung's S Translator
Say or text what you need to translate into the S4 and it'll read or text back the translation. The Galaxy S4 is the perfect companion while traveling abroad, allowing you to easily communicate with locals, discover exotic foreign dishes, and explore hidden hangouts around the world.
Includes 4G capabilities for ultra-fast mobile internet
The Samsung Galaxy S4 fully supports 4G LTE networks, supporting download speeds of 100Mbit/s and uploads of 50Mbit/s. This means that as well as supporting 2G and 3G the Samsung Galaxy S4 can match even the heaviest data streaming activities on the move with ease.
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Chapel Worship: Ruah, Spirit, Breath, Wind – Carnival de Resistance
When Wednesday September 18, 2013 @ 10:00 AM (1405 days ago)
Where Lehman Auditorium
Duration 30 minutes
Join a movement of the Spirit with worship leaders and musicians leading a powerful, poetic, visceral, and visual service as part of the Carnival de Resistance. Tevyn East and Jay, of the The Psalters, have been leading similar services in their "Creation Groans Series" through the Alternative Seminary.
Return this evening for a free performance entitled OUT OF THE WHIRLWIND on Thomas Plaza beginning at 8 p.m. Here's more information: http://www.emu.edu/events/monthview.php?id=19013
Intended Audience General Public
Contact Information
Name Campus Ministries
Phone # 540.432.4196


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Re: How does this team get to 10 wins?
As far as the O struggling yesterday... they rely on a rhythm, when you don't pick anything on 1st down against a D who is getting fired up, you will struggle. That happened for about 30 minutes yesterday. I think handing the ball to Rice on every 1st down when they were struggling, was a mistake they made a couple times yesterday... Maybe a screen or dump off to Rice on 1st or 2nd down instead of 3rd and 10 would be a good idea at times.
Re: How does this team get to 10 wins?
I also, don't see us losing to the Redskins.
I know they still play the game... but it sounds like they may have packed it in for the season already...
Re: How does this team get to 10 wins?
And they didn't abandon the run at all. The Browns adjusted and stopped the run. We were running on 1st down most of that game. It just took the offense a while to re-adjust to what the Browns were doing.
We are going to be 7-2 before we hit our tough stretch. That's likely going to be 2nd in the AFC as they are now, and still leading the division. So at the least, we should be playing for the division lead when we go to Pittsburgh.
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Re: How does this team get to 10 wins?
Sorry but some of you should move to NY and become Yankee fans. You have that same entitled whiny obnoxious attitude they have. I cant believe some of the comments I have read.
This team lost its defensive leader, its best CB and is still having issues with playcalling and yet they managed to win a game on the road against a team that had won 2 of their past 3. We win a divisional road game and you all whine it was not a good enough win??? Seriously? We have the 2nd best record in the AFC despite all the injuries and other issues. What the hell else do you all expect. I am sorry maybe I am not being fair but if I did not know our record and came on here I would think we are 2-6 instead of 6-2. Get a grip.
It just stupid. If we lose to Oakland at home then start whining.A linebacker's job is to knock out running backs, to knock out receivers, to chase the football,
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Re: How does this team get to 10 wins?
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Re: How does this team get to 10 wins?
Well, this is about what I expected when I started this thread--a storm surge of unsupported optimism spiked with snide "you're not really a fan" flotsam & jetsam, with the occasional voice of reason trying to be heard over the howling windbags...
Those of you who worked yourselves into a froth over criticism of the Ravens' play last Sunday are saying more about your infantile notions of fannishness than anything else. The main reason y'all want us to "just shut up" (or "go to NY & become Yankee fans") is because you know most of the criticism is warranted & you hope that by squeezing your eyes shut & sticking your fingers in your ears & shouting 6-2, 6-2, 6-2! at the top of your lungs you can keep the evil spirits away.
Good luck with that.
Getting back to the issues at hand:
1) Anyone who takes comfort in the D only giving up 5 FGs yesterday needs to recognize that Weeden was under no real pressure for most of the game but still made a passle of unforced errors--missing receivers, not noticing others who were wide open--& his pass-catchers didn't do much to help him out. Every one of the QBs the Ravens will face in the remainder of the season is better than Brandon Weeden. Every one of those teams has better receivers than the Browns.
2) Last Sunday the Ravens offense looked really good for a quarter, then awful for the next two quarters, & finally woke up to score the winning TD. (No credit for the last FG, gaining only 4 yards from where the Browns turned the ball over on downs.) What happened in the 2nd & 3rd quarters? Can this offense figure out a way to move the ball & score for 4 quarters, or even for 3?
Here are the justifications for optimism that I see:
- The defense clearly concentrated on stopping Richardson & forcing Weeden to win the game, which turned out well; no one on the remaing schedule has as good a RB, so the emphasis will shift to controlling the passing game
- Ellerbe & Corey Graham stepped up their games
- The OL played better, at least in the first quarter, & the O came up with big plays when it needed them
- Three of the toughest games left are at home, where the Ravens have been close to unbeatable
- The team plays up to top competition
- The O went into a shell because they didn't want to show anything to future opponents
- Even great QBs have off days, & anything can happen
Problem is, most of these "reasons" are wishful thinking. At best they rely on past performances that may or may not be applicable to the current state of the team.
Other than the first quarter last Sunday, this team has shown no significant improvement in scheme, technique, or level of play coming out of the bye. There is no reason to believe they'll be any better at stopping a quality offense even at home with a good QB than they were at holding down Brady or Romo. There is a little more reason to thinnk that the offense can put up points when it has to.
But frankly, I see no way for the Ravens to reach 10 or 11 wins that doesn't involve a large helping of luck. And luck cuts both ways--a lot of the "anything" that "can happen" is bad stuff. They could just as easily end up 8-8. Even 7-9.
The most distressing thing to me is that I don't think this coaching staff knows how to deal with current conditions. Harbaugh has always played things conservatively; his philosophy has been to minimize the role of chance & trust that his players are simply better than the opponent. It's pretty clear that isn't the case this year. If they want to make the dance, they're going to have to start taking chances in order to "steal" games that on paper they should lose. But they don't act as if they've gotten the message & I don't have much confidence they know how to act on it even when (if) they do.
(FTR, I would rather not see what I've described above; I have no grudge against anyone on the staff or roster [& have no patience with anyone who wishes them ill in the interest of carrying one out]; and I would infinitely prefer seeing them win than being able to say "I told you so.")
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DID NIRVANA'S COBAIN RECORD SOLO ALBUM? During the last weeks of his life, Nirvana's late leader Kurt Cobain laid down several tracks for a solo album, according to his friend Eric Erlandson, who was guitarist for Cobain's wife, Courtney Love's band, Hole.
Erlandson made the revelation during an interview on the cable TV music network, Fuse, to promote his new book, "Letters to Kurt," a collection of correspondences to his pal.
Erlandson divulged that Cobain, "was headed in a direction that was really cool. It would have been his 'White Album.' That's really what he was going towards, a solo album but working with different people." He added, "I got to see him play it in front of me. That's why I was really sad when he died. He was cut short. Who knows where his music would have gone."
In addition to his own batch of compositions for the album, Cobain recorded a cover song, but Erlandson wouldn't say what it was. Of the demos, he said he hoped that they'll be released.
Cobain, who battled depression and heroin addiction, took his life at his home in Aberdeen, Wash., in February 1994 at age 27, joining the likes of Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, The Rolling Stones' Brian Jones, Canned Heat's Alan "Blind Owl" Wilson, Drifters lead singer Rudy Lewis, Grateful Dead keyboardist Ron "Pig Pen" McKernan, Badfinger leader Pete Ham, Minutemen singer-guitarist D. Boon and, most recently, Amy Winehouse, to pass at that age.
Speaking of Hole, the band's most successful lineup, the 1994-95 contingent of Erlandson, Love, drummer Patty Schemel and bassist Melissa Auf der Maur, reunited last week in New York City for their first performance in 17 years. The occasion was the premiere of a documentary on Schemel, "Hit So Hard," about her near-fatal drug addiction and her subsequent recovery. The band ran through ragged takes on "Miss World," from 1994's "Live Through This," and "Over the Edge," that appeared on their 1995 album, "Ask for It."
In other Nirvana news, that band's drummer Dave Grohl, who has led, sang and played guitar for The Foo Fighters since 1995, is back in the studio recording with Nirvana's semi-retired bassist Krist Novoselic and Garbage drummer Butch Vig, who produced Nirvana's blockbuster 1991 influential grunge masterwork, "Nevermind" album that has sold 30 million copies worldwide, according to NME. It's speculated that the trio is working on music for Grohl's upcoming documentary on Sound City Studios, the Van Nuys recording studio where "Nevermind" was produced. Fleetwood Mac's "Rumors," Neil Young's "After the Gold Rush" and "Damn the Torpedos" by Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers were recorded there.
To tie everything all together, Love, 47, who has clashed with the 43-year-old Grohl numerous times since Cobain's death, recently tweeted that he attempted to seduce Love and Cobain's 19-year-old daughter, Francis Bean Cobain.
Later, she recanted her charge, tweeting to her estranged daughter, "Bean, sorry I believed the gossip - Mommy loves you."
WOODY GUTHRIE SQUARE DEDICATED IN L.A. The intersection of 4 th and Main streets, four blocks south of City Hall in downtown Los Angeles has been named Woody Guthrie Square, after the late Dust Bowl-era folk music singer-songwriter, who lived in the area during the Depression-era 1930 s. Guthrie's daughter, Nora Guthrie, unveiled the sign designating the square. Nora is in charge of the Guthrie archives.
To celebrate Guthrie's 100 th birthday, a Grammy Museum-produced concert was held at L.A's Club Nokia with Jackson Browne, David Crosby, Graham Nash, Kris Kristofferson, John Doe of X, singer-songwriter Joe Henry, Brian Wilson's collaborator Van Dyke Parks, Rage Against the Machine guitarist and political activist Tom Morello and 80-year-old New York folkie and close pal of Bob Dylan, Ramblin' Jack Elliott. Billboard reports that the evening ended with audience and performers raising the roof by singing the best-known of Guthrie's 3,000 compositions, "This Land is Your Land."
Woody Guthrie, who inspired countless folk and rock artists, including Pete Seeger, John Mellencamp, Phil Ochs, The Clash's Joe Strummer, and especially Dylan and Bruce Springsteen, died in New York City in 1967 at age 55.
NO ROLLING STONES ALBUM YET Rolling Stones guitarist Ron Wood, who last week was in Cleveland being inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with his other band, The Faces, is apologizing for jumping the gun when he suggested that The Stones would be entering a recording studio at the end of the month, "to just throw some ideas around," which many in the media took as gospel that the band would be recording a new album.
Wood told Billboard that when singer Mick Jagger heard this, he wasn't pleased. "I heard from Jagger and he's going, 'What the hell? We don't know anything yet!' I said, 'You know what (the media) are like. I just expressed my personal view: I would love to go into the studio.' Then they took it all wrong. I didn't mean to say things out of line."
FORMER BAND DRUMMER HELM DYING Levon Helm, the former singing drummer and mandolin player for The Band whose drawl added authenticity to songs like "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down," is dying, according to a post on his website by his wife and daughter. Helm, 71, cancelled his scheduled appearance at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival.
The message reads, "Levon is in the final stages of his battle with cancer. Please send your prayers and love to him as he makes his way through this part of his journey."
Helm and the rest of the group's members first formed in 1958 when they were rockabilly musician Ronnie Hawkins' backup band. They called themselves The Hawks. They left Hawkins in 1964 and became Levon and The Hawks. In 1965, Bob Dylan recruited the group as his backup band. Dylan and the re-named Band toured the U.S in 1965 and embarked upon a world tour the following year. Dylan continued to use The Band on and off over the next several years, including on what was Dylan's comeback tour in 1974.
The Band released its own debut LP, "Music from Big Pink" in 1968.
They recorded and toured relentlessly until calling it a day with the legendary "Last Waltz" concert on Thanksgiving at the Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco. The concert saw the group joined by the likes of Dylan, Hawkins, Eric Clapton, Van Morrison, Neil Young, Neil Diamond, Dr. John, Joni Mitchell, Muddy Waters and Paul Butterfield. For the finale, they were joined by the guest stars, as well as Ron Wood and Ringo Starr, on Dylan's "I Shall Be Released."
But The Band, minus guitarist Robbie Robertson, regrouped seven years later, in 1983 and toured until they broke up for good in 1999 following the drug-related heart attack death of singer-bassist Rick Danko. The Band also recorded three more albums during the '90 s.
Helm was diagnosed with throat cancer more than a dozen years ago. He recovered but his voice was severely damaged and it took him years to regain it. In recent years he hosted his "Midnight Ramble" in the studio he called "the Barn" at his home in Woodstock, New York, where local musician friends and guests as varied as Elvis Costello, Donald Fagan of Steely Dan, Mississippi Delta blues pianist Pinetop Perkins, Howlin' Wolf's guitarist Hubert Sumlin, Emmylou Harris, Rickie Lee Jones, Gillian Welch and others would join him.
ON THE ALBUM CHART Lionel Ritchie's "Tuskegee," is at No. 4 on Billboard's Top 200 Album chart.
"Tuskegee" sees the smooth R&B and pop star re-record his hits country-style with help from the likes of Tim McGraw, Shania Twain, Willie Nelson, Jimmy Buffett, Rascal Flatts, fellow crossover guy former Hootie and The Blowfish leader Darius Rucker, Blake Shelton, Kenny Chesney and Kenny Rogers, who duets on the Ritchie-penned "Lady," that Rogers took to No. 1 in 1980, a song Billboard lists at No. 47 on its All Time Top 100. If the album makes it to the top, it'll be his first No. 1 album in the U.S. in 26 years.
New Orleans voodoo rocker Dr. John's just-released "Locked Up," produced by Black Keys singer-guitarist Dan Auerbach, debuted at No. 33, his highest charting album in 39 years since "In the Right Place" hit No. 24 in 1973.
Former or current (depending on who you believe) Jethro Tull leader Ian Anderson's non-Tull solo album sequel to his classic 1971 Jethro Tull concept album, "Thick as a Brick" is a hit. Anderson's new concept album, "Thick as a Brick 2" is at No. 55 in its first week. No Tull or Anderson solo album has reached that number on the chart in a quarter century.
The last time it happened was in 1987 when the Grammy-winning gold album, "Crest of a Knave" made it to No. 32.
NEW BOB MARLEY DOCUMENTARY On April 20, a new documentary on the late Jamaican reggae legend Bob Marley, titled "Marley," will be the first release ever to be made available for streaming on Facebook, according to a press release from the PR firm Rogers and Cowan. Marley's Facebook page has more than 37 million fans. The documentary hits the theatres on April 20 as well.
The film can be streamed for $6.99 via PayPal or via credit card. A portion of the proceeds from Facebook will benefit Save the Children, a non-profit organization that helps kids in need.
RECENT RELEASES Among the recently released albums, re-issues and deluxe box sets are Chicago bluesman Lurrie Bell's "The Devil Ain't Got No Music;" "Sweet, Sad & Salty" from actor-folk singer Burl Ives; a 2-CD "The Essential Donovan," from the new Rock Hall inductee; Johnny Cash's "Unseen Cash From William Speer's Studio;" "Older Than My Old Man Now" from folkie humorist Loudon Wainwright III; and a 2-CD, "Complete Hit Singles A's & B's," from Cowboy Copas, the country western singer who was killed in the 1963 plane crash along with Patsy Cline; "The Pearl Sessions" from Janis Joplin; "Secrets Of Flying: Expanded Edition" from Bahaman R&B singer Johnny Kemp; "Massey Hall Moments: All Live" from Gordon Lightfoot; "Here's Little Richard;" "The Big Heat" from former Wall of Voodoo singer Stan Ridgeway; an import, "Travelling," from veteran Swedish pop duo Roxette; "The Complete Bowdoin College Concert 1960," a 2-CD from folk legend Pete Seeger; "Hidden Gems" from Luther Vandross; a 2-CD, "Marley: Original Soundtrack" to the new documentary on the Rastaman.
The Jesus & Mary Chain's long out of print 1994 album, "Stoned & Dethroned," with guest vocals from Shane McGowan, leader of The Pogues and Mazzy Star's Hope Sandoval, was just re-issued on vinyl. Among the new DVDs out is a 14-DVD box set from The Grateful Dead, "All the Years Combine: The DVD Collection."
JIMMY BUFFETT IN, EDDIE VEDDER OUT Pearl Jam singer Eddie Vedder was forced to postpone his 15-date solo tour because of nerve damage caused by a back injury last year. So, Jimmy Buffett is taking his slot at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival on May 3.
Other performers at the famed fest that runs April 27 through May 6 at the Fairgrounds Racecourse include The Beach Boys; '60 s "Chapel of Love" girl group The Dixie Cups; Little Anthony & The Imperials; Herbie Hancock;English reggae vets Steel Pulse; local Big Easy outfit Buckwheat Zydeco; Latin jazz and salsa conga player Poncho Sanchez; Flaco Jimenez, Augie Meyers and their band, The Texas Tornados; former Allman Brothers and current Rolling Stones touring keyboardist Chuck Leavell; "The Soul Queen of New Orleans," Irma Thomas; Cajun vets BeauSoliel with Michael Doucet; ragtime jazz pianist and clarinetist Butch Thompson; Tom Perry and The Heartbreakers; Cee-Lo Green; jazz saxman Dave Koz; eight-member New Orleans group The Soul Rebels Brass Band and My Morning Jacket.
Also, Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band; Dr. John; Al Green; gospel singer Yolanda Adams; jazz singer Dianne Reeves; jazz pianist Ellis Marsalis, father of Wynton and Branford; Soul Asylum leader Dave Pirner; Cowsills singer Susan Cowsill; Florence & The Machine; Ani DiFranco; Ivan Neville's Dumpstaphunk; 76-year-old Mississippi bluesman James Cotton; The Dirty Dozen Brass Band; Zac Brown Band; original Wailers drummer Bunny Wailer; Mavis Staples; Bruce Hornsby; N.O. piano king Allen Toussaint; local treasure The Preservation Hall Jazz Band; Aaron Neville; New Orleans blues guitarist Guitar Slim, Jr.; The Foo Fighters; The Neville Brothers and another Neville-filled band, The Meters; Bonnie Raitt; Maze, featuring Frankie Beverly; jazz alto sax player David Sanborn and journeyman Texas swing group Asleep at the Wheel.
Buffett recently took a stage in Omaha for the first time since 1985.
To commemorate the occasion, he was introduced by the man he refers to as "Cousin Warren," his unrelated pal, billionaire Warren Buffett. The two have been friends for years, reports the Omaha World. Buffett then took a seat to the side of the stage where he cheered his "Cousin Jimmy" throughout the show.
ROCK HALL PUTS ON BIG TIME INDUCTION CONCERT All of the groups inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame at this year's ceremony and concert in Cleveland had members who for whatever reasons did not attend. This included The Faces frontman Rod Stewart; Guns N' Roses singer Axl Rose and co-founding rhythm guitarist Izzy Stradlin; Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist John Frusciante, who served two important terms in the band and Adam Yauch from The Beastie Boys.
Traditionally, the inductees and a bunch of guest musicians hit the stage to jam on the new members' hit songs, and this year's bash was no different.
Among the highlights were ZZ Top's bearded two-some, guitarist Billy Gibbons and bassist Dusty Hill baying tribute to blues guitarist Freddie King, who went in as an early influence, playing two King classics, "Hideaway" and "Goin' Down."
John Mellencamp gave Donovan's induction speech and joined him on "Season of the Witch." The Scottish psychedelic folk rock troubadour soloed on "Catch the Wind" and "Sunshine Superman."
Bette Midler inducted the late singer-songwriter Laura Nyro, followed by relative newby Sara Bareilles' take on Nyro's "Stoney End."
Brill Building songwriter Carole King presented the late impresario Don Kirshner, before giving way to Phil Spector prot?g? Darlene Love who sang King and then-hubby Gerry Goffin's 1960 Spector-produced smash, "Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow."
E Street Band guitarist Little Steven Van Zandt did the induction honors for The Faces. With Stewart out ill with the flu, members guitarist Ron Wood, keyboardist Ian McLagan and drummer Kenny Jones and new bassist, former Sex Pistol Glen Matlock, called in the group's current singer, former Simply Red frontman, Mick Hucknall and together they ripped through "All or Nothing," "Ooh La La" and "Stay With Me."
Smokey Robinson inducted '50 s rockers Bill Haley's band, The Comets; Gene Vincent's group, The Blue Caps; Buddy Holly's backups, The Crickets; James Brown's support unit, The Famous Flames; Hank Ballard's Midnighters; and his own backup singers, The Miracles.
Robbie Robertson, former guitarist for The Band gave the introductory speech for newly enshrined engineer-producers Tom Dowd, Glyn Johns and Cosimo Matassa.
Comic Chris Rock did the honors for The Red Hot Chili Peppers. The band then dug out a trio of tunes, ending their brief set with their 1991 hit, "Give It Away."
LL Cool J and Public enemy rapper Chuck D inducted The Beastie Boys before The Roots, Kid Rock and Travie McCoy of Gym Class Heroes performed a Beastie's medley that included "What'cha Want."
Green Day inducted Guns N' Roses. With Alter Bridge singer Myles Kennedy doing a perfect Rose, Slash, Gilby Clarke, Matt Sorum and Steven Adler gave the throng a three-song show that included "Mr. Brownstone" with Green Day leader Billie Joe Armstrong joining in on guitar, followed by "Sweet Child O' Mine" and "Paradise City."
The evening ended when Ron Wood, Kenny Jones, The Red Hot Chili Peppers, Armstrong, Slash and P-Funk leader George Clinton ran through Stevie Wonder's "Higher Ground." The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony airs May 5 on HBO.
DEPP & PORTMAN IN NEW MCCARTNEY VIDEO Paul McCartney turned director for the video of his new record, "My Valentine," the song he wrote for his bride, Nancy Shevell, and debuted at their wedding reception last October. The song is from his latest album, "Kisses From the Bottom." McCartney actually directed three videos, one with Johnny Depp, another with Natalie Portman and the third featuring both actors. The video can be seen on YouTube.
TENOR SAXMAN ANDREW LOVE DIES Memphis Horns tenor sax player Andrew Love did in Memphis at 70, according to The Associated Press. He had been suffering from Alzheimer's. He played on 53 No. 1 hits as well as 83 gold and platinum records. The Memphis Horns backed up everyone from Elvis Presley, Aretha Franklin and Otis Redding to U2, Alicia Keys and Neil Diamond.
NOW PLAYING Classic acts from the '50 s, '60 s and '70 s continue to perform. Here's what one of them is doing.
Beginning in 1957, velvet-voiced pop singer Jimmie Rodgers scored three Top Three hits over the next year, including his debut 45, "Honeycomb," that hit No. 1. Months later, his follow-up single, "Kisses Sweeter Than Wine," that was written by Pete Seeger and the rest of his folk group, The Weavers, made it to No. 3.
In December 1967, shortly after "Child of Clay" became his final hit single, he was pulled over by an off-duty LAPD officer and badly beaten, sustaining a skull fracture and some loss of memory. He eventually sued the LAPD and received a $200,000 settlement. After a recuperation period of more than a year, he resumed his recording career and even hosted a summer variety show on ABC in 1969.
Several years ago he told me that a severe illness caused major damage to his vocal chords. This prompted his retirement from music. He was living happily in Palm Springs spending his days as a part-time golf pro on one of the local courses.
Since then, his voice has recovered to the point that he's been making small appearances here and there. Rodgers, now 78, is headlining a benefit concert on Saturday at the First Church of Christ in Middletown, Connecticut.
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2014 Golden Gods Awards to air on VH1 Classic
The Golden Gods are headed to VH1 Classic. The network has announced plans to air this year's edition of the hard rock and heavy metal awards shows on May 24th.
Eddie Trunk, Don Jamieson, and Jim Florentine from VH1 Classic's "That Metal Show" will host the event, which is scheduled to tape next Wednesday, April 23rd, at Club Nokia in Los Angeles.
Some of this year's honorees include Guns N' Roses frontman Axl Rose, who's getting the Ronnie James Dio Lifetime Achievement Award, and Joan Jett, the first female recipient of the Golden God Award. They'll both be performing as well, with Zakk Wylde, Marilyn Manson, Alice Cooper, Rob Zombie, and many others also set to make an appearance.
In addition to next month's edited broadcast, fans will also be able to watch the entire Golden Gods Awards show next week on VH1.com or the VH1 App. The event kicks off with the Black Carpet pre-show at 10:00 pm. Eastern.


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14th November 2013 11:45 AM #1
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UK Mothers being paid to breastfeed their own children
Hi all
So this is an interesting one - mothers being paid to breastfeed their own children. In this UK pilot program, a group of women in poorer areas of the UK where breastfeeding is at an all time low are being offered incentives in the form of food vouchers to breastfeed their babies for the first six months.
If the pilot is successful the intention is to roll the program out nation-wide. Keep in mind the UK has one of the worst breastfeeding rates in the world. Do you think it is right to do so? Will it work?
Here is the news article: Mums paid to breastfeed own kids
16th November 2013 06:15 AM #2
This has been causing a lot of media attention this week, hasn't it.
As a stand alone scheme, I don't think it would be effective. My feelings are that the amount of money being offered (in the form of shopping vouchers) would not be enough to sway a new mum to start breastfeeding if she had previously decided to formula feed. Breastfeeding mums already save money compared to formula feeding mums (no bottles, formula, sterilisers etc) on average so there is already a financial advantage to breastfeeding.
My belief is that it is the sharing of good breastfeeding knowledge that can increase breastfeeding rates. I think it would be great if children could learn about the benefits of breastfeeding throughout school. I also feel that breastfeeding peer support groups/ services are key to both helping more mums in the early days of breastfeeding and supporting mums to continue to breastfeed to two years and beyond.
Perhaps alongside a peer support group and excellent breastfeeding education this financial scheme could help to increase breastfeeding rates; but I don't think it would work just in itself.
I'd also be interested to hear other members' views on this.
19th November 2013 04:17 PM #3
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Hi LJ
I agree. I understand the logic behind the scheme but I don't think it will work. In addition how will it be policed and what kind of world do we live in if you have to police a breastfeeding mother.
I can see providing some sort of financial assistance would be useful where the main barrier to breastfeeding was having to return to work, but the breastfeeding subsidy, along with anything else the mother could get in the way of assistance would have to be enough to support her.
In reading the article it seems the real issue is that these mothers come from a long line of formula-feeding women and throwing food vouchers at them isn't going to make up for the lack of community and familial knowledge.
I guess we'll see how it goes!
19th November 2013 07:42 PM #4
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Yeah I don't think this'll be effective.
To really improve breastfeeding rates there needs to be a cultural shift, better support and education (and not just for expectant parents) and more normalisation of breastfeeding in public, as well as something like formula being only available by prescription- though this would involve much better breastfeeding knowledge for doctors, which is severely lacking.
I'd like to know what else is being offered to the mothers in these targeted areas. Are they being given extra education and support? Help to prepare, and to really understand why breastfeeding is so important? What about the few that might be in these areas who genuinely physically can't breastfeed (which statistics say is less than 2% of women, but is still more than 0).
20th November 2013 07:57 AM #5
The more I have thought about this new incentive the more I am convinced that (as you refer to Asrathiel) breastfeeding education is of such importance - for all health professionals as well as new parents and....well everyone really. I heard an interesting discussion on the radio about this where a breastfeeding peer support worker was making the point that rather than saying 'breast is best' she says 'breast is normal'. With good education, excellent support as well as the support and acceptance of society breastfeeding will be considered the normal way to feed your baby and formula only given in exceptional/ necessary situations.
My understanding is that this voucher scheme would be offered alongside breastfeeding peer support.
I really agree with your point about doctors needing to continually update their breastfeeding knowledge - I've sadly heard too many cases of misinformation being given out by doctors.
Warm wishes,
14th November 2015 08:52 AM #6
Yes it's only £200 a mum would get if they breastfeed to 6 months. You can read more about the pilot study here.


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July 2012
In this Issue:
Explorer Alexandra Cousteau Speaks at Clarkson
Munter Trail System Nears Completion
Sprout Foundation Loan Fund for Student Start-Ups in Green Innovation
Alumni Donations Support the Greenhouse/Digester Project
Two Clarkson University Alumni Create Professorship in Sustainability
Clarkson Alumnae Anahita Williamson Receives U.S. EPA Award for her Environmental Work
Read more in past issues of the Sustainability Newsletters
Read more about
alumni giving for sustainability.
New riverfront trail system provides expansive views of the Raquette River
Digester, energy cabin and greenhouse (L-R)
Danny, Kerry, Bob and Jean Spence ('79), a member of Clarkson's Board of Trustees, and her husband Robert ('79) created the new Spence Professorship
Anahita Williamson, PhD
Director of the NYSP2I
We will… "build sustainability into everything we do at Clarkson." President Collins, April 2010
EVERYBODY needs to be involved to meet President Collins' goal. This month's newsletter celebrates the contributions of our alumni with their philanthropic and professional efforts to support sustainability on our campus and beyond.
Explorer Alexandra Cousteau Speaks at Clarkson
With Stephan Yelenik '77 at its helm, the Alumni Council initiated the Clarkson Reunion Keynote Speaker series with Alexandra Cousteau as the inaugural speaker. Yelenik was joined by Alumni Council members Kevin Cunningham '90, Eric Dibble '81, Kate Dangremond '01, Kyle Snyder '08, Dave Tromp '97 and Brian '03 and Jennifer Walden '03, who made gifts to help underwrite the cost of the event.
Ms. Cousteau, the granddaughter of the legendary ocean explorer, Jacques-Yves Cousteau, delivered an impassioned presentation about her life and advocacy through the non-profit Blue Legacy about the global water crisis. In an interview with the Watertown Daily Times staff reporter Christopher Robbins, Ms. Cousteau addressed the water crisis in our region. She stated "We need to stop and look at what is happening in our own back yards. The St. Lawrence has a lot of problems," she said. "The beluga whales that live in the lower St. Lawrence are considered hazardous waste… Having a lot of water doesn't necessarily mean that water is safe. We need to be more mindful of what we are putting in our water and how we protect it."
Read more or watch a video clip of her visit to campus.
Munter Trail System Nears Completion
Sprout Foundation Loan Fund for Student Start-Ups in Green Innovation
Clarkson University received a generous grant from the Sprout Foundation Inc. of Denver, Colo. to establish the Sprout Foundation Loan Fund for Student Start-Ups in Green Innovation. The Sprout Foundation was established in 2005 by Robert ('69) and Suzanne Fanch with the primary mission of providing support to organizations and institutions that serve the environment and the needs of children.
The Sprout Foundation Loan Fund is a revolving loan fund for student-inspired and student-run start-ups that address issues and challenges associated with a sustainable environment. Blue Sphere Industries has been selected as the first recipient of a loan from the Sprout Foundation Loan Fund. Student owners of this business are taking concepts developed in Clarkson's pilot-scale greenhouse to the next level with the installation of 100 aeroponic units in Peyton Hall for the year-round production of greens and herbs for Aramark and other local consumers.
Donations Support the Greenhouse/Digester Project
Renzi Foodservice, Inc., a major supplier of the food served on campus, understands the value of procuring fresh food from local sources and the expense of dealing with food waste. Thus, it is fitting that a gift from Renzi Foodservice, Inc. will help to sustain the operation of Clarkson's integrated greenhouse and anaerobic digester for five years. Students are instrumental in keeping these systems going while they are immersed in the complex technical systems and day-to-day operation. The Renzi gift will fund students leaders like Ashley Waldron ('12), who will help coordinate teams of student volunteers to further develop these systems and sustain their operation. This gift was coordinated by M. Jude Renzi '91, VP, Sales and Marketing of Renzi Foodservice, Inc., Watertown NY.
Two Clarkson University Alumni Create Professorship in Sustainability
A generous gift from two Clarkson University alumni has enabled the University to create the Jean '79 and Robert '79 Spence Professorship in Sustainable Environmental Systems.
Jean E. and Robert C. Spence of Wilmette, Ill., have funded the position to advise the University on sustainability matters; integrate sustainability principles into scholarship, teaching, and service; and to provide a focal point for the exchange of ideas with other institutions worldwide. Prof. Susan E. Powers ('83, '85) was named the first Spence Professor. She holds a joint appointment as associate director for sustainability in the Institute for a Sustainable Environment and professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Read more about Jean and Robert Spence and their creation of this endowed professorship.
Clarkson Alumnae Anahita Williamson Receives U.S. EPA Award for her Environmental Work
Anahita Williamson, PhD, received the EPA's 2012 Environmental Quality Award in recognition for her leadership and significant contributions to greening New York State. Williamson was a member of the Clarkson School class of '95 and received her BS ('98), MS ('02), and PhD ('06) degrees from Clarkson. She is the daughter of Prof. Goodarz Ahmadi, Dean of the Coulter School of Engineering.
Dr. Williamson was nominated by Senator Gillibrand for this award. "I congratulate Dr. Williamson for her dedication to securing a cleaner New York," says Gillibrand. "From improving the region's quality of life to successfully reducing our carbon footprint, Dr. Williamson will help lead the way toward a green energy future for our state and our country."
As the director of New York State Pollution Prevention Institute at RIT, she has also had the opportunity to maintain close ties with Clarkson. Clarkson has received grants for research and award-winning student sustainability projects through our partnership in the NYSP2I.
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> It will be nice to have option in witch you can enable view of system
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Diaz' Gang
|GTA Vice City
GTA Vice City Stories
|Diaz' Mansion, Starfish Island
|Ricardo Diaz
|Drug Cartel
Gonzalez' Crew
Gonzalez' Crew
Uzi (missions only)
Ruger (during Death Row)
|Drugs trade
|Diaz' Mansion
|Beau Nurr
Drug baron Ricardo Diaz' unnamed drug cartel (referred to in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City as "Diaz's gang"[1]) was a Vice City-based Colombian drug cartel, which erupted into large power circa 1984. They also act as his personal guard, shooting at anyone who attempts to harm him (as seen in the mission "Rub Out").
Prior to Tommy Vercetti's takeover of Vice City, the gang was the dominant drug cartel in Vice City, with Ricardo's aggressive interest in staying on top of the drug smuggling business a defining factor. He is seen requesting the theft of the fastest speed boat in the city for smuggling activities, and killing those who attempt to cut into his profits, even though it only comprises a small proportion. In addition, members of the Diaz' gang is believed to have botched Tommy's initial drug deal with the Vance brothers (consisting of Lance Vance and Victor Vance) forcing Tommy to leave behind (and lose) both the money and narcotics as he fled the scene.
Tommy Vercetti was given the opportunity to work for Ricardo, while Lance Vance infiltrated the gang under a different name. As Tommy continued to work for Ricardo and planned for a takeover of Ricardo's empire, Lance attempted the overthrow prematurely, failing to kill Ricardo and resulting in his capture and torture by the gang, before Tommy rushed to the rescue. This event forced the two to raid the Diaz Mansion and kill Ricardo before Ricardo kills the pair himself, killing many of Diaz' men on the way.
The killing of Ricardo effectively ended the Diaz Cartel as Ricardo's mansion and all of his assets were seized by the Vercetti's. No longer were any members of the Cartel seen in the city (apart from in Rampages and vigilante missions). After the death of Ricardo Diaz, the gang members may have left for Liberty City and joined/become the Colombian Cartel, as the gangs resemble each other.
Diaz' Gang members are commonly seen congregating and moving in groups in Starfish Island. Outside of the missions Rub Out and Death Row, They are not ordinarily hostile to Tommy, and will only attack in self-defense or if the "Riot" cheat or the "Pedestrians Hate You" cheat has been activated.
Diaz' Gang members patrolling Starfish Island may attack or be attacked by the Patrol Invest Group if they see each other. The two are frequently in conflict with each other, and gunfights between both parties are not uncommon; police act against both parties when gun battles occur. In addition, policemen will pursue and kill Diaz' Gang mobsters in the same manner as they do with other gang members and street criminals, allowing the player to attain "Good Citizen Bonuses" worth $50 each for each punch/kick/attack delivered to a fleeing mobster. The player must be careful though, as the mobster (or any nearby mobsters) may attack player with a pistol. Also, accidentally hitting the cop will give the player a one star wanted level, killing the cop will give the player two.
Ambush Men
Diaz' men that disrupted the drug deal between Tommy and the Vance brothers do not appear to be regular members of his gang, rather they could be mercenaries.
These men are dressed in black BDUs (battle dress uniforms) and black tuques. They all appear to be Caucasian and of medium atheletic build. once of them has a mustache. They are perhaps inspired by the LAPD SWAT team in the Die Hard movie, who have similar uniforms.
One of them carriers a Colt pistol, another an MP5K (which is not an in-game weapon, though an MP5A3 is), and a third carries an M16A2 (also not available in-game weapon, while the Colt Model 733 incorrectly titled as the "M4" is) or M60 machine gun.
Diaz' men attacking Tommy Vercetti, Harry, Lee and Victor Vance.
- ↑ The Grand Theft Auto: Vice City game stat refers Diaz' Gang as "Diaz's gang," emphasis on the lower case "gang."


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Fordham Law Launches the Nation's First LL.M. in Corporate ComplianceNovember 14, 2013
Fordham Law School has launched a new LL.M. degree in Corporate Compliance, which will begin in Fall 2014. Believed to be the first Master of Laws program in the United States to focus on compliance, the program will present one of the world's most robust curricular offerings in this rapidly expanding field.
"Corporate compliance is one of the fastest growing areas of law, but law school offerings throughout the country are not meeting the demand for compliance education," said Michael M. Martin, Dean of Fordham Law. "These new programs will meet the demand by providing a distinct pathway to gain advanced corporate compliance knowledge."
Professor of Law Sean J. Griffith, who holds the T.J. Maloney Chair and is Director of the Fordham Corporate Law Center, will serve as faculty director of the LL.M. program.
"With our location in the heart of the nation's compliance community, we are well positioned to offer students a strong interactive experience including training from industry professionals and visits to corporate compliance departments and some of the top compliance law firms," Griffith said. "Our graduates will be prepared to take advantage of the rise in compliance jobs generated by recent regulatory changes in the United States and around the world."
The new degree is structured primarily for domestic attorneys seeking to work in the field of international corporate compliance, international lawyers who work in the corporate area, and academics whose scholarly interests are in the compliance field. All students in the program must complete a minimum of 24 credits in approved courses. The degree builds on the strength of the existing LL.M. programs at Fordham, where more than 1,600 students from some 100 countries have completed a Master of Laws degree since 1989.
Applications for Fall 2014 admission will be accepted through March 1.
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