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AdBlock Plus, a popular browser extension, blocks most pop-up, video and banner ads. But according to a German news site, Google, which controls the largest online advertising network, has paid the makers of the software not to weed out some of its ads.
AdBlock Plus seems to have been quietly changing its model from blocking all ads to policing which ads are "annoying" and which are "acceptable." The larger ad networks have been funding its policing efforts by paying the its German parent company, Eyeo, not to filter out some of their "nonintrusive" ads, including Google's AdWords.
"Whitelisting is free for all small websites and blogs. However, managing this list requires significant effort on our side and this task cannot be completely taken over by volunteers as it happens with common filter lists. That's why we are being paid by some larger properties that serve nonintrusive advertisements that want to participate in the Acceptable Ads initiative, the AdBlock Plus website says.
At present, search ads are filtered out on a Bing search but not on a Google search. The company indicates that the list of "acceptable ads" is growing slowly as its staff moves as fast as it can.
"We have to add filters to allow ads that aren't intrusive, this cannot be an automatic process. However, this is far from trivial — the same advertising network might serve non-intrusive advertisements on some web sites and intrusive advertisements on others," the website says.
AdBlock Plus indicates that making agreements with advertising networks is the best way to address the problem. Google is not the only company to have paid for whitelisting, it says, but it doesn't name the other companies.


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Original BTC - Oceanic Pendant Large, Basalt Grey
A contemporary twist on an original design from the dockyards of early 20th Century Britain. The Oceanics steel galvanised finish provides authenticity and longevity. The smart powder coated grey shade compliments the design and the light will give a strong industrial aesthetic to all interiors.
Color: Basalt Grey
Weight: 13.2 lbs
Type Of Fitting: UL Listed E26
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8.- Secondary Teacher Certification
BS degrees with concentrations designed for secondary teacher certification are available in the following disciplines: Biology, Chemistry, Earth Science, Life/Earth Sciences, Mathematics, Natural Sciences, Physical Sciences, and Physics. A minor in secondary education must be selected for the purpose of teacher certification in these fields. The interdisciplinary degrees (Life/Earth, Natural, and Physical Sciences) do not require this to be a second minor. Whether a second minor is required for the other degrees is determined by the major department (see the Secondary Education Concentration under each degree requirement).
Admission to Secondary Teacher Education: Student may not enroll in the upper-division courses in the secondary education minor until they are admitted to the secondary teacher education program. This admission requires a minimum of 60 semester hours with a GPA of 2.5 or better including a minimum of nine semester hours in the major with a GPA of 2.5 or better. Additional requirements and procedures are described in the College of Education section of this catalog.
Secondary Education Minor: The minor in secondary education consists of 25 semester hours:
EDPC 3300 Developmental Variations
RED 3342 Reading and Study in the Content Areas
SCED 3311 Curriculum Planning in the Secondary School
SCED 3317 Multicultural Education in the Secondary School (This course satisfies the cultural diversity component of the core curriculum.)
SCED 6491 Student Teaching in the Secondary School
SCED 3467 Teaching Math in Secondary School
SCED 3468 Teaching Science in Secondary School TED 1201 Orientation to Education
Computer Science Minor: Several degree plans list computer science as an acceptable minor. The College of Science recommends the following courses for this minor: A Minimum of 18 semester hours including 4101 (or 4120 ); 3333 (or 4201 and 3202 ); 3350 ; and six semester hours selected from 3335 , 3360 , 3442 , or 3452 .
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Tuesday, 24 October, 2000, 06:16 GMT 07:16 UK
Census campaign's online strategy
Campaigners who want the 2001 census to let people class themselves as "Welsh" is using the internet to publish an amended version of the forms.
In the 2001 census, there will be no special box for people to tick in order to classify their nationality as Welsh.
Welsh people will only have the option of classifying themselves as British, Irish or Other.
In Scotland, however, people will have the choice of describing themselves as Scottish through a special tick box which the Scottish Parliament has insisted is included on the forms.
For 'Welsh', read 'Other'
The Office for National Statistics has so far refused to include a Welsh tick box, saying that if people want to class themselves as Welsh they can tick the box marked "Other" and then write "Welsh" alongside.
This has provoked anger in some quarters in Wales, and there have been growing calls for Welsh people to be given the same status as the Scots.
A vociferous newspaper campaign to get the census forms changed has been launched; the Welsh Local Government Association has backed the calls, and a lawyer is seeking a judicial review of the decision.
'Insult' to Welsh
In the latest development, a campaigning body, the Census Reform Group, has published an amended version of the census form to include a Welsh tick box.
Ray Davies, co-ordinator of The Census Reform Group said, "This is an unmitigated insult to the Welsh people. It is a kick in the teeth for those many patriots who campaigned passionately for our new National Assembly.
"We are calling on all people who are proud to call themselves Welsh to disregard the ONS page on the official census and to use the one provided by The Census Reform Group," he said.
The ONS has said census legislation for Scotland was devolved to the Scottish Parliament, which had taken the decision to add the Scottish tick box.
However, for Wales, the matter was decided in London, and the decision was taken not to include a tick box for people to say they were Welsh.
Last week in the National Assembly, First Minister Rhodri Morgan was told by Plaid Cymru leader Ieuan Wyn Jones, that the situation was "unacceptable".
Mr Morgan replied that the addition of a Scottish tick box was made by the Scottish Parliament at the last minute, and that the discontent in Wales only came about after the forms for Wales had been printed.
It would cost between Ł1m and Ł2m to print the forms again, and he doubted if the Treasury would authorise the expenditure.
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18 Sep 00 | Wales
Call for judicial review over census
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Welsh equality row over census
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Am Montag, den 03.01.2005, 14:08 -0500 schrieb Graham Dunn:
> Yes please ... I do this on my current ipfilter box, and would love to
> replace it with a m0n0wall.
You can test this by your own. Just load the CDROM version of m0n0wall
and configure m0n0 for your gateway. The GUI won't provide you with this
feature, but if it's supported via exec.php, you have the possibility to
make an entry in config.xml for this.
Ciao ...
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It was only a matter of time.
Clayton Kershaw, winner of two of the past three Cy Young Awards, created a masterpiece on the mound for the Los Angeles Dodgers while throwing a no-hitter against the Colorado Rockies in dominating fashion. The left-hander struck out 15 Rockies and walked none, missing out on a perfect game only because of a throwing error made by Hanley Ramirez in the seventh.
Batter after batter was confounded by Kershaw, who was incredibly economical throughout his nine no-hit innings. Throwing 107 pitches, Kershaw challenged Colorado's lineup over and over again, pounding the strikezone with a dazzling array of pitches.
Umpire Greg Gibson would say that Kershaw was "locked in," as the Dodger ace threw 79 of his 107 pitches for strikes. As catcher A.J. Ellis noted, Kershaw had full command of his pitches, including a devastating slider and curveball that he used for finishing 14 of his 15 strikeouts. The hard-throwing lefty only went to his fastball once to finish a batter.
The jubilant Kershaw, having struck out the final batter of his evening, raised both of his arms high in celebration as he waited for his teammates to join in. Ellis was one of the first to the mound, and he made sure to drop his mask far from where the celebration would be before bear-hugging his friend and battery mate. And of course, one of the Dodgers brought out the bubble machine for what is becoming a hallmark of the 2014 Dodgers: the celebratory dance party.
The overriding theme of the comments made afterward demonstrate just how well-respected Kershaw is in the clubhouse and throughout all of baseball. Every comment seemed to mention how deserving he was of this moment, and even the opposing players seemed a bit awestruck by his performance, seemingly appreciating being witness to it. According to Troy Tulowitzki:
"When there's a special moment for someone, you want to watch how a guy responds. Clayton, I've always had a lot of respect for how hard he works. It's nice for me to see how much it means for him. If something can bring tears to someone's eyes, it means you really care, and he cares a lot about this game."
Kershaw's Dodger teammates also spoke highly of him, and Ellis, of course, spoke glowingly of the performance:
"I started tearing up in the ninth. I just got emotional out there. I told him it's not fair to have a devastating slider and a devastating curve the same night. But when he does, this is possible. The guys in that lineup give him fits. The way he made them look is a testament to how good he was. I'm just thankful and blessed to be on the receiving end of the best pitcher in baseball."
Manager Don Mattingly discussed how deserving Kershaw is of every accolade, noting that it is impossible not to respect his work ethic and attitude, saying:
"The thing about it, all the guys sit and watch, and you listen to them and they'll say that nobody deserves this more than him. He works hard every day. He does everything right. He's a great teammate. The two Cy Youngs don't even get in the way. It's just so nice to watch someone like that get it."
On the season, Kershaw now possesses a record of 7-2 and an ERA of 2.52. Over his past six starts, Kershaw is 5-1 with an ERA of 1.50. During that time, he has also struck out 58 while walking only five over 42 innings pitched. It is safe to say that Kershaw is hitting his stride.
The exultant Kershaw expressed gratitude and appreciated the moment, saying:
"As far as individual games, this is pretty special. I'll remember this for the rest of my life. Get to do it at home, it's even better. It's amazing"
As for the Ramirez error that cost him the perfect game?
"Under normal circumstances, that's pretty close to a hit. Dickerson's pretty fast and Hanley did all he could. He made a good play and just the throw was a little wide. Nothing he could do with that. It was a tough play."
For a pitcher of Kershaw's ability and stature, it was clear long ago that this moment was coming. Having witnessed the utter domination of the Colorado lineup, it is hard to think that it will not happen again and again. The all-time Dodger leader in no-hitters and the pitcher to whom Kershaw is often compared – Sandy Koufax – has four of his own, including a perfect game. Kershaw has plenty of time to catch him, and perhaps the fact that Koufax accumulated all of his before the age of 30 will serve as motivation.Tags: A.J. Ellis, Baseball, Clayton Kershaw, Don Mattingly, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Dodgers, MLB


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It's official: Social Security recipients are getting a 3.6 percent raise, thanks to an increase in the measurement of the cost of living. My 65-year-old, grumpy, accountant husband doesn't think this is such great retirement planning news. He points out that Social Security recipients are faring better than savers. He says, "Normally, with 3.6 percent
It looks like there will be a Social Security cost of living adjustment, or COLA, in 2012 — positive retirement planning news for many. Bill McBride, a retired financial executive, blogs at CalculatedRiskBlog.com about economic trends. On Friday, he calculated the early line on Social Security COLAs and concluded that based on Friday's report from
My husband was listening to some presidential campaign rhetoric this weekend and after hearing an especially unsettling speech, said maybe we should put our retirement planning on hold until after the 2012 election. I don't think that's necessary, but I do think that irresponsible political blather doesn't bode well for anybody's retirement. Texas Gov. Rick
As Congress struggles with ways to reduce the federal deficit, one of the approaches that appears to be among the most likely to be adopted is a revision in the way the Consumer Price Index is calculated. The CPI measures how much the cost of the things people buy is affected by inflation. The chained


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An HGV driver apologised in court to the mother of a cyclist who died after being dragged under his lorry's wheels.
Simon Weatherley, 52, of Bromley, told Christine Cox at the inquest into her son Daniel's death: "I'm extremely sorry that this occurred. If I could have avoided it, I would have done."
The inquest heard that Mr Weatherley had stopped in a cyclists-only advance box to get a better view of the junction as he waited for the traffic lights to change.
He had driven the lorry despite knowing it was in breach of a legal requirement to have a wide-angle passenger-side mirror.
Mr Weatherley insisted that he had indicated left, but only after pulling up to the lights and realising that right turns were banned.
He and Daniel pulled away from the lights at the same time, but he said he was unaware of a cyclist in front of him until he heard Daniel shout "help me, help me" as he lay crushed under the lorry.
Daniel, 28, an art curator from Clapton and an experienced cyclist, suffered multiple injuries at Dalston Junction on February 2 last year. He died two days later in hospital.
The Standard revealed last week that the Crown Prosecution Service had abandoned a charge of causing death by careless driving because it could not prove that Mr Weatherley had failed to indicate left.
At the hearing at Poplar coroner's court, police investigator Sergeant Paul Tidyman said the "blind spot" in the driver's vision was a mitigating factor.
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Sirius XM Radio
Market Cap: $23 billion
Expected 5-year EPS Growth: 29%
Sirius XM Radio (SIRI) made headlines and jumped to a new 52-week high earlier this week after announcing that it hit 25 million subscribers in the second quarter thanks to a record net addition of 715,000 customers, and raised its subscriber outlook for the year.
During the past five years, Sirius has posted average earnings growth of 27% — a trend that helped the stock recover from a price tag of 10 cents during the 2008-09 market lows to SIRI's current price around $3.60.
Analysts are expecting Sirius to top that kind of growth in the coming years, too. Next year, it's slated to improved EPS by nearly 32%, while the next half-decade's annualized growth will top the past five years' sum by 2 percentage points.
One tailwind for the company that should keep blowing: strong auto sales. U.S. auto sales hit a six-year high last month — good news for a company that makes a good chunk of change off folks getting a fancy new radio in their fancy new cars.


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Since our beginning in 1940, the National Federation of the Blind has been committed to ensuring that blind persons have access to all of the opportunities available to them in order to live successful and complete lives.
At this year's national convention, we are going to take this commitment to the streets and March for Independence!
• Can you imagine hundreds of white canes filling the streets this summer as the sun rises?
• Can you imagine hundreds of sighted friends challenging themselves to walk the independence course under blindfolds in solidarity with their blind friends?
• Can you picture groups of blind people from NFB chapters marching with hometown banners and chapter flags?
• Can you see how the imaginations of the participating blind youth will be stretched after experiencing the power of marching together?
• Can you imagine being part of a movement bigger than any one person is?
If you can imagine this, then you can help the National Federation of the Blind change what it means to be blind!
Be a part of this exciting challenge! Join us in saying, "The blind are on the move and fully engaged in our society."
Register online at www.nfb.org and become an independence marcher by pledging to raise at least $250 by May 31. Or sponsor a marcher by making a gift or pledge of at least $250, and we'll credit your sponsorship to one of our blind youth who are working hard to get support to march. E-mail questions to [email protected], or call (410) 659-9314, ext. 2406.
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Jonathan Stickland is a conservative Christian Republican serving his third term in the Texas State House for House District 92. He supports limited government, the right to life, individual liberties and personal responsibilities, and most of all strives to represent his constituents, not the lobbyists and special interests in Austin.
Jonathan was born in Plano, Texas in 1983. At age 5, his family moved to Hurst, Texas. He attended schools in the Birdville School District before getting his GED. He spent time at Tarrant County College and Parkland College studying sales and marketing. Jonathan currently runs his own oil and gas consulting business. He works with many local oil and gas companies assisting in data management, on-location oversight, marketing and sales of new exploration opportunities, and current producing interests. Being in business for himself allows Jonathan the time to do the things he feels truly defines him, his family and his faith.
Jonathan has been married to his wife Krissy since 2006 . They have two beautiful daughters, Andie Michelle (8) and Carlie Anne (6). Family is the core of Jonathan's life both personally and politically. He and his family have been members of First Baptist Church of Hurst since 2008. Jonathan is a member of the Church's One Life Group, softball team, choir, and also helps teach 5th and 6th grade boy's Sunday school.
Jonathan's strong family values and conservative roots were an integral part in his voting record during the 83rd Legislative Sessions. Jonathan has been awarded 100% scorecards from Empower Texans, the Texas Eagle Forum, and Concerned Women for America. Jonathan was also ranked as the most conservative Representative of the 83rd session by Professor Mark Jones of Rice University.
As a freshman in the Texas House, Jonathan passed many pieces of groundbreaking legislation. House Bill 2268 was the first law passed in the nation protecting individuals email and electronic privacy from search without a warrant on the state level. Jonathan made national headlines with the passage of this bill that was signed into law on June 14, 2013.
Jonathan is adamantly pro-life and believes it is part of the government's role to protect the unborn lives of children. He was honored to help author House Bill 2, which restricted abortions after 20 weeks, and made abortion clinics adhere to stricter rules that protect Texas women. This was a huge victory for the pro-life movement and Jonathan was proud to be a part of it.
Jonathan fought for military families by authoring House Bill 202. This bill allows children of active duty service members to receive excused absence days for a student to visit with a parent, stepparent, or guardian. Additionally, it protects schools by not penalizing them for allowing students to be absent in such situations. Jonathan rallied a large bi-partisan effort in order to help the military families of Texas.
While serving during the 84th Legislative Session, Jonathan worked closely with fellow conservative leaders to get things done.
He was honored to be a Joint Author on House Bill 549, which would require the Commission on Jail Standards to come up with reasonable standards to ensure in-person visitation rights of inmates. This was a huge victory in criminal justice because so many jails had transitioned to video visitation, depriving inmates of seeing their loved ones.
He worked diligently to shed light on the legislative process and change how business is done in the House chamber. He did not waver when it came to standing up and fighting to protect our Second Amendment rights. With his help, Texas was able to pass open carry and campus carry.
Of all of the Representatives, Jonathan called the most points of order in the Texas House. Consequently, he successfully helped stop bad legislation from passing and becoming law. Jonathan continues to play a pivotal role in leading the conservative movement inside the walls of the Capitol and across Texas.
With Jonathan's steadfast commitment to liberty and the Constitution, he was honored to have been ranked Top 10 Best of the Texas Legislature by Capitol Inside. Furthermore, he received the Taxpayer Champion Award from Texas for Fiscal Responsibility, honored as a Courageous Conservative by the Texas Conservative Coalition and named a Pro-Life Leader by Texas Right to Life.
Jonathan is exceptionally proud to serve and represent the people of House District 92. Jonathan promised to go down and be one of the most conservative members in the Texas House and he delivered. He not only talked the talk but walked the walk. Jonathan's voting record proves that he is truly a conservative legislator serving the people. He continues to look forward serving District 92 in the 85th Legislative Session after the 2015 elections.


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jerseys > Manifesto™ Protective Jersey
Jerseys don't get the respect that they deserve. The WORKHORSE of the cycling kit, the jersey does more than simply hide our shriveled upper bodies and permanently etch tan lines into our skin. Its rear pockets carry everything from keys, phones and race radios to food, tubes, tools, spare clothing, and the occasional can of WHOOPASS. The zipper is our own personal THERMOSTAT. And it can serve as a billboard for our SPONSORS, the folks that pay our bills. But those are all the things that you expect from your jersey now; there is so much more a jersey should be and do. We set out to make a jersey that raises your EXPECTATIONS.
Our MANIFESTO™ Jersey was painstakingly ENGINEERED to reduce skin ABRASIONS from road rash without sacrificing fit and performance. In a technology we call Hoplite Armor™, we layered two different fabrics on the arms, shoulders and outer edges of the back to reduce the severity of road rash in high risk areas. We tested dozens of fabrics in a dizzying array of combinations and orientations to determine what provided the best protection with the lowest heat stress to maximize COMFORT.
The outer fabric is a polyester-elastane waffle with the right amount of stretch. Even though the jersey has a race cut, it doesn't give you a claustrophobic panic attack when you zip up. The inner fabric is something special: a hybrid textile with polyester against the skin for moisture wicking and nylon outside for rapid drying. It is treated with coldblack®, an advanced treatment that reflects heat and creates a skin interface temperature approximately 9ºF (5ºC) cooler than the equivalent untreated fabric. Better heat management means your body can perform better. It's an amazing fabric a geek can really appreciate.
We developed the sleeves to be as smooth and UNWRINKLED as possible in the riding position, resulting in a sleeve that is both more AERO and slides better on the pavement. Virtually all other jerseys are produced with the arms parallel to the body, mimicking our standing position, but this causes the sleeves to bunch up when riding. Pegasus eliminated this problem by rotating the sleeves so the arms point straight out from the body. MANIFESTO™ might look unconventional on the rack, but it looks PRO on the bike where it counts.
As with almost everything we make, we prefer not to use flatlock seams. Our approach to product design is to engineer every detail for PERFORMANCE first. Cleanly serged seams have LESS SLIDING FRICTION because there are no external threads to snag on the pavement, and have LESS AERODYNAMIC DRAG to conserve watts—check any pro speedsuit and you have all the proof you need.
• Hoplite Armor™: patent-pending dual-layered construction on shoulders and outside edges of back
• Internal pieces made from ultrafast drying Flash fabric, treated with coldblack® to keep temperature at the skin interface cooler
• Sleeve attachment perpendicular to body for wrinkle- and bunch-free fit while riding
• Race cut with internal stitching for watt-saving aerodynamics
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The art of choosing Semantico art
Our lovely new office walls at Semantico Towers are decorationally deficient. We need beauty in our workplace, but what to get – paintings, sculpture, wall graphics? The call has gone out for art and marketing has answered. It's all too exciting …
Let's start at the very beginning
Being a marketeer, I set about the task with agency-style briskness and efficiency (!) by creating a list of criteria to help shape my thinking, hone my online searches and set a brief (of sorts):
- The art should reflect the company, the brand.
- The art should inspire, be easy on the eye, and have an element of longevity.
- Orange. Can I team with the theme of Pantone 021?
- Digital publishing for the academic and scholarly world: it's what we do, but should this be represented in our artwork, and how?
- Work within budget as set.
It looks easy, but remember it's not personal
I like a challenge, but this brief is harder than it looks. The chief reason is that selecting artwork is an act of self-expression.
The artwork we display says a lot about us. Artists express themselves through their imagination and creativity, and through the art we select, buy and place in our homes/places of work we do the same. Visual communication is a key element of Semantico's offering and we want to reflect this in our work space and represent the spirit and personality of the company (and people) who inhabit it.
More than working on our corporate brochures, events, collateral etc, I found myself taking this task to heart. I've just got to remember that it's not personal.
The story so far …
Here are some of my initial ideas. They come in a variety of media and include wallpaper, lighting and modern art classics. Most are out of budget and some are just plain quirky; but they're all inspiring, and that's what sparks creativity, ideas, laughter, discussion and even the odd heated debate (all of which are welcome at Semantico).
ps: The fat lady hasn't sung just yet, so we'll keep you posted as and when we finally choose something!


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Discussion in 'Fan Zone' started by Cowboys&LakersFan, Nov 17, 2012.
I'm feeling an easy win. If I'm wrong, so be it.
I'll be disappointed if this is another Tampa Bay game where we just go through the motions very uninspired and manage to squeak out a win.
I hear ya. A win is a win. I get that. And we need to string as many together as we can down the home stretch. But I want to see a win with a little bit of authority against a team we should beat any day of the week.
It is interesting. The offense has only put up more than 20 points 3 times thus far.
Additionally, this team is coming off of 2 straight weeks without turning the ball over and I'm not sure they can make it another week without turnovers.
The team is just too mistake prone. Cleveland is above average in terms of getting turnovers on defense so I'm skeptical the team can make it through another week without turning it over in some capacity.
On offense however, Cleveland does turn it over quite a bit. They are a little above average in that respect so I think they will provide the chances for Dallas to take advantage but at the same time Dallas has been awful at doing so.
Any team that protects the ball on offense or attacks the ball and generates turnovers on defense is likely going to be a tough game for Dallas.
Dallas has been too mistake-prone and too penalty-prone to really pull away from any team this year. Aside from the Giants game in week 1, has Dallas really ran away from anyone? Going up 2 TDs with like 5:00 in the game is just about the extent of Dallas' ability to pull away from someone this year. Going up 9 against the Bucs late is next.
The offense just hasn't shown nearly enough to warrant 30 point expectations.
They're 21st in terms of trips to the Redzone per game, with 3.
When they get there they are 25th in terms of coming away with a TD, at 44%
Even with 2 spotless weeks they're 6th in terms of turnovers.
As a team, Dallas and Washington are tied for the lead league in penalties per game.
Far too sloppy and mistake-prone to reasonably expect 30 points. Dallas will have to play a near flawless game in terms of turnovers, penalties and redzone conversions in order to get to 30.
I can't see us blowing anybody out, we still continue to shoot ourselves in the foot with penalties and mental errors. If we can play an almost perfect game then we probably blow them out. I wouldn't hold my breath.
Cleveland is no different then us. They were up on the Gents and blew it on stupid mistakes. They were driving and they turned it over and it snowballed.
No different then us. Mistakes at the wrong time. Bad play calling. The O is a wreck. What's funny is a stat I heard the other day is we are 3-1 on the season with 13 penalties or more. Absurd.
I say Clev has a chance. Noon game. Bye week. We lose this one then get ready for the SP Train.
There's a huge difference between the two teams and you only need to look at the QBs to find it.
I'm expecting a dog fight.
I really don't think Dallas will walk over them and don't care if they do or not.
It's a league where every weak some team shows up and beats someone they aren't supposed to.
Three weeks ago Cleveland beat San Diego, 7-6.
The week before that they pushed Indy to their limits, losing 17-13. Had it not been for a missed PAT, it's a 3 point game in the 4th quarter and they're likely not punting from the IND 41 on 4th and 1 midway through the 4th quarter.
Two weeks ago they took a 1 point lead against Baltimore halfway through the 4th quarter in spite of failing to covert a single trip to the Redzone into a TD. 0-5 that day.
Cleveland isn't some JV team. They get paychecks just like the rest of the players in the NFL.
They're defense has been playing much improved ball compared to early in the season. In those three games above I think they gave up like 870 combined yards. 290 yards per game. They forced 5 straight 3-&-Outs to start the second half against Baltimore. I remember that day well because my friend has Ray Rice in a fantasy league and after scoring like 10 points on Baltimore's first drive, he finished the game with like 15. Needless to say, he wasn't too fond of that game after having his eyes light up in the first quarter.
As I said, I expect a dog fight. Whether or not Dallas runs them out of town doesn't really make a difference to me. Does the team play well and do they limit mistakes? That's what I want to see.
I pray it's not another game where Dallas basically lets the other team stay in it because they fail to convert, turn the ball over or commit penalty after penalty.
That's our only chance every week. Romo. But this team is a mess. I want them to prove to me they can clean it up. I crave for that day.
But to your point this team can beat us. Just like anybody.
There's a HUGE difference between us and the Browns. Wow!!
I was referring to both being train wrecks. We have a tad more talent, QB for sure, but we still make "Cleveland" type mistakes.
No, it doesn't upset me. I was just wondering why people are so confident we are going to put up thirty points. What are they basing that on? Our offense has struggled all season long. Where are those points going to come from? What are they seeing in this game that leads them to believe we are doing what we have done only once before this season with major help from the defense/special teams?
15-7 cowboys.
17-13 Dallas
Prediction huh....
I predict the Cowboys will play down to the competition like they almost always do. They'll win, but we'll probably see a return to sloppy play, turnovers, and double digit penalties.
Cowboys 20
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Historic Point of Honor, in Lynchburg, VA hosted a "hearth cooking class" this past Friday. This seasonal demonstration presented regional recipes and cooking techniques from the early 19th century using an open hearth and brick ovens in a reconstructed plantation kitchen, sited where the origianl once stood. The bill of fare included roasted chicken, stewed and boiled vegetables, baked and fried foods and a unique dessert. Participants were able to assist and watch Rachel as she literally cooked over a "stove."
Point of Honor is located 3 blocks from The Carriage House Inn Bed and Breakfast in historic Daniels Hill. Completed in 1815 by Dr. George Cabell this Federal-style mansion has been carefully restored to preserve the classical designs of the early 19th century. Named after duels that legend says took place on this fine point of land, Point of Honor has been home to many of Lynchburg's remarkable citizens.
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The Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library and Museum today announced that ten 7th grade trunk contest winners from Linda Petzke's class at Stewart Middle School in Augusta County will visit the Presidential Library on Thursday, March 25, at 11:30 a.m. to explore trunks of President Wilson-related documents and artifacts. The contest was inspired by the trunks of letters and other documents concerning the President that his personal physician and friend, Rear Admiral Cary T. Grayson, saved and that his family donated to the Presidential Library. Ms. Petzke asked each of her students to create his or her own trunk containing copies of a variety of historical documents, including maps, telegrams, newspaper articles, photographs, posters, and letters. The ten winners of the contest are rewarded with the opportunity to visit the Presidential Library and see Admiral Grayson's trunks themselves. The students will also visit the recently-opened World War I trench exhibit.
Ms. Petzke also serves as an interpreter at the Presidential Library on weekends and has designed lesson plans for the Presidential Library. Through her part-time work, she became aware of Dr. Grayson's trunks and devised the contest as a way to make history fun for her social studies students. Ms. Petzke and the students will donate some of the winning trunks to the Presidential Library to inspire other student trunk contests. Attached is the trunk assignment.
The trunk contest is one of many WWPL's educational outreach activities. The Presidential Library regularly hosts area students for interactive programs that meet Virginia Standards of Learning requirements. In the "Journey Into History" program and the "Professor, President, Peacemaker" program, students tour President Wilson's birthplace and participate in group activities in the Woodrow Wilson Museum. The WWPL also hosts two sessions of a summer "Journey Into History" camp, a three-day interactive history camp for seven- to ten-year-olds with a different historical theme each summer. For more information about the trunk contest, contact Linda Petzke at (540) 245-5046.
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McDonald's offers late-night menu
Published: Wednesday, July 3, 2013 at 1:54 p.m.
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McDonald's is taking a small step toward offering breakfast items outside of its usual breakfast hours — at least if you're a night owl.
The fast-food chain says participating 24-hour restaurants in select locations will offer an "After Midnight" menu that includes its Egg McMuffin, Big Mac and Chicken McNuggets. Customers will be able to create "Midnight Value Meals," with either fries or hash browns as their side items, McDonald's says.
A mockup of the menu provided by the company showed an Egg McMuffin paired with French fries, next to the heading, "Dinner or Breakfast? Yes"
The rollout of the menu, which is available from midnight to 4 a.m., builds on a "Breakfast After Midnight" menu the company has been testing. McDonald's notes that franchisees may adapt their offerings based on local preferences.
McDonald's CEO Don Thompson had said in a CNBC interview earlier this year that the company was open to expanding its breakfast hours. Fans of McDonald's breakfast have long wanted the chain to make its Egg McMuffins and biscuits available later in the day. But a hurdle for the company is that operations behind the counter would get too complicated, with workers having to juggle such a wide array of items in a limited space.
Still, Thompson noted at an analyst conference recently that the company is looking to improve its performance by expanding hours and noted that breakfast is a "growing category."
The "After Midnight" menu is already available in northern Delaware and College Station, Texas, according to McDonald's. A spokeswoman did not immediately know how many of its more than 14,000 U.S. restaurants would offer the menu.
McDonald's says nearly half of its restaurants are open 24 hours.
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Montblanc used its day-before-the-Oscars brunch to bring out the big guns in support of UNICEF, pledging a minimum of $1.5 million from its "Signature for Good" line of products to support UNICEF education programs worldwide.
While 2-time Oscar winner Hilary Swank was on hand to talk about her recent trip to Ethiopia, UNICEF ambassador Alyssa Milano was also representing the charity. Other attendees with Oscar-status included Martin Landau, Peter Fonda, Alfre Woodard and Alan Arkin, and other celeb faces and figures in attendance included:
Emmy Rossum, Rosario Dawson, Louise Roe, Billy Zane, Jesse Metcalfe, Jesse Williams, Madalina Ghenea, Alexander Ludwig, Danny Huston, Stacey Keach, Martin Landau, Jane Seymour, Clemens Schick, Navid Negahban, Samantha Barks, Rachel Griffiths, Bailey Chase, John Savage, Pal Sverre Hagen, Jimmy Jean-Louis and Natasha Henstridge.
"With a heritage deeply rooted in the culture of writing, Montblanc has always been committed to the support of education and literacy. For nearly a decade, Montblanc has taken an active role in supporting UNICEF's efforts to enable more children to learn how to read and write, with several global initiatives together raising over $5 million dollars to date."
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Many Christmases ago, I went to buy a doll for my son. I reach for the last one they had – but so did another man. As I rained blows upon him, I realized there had to be another way!
The Human Fund. Money for people.
There are about a thousand lines from that episode that make you guffaw.
Here's a link from the Seinfeld site about Festivus!
Here is the entire script from the Festivus episode, entitled "The Strike."
You can click around the Seinfeld site (above) and/or the TBS site, I believe, and watch the episode online. Don't hold me to that.
You make a lot of man friends. You know who's a man? Charlie here, he's a man. You know who else? Me. I'm a man.
I'm a man.
Now, let the airing of grievances begin. We can do this all morning. Later on we'll talk about tonight's game (against Tampa Bay) and I'll put up the pre-game notes, etc. Not sure yet if I will be able to make it to MSG with a bunch of other work stuff on my plate (plus the feats of strength).
If you're hungry, go get yourself an Atomic Sub. Or an H&H bagel.
Hey! I have spent a lot of time, and I have eaten a lot of crap to get to where I am today. And I am NOT throwing it all away now.


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Marria Attar
*corrupted From The Inside* - Poem by Marria Attar
Proud to be who you are?
Never hoping to change
Your infamous personality won't take you so far
I wish for you there's an exchange
You seriously think that being who you are
Will give you respect and dignity
You never knew that your actions leave a scar
So there goes your pretentious integrity
Lying and pretending to be someone else other than you
Shows an action of pitiful fear
I wouldn't be surprised since betrayal is nothing new
Because from you, everything is bright and clear
I never thought that I would say this
But letting go is the best thing to do
Since your predictable character makes you bliss
I have nothing here left for you
Praying that you would soon change
Hoping for serenity to overlie your peculiar heart
Still many things about you are tremendously strange
But it's your wanted desire to remain heartless that broke us apart.
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This world of ours is going through 'a war of ideas,' the war between the "defenders of Gods" and the "defenders of reason" i.e. predestination (jabr) and free will (ikhtiyar). We have lot of icons of jabr like Mawdudi's/Khomeini's /Qutub's! But where are our icons of ikhtiyar Locke's, Newton's and Voltaire's? If freewill has to survive the hypocrisies of the 'icons of the predestination (jabr)' will have to be exposed to the rank and file. No words need to be reserved. Religious dogma and apparatus of state when they combine together, the populace cannot survive the brunt.
When a society demands a transformation they should chuck their archaic pious impracticality; look into the mirror and try to find where are their Spinoza's, Locke's, Newton's and Voltaire's? Culture that spews terrorists and misfits is also a society that promotes fanatical bigoted attitudes as a ingredient of the ideological menu proscribed by the unquestionable divine clout of clergy.
For a society to develop; the prevalent religious inclinations and thought needs to be subject to human reason. Places where religious thought reign supreme will always remain debauched and hesitant infested with internecine wars and disasters. Terrorism is a state of mind, it is reflection of inflexible ideological absolutist will and puritanical romanticism that becomes a part of a nation cerebral curriculum instead of broad-mindedness, forbearance, rationalism and reason.
Enlightened minds will challenge narrow-mindedness bigotry and fanaticism. Any change should be sparked by the two lines of thought that buttress 'Age of Enlightenment' or 'Age of Reason' termed initially as the radical enlightenment, inspired by philosophy of Spinoza, "Democracy; racial and sexual equality; individual liberty of lifestyle; full freedom of thought, expression, and the press; eradication of religious authority from the legislative process and education; and full separation of church and state". Secondly the moderate enlightenment, which in a number of different philosophical systems, in the writings of Descartes, John Locke, Isaac Newton or Christian Wolff, who expressed and sought reform and accommodation with the old systems of power and faith .
The cornerstone of the 'Age of Enlightenment' or 'Age of Reason' was a civilizing progress of intellectuals in 18th century Europe and the United States, the aim was to restructuring of society and knowledge, in Age of Reason religion was subject to human reason, and not a source of knowledge. It promoted science and rational substitution and opposed superstition, intolerance and abuses by church and state. Enlightenment culminated in the great Encyclopédie (1751–72) edited by Denis Diderot (1713–1784) with contributions by hundreds of leading philosophers(intellectuals) such as Voltaire (1694–1778), Rousseau (1712–1778) and Montesquieu (1689–1755). Historian Robert Darnton argued that the categorization of religion was subject to human reason, and not a source of knowledge. Theology therefore was ordered under 'Philosophy' 'Knowledge of God' was placed only a few nodes away from 'Divination' and 'Black Magic'.
The tree of Diderot and d'Alembert, is the source of the "figurative system of human knowledge." Encyclopédie attempted to bring together all the information sprinkled on the surface of the globe.The goal of our living is that the works of past is does not remain unproductive for the centuries that follow, our descendants by becoming more learned, may become more virtuous and happier, that we do not die without having merited being part of the human race. The tree was a taxonomy of human knowledge, inspired by Francis Bacon's The Advancement of Learning the three main branches of knowledge in the tree are: "Memory"/History, "Reason"/Philosophy, and "Imagination"/Poetry.
Enlightenment origins are traced to Descartes' Discourse on Method, published in 1637. Others define Enlightenment with the publication of Isaac Newton's Principia Mathematica in 1687. Jonathan Israel makes the detailed case that, from 1650 to 1750, Spinoza was "the chief challenger of the fundamentals of revealed religion, received ideas, tradition, morality, and what was everywhere regarded, in absolutist and non-absolutist states alike, as divinely constituted political authority."
We look for change, a great change does not appear in emptiness; it were the political ideals of the Enlightenment that influenced the American Declaration of Independence, the United States Bill of Rights, the French Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen. It was sparked by philosophers Baruch Spinoza (1632–1677), John Locke (1632–1704), physicist Isaac Newton (1643–1727), and philosopher Voltaire (1694–1778) originating about 1650 to 1700. When a culture demands a change they should look into the mirror and try to find where are their Spinoza's, Locke's, Newton's and Voltaire's? A civilisation that considers Syed Mawdudi/ Syed Khomieni /Syed Qutub as their Spinoza's and their mainstay philosophies, there is no chance in hell of any illumination? Dark ages shall continue to harness the minds!
Peace is all about building the notion of love in hearts, souls and minds of people. I think it is sad to see that we don't teach enough 'history and culture of nations' to each other's children, we don't know much about each other, we should know each other well, we are bound with thousands of years of love and benevolence, this connection has a resonance of history and genes in it.
The children of 'cradle of civilisations' should be taught their past very well. This will avoid them falling in the traps set by ideological demagogues. The bond of common human attributes and evolving human consciousness is the only bond that will create global oneness. Once you go down the root of my 'avatar' is better than yours it never ends, and once you start mixing the prescription and menu of your avatar with how the state has to be run the cauldron is ready with a tinder to explode.
We are humans and we should connect at that level of one humanity , we should see earth as an astronaut 'sans boundaries' and our existence as the pinnacle of the supreme sentient configuration of 'star dust' leading to a sentient being. Nothing else evokes pride in me but the pride of being a part of sentient star dust that will always be around until the next singularity.


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Odds and ends from the tech/media waterfront:
-- Google waved the white flag for Google Wave, a confusingly described site that had something to do with making it easy for groups of people to collaborate on projects online. "Wave has not seen the user adoption we would have liked," Urs Hölzle, Senior Vice President for Operations, said on Google's blog.
As a result, "We don't plan to continue developing Wave as a standalone product, but we will maintain the site at least through the end of the year and extend the technology for use in other Google projects."
-- But don't cry for Google: iSuppli this morning became at least the fourth research firm this week to take note of the impressive growth of the search giant's Android smartphone operating system.
Forecasters at iSuppli say Android is poised to pass the Apple iPhone's iOS. They expect Android to be in 75 million phones globally by 2012, up from 5 million last year. That contrasts with iPhone at 62 million in 2012, up from 25 million last year.
Others who weighed in this week include Canalys, Nielsen, and NPD Group.
-- Finally, big media companies have encouraging news for those who see ad sales as a barometer for the health of the overall economy. Viacom CEO Philippe Dauman says this morning that the market "continues to strengthen" and he "expects further improvement."
That echoes upbeat comments this week from executives at CBS, Time Warner, and News Corp.
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Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan (UPI) Mar 4, 2011
European physicists say some stars could contain wormholes, tunnel-like passages connecting distant points in space-time, a concept sparking much debate.
Physicist Vladimir Folomeev in the Kyrgyz Republic and his colleagues suggest pairs of stars could be joined by wormholes full of an exotic material known as "phantom matter," ScienceNews.org reported Friday.
Strictly hypothetical, phantom matter has been put forward as a possible explanation for the accelerating expansion of the universe, and its exotic properties -- if it even exists -- could also enable a wormhole to be kept propped open, Folomeev and his colleagues say.
They have come up with a preliminary mathematical model suggesting the possible existence of such a phenomenon but acknowledge their analysis isn't complete.
Other scientists aren't quite ready to buy the idea.
"It's a nice piece of speculative work, but it is speculation," says theoretical physicist Matt Visser of Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand.
"I am pretty sure that once you admit exotic matter of some suitable kind, you can mathematically construct a star with a wormhole inside," says relativity theorist Dieter Brill of the University of Maryland in College Park.
For now, this is just an idea that still must be refined by further calculations, Folomeev says.
earlier related report
The Gravity field and steady-state Ocean Circulation Explorer satellite, launched in March 2009, has collected the measurements needed to record the "geoid" reference shape of our planet, an ESA release said Friday.
The geoid is the shape of an imaginary global ocean dictated by gravity in the absence of tides and currents and is a crucial reference for accurately measuring ocean circulation, sea-level change and ice dynamics -- all affected by climate change, researchers say.
"The satellite has recorded the measurements necessary to enable us to produce a high-resolution map of the 'geoid' that is far more accurate and has a much higher spatial resolution than any other dataset of this kind," Volker Liebig, director of ESA's Earth Observation Programs, said.
In the coming weeks the data will be calibrated and processed for scientists to create a unique model of the geoid.
"Once the gravity models are completed, they will be made available to all users, free of charge in line with ESA's data policy," GOCE Mission Manager Rune Floberghagen said.
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How art and design made Britain go Pop
A new exhibition at the Barbican reveals how consumerism helped to put the colour back into postwar austerity Britain
There was a time when consumerism was a magical thing. Take yourself back to the late 1940s. London is in full (real) austerity mode. I interviewed the late architect Colin "Sandy" St John Wilson, about his youth then, as a member of the Independent Group. "You have to remember how completely and utterly dreary postwar London was," he told me. "It's hard for your generation to understand, in the city as it is today. But there was no colour after the war, like it had drained into the gutter."
You can see the exact moment when colour began coursing through Britain's veins again at the Barbican's exhibition Pop Art Design, opening next week. It opens with a huge facsimile of Richard Hamilton's 1956 collage Just…


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The Beast of Why
The Beast of Why
Lurking in the dark
It harbors the question of all or none
Tamed, it is a gentle adviser
A quietly reminding reminiscence of ultimate desire
For a perfect world
Without irresolvable contradictions
Without elusive temptation
Without unanswered questions
Without doubtful justice
Unbound and enraged by torture
It devours the happiness.
Its footprints make white spots on black paper
- or is it black on white -
What is the truth?
The moth is flying away with vague ideas
They disappear into the dark.
The Beast of Why by pelztier86Watch
©2012-2017 pelztier86
Why? Is often asked. Too often without answers leaving you in sheer desperation. The beast got you.


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According to a presentation by Goldstein, Royal Caribbean's president, who impishly donned a pair of silk pajamas, climbed into a downy bed and waved around a martini, Royal Caribbean, one of the last cruise lines in the industry to embark on a major "bedding program," will introduce:
New bed frames that not only prevent sagging but that, according to Goldstein, will also eliminate the twins-into-queen cruise bed conundrum (which invariably results in a hideous split between the two, typically sometime around 2 a.m.). Get this explanation, from Royal Caribbean's press release: "The cruise line also has created a solution to the dreaded gap that invariably forms when two twin beds are pushed together to form on larger, queen-sized bed. Custom-designed pillow tops are doubled over when placed atop twin beds but are unfolded and laid on top of one another and the mattresses to create a queen-size, gap-free mattress."
There will be nine-inch-thick spring mattresses (a big improvement from the existing six-inch foam variety).
Bathroom towels will go from 27 x 54 inches in area to 30 x 60 and from 17 to 20 pounds.
We'll admit that this one's not much of an increase, quality-wise, but it's a start: the sheets that Royal Caribbean now uses are 200 thread count (and a 55/45 cotton-polyester blend); the new ones will be 220 thread count with a long-staple cotton blend.
Beds on some ships (not specified) will get skirts; all will get decorative pillows and shams -- not to mention duvets with cotton blend covers and two-inch-thick pillow tops between sheets and mattresses.
The new bedding program will debut on Freedom of the Seas, the line's newest ship, scheduled to launch in May, and roll out through the rest of the fleet by May 2007. At some point, the bedding will be available for sale to cruise passengers.


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Earn Relais Gourmands Status
elite Relais & Châteaux association of hotels
and restaurants has announced its new members for 2002.
Seven restaurants were named to the Relais Gourmands group
of fine dining establishments within Relais & Châteaux.
Of these seven, three restaurants are located in the U.S.,
one in Austria (Hotel Hubertus), one in Italy (Ristorante
Da Vittorio), one in Japan (Enoteca Pinchiorri) and one
in Switzerland (L'Ermitage de Bernard Ravet).
first of the U.S. restaurants accepted as Relais Gourmands
members is Gary
Danko in San Francisco. The restaurant is known for
its warm atmosphere and contemporary American cuisine created
by owner-chef Gary Danko. Also accepted as a member is Patina
in Los Angeles with owner-chef Joachim Splichal. Splichal
and wife Christine have built Patina's reputation for refined
Franco-Californian fare. The third U.S. member is Everest
in Chicago. Located on the 40th floor of the Chicago
Stock Exchange building, the restaurant is owned by Jean
Joho and offers refined cuisine complemented by wines of
his native Alsace.
meet the qualifications of Relais Gourmands membership,
a restaurant should be dedicated to the art of gastronomy
and the good life it represents. Each establishment offers
a memorable dining experience with innovative, creative
cuisine spawned from fine ingredients and culinary excellence
and virtuosity. Relais Gourmands now claims 151 members
more information on the Relais & Châteaux association,
visit www.relaischateaux.com.


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|Chicken' Wranglin'
|Start NPC
|Rubella - Bill's Ranch (B-1)
|Started Bill's Shipment quest
|Quest chronology
|Previous quest
|Bill's Shipment
|Next quest
|Purvis Likes Rubella
Walkthrough Edit
- Talk to Rubella to accep the quest.
- Return 10 chickens to Rubella.
- Touch each chicken until you have you have caught one.
- Note: Chicken will stick to you like glue if you've caught one, and the system will not notify you like it usually does.
- Be careful, the chicken can get loose from your hold and run off.
- Talk to Rubella after you have captured each chicken.
- Touch each chicken until you have you have caught one.
- Talk to Rubella for reward.
Game DescriptionEdit
Client: Rubella (Northern House in the Ranch, Bill's Ranch)
- Catch chickens for Rubella.


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A Guide to the Kallah of Texas Rabbis Records, 1928-1939, 1950-1994
Historical Note
Founded in Houston, Texas, in 1927, the Kallah of Texas Rabbis works to encourage Jewish scholarship and to support the Abraham I. Schechter Collection of Judaica and Hebraica at the University of Texas at Austin's Perry-Castañeda Library.
Scope and Contents
Composed of correspondence, programs, resolutions, financial documents, papers, yearbooks, speeches and membership lists, the Kallah of Texas Rabbis Records document the activities of the organization. Correspondence concerns new memberships, the annual meetings, and various rabbis, while financial records consist of proposed budgets for the annual meetings.
A book entitled And Bring them Closer to the Torah: The Life and Works of Aaron H. Blumenthal, edited by David R. Blumenthal, was separated to the Briscoe Center Library Unit.
Access Restrictions
This collection is open for research use.
Administrative Information
Preferred Citation
Kallah of Texas Rabbis Records, 1928-1939, 1950-1994, Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin.
Processing Information
This collection was processed by Bethany Anderson, August 2011. Additional processing by Esther Kirchner, April 2014.
Detailed Description of the Papers


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Friday, Aug. 22, 2008 | 2 a.m.
In Today's Sun
Sun Expanded Coverage
They are both warriors, and they fought in the same war. But as in some geopolitical "Rashomon," the events in question look completely different through different eyes.
Shawn Bryan and Anthony Garcia, who both live in the Albuquerque area, served in the Iraq war, and saw some of the worst of it.
One is a peace activist who detests the war and those who conceived it.
The other believes the effort has been honorable and worth continuing.
Their stories:
Shawn Bryan could be on a magazine cover and has a life many young American men would dream to have. He proclaims true brotherhood with his fellow Marines. He owns several businesses. He's married to a tall and striking former news anchor. He gets an audience with Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain, and occasionally — like this weekend — takes a fistful of dollars to Las Vegas to play roulette and party with the Maloof brothers, pals whose New Mexico roots go back more than century.
To protect this blessed life and the future of his five children, America must engage in wars, and lots of them, Bryan believes. And he's willing to fight in them when called.
After the terrorist attacks in 2001, Bryan reactivated as a Marine. "I felt like I needed to be there for the guys." He went to Iraq in 2005 and was in Al Anbar province, among the most violent in the country then. The casualties were relentless: "Things blew up every day for us."
He has a tattoo on his arm commemorating fallen men and women, 48 in all from Third Battalion, 25th Marines. "We lost a lot of great guys. A lot of friends," he said.
He earned a Purple Heart, but never disclosed it in the interview.
Bryan is helping raise money to build a war memorial in Albuquerque and is a leader of Vets for Freedom, a nationwide group of 27,000 veterans who oppose withdrawal from Iraq until absolute victory is achieved, defined as a free and stable Iraq.
He recently returned from about two weeks in Iraq, where he observed progress. "The changes I saw were astounding." The increase in American troop levels has worked, he said.
"There's a smell of success in the air."
With added troops, he said, "When they ran out of the cities, we were waiting for them in the villages."
Bryan said the media have failed to report on markets and schools opening, infrastructure being rebuilt.
He favors permanent military bases, with the kind of presence America has maintained in Europe and Japan since World War II. The United States would then be strategically well-positioned, able to project force in a region filled with enemies. "We've earned the right to have an installation there."
America must now focus seriously on Afghanistan, he said.
"I say we make a parking lot out of the whole place. I say we level the place." Give friendlies time to leave the country, and then begin carpet-bombing.
This may sound harsh, but it is consistent with Bryan's world view and interpretation of American history: "One thing that's guaranteed since our creation — we fight wars."
As for critics of the war in Iraq, including those in the military who say the war is stretching U.S. military resources, he called them "whiners" and said he always questions these doubters and how genuine their motives are.
Post-traumatic stress disorder is real, he said. "There are nights when I wake up in the middle of the night and my wife has to have a chat with me."
There are still problems in Iraq, he allowed. He compared the country to an abused child now in foster care, still adjusting to life without the abusive parent.
Bryan is in Las Vegas this weekend, celebrating his 38th birthday at the Palms, where he'll take in a Poison and Dokken concert and party at Ghost Bar.
Anthony Garcia was a Navy corpsman attached to the Marines in the initial invasion of Iraq. On March 23, 2003, they encountered vicious resistance at Nasiriyah. In a now famous battle for a bridge in the northern part of the city, 18 Marines were killed.
"When we first saw death — I don't know if you can fathom that kind of violence and trauma," he said.
After that, he said, the Marines operated with a different set of rules as they speared toward Baghdad. "If you were in the way, you were gone," he said.
Garcia also served in Afghanistan. He was in the Navy 24 years before leaving in 2004. He loves the military but hates this war and the government that is prosecuting it.
"They lied to us," he said.
Garcia cited the failure to find weapons of mass destruction. He also said the mission had been to take out Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. "Well, we got Saddam," he said, questioning the need to stay. Finally, he said, the notion of spreading democracy is a farce.
The real reason for the war, Garcia believes, is oil, and even more fundamentally, money.
"There are still people dying because of oil, man!"
The conflict in Iraq will continue as long as Americans are there because Iraqis will always resent the U.S. presence, he said.
He referred to Marine General Smedley Butler, a famous maverick of the early 20th century who wrote "War is a Racket" and said he had been little more than a mercenary for American corporate interests.
Moreover, Garcia said, he knows too many veterans who haven't gotten help for lingering injuries or psychiatric illness.
Garcia knows about this subject intimately. He suffers from the classic symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder. He's hypervigilant, with his eyes on doors and windows. He suffers nightmares and rarely sleeps.
"I would give up everything in a heartbeat for a day of sanity," he said.
His relationships became strained: "The people who suffer the most from PTSD are the people closest to you," he said.
When he first started suffering the symptoms, he self-medicated, beginning his days with a handful of painkillers and some vodka.
Garcia is doing better now, though. He lives with his girlfriend in a house where urban Albuquerque runs into rural New Mexico. They have a garden, and chickens and horses roam, and his dog Malo's tongue lolls about.
"The best thing for me is sitting outside, listening to the birds," he said.
His son, who is in the Army, just returned from Iraq.
Garcia goes to high schools and speaks about what he's seen.
He said what he longs for more than anything is money for outreach programs, so Veterans Affairs can help the many veterans he fears are suffering silently.
He said he hopes his activism will lead to a change in policy: "That's the beauty of this country. It can change if enough people stand up."


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Donald Benjamin Fielding was born in Dallas, Texas on 7 July 1922 to parents Nathan and Bessie (nee Mesiroff) Finkelstein. In an autobiographical sketch (in this collection), Fielding notes important life influences were an education that began early, with his mother teaching him to read and write before entering kindergarten, and an incident he witnessed when he was eight or nine years old. The incident and its effect are described as "the abuse of a black woman by a Dallas policeman. It remains ingrained in my psyche." Also a member of the Temple Emanu-El and confirmed in 1935, many of the items in this collection convey Fielding's interest in religion and religious tolerance.
Fielding graduated from Forest Avenue High School in 1938 at age 15, the youngest in his class but top in academics with a 94.36 grade average. He chose to attend the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. His goal was a career in foreign service. Noting that career ambition as motivation, Fielding changed his surname from Finkelstein to Fielding at the end of 1941, due to persuasion by his foreign trade professor.
Fielding attended the Wharton School between 1938 and 1942. Immediately after graduating, he went to the University of Havana.
Fielding was inducted into the United States Army in November 1942, when he was 20 years old. He attended Infantry Officer Candidate School and served his last 18 months of duty as a Field Training Lieutenant. In November 1944, Fielding achieved the rank of second lieutenant and was discharged in April 1946. During active duty, Fielding was an Operations and Training Staff Officer, a position at which he was noted to excel. At one time, he was also involved with the Armored Command and the Air Force (at the University of Havana).
After serving in the military, Fielding exchanged his earlier desires for a career in foreign trade to more local aspirations and employment in his father's business. Nathan Finkelstein had opened National Shoes in 1929 at 1403 Commerce Street, and from the 1930s throughout the 1970s, the enterprise was very successful. In 1958, Fielding and his brother, Paul, bought a building at 1505 Commerce, from which they ran a National Shoes store. In addition, two other stores were opened locally in 1968 and 1977, but declining business at the downtown location resulted in the closure of that initial store in 1995, after 66 years of operation. When it closed, it was one of only two significant pre-World War II retailers remaining in the downtown area.
In December of 1951, Donald Fielding married Virginia (Ginny) Lee Tipton. His wife had been born Viola Lavada Tipton in Marietta, Oklahoma, on 4 March 1925. She changed her name during the early 1940s to Virginia Lee Tipton.
As reflected in the collection, Fielding appears to have become increasingly interested in politics during the late 1950s. During this period, he became interested in and involved with youth, particularly through the Boy Scouts of America. He began taking leadership roles in scouting circa 1954, and in 1961 he was named chairman of the High Trail Scout District and its 35 cub scout packs, 34 boy scout troops, and 8 explorer units. It was at this time that Fielding also became more involved in local politics, running for the Place 2 position on the Dallas Independent School District Board in 1961. He lost to the more experienced and better backed John Green, supported by the Committee for Good Schools. Fielding felt his loss was due to his lack of experience and so worked with political publicist Hildred Barker to improve his political savvy. Along with a better understanding of politics wrought by that tutelage, Fielding broadened his areas of interest in Dallas schools and was instrumental in the establishment of the Citizens' Committee for Better Schools.
Fielding ran for the school board again in 1963, but his interests were expanding beyond education to encompass race and equality in the local political establishment. Particularly through the organization called Citizens for Representative Government (CRG) that Fielding established, he became a spokesperson for anti-establishment perspectives. The CRG worked hard to change the election of council members from at-large voting to single-member district representation. Fielding was also instrumental in the establishment of another important Dallas educational organization, the League for Educational Advancement in Dallas (LEAD). Fielding was involved with several different organizations throughout his civic career, including the Greater Dallas Human Relations Council.
Fielding has continued to be involved in politics in the twenty-first century, contributing to the campaigns of Dallas mayor Laura Miller and others. His penchant for politics has been passed on to his children, and his daughter Linda Koop was elected to the Dallas City Council in 2005 and was reelected in 2007 without an opponent.
Donald Fielding was a vocal and prominent personality in Dallas education and politics from the 1960s to the 1990s. The materials in this collection are primarily newspaper clippings, often with sections underscored and annotated to reflect Fielding's specific interests and perspectives. The clippings cover a broad range of topics, from national issues concerning religious tolerance to Dallas area dropout rates and the association between crime and poor education. Closely related to these clippings are a number of drafts and typescripts of letters to various publication editors, often further elucidating Fielding's perspective on issues addressed in the articles.
Additional materials include technical reports, financial records, personal typescripts, and publicity items. The collection contains membership lists and financial records for the CRG, campaign publicity materials for CRG-supported candidates, various reports to and by the Dallas City Council, and election results and tabulations. Education-related items include studies and analyses concerning education and the social implications of poor education, communications and other documents about LEAD, and campaign literature related to Fielding's two bids for positions on the Dallas School Board. There are in addition a number of documents and materials concerning social aspects of religion and religious tolerance and the separation of church and state.
Finally, the collection includes some personal items such as birth certificates, service documents, and some of Fielding's fiction and plays. There are also a limited number of materials related to National Shoes, the business Fielding's family owned and operated during much of his adult life.
This collection is divided into four series: Politics, Education, Religion, and Personal. The first two series, Politics and Education, comprise the bulk of the collection. Folders are arranged in alphabetical order by title, and items therein are arranged chronologically. Where there are many items related to a topic, items are subdivided further into categories: Articles, Correspondence, and General. Articles are clippings and photocopies from serial publications, usually local newspapers. Correspondence includes letters as well as memoranda and form letters such as communications with members of organizations with which Fielding was associated. The General category includes all other materials such as press releases, reports, bylaws, membership lists, and other items. General topics are also further subdivided into more specific topics, where warranted. The more specific topic is part of the folder title.
The Politics series is divided into subseries for items that concern national and state topics, and items that concern Dallas area topics. The former often relate to more than one topic of local interest. In the second subseries, there are a few arrangement characteristics of note. The information concerning the Citizens' Charter Association was gathered by the Citizens for Representative Government for its internal use. The Economic Development materials include articles and items related to the Chamber of Commerce, tax rate issues, city planning and zoning concerns, and general transportation development. The Elections materials contain items specifically concerning elections, but most will also be associated with other topics in this collection as well. The items related to John McKee include some general information about Masons and crime statistics that the donor collected in relation to his interest in McKee. Since McKee was also chair of the Dallas Committee for Good Schools, additional information related to McKee is located in the Education series. Articles related to Poverty are associated too with the Dropouts topic. The Religion topic includes items related to issues where religion was fairly directly involved, such as local clergy defending a suspended teacher.
The Education series covers not just education per se, but also broad influences on education (such as school lunch programs) and the potential effects of poor education (such as juvinile deliquency). The general topic includes broad issues such as teacher pay, student performance, and the role of education in society. The School Board topic covers a wide range of issues. In processing materials, items concerning issues that the school board may have had to address or that may have influenced school board actions are included in the School Board topic. This includes news articles about local school conditions (unless these fit into Dropouts or Integration topics), the local implementation of the Manpower Development and Training Act, and similarly broad concerns.
There is some crossover between this series and Education as the donor's concerns with the separation of church and state included an interest in school prayer, school vouchers, and other aspects of religion in public education. Items that focus on the religious aspect are included in this series. Other topics of interest included in this series cover religion and public affairs, religious freedom, and interfaith cooperation. Several brochures and booklets about Judaism are included.
The Personal series consists of materials relating to Fielding's book "Assassination and Education in Dallas" as well as his letters to editors of the
Assassination and Education; a Guide to Dallas - 370.9764 F459A
Donald Fielding: An Oral History Interview -
This record series is indexed under the following controlled access subject terms.
MA 05-4 Donald Fielding Collection, Texas/Dallas History & Archives Division, Dallas Public Library
Processed by Steve Gaither
Supervised by Brian Collins


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London (CNSNews.com) - As increased aid to Afghan refugees began to flow into the country via land and air Wednesday, international relief agencies called on Afghanistan's neighbors to open their borders to let rations in and refugees out of the embattled central Asian country.
A spokeswoman for Oxford, England-based Oxfam said that ground-based food aid is slowly getting through, supplemented by rations dropped from the air by alliance military planes.
"We're trying to make the point that ground-based transport is the best way of getting aid through," the spokeswoman said. "We're appealing to neighboring countries to open their borders to refugees, as they're required to do under the Geneva Convention."
Oxfam said that food shipments are slowly picking up and a convoy carrying 1,000 tons of food left Peshawar, Pakistan for Kabul on Wednesday. Around 8,000 tons of food aid are already in the country, and several convoys scheduled for Thursday should bring an additional 1,600 tons into the country.
The U.N. estimates that 55,000 tons of food per month will have to enter Afghanistan to prevent severe food shortages. Up to 7 million Afghans have been displaced by an ongoing drought, the primitive economic policies of the ruling Taliban and the threat of military action against major towns.
The challenges presented by Afghanistan's poor infrastructure have been exacerbated by security and logistics problems inherent in working in a war zone.
A convoy from the United Nations World Food Program, which left before Oct. 7, is still believed to be en route to settlements within Afghanistan. In a statement from Geneva, the International Red Cross said that the security situation is relatively more stable in the Northern Alliance-held parts of the country.
The IRC is looking into establishing supply routes through the northern part of Afghanistan, rather than through Pakistan to the south.
There has been "little to no contact" with the 120 Afghan employees of Oxfam still in the country, the spokeswoman said, but the organization has calculated that reserve food supplies are running low.
The Paris-based Medecins sans Frontieres (Doctors without Borders) expressed dismay at the limited ability of aid agencies to work while air strikes continue.
"The confusion between military and humanitarian missions creates an additional danger for humanitarian action which is already extremely difficult ... and risks limiting (relief workers') chances of acting," the organization said in a statement.
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has admitted that air drops are not as effective as shipping food via truck convoys. Some British politicians have called for food aid to be stepped up.
"I am deeply concerned that the current humanitarian response to the crisis in Afghanistan is not enough," said Glenys Kinnock, a Labour Party official and member of the European parliament. "The very act of dropping these packages from high altitude is problematic.
"You can have only so much control as to where they will land and no control on who will end up with them. It is far more appropriate to deliver food and supplies to the people and the quantity must be massively scaled up," Kinnock said.


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