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The success of the Sulphur Springs Lady Cats on the soccer field was noticed by other coaches.
The Lady Cats finished fourth in 20-4A action, earning a playoff berth.
Friday the team was rewarded with nine players listed on the all-district team choosen by coaches.
Abby Grand-Lienard, a scoring force and a team leader, despite being a freshman was named the Newcomer of the Year in the district according to SS head soccer coach Joel Bailey.
Sulphur Springs selections on the first team were: Brittany Lamphere, midfielder, senior and Daci West, defense, junior.
On the second team: Kaci Crowson, junior midfielder and Macy Hurley, goal keeper.
Honorable mention selections from Sulphur Springs were: Jentri Broumley, senior; Katelyn Cody, junior; Melissa Phillips, sophomore and Diana Sanchez, freshman.
Superlatives for the district include: MVP — Lauren Stephens, North Lamar, sophomore; Offensive Players of the Year, Katelynn Twilley, Greenville sophomore and Erin McGregor, North Lamar,senior; also named Newcomer of the Year with Grand-Lienard, was North Lamar freshman, Cindy Rangel and Coach of the Year, Kendall Kirk, North Lamar.
Other first team offensive selections include: Julia Hernandez, sophomore, Greenville; Alysha Berry, senior, Princeton; Morgan Flippen, freshman, North Lamar.
On first team defense were: Sandra Zaquez, sophomore, Greenville; Randi Mancuso, senior, Paris; Katy Sartain, junior, Princeton.
First team goal keepers were: Shelby Sanson, sophomore, North Lamar and Anna Guadalupe Alvarez, junior, Princeton.
Second team offense: Haley Lynchman, junior, North Lamar; Sydney Phillips, senior, Greenville; Betsy Torres, sophomore, Paris.
Second team midfield: Lydia Flores, senior, North Lamar; Bailey Phillips, freshman, Greenville; Maci Bradford, senior, Greenville; Crystal Palacios, senior, Princeton.
Second team defense: Kasye Lewis, sophomore, North Lamar; Kelsey Evans, junior, North Lamar; Alexandra Patterson, senior, Greenville; Linsey Aldridge, Paris, senior; Kendall McDonald, sophomore, Paris; Katy Taylor, sophomore, North Lamar.
Second team goal keeper, Maria Delgado, senior, Princeton.
Honorable mention: Brytnie Miller, junior, Rakeisha McFrazier, sophomore; Ellen Green, senior, North Lamar; Raci Lancaster, senior, Haley Jetton, Carolina Chapell, Ellen Temple, Liberty Smith, sophomores, Paris; Emmaline Hollingsworth, Brenda Hernandez, sophomores, Megan Warren, senior, Nancy Gilchrist, freshman, Greenville.
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The woman who got her big break on network TV thanks to the firing of Don Imus now apparently wants another host to lose his job over some tasteless remarks.
Morning Joe is the show that took over MSNBC's early-morning time slot after Imus was bounced for his offensive observations about the Rutgers women's basketball team. Mika Brzezinski, a regular member of the Morning Joe crew, has now left little doubt she would like to see John Gibson fired for the callous comments about the death of actor Heath Ledger the Fox News host made on his radio show.
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While there was consensus among the Morning Joe crew that Gibson's comments were out of line, Brzezinski was alone in suggesting that Gibson should pay for his remarks with his job.
WILLIE GEIST: I don't know; is he trying to be funny? That's not funny.
MIKA BRZEZINSKI: I don't know, but I don't know how you stay on the air after doing something like that, quite frankly.
Mika returned to her Gibson-must-go theme a bit later . . .
JOE SCARBOROUGH: This is about as callous and harsh as anything I've heard. It is unspeakably rude.
BRZEZINSKI: I also just don't see how you get away with something like that -- I just don't. I mean not that, I don't know, I don't know how you stay on the air. I don't know who would listen to you. Maybe I'm not edgy enough.
Gibson's remarks were in unquestionably poor taste. But how consistent is Mika in her call for Gibson to go? Does she believe, for example, that Randi Rhodes should have been fired when the Air America host "imitated the sound of gunfire while saying somebody ought to take the president fishing and then shoot him"?
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Pirates notebook: Marte passes concussion tests, but finger injury lingers
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — After enduring a nasty collision Tuesday night, Pirates left fielder Starling Marte passed concussion tests and will not go on the disabled list.
But a finger injury he suffered in the incident could keep him out of the lineup longer than his aching head.
"We're giving him a day down," manager Clint Hurdle said before Wednesday's game against the Tampa Bay Rays. "He slept well and feels much better today than he did yesterday."
Marte was injured during a stolen-base attempt in the fifth inning. Sliding face-first, Marte's head smacked into second baseman Sean Rodriguez's leg.
"He was blocking the base," Marte said. "I had nowhere to go."
After the play, Marte stayed on his knees for a couple of minutes. His legs appeared wobbly as he was guided off the field by athletic trainer Todd Tomczyk.
"I was pretty bad," Marte said.
Marte jammed his right middle finger into Rodriguez's foot. The finger was stiff, bruised and badly swollen Wednesday afternoon.
"I'm not able to throw right now," Marte said. "Maybe in a day or two."
Pirates shortstop Jordy Mercer saw the play unfold from the dugout. He said those types of collisions sometimes are unavoidable.
"As a middle infielder, you try to put the tag down as quickly as possible and get the heck out of the way," Mercer said. "But sometimes, the throw doesn't let you do that, so you have to hang in there. Those base-stealers come in hard. So when they hit, they hit hard."
Cole to return Saturday
Hurdle said right-hander Gerrit Cole will be activated off the disabled list Saturday and will start that night against the New York Mets.
"We're in discussions right now about what that will do to the rotation," Hurdle said.
Right-hander Brandon Cumpton is listed as Friday's probable starter. The most likely scenario is Cumpton (3-2, 4.93 ERA) will be optioned to Triple-A Indianapolis after that game and Cole will take his spot on the active roster.
Cole was placed on the DL June 8 because of right shoulder fatigue.
Trouble with the dome
Right fielder Gregory Polanco failed to catch Logan Forsythe's high fly ball, which plopped down a couple of feet away from Polanco for a triple Tuesday night.
Blame the white domed roof at Tropicana Field.
"I couldn't see anything," Polanco said.
There was nothing Polanco could do in the minors to prepare him for a domed stadium in the big leagues. Hurdle was not fazed by Polanco's miscue.
"I told him to just keep playing," Hurdle said. "There's not many domes he's going to have to play in. He's fine."
Worley's second chance
Right-hander Vance Worley had surgery in September 2012 to remove a loose body and a bone spur from his elbow. It took more of a toll than he expected.
"It was minor surgery, nothing crazy," Worley said. "But I never really bounced back."
Before the operation, Worley unconsciously altered his mechanics to protect his sore elbow. He wasn't immediately able to rediscover the form that helped him go 11-3 with a 3.01 ERA in 2011.
"I wasn't getting any angle, so everything stayed flat," Worley said. "Curveball stayed up, cutter stayed up, fastball stayed up. That won't work at this level."
After Worley had a disastrous 2013 season, the Minnesota Twins decided to convert him into a setup reliever during spring training. It was their last-ditch move before giving up on Worley. A few days before camp ended, he was traded to the Pirates to work as a starter.
"All I was thinking was, 'Thank God' because I was back in a role that I'm comfortable with," Worley said.
So far, so good. Worley is 1-0 with a 1.98 ERA since being called up from Indy on June 15. His next start is Thursday against the Mets.
Minor matters
Assistant general manager Kyle Stark said prized shortstop prospect Alen Hason, who has missed the past five games at Double-A Altoona, is not serving a suspension. "We are giving Alen a blow from competition for a period of time to work on some things," Stark said via email. "There is no suspension or definitive period of time. This is for internal developmental reasons." ... Left-hander Jhonathan Ramos was promoted to Indianapolis. Ramos went 2-3 with a 5.27 ERA in 23 relief outings with Double-A Altoona.
Rob Biertempfel is a staff writer for Trib Total Media. Reach him at email@example.com or via Twitter @BiertempfelTrib.


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Elias Mudzuri, was one of the most powerful members of the opposition Movement for Democratic change.
He was the first opposition figure to become mayor of the Zimbabwean capital Harare since Robert Mugabe came to power in 1980.
However the ruling party Zanu-PF claims he has been suspended from his job by and placed under investigation for mismanagement.
Local Government Minister, Ignatius Chombo, from the ruling Zanu-PF party accused him of dismissing city workers and failing to guarantee adequate water supplies.
Mr Mudzuri refuses to recognise the suspension and has continued to carry out his mayoral business.
"If they say I have to go through a referendum, I will go. But I will not take heed of the dirty tricks which the minister is playing," he said.
The mayor was also arrested and detained for two nights in police cells with several other council officials for addressing a political meeting without permission.
The opposition says it was a meeting called to discuss civic matters like waste collection problems, not politics.
He was released after a judge ruled that the gathering had been a civil meeting and not a political one.
This judge, Benjamin Paradaza, has since been arrested and charged with corruption and 'defeating the ends of justice'.
Mr Mudzuri has previously been accused of sacking city workers who supported Zanu-PF and of encouraging workers to take part in two general strikes against President Robert Mugabe.
He in turn has criticised the government, claiming that the state-owned media refuses to interview him or even carry his adverts.
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An Australian man charged with rape and sexual attacks will face court in Adelaide tomorrow after being extradited from the United States.
The 28-year-old man from Adelaide's south was charged in April 2004 with allegedly raping or assaulting three young women at knifepoint in Adelaide between July 2000 and October 2003.
Two alleged rapes occurred in the city's parklands while another alleged assault occurred at Mile End, about 3km from Adelaide, a police spokesperson said.
After a massive police manhunt that spanned Japan and parts of the United States, Australian authorities contacted Los Angeles authorities in June last year for help in finding and arresting the man, who was believed to be in hiding in the Los Angeles area.
Investigators obtained a provisional warrant for his arrest in December and began staking out a hostel in Hollywood where he was believed to be staying.
After 27 hours of surveillance, the suspect showed up and was taken into custody.
Accompanied by two South Australian detectives, the man, who had been in US federal holding cells in California, arrived in Adelaide yesterday wearing handcuffs and was taken into custody ahead of his court appearance.
A police spokesman said the arrest was the result of a joint operation between Australian and US authorities.
The man will appear in Adelaide Magistrates Court on charges of aggravated serious criminal trespass, unlawful detention, two counts of rape, assault with intent to commit an offence, and nine counts of unlawful sexual intercourse.
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With the federal government predicting an active or "extremely active" hurricane season, the Department of Health encourages Louisiana residents to begin planning now for how they will protect their homes, their families and their health if tropical weather impacts the state.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced that it expects between 13 and 20 named storms this Atlantic hurricane season, of which seven to 11 could become hurricanes. NOAA says three to six of those hurricanes could be major storms, with Category 3, 4 or 5 wind speeds. Non-governmental organizations also have predicted between 18 and 19 named tropical storms, with between 8 and 9 becoming hurricanes during this Atlantic Hurricane Season.
LDH Interim Secretary Kathy Kliebert said, "The experts agree that this hurricane season could be very active, which means there is no time like the present to get your home and your family ready in case tropical weather threatens our state. You should also talk to members of your extended family, your friends and your neighbors about what their plans are in the event of severe weather or an evacuation to make sure that they will be okay. When it comes to preparing for storms, we're all in this together."
Louisiana residents should make sure that their preparedness plans take into account any special medical needs members of their family may have, including if family members will need electricity to power medical equipment like oxygen tanks, what particular dietary needs members of the family may have and how to ensure that family members have access to prescriptions and other medicines.
State Health Officer Dr. Jimmy Guidry said, "You should consider your own health and the special medical needs of anyone in your family when making a plan for hurricane season. Ask yourself how you will function if you do not have power at your home and consider where you will go if it is not safe for you to stay in your house. Keep your prescriptions filled and necessary medication and supplies on hand so that you have what you need if tropical weather does come. There are simple, common sense actions that you can take now to take responsibility for your health and well-being, and that of your family, when a storm comes later."
Additionally, LDH encourages residents to keep important health information on hand and to bring it with them if they have to leave their homes. Information about medical conditions, prescription needs and how to get in touch with their doctors will be useful in the event that members of the public are evacuated from their homes. There are online applications that can help people compile and store this information.
LDH also encourages 24-hour residential health care facilities to ready themselves for disaster response. Facilities should begin testing their generators, procuring fuel tanks and refueling them, ensuring contracts for evacuation and sheltering are in place. In many cases, these preparations are required in a facility's license. LDH reminds medical institutions that Medical Special Needs Shelters are not to be used as a primary option for their evacuation plans.
LDH also reminds the public of the need for health volunteers to support the state in the event of a disaster, when both medical and non-medical assistance is required to support mass evacuation and sheltering efforts.
"Volunteers are the backbone of our response to emergencies like hurricanes," said J.T. Lane, Assistant Secretary for Public Health. "Any comprehensive emergency response needs a robust volunteer system to address any manpower gaps that directly result from the disaster."
Louisiana Volunteers in Action (LAVA) is LDH's volunteer management program. Anyone interested in lending a helping hand including doctors, nurses, social workers, teachers, drivers, etc., can sign up with LAVA at www.lava.dhh.louisiana.gov.
More than 5,700 volunteers are in the system and may be called out during crises to assist. They have assisted during several recent hurricanes and during H1N1 flu season and have also been utilized during Mardi Gras and the Super Bowl to supplement emergency medical care.
During a hurricane, LAVA volunteers may be assigned to help at a Medical Special Needs Shelter or at the state's bus triage operation. Non-medical volunteers may be asked to feed patients or perform clerical tasks, while medical volunteers will be involved in direct patient care.
Residents can get information about how to prepare for disasters online from the following agencies:
- DHH's Emergency Preparedness Page: http://www.dhh.louisiana.gov/emergency
- Governor's Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness Get A Gameplan campaign: GetAGameplan.org
- Federal Emergency Management Agency's preparedness page: Ready.gov
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention emergency information: emergency.cdc.gov/


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Given the overwhelmingly positive perception created around the issue of future global oil supply prospects recently, one would think that it is a waste of time to continue worrying about where the next barrel comes from. Since the 2008 scare when oil prices spiked to almost $150 a barrel, many developments contributed to pushing aside fears of impending liquid fuel shortages and resulting economic collapse. The one development which made the most sensational headlines as well as a significant actual difference was the shale oil boom in the US, which might even extend to other places, such as Argentina and Russia. The Bakken and Eagle Ford fields might collectively produce as much as 1.8 million barrels per day by the end of this year, with more production to be added in the next few years, before both fields will probably reach a peak by the end of this decade. These two fields alone will make up 2% of global liquid fuels production by December. If the optimists are right, we could see as much as 5 million barrels per day from shale oil by 2020, although I think people let the euphoria get ahead of reasonable analysis on this one.
There are other positive stories worth mentioning, including the Iraq surge in production, which should continue for the rest of the decade in the absence of a civil war breaking out. The fact that Saudi Arabia defied expectations of imminent production decline and has even shown some modest ability to increase production has also contributed to the current positive mood. The Canadian oil sands, Russia's continued modest increases in production, which everyone seems to think that it cannot go on much longer, or expectations of seeing oil from Kazakhstan's Kashagan field, which has been under development for thirteen years now, are just some of the additional reasons why people now perceive the concept of peak oil to have been just a hoax or scare tactic meant to achieve some political goal.
There are also some stories, which turned out to be more hype than reality. Brazil's expected rise to major oil exporter status never materialized.
Note: Data for Brazil production from EIA
It seems the $100 oil environment, which made many of the other good news stories come true, was not enough for Brazil's deep-water fields discovered in the past decade. Brazil's production profile is less than impressive for the past few years. The technical challenges presented by the giant fields discovered off their shores, so far proved to be too challenging. I don't know if anyone has noticed the fact that while the Bakken and Eagle Ford success stories have been much heralded, the Brazil story, which initially was a darling for oil enthusiasts when the big discoveries were announced, has been flying under the radar since it turned out that Brazil will not be producing great additional amounts of oil any time soon.
The fact that more and more companies are abandoning the much hyped oil shale deposits also known as kerogen (not to be confused with shale oil which is produced through fracking) is also something that received little media attention. Shell Oil is the latest quitter, after years of research led them to believe that their efforts will not pay off. Despite stories of potentially trillions of barrels of recoverable oil from the oil shale deposits, to date there are no commercial projects being planned, after decades of failed research.
Continued need for increased liquid fuel production
"Peak demand" became another darling slogan meant to counter peak oil arguments. It is a claim that suggests we no longer need to achieve continued increase in global oil production to keep the economy going, because we are now becoming just so darn efficient that we can grow on the back of efficiency gains alone. Looking at the data from past years, I see no evidence of this being true.
Since 2008, yearly global economic growth rate has been a relatively modest 2.9%. During the same period since 2008, global growth in liquid fuels demand grew at about 1% per year. I often pointed out in articles on my personal blog that current global liquid fuels demand relationship to potential economic growth can be expressed in this formula:
1.5 + (percentage yearly growth in liquid fuels supply) x 2 = potential yearly global economic growth rate
The 1.5 value stands for the average yearly potential economic growth rate achieved through efficiency gains and structural changes to economic activity patterns. Looking at the data since 2008, we can see that the relationship I expressed between liquid fuels demand and average yearly economic growth is reasonably accurate. This relationship may change in time, but for many decades already, it has proven to be constant if long-term averages are considered. No evidence of "peak demand" any time soon based on data available to us, despite what we have been told.
Keeping much needed stability for the rest of the decade
Prior to 2008, global economic growth rate was running at a yearly average of about 4% since the end of the Second World War. There is no chance in my view that we will ever get back to that rate of average growth, but we do need to achieve about 3% just to keep the world's finances and society stable. As I pointed out, part of the challenge will be to continue to provide yearly average growth rates in liquid fuels supplies of about 1%. Unconventional sources as well as the continued ramp-up in production in Iraq will play a great role in meeting this target, but it may not be enough, because there is much room for disappointment for technical and geopolitical reasons.
This is why we need rapprochement with Iran. Since the sanctions were introduced, Iran's petroleum production declined by about 25%. We could gain that amount back instantly if we were to put an end to the sanctions. We could gain another million barrels or even more in the next few years if we were to allow for technological transfers in the oil extraction field to occur.
It is possible that even without Iranian oil we could achieve the 1% yearly increase in global liquid fuels supplies for the rest of the decade, giving us the much-needed time to recover from the 2008 crisis and get ready to meet the many challenges awaiting us in the following decade. It is a possibility based on too many factors that could go wrong however, so a 2% gain in global liquids or even more, courtesy of Iran and their eagerness to escape current sanctions so they can deal with their own internal economic problems, would be very welcome news. I know it is hard for many to understand just how crucial this is for the global economy and its odds of avoiding another major economic crisis for the next few years. Having been bombarded for years now with fracking euphoria and myths about peak demand stories, led to a distortion of people's perception of the global liquid fuels situation. Seeing the recent signs of efforts from both the leadership elites of the United States and Iran of willingness to compromise and normalize relations gives me hope that at least some of our elites are still in touch with reality.
Disclosure: I have no positions in any stocks mentioned, and no plans to initiate any positions within the next 72 hours. I wrote this article myself, and it expresses my own opinions. I am not receiving compensation for it (other than from Seeking Alpha). I have no business relationship with any company whose stock is mentioned in this article.


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In a moment there was a sound as if all the rocks on the earth were rent, the castle vanished into the air, and with it atlantes.
One of these compartments, known as an atlantes, is shown in the annexed woodcut.
I am that atlantes who watched over him in childhood, and as he grew to manhood he was ever the first in all deeds of chivalry.
Roger was lying on a bed of soft moss, when atlantes, for so he took her to be, stood before him.
atlantes, figures of men used in architecture instead of pillars.
Then atlantes broke the spell and disappeared, together with the castle, and the prisoners trooped forth, Rogero among them.
Can you tell me, Constable, whether there are any more—er—atlantes to come up to-night?
Astolpho, hastening after him, entered the enchanted castle of atlantes, and soon recognized it as a house of magic.
This country was called Mauritania; and was supposed to have been possessed by the atlantes and Gorgons.
atlantes rescued her, and took her children when she died; but Marphisa was stolen from him by a band of Arabs.
1580s, Titan, son of Iapetus and Clymene, supposed to uphold the pillars of heaven, which was his punishment for being the war leader of the Titans in the struggle with the Olympian gods. The name in Greek perhaps means "The Bearer (of the Heavens)," from a-, copulative prefix, + stem of tlenai "to bear," from PIE root *tele- "to lift, support, weigh." Mount Atlas, in Mauritania, was important in Greek cosmology as a support of the heavens.
"collection of maps in a volume," 1636, first in reference to the English translation of "Atlas, sive cosmographicae meditationes de fabrica mundi" (1585) by Flemish geographer Gerhardus Mercator (1512-1594), who might have been the first to use this word in this way. A picture of the Titan Atlas holding up the world appeared on the frontispiece of this and other early map collections.
atlas at·las (āt'ləs)
The top or first cervical vertebra of the neck, supporting the skull and articulating with the occipital bone and rotating around the dens of the axis.
In classical mythology, a Titan famous for his strength. After the defeat of the Titans by Zeus, Atlas was condemned to support the Earth and sky on his shoulders for eternity.
Note: Since the sixteenth century, pictures of Atlas and his burden have been used as decorations on maps. Accordingly, the word atlas is used for a book of maps.
Note: An "Atlas" or "atlas" is an incredibly strong person or one who carries an enormous burden.
A bound collection of maps. Atlases are named after the Greek god Atlas.


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After the crowds have shopped at large stores and sprawling malls on Black Friday, many smaller businesses, including ones contacted in Baton Rouge, Lafayette and New Orleans, are hoping Saturday will be their day.
Thousands of small stores, restaurants, spas — and even dry cleaners — across the U.S. will offer their own discounts and promotions to draw holiday shoppers on what's known as Small Business Saturday.
Tyler Hicks, operations manager for The Backpacker on Jefferson Highway, said the important benefit his outdoors store will get from Small Business Saturday is public awareness.
"This brings up the conversation why it is important to shop at local small businesses, even for one day a year," Hicks said. "The main thing is for people to take the time to remember how important it is to support local businesses to support our local economy."
American Express created the day three years ago, it said, to help small businesses struggling during the recession. The credit and charge card company encourages cardholders, who have registered in advance online, to make purchases with their cards in exchange for a $25 rebate paid for by American Express, if they buy something at a participating business. American Express won't say how much the promotion costs, but Susan Sobbott, president of American Express OPEN, the company's small business division, said it is a considerable amount.
The Backpacker plans to mark the day with a wide variety of Saturday-only sales.
"We're going to run sales all weekend long, but Saturday will be the most lucrative for our customers," Hicks said.
Even small merchants who aren't officially part of the event hope to get a bump in revenue during a weekend when they used to be all but forgotten in an avalanche of deep discounts offered by big stores and online retailers. Perhaps more importantly, the day has become an opportunity for small businesses to build a corps of customers who will keep coming back year-round.
Gina Babineaux is the owner of Artesia, a clothing and accessories store on Johnston Street in Lafayette. She is also the founder of Shop Local Acadiana, an alliance of 50 small businesses. Thirty members of Shop Local Acadiana plan to participate in Small Business Saturday, Babineaux said.
"That's good participation for this area," she said.
Babineaux said Small Business Saturday is a good way of letting shoppers realize the importance of locally owned businesses, a message that is boosted by the marketing muscle of American Express.
"We hope that shoppers see that we have more customer service, more selection and more of a hometown feel," she said. "It does matter where you spend your money."
Artesia plans to continue its Black Friday sales on Saturday. The store will also offer giveaways to shoppers who spend $25 or more. Babineaux said they'll be able to choose an ornament that has a "tangible prize" — everything from store items to gift cards. "That works well for us," she said. "People will be able to get a free item, thanks to the $25 credit, and they'll win something."
American Express may have intended to give small merchants — and card usage — a boost in a tough economy, but Small Business Saturday is also helping small merchants get a bigger share of the spotlight and spending between Black Friday and Cyber Monday, a shopping holiday dreamed up to get people excited about shopping online on the Monday after Thanksgiving. For some retailers, the sales they get after people push back from the Thanksgiving dinner table represents a significant chunk of profit for the year. That hasn't been so true for most small businesses. In a survey commissioned by Bank of America, 91 percent of the 1,003 small-business owners said the day after Thanksgiving has little, or no, effect on their profit.
"It's not like we count on it for a huge boost in sales, but every little bit helps," said Sam Poitevent, one of the owners of Feet First, a shoe and accessory store on Magazine Street in New Orleans. "If we get four or five more people coming in to shop during Saturday, we consider that to be a victory."
A search of the special Web page set up for Small Business Saturday reveals many businesses that most people don't think of as places to buy gifts, including restaurants, churches and dry cleaners taking part.
Although the Thanksgiving weekend is shopping-focused, American Express purposely created the program so that any small business can take part.
The company has found that restaurants are the top choice for consumers wanting to use the $25 rebate, followed by bakeries, clothing stores, gift shops and bookstores.


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Snarky's is catered food (solid meals) for people who help run our MarsCon convention. ConCom Members, Dealers, People running Room Parties, People running programming and volunteers who do at least 5 hrs of work at the convention or for the convention. It is a way to avoid having to run out for food or bring and prepare food in your room.
For the low cost of $35 until Dec. 1st, then $40 until Febuary 25 th and $45 at door (maybe limited options at the door) you can be part of Snarky's for the whole weekend.
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After years of complaints, one Northwest man is suing an energy company that built a wind farm near his home. Residents have complained that noise from the turbines is affecting their health.
For about four years Dan Williams says he suffered headaches, dizziness, and loss of sleep. And he says it was all caused by the wooshing of wind turbine blades near his eastern Oregon home. Williams and several neighbors brought complaints to the Chicago-based wind developer Invenergy and Morrow County officials. The county ruled Invenergy had violated state noise standards. But Invenergy officials say the county is misreading Oregon's noise ordinance. Williams' is asking for compensation for physical and emotional distress and for his home. He says his property value has dropped since the wind farm was built. A recent study by the Oregon Health Authority found that wind turbine noise affects people differently. The assessment recommended siting turbines properly, as well as addressing community concerns before construction begins. For Dan Williams' part, he opted to move away from the wind farm about a year ago. His attorneys say the court date will be sometime next August.
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Copper River Rafting
Some of the most desirable whitewater rafting in Alaska can be found on the Copper River due to the amazing scenic and wildlife attractions to be found along the way. The relaxing float trip is usually six days in length and is suited for those that want to combine Alaskan whitewater with spectacular vistas.
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- Mild whitewater
- Wildlife including seals, wolf, grizzlies and moose
Copper River rafting in Alaska offers many things:
The river rafting trip is on Alaska's fourth largest river and travels from the interior through the Chugach range to Cordova on the coast of Prince William Sound.
Alaskan Rafting on the Copper River is filled with Salmon
More than three-quarters of Alaska's freshwater is held in glaciers, and most of its major rivers spring from them, including the Copper River, where the salmon are marathoners, strong from the 300-mile swim to their spawning grounds.
The Copper River also carries blocks of ice that have split from the Miles and Childs downstream to the Gulf of Alaska. The Copper River flows between the two glaciers, undercutting them and causing icebergs to break off - sometimes hunks the size of houses. Crashing into the river, they can create waves so huge they've been known to hurl salmon into nearby treetops.
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There are stretches of the Copper River that are for relaxing and stretches that are class lll and lV. There aren't too many hotels nearby so pack your camp stove. Camping is available along the Copper River. Summertime temperature averages around 60 degrees while dropping to 40 degrees at night. June is the driest month and September has the most rain.
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Market reactions to Ben Bernanke's Jackson Hole speech have generally viewed it as slightly more dovish than expected, without being a game changer. The Fed Chairman said that the stagnation of the labour market is a "grave concern" because of "the enormous suffering and waste of human talent it entails, but also because persistently high levels of unemployment will wreak structural damage on our economy that could last for many years". On reflection, these are extremely strong words for a central banker. It would make little sense if they are not followed by action.
The important question, however, is what kind of action will be forthcoming. The market is disposed to believe that only one kind of action really matters, and that would be a further round of quantitative easing. That, it seems, is seen as the real litmus test of whether the Fed is serious about stimulating the economy.
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April 5, 2008 – 29 Adar II 5768
Annual: Leviticus 12:1 – 13:59 (Etz Hayim, p. 649; Hertz p. 460)
Triennial Cycle: Leviticus 12:1 – 13:39 (Etz Hayim p. 649; Hertz p. 460)
Maftir: Exodus 12:1 – 20 (Etz Hayim p. 380; Hertz p. 253)
Haftarah: Ezekiel 45:16 – 46:18 (Etz Hayim p. 1291; Hertz p. 1001)
Prepared by Rabbi Joyce Newmark
Teaneck, New Jersey
When a woman gives birth, she enters a state of ritual impurity. If she gives birth to a boy, she is in a state of niddah (separation) for seven days, and she remains ritually impure for 33 days. Following the birth of a girl the corresponding periods are two weeks and 66 days. At the end of this time she is to bring a burnt offering and a purification offering and she is restored to a state of ritual purity.
God instructs Moses and Aaron about tzara'at, a scaly skin disease traditionally translated as "leprosy" but clearly not the condition known today as Hansen's disease. When a person developed a rash or other signs of skin disease, the priest was to examine it and determine if it was in fact tzara'at, which would render the person ritually impure. If the diagnosis was uncertain, the priest was to quarantine the person for seven days and then examine him again. If the diagnosis was still uncertain, the person was to be isolated for another seven days; if the rash had not spread, he was declared ritually pure. Once a person was determined to have tzara'at, he was declared ritually impure and sent to live outside the camp.
Tzara'at could affect fabrics as well as people. Once a priest had determined that an article of cloth or leather was affected it was to be burned.
Speak to the Israelite people thus: When a woman at childbirth bears a male, she shall be impure seven days; she shall be impure as at the time of her menstrual infirmity. – On the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised. – She shall remain in a state of blood purification for thirty-three days: she shall not touch any consecrated thing, nor enter the sanctuary until her period of purification is completed. If she bears a female, she shall be impure two weeks as during her menstruation, and she shall remain in a state of blood purification for sixty-six days. (Vayikra 12:2-5)
Sparks for Discussion
The reason that a new mother's period of impurity is twice as long for a daughter as for a son is a mystery. What is clear is that our commentators take it for granted that all parents would prefer that their children be sons. The passage from Sanhedrin offers some less than complimentary reasons why that might be. Can you think of legitimate reasons why parents would have preferred sons in the economic and social climate of earlier centuries? Do these reasons still apply? If parents were able to choose the sex of their children, do you think the gender distribution of the population would be different?
Imagine you have just been blessed with a new nephew. Would you drive 100 miles to attend his brit milah? Take a three-hour flight? Travel to Israel? Would you do the same to attend the naming/Simhat Bat of a new niece?
The priest shall examine the affection in the skin of his body: if hair in the affected patch has turned white and the affection appears to be deeper than the skin of his body, it is a leprous affection; when the priest sees it, he shall pronounce him impure. (Vayikra 13:3)
Given the attention the Torah pays to the diagnosis of and purification rituals for tzara'at, it would seem logical that the identification of this condition and the quarantine of people with tzara'at should be of paramount importance. However, the rabbis teach that even a person with obvious symptoms is not to be declared to have tzara'at at times of personal or communal celebration. What can we learn from this? Are there times when ritual requirements should take a back seat to the needs of the individual or the community? Can you think of situations in which we routinely ignore the letter of the law in order to better serve God and Torah?
Imagine there is a new family in your community, a young couple with two small children. The wife tells you that in recent months they have begun to celebrate Shabbat on Friday nights with candles, kiddush, and a special meal. However, she says, there are some weeks when her husband gets stuck at work and cannot be home in time for dinner. On those Fridays, she simply feeds the kids fish sticks and puts them to bed. She wants to know if when this happens, she should also feed her husband fish sticks when he gets home, or can the two of them go out for a nice dinner together. How would you answer her?


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Pictures from Adolf Hitler's worst Christmas ever
December 1941
Der Fuhrer seems pretty damn glum for a guy celebrating the birth of the Christ Child. This was the Yuletide right after his big blitz into Russia got bogged down fighting "General Winter," despite his own advisors' assurances it'd all be over by Hanukkah. And on top of that, his distant allies in Japan had just gone and done something silly in Hawaii that he was certain would be nothing but trouble in the long run. So, it's no fun for the holidays for Adolf Hitler here. But at least he can look forward to Santa helping him with his coal shortage problems (one stocking at a time!).
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Fri Dec 21, 2012, 04:37 PM
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1. (this comment has been self-censored...)
(to avoid making outrageous statements about Wayne LaPierre)
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Tuesday Afternoon (56,912 posts)
2. can you name the others?
I know.
but . . .
I am reminded of Jesus' Last Supper.
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RZM (8,556 posts)
3. I think I can identify one
Far left in the bottom pic looks like Goering. Other than that I'm not sure.
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Tuesday Afternoon (56,912 posts)
4. I am going to show these to Brother. I wonder if he will be able to identify any of them. He is a
huge history/WWII buff. I will post the names if he can. Thanks
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Mon Dec 24, 2012, 11:18 AM
mgc1961 (1,263 posts)
5. Here's who I see many years after my youthful interest in that period of 20th century history.
From right to left in the top photograph:
The first guy facing left looks a little like Goebbels, but I wouldn't wager money on it. The guy facing us, sitting next to Adolf looks awfully familiar, but I can't immediately put a name with his face.
From left to right in the bottom photograph:
Yes, that's Goering. The guy on the other side of Hitler might be Fransisco Franco. I think the guy next to him is Oskar Dirlewanger (giggle). Martin Bormann possibly, on the far right.
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Fri Feb 8, 2013, 04:05 PM
KatyMan (2,229 posts)
7. I don't think that's Goering,
Is it Streicher?
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Tue Feb 5, 2013, 07:57 AM
Democracyinkind (4,015 posts)
6. Life erroneously captioned this as "Hitler having christmas with his generals"
... While this is obviously some sort of party function. I'm not sure that this is 1941, either. The source of these pics might have lied about the dates in order to mask his long-term involvement with the movement (not the famous Heinrich Hoffmann, but less well known Hugo Jaeger).


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Miley Cyrus ends her brief reign at number one in Billboard Hot 200 after her album has been beaten out by Sugarland's.
World's teen idol Miley Cyrus has to end her brief reign at number one in Billboard Hot 200 this week. Miley is beaten out by American country music duo Sugarland as their album "Love on the Inside" pushes its selling number with a total of 171,383 copies this week. Meanwhile, Miley's latest album "Breakout" can only move its selling point from 371,000 copies last week to 163,000 copies this week.
Furthermore, soundtrack of "Mamma Mia!" by pop music group ABBA still remains at number three in the chart with 18 percent decrease selling point from 168,000 to 138,000 copies. Kid Rock's sixth album "Rock N Roll Jesus" stays put at number four with 96,000 copies, thanks to his crossover success of single "All Summer Long".
At number five is rapper Lil Wayne with his "Tha Carter III" album that moves 79,000 copies in the market this week. At number six is Christian rock act Third Day who score their best sale at 75,000 copies with their latest album "Revelation".
Coldplay's "Viva La Vida" sits at number seven after dropping from 75,000 to 70,000 mark. Razor & Tie kid-Centric's album titled "Kidz Bop 14" starts its debut in the chart at number eight with 58,000 copies, pushing down popular teen group Jonas Brothers' soundtrack album for Disney's "Camp Rock" to number nine. Lingering at number ten is Nas' untitled album with 41,000 copies moved.
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- Sugarland: "Love on the Inside"
- Miley Cyrus: "Breakout"
- ABBA: "Mamma Mia!" Soundtrack
- Kid Rock: "Rock N Roll Jesus"
- Lil Wayne: "Tha Carter III"
- Third Day: "Revelation"
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With Tebow, Sanchez, and all the drama surrounding the Jets, pundits are piling on rex Ryan for turning his team into a 'circus.'
"My anger had nothing to do with any movement," she admitted to rex Reed.
Ari joins the boys, much to the chagrin of his devoted assistant, Lloyd (rex Lee) and wife, Mrs. Ari (Perrey Reeves).
Although rex Reed said once that AIDS has done more for sexual fidelity than the Bible, you know.
The buried lede in this intriguing story on how Tyrannosaurus rex consumed its legendary prey?
rex wondered what had become of the letter, until at last he began to suspect that it had never been written.
Not as I say, mind ye, as any on 'em cooms up to rex son o' Rally.
In another minute the ladder was cautiously lowered, and rex and Bowles joined their visitor.
Abby was crying one day and rex heard her, and grandmother asked, 'What's that?'
Equitibus praeerat Aruns, Tarquinii filius: rex ipse cum legionibus sequebatur.
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Let's make this clear: Palestine has no navy, army or air force; this is not a war, this genocide!
Today is Columbus Day, a holiday where we recognize Columbus' "discovery" of the "New World" with a day off–for some–and a sale or two.
For others, though, Columbus Day is the official reminder of European invasion and, to employ today's terms, some of the first acts of terrorism.
Glenn T. Morris, a professor at the University of Colorado at Denver, published an oped about abolishing the Columbus Day holiday:
Believe it or not, our government is using Hip Hop as a form of diplomacy abroad, thereby countering "poor perceptions" of the US and promoting democracy in the Middle East.
Al Jezeera writer Hishaam Aidi has written a fascinating piece on Hip Hop's appeal to Middle Eastern youth, and how our government aims to exploit it.
In Peter Coy's article the Kids Are Not Alright, he quotes that democracies are "much better at managing large numbers of highly educated people" than are nations with an official leader who has absolute authority (read: autocratic countries). Leaders of autocratic nations face the dilemma of needing an educated work force to grow their country's economy, but with increased levels of education the possibility of political dissent grows. This point is most elaborated in the recent youth revolts in Egypt and Tunisia. A large part of what drove Egyptian and Tunisian youth to take action were the high unemployment rates. Across the globe youth in democracies also face high (or even higher) unemployment rates, yet, they aren't toppling their respective governments. In democratic nations like Spain and the United States, where the youth in Spain and American minority youth's unemployment rates are the equivalent or significantly higher than those rates seen in Egypt and Tunisia, why are the youth not carrying out mass political demonstrations?
Good day niggaz, the non black niggaz that is. Though many black leaders push for the burial of the term, they have not done so on behalf of the other colonized races. A Black multi-cultural person will soon confront the taboo as a minority among members of another culture. This was the case for me when I went to an Indian birthday party. "Nigga" gets thrown all over the place, and it's not in reference to the African brother. Black folks are expected to get defensive with such lingo, but the expectation changes when the odds of safety are not in your favor. Relaxation forces itself as an alternative, and still, the discomfort does not escape. So what does this mean for the 21st century Black American?
So Nas is pissed.
Earlier this week, a private email sent by Nas to executives at Def Jam, Nas' current label home, leaked onto the internet. And it is a doozy. Nas slams the label suits for holding up the release of his highly anticipated Lost Tapes Vol. 2 collection, railing against a major label system that serves the interests of label execs at the expense of artists and fans.
The first full paragraph goes a little something like this:
"I won't even tap dance around in an email, I will get right into it. People connect to the Artist @ the end of the day, they don't connect with the executives. Honestly, nobody even cares what label puts out a great record, they care about who recorded it. Yet time and time again its the executives who always stand in the way of a creative artist's dream and aspirations. You don't help draw the truth from my deepest and most inner soul, you don't even do a great job @ selling it. The #1 problem with DEF JAM is pretty simple and obvious, the executives think they are the stars. You aren't…. not even close. As a matter of fact, you wish you were, but it didn't work out so you took a desk job. To the consumer, I COME FIRST. Stop trying to deprive them! I have a fan base that dies for my music and a RAP label that doesn't understand RAP. Pretty fucked up situation"
Damn. Straight ether.
Nas' sentiments are passionate, honest, and dead-on. But this is not a new phenomenon. Not even close. You think an email is intense? How 'bout changing your name to an unpronounceable symbol and purposefully sabotaging your own career?
I guess I have to start protesting Arizona, née Mexico, which sucks because I'm totally not into marching, making colorful signs, or shouting rhymes in unison with a bunch of people. I suppose, then, that I have to resort to other means of expressing my disapproval. At first I thought I'd boycott U.S. Airways, an Arizona-based airline, but then I remembered that my ma's part-time job is with them. Besides, if I aim to show up at my sister's broom jumping events in North Carolina next month, I'm going to need Brenda's buddy pass hook-up. So then I thought I'd stop drinking Arizona iced tea, until I recalled that several years ago I wrote Arizona a letter about the plantation imagery on their sweet tea cans. Despite the eloquence of my letter they never sent me any free tea. I only drink water now, anyway, and a wiki search reveals that Arizona brand tea isn't even made in Arizona, née Mexico. (New York City!) Of course, I could root against Los Suns during the NBA Western Conference Finals, but doing so would mean that I would cheer for the Lakers. But frankly, who's willing to implicitly support Kobe Bean Bryant in an effort to express one's solidarity with a bunch of immigrants one doesn't even know? I know. What a totally crazy idea.
Nneka is kind of like the perfect cross between Lauryn Hill and M.I.A.; she sings and raps with ease, and writes wonderfully empowering songs, while also speaking for a people largely ignored and invisible in mainstream Western culture (you know: that massive, ridiculously diverse group of people we Westerners refer to as, simply, "Africans") . As her brilliant album cover suggests, Nneka fashions herself as the voice of the African Diasporic experience, recalling everyone from Ms. Hill and Erykah Badu to Bob Marley and Fela Kuti. Born and raised in Warri, Nigeria before leaving at the age of 18 to live with her German mother in Hamburg, it could be said that her very existence embodies a clashing of African and Western cultures, and so she'll surely fascinate Afrocentrics and NPR listeners in the coming months. But I can guarantee you that no amount of intellectual masturbation and hype can outshine Nneka's brilliant, and downright moving American debut album, Concrete Jungle. Basically a collection of songs taken from Nneka's two previous albums (both unavailable in the US), the album is an eclectic and freewheeling, yet somehow 100% cohesive mixture of hip hop, soul, rock, pop, reggae, afrobeat, funk, and trip hop.
Concrete Jungle stuns, inspires and enthralls from beginning to end, and confirms without question that Nneka has the potential to be among the most vital and fascinating voices of pop music in the years to come. Believe the hype.
"Mirror . . . mirror on the wall who the fairest of them all?" In most fairytales, the mirror would reply, "Snow white is the fairest of them all." However, in the case of Vanity Fair's March cover, the names are Abbie Cornish, Kristen Stewart, Carey Mulligan, Amanda Seyfried, Rebecca Hall, Mia Wasikowska, Emma Stone, Evan Rachel Wood, and Anna Kendrick . . . all up incoming young white Hollywood actresses. According to Shine's writer, Joanna Douglass,
Vanity Fair writer Evgenia Peretz calls out the young cover stars by their best attributes: "downy-soft cheeks," "button nose," "patrician looks and celebrated pedigree," "dewy, wide-eyed loveliness," "Ivory-soap-girl features."
Clearly, Evgenia Peretz has over-dosed on the proverbial white supremacist poisoned apple. I know what you're thinking. Do such apples exist? Yes, they do just ask Pat Robertson what he thinks about Haiti or ask the producer and director of Couples Retreat about taking the black comedian, Faizon Love, off the European posters.
Can't no one know at sunrise how this day is going to end. Cant' no one know at sunset if the next day will be here. In this world of trouble and wars a member must be ready to go. We look forward to things to save us but in a twinkling of an eye everything can be changed. Troubles of this world feel our heart with wage from Soweto to Stonewall, Birmingham to LA. We searching for hope that lie within ourselves as we fight against misogyny, racism, hatred, and pain. Can't no one know at sunrise how this day is going to end. Cant' no one know at sunset if the next day will be here**
—Sweet Honey in the Rock, Spiritual—
I begin this post with a song written by Sweet Honey in the Rock because its title and lyrics invoke Spirit and Spirits. Furthermore, the song weeps and wails not only of troubles, but of justice, "justice that rolls down like water, and righteousness like a mighty stream." It lets us know that the way of the world is not as predetermined as governments, private contractors, and multinational corporations believe it to be because Spirit and Spirits "can change some things" as the old people say. So, as we stand on the eve of remembering not only Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and all the Spirits that joined the movement for freedom in the US, I write this blog to acknowledge the power of Spirit and Spirits to deal with the injustices of what has happened and continue to happen in the country of Haiti.
This week I've read many articles and blogs about the devastation and abject poverty in Haiti and how international loan agencies and governments like the US (i.e. World Bank and the International Monetary Fund) have benefited greatly by keeping Haiti in debt. I've seen Christian fundamentalist like Pat Robertson say vicious anti-Christ love statements like, "[ the earthquake is] a blessing in disguise . . . [Haiti] made a pact with the Devil in order to liberate themselves from French rule [therefore they deserve what is happening]." Oh, this sounds very familiar to his statements about Hurricane Katrina. Furthermore, I've watched as CNN's pundits contort their mouths and faces to convey the inevitability of rioting and looting saying with Hurricane Katrina's conviction, "We heard gun shots." In addition to all of this, I've read some of Naomi Klein's The Shock Doctrine: the Rise of Disaster Capitalism and I'm left feeling completely hopeless about the long-term fate of Haiti being left vulnerable to the free market's social experiments. Yes, my heart grieves.
But, as the song says, "Can't no one know at sunrise how this day is going to end. Can't no one know at sunset if the next day will be here," there is hope because there is Spirit and Spirits. For me Spirit and Spirits represent faith-based practices/rituals, spiritualities, religions, justice, transformative collective action, community, Love, and all the things that have "brought us this far a mighty long way" as my Sunday school teacher would say. Spirit and Spirits are the things that allow me to wake up each morning with a renewed belief that the world can change and that I have the ability to change the world.
And for some people of Haiti Vodou is their Spirit and it also was their collective frame for mobilizing against French enslavement and other forms of oppression. Though I am not fully familiar with the practice of Vodou, I do understand the power of believing in something bigger then yourself and something that embodies community, love, and justice. I know I am sounding a little sermonic, but my intent is not to preach. I just need to know that there is something more than greed, capitalism, and hegemonic power structuring the world and the only place I can surmise where this may be the case is in the Spirit and within the Spirits of people. It is in the faith-based, spiritual, and communal practices that preach love, justice, and community that challenge us to envision and create a world of collective peace.
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- The White House Correspondents' Association is honoring a black reporter it once spurned.
The association is naming a scholarship for the first black reporter to cover a White House press conference, Harry McAlpin.
In 1944, President Franklin Roosevelt granted McAlpin clearance to attend press conferences in the Oval Office, despite complaints from the correspondents association. McAlpin went on to become a fixture for the black press at the White House during the Roosevelt and Truman administrations. The correspondents association never granted him membership.
The WHCA will present a journalism student with a scholarship bearing McAlpin's name at its dinner with President Barack Obama on Saturday night. McAlpin's son Sherman, who lives in Maryland, will also attend the dinner and meet with the president.


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An upcoming workshop will teach residents how to decorate their windows with their own works of art.
The Daniel McIntyre/St. Matthews Community Association (DMSMCA) is holding an acrylic window hangings workshop on May 6 from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. The session will take place at the DMSMCA office, located at 823 Ellice Ave.
To register, email firstname.lastname@example.com or call 204-781-6556. Priority will be given to residents of Daniel McIntyre and St. Matthews areas.
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When I sit outside to write, my dog Sunday insists on being nearby, even when she doesn't particularly want to be because it's very hot, as it was when I took this photo. She crawls into the shade under the car or right under the bench where I sit, ready to bounce up and follow me should I make a move toward the cooler confines of the house. Sunday was something of a default dog; we adopted her after giving up two previous rescue dogs, because she was one of the rare puppies that the rescue group we were working with had available. If it were completely up to me, because I gravitate toward big dogs—labs, retrievers, hounds—I would not have chosen a terrier mix who wouldn't weigh much more than 10 pounds full grown. But circumstances being what they were, we adopted Sunday last June. Now I have a constant companion willing to hang out in the yard on one of the summer's hottest days, just because that's where I am. I adore her and believe the feeling is mutual. (After I took this photo, I retreated inside, where Sunday gratefully collapsed into her dog bed and took a nap.)
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Greg Copeland wrote: >On Tue, 2002-12-17 at 10:49, mlw wrote: > > >>Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote: >> >> >> >>>Hi guys, >>> >>>Just a thought - do we explicitly wipe password strings from RAM after using >>>them? >>> >>>I just read an article (by MS in fact) that illustrates a cute problem. >>>Imagine you memset the password to zeros after using it. There is a good >>>chance that the compiler will simply remove the memset from the object code >>>as it will seem like it can be optimised away... >>> >>>Just wondering... >>> >>>Chris >>> >>> >>> >>> >>Could you post that link? That seems wrong, an explicit memset certainly >>changes the operation of the code, and thus should not be optimized away. >> >> >> >>> >>> >>> >>> > >I'd like to see the link too. > >I can imagine that it would be possible for it to optimize it away if >there wasn't an additional read/write access which followed. In other >words, why do what is more or less a no-op if it's never accessed again. > > It has been my experience that the MSC optimizer uses a patented Heisenberg optimizer. :) > > >
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…turns out just to be another good thing. It's like the infinite hotel.
This week's good things – so far – have been the launch of SuperMe, a Channel 4 project I've been working on for a while. It's a project to help teenagers (and, frankly, the rest of us), develop better mental resiliance, through videos, quizzes, games and useful mind hacks. Working with the team assembled by Somethin' Else and Preloaded has been a great privilege, and I've learned things both about my own brain and my approach to game design generally. The minigames within it are some of my favourite projects from the last few years. Play them here, and let me know what you think.
And then, on cue, Channel 4 goes as wins Publishing Hero at the Develop Awards. I'm gutted not to have been there, and very proud to have been connected with some bold commissioning and fantastic projects. Although, I confess, I think C4 didn't really deserve to win this year, but only cos next year's slate is so amazingly awesome. They're going to run out of hyperbolic award titles at this rate.
And why wasn't I there? Cos I was debuting Couple Up, the game made by the participants of this week's WonderLab. WonderLab was three days of performers and playmakers coming together to do what you do in a lab – tinker, theorise, experiment and make. A fantastic group of musicians, writers, composers, actors, directors, producers, commissioners, game designers, coders, artists and philosophers and spent three days sharing their brains. I've rarely had a greater treat than getting to lead their explorations.
Everyone who attended the lab – speakers and visitors and participants – was asked to speak for five minutes on something which blew their mind (or, if I was feeling a bit more articulate, something which amazed or delighted them). Some spoke about personal experiences, some about their work. Many of them exceeded their five minutes a little, but we all forgave them, as I'm confident will you. All those talks are available over at WonderLab's YouTube channel, and I can't recommend them highly enough.
I can't begin to pick favourites, but if you're a game designer you might want to start with Tassos Steven's talk. If you're a musician, you might be interested in hearing from Momus or Pat Kane. If you're a sound or graphic designer, perhaps with Nick Ryan. If you're at all interesting in creativity (or indeed copyright), you might want to hit Mark Earls first (in a good way). If you're smart enough to be interested in people you haven't heard of yet (and trust me, I mean yet), try Jason Anthony. If you want to think about how fragile and beautiful interaction can be, start with Melanie Wilson, or perhaps choose to examine the value of anticipation with Aleks Krotoski. If you want a big fat perspective check – in all kinds of ways – then maybe with Kati London, Jo Twist or Malcolm Sutherland. If you want to think about why playing with pain is interesting, with Paul Bennun. Or, if you want to instantly go and drop £30 on Amazon, with Tom Armitage. Then you might want to hear about performing games from Richard Lemarchand, or help Maurice Suckling explore the infinite. And, if all else fails, you can watch mine to discover the heckle that's going to haunt me for a thousand talks to come.
I'm not supposed to say this about my own event, but it was basically the best conference I've ever been to, even though it was only a conference for an hour or two a day. We'll be posting up news of Couple Up, the game that represents the digest and distillation of all our experiments in the next couple of days. We're really looking forward to hear what you make of it.


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New Luxury Hotels in the Five Star Alliance Collection
Five Star Alliance-- the leading site for luxury hotel reservations-- is adding new hotels daily to its collection of hand-picked properties. From the brand spanking new W Hotel Boston to the Kempinski Hybernska Prague (housed in a 17th century residential palace), the most recent luxury hotel additions can be found here. Enjoy!


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Sad news, R.I.P. Not an old plane at 2003.
Turkish Cargo carrier ACT Airlines B747-412F performing flight Flight TK6491 crashed near Bishkek-Manas International Airport, Kyrgyzstan, 4 crew and 32 on ground died.
Hindsight is what you see from the tailgunner's position...
Sad news, R.I.P. Not an old plane at 2003.
http://www.flightmemory.com/ I have been round the world 11.6 times!
Check Daily Mail online, I cannot link it here. One pilot was walking around the crash afterwards, but later died in hospital.
Reminds me of an accident in California when a friend had a fuse trip on the outside of his house, got shocked when checking it, walked inside and upstairs and dropped dead.
http://www.flightmemory.com/ I have been round the world 11.6 times!
FDR badly damaged but contain data
Source:Memory modules have been removed from their protective casing and the inquiry team has been able to restore the link with the flight-data recorder and read its information.
The Interstate Aviation Committee says the flight-data recorder contains details of the 16 January accident.
It is still working, however, to restore connections to the cockpit-voice recorder.
Spectre of false glideslope emerges in Bishkek 747 crash
Source:[The] 747 began to descend on a 3° slope in parallel to the genuine glideslope, [...] the crew did not realise that a safe landing from an altitude of 3,400ft – over 1,300ft above the airport elevation – would have been "impossible" from a distance of just 1.5km.
Nor did the crew, it says, notice that the glideslope indicator on the primary flight display was set in its lowest position, signalling a large deviation.
As the aircraft descended it overflew the entire runway until, at the decision height of 100ft, the captain opted to execute a go-around owing to an absence of visual ground references.
But the go-around mode, with take-off thrust, was only activated at a height of 52ft. In the process of executing the go-around, the aircraft struck the ground 900m beyond the end of the runway and 60m to the right of the extended centreline.
One of the basic checks when flying an ILS approach, cross check your distance and your height at the final approach fix and outer marker. False glide slopes can be present above the true glide slope but should be easy to spot if the checks are done.It says this error had resulted from inadequate altitude checks by the crew.
Hindsight is what you see from the tailgunner's position...
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The Irish philosopher and theologian Peter Rollins, an important voice in the emergent church movement, recently dropped in at Claremont School of Theology for an engaging evening of theological discussion in the wake of the release of his newest book, "Insurrection: To Believe is Human – To Doubt, Divine". Fortunately for all of you, we [Read More…]
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Reflections on Soularize and Emergent Christianity by Holly Cardone Stauffer
Holly Cardone Stauffer is the Church Administrator at St. Luke's of the Mountains Episcopal Church in La Crescenta, CA and a second year M.Div student at Claremont School of Theology. Wild Goose, Big Tent, Soularize…and I am sure there have been many others. Since at least the mid-1990s, these gatherings of Emergent Christians all over [Read More…]
From Apologetics to Apologizing by Bo Sanders
Bo Sanders is a pastor, coffee shop theologian, tattoo evangelist, and a soccer fan. He is also a PhD Student at Claremont School of Theology in Practical Theology: Religious Education. He is a co-host of Homebrewed Christianity where he also blogs religiously. I emerged out of an Evangelical upbringing where Josh McDowell's Evidence that Demands a [Read More…]
De-Constructing My Soularize Experience by Hannah Heinzekehr
Hannah Heinzekehr is a student at Claremont School of Theology, pursuing a Master's Degree in Community Development and Theology. She works as a Church Relations Associate for Mennonite Mission Network. Last week, I headed south to San Diego for the Soularize conference: a self-proclaimed "three day 'learning party' that will stretch your mind, fill your [Read More…]
How Questioning Christians Saved My Faith by Philip Clayton
Philip Clayton is the Dean of Claremont School of Theology and Provost of Claremont Lincoln University. Clayton earned a joint Ph.D. in Religious Studies and Philosophy from Yale University and has held visiting appointments at Harvard University, the University of Cambridge, and the University of Munich. He has published over twenty books and hundreds of [Read More…]
Multifaith Religious Education: CLU featured at Religion & Ethics Newsweekly
Claremont Lincoln University continues to gain national recognition for its innovative and controversial approach to religious education. The school was recently featured in a video on "multi-faith religious education" at Religion and Ethics Newsweekly, which includes footage of this year's convocation ceremony, as well as interviews with students and faculty. In the short film (embedded [Read More…]
Would Jesus Occupy Wall Street? by John B. Cobb, Jr.
John B. Cobb, Jr., Ph.D., has held many positions including Ingraham Professor of Theology at the Claremont School of Theology, Avery Professor at the Claremont Graduate School, Fullbright Professor at the University of Mainz, Visiting Professor at Vanderbilt, Harvard, and Chicago Divinity Schools. His writings include: Christ in a Pluralistic Age; God and the World; [Read More…]
"Undermining Our Own Authority" by Grace Yia-Hei Kao
Grace Yia-Hei Kao is Associate Professor of Ethics at Claremont School of Theology in the Claremont Lincoln University Consortium. She is the author of Grounding Human Rights in a Pluralist World (Georgetown University Press, 2011) and is working on a second book manuscript on Asian American Christian Ethics. This blog post was originally published at [Read More…]
Desegregating Religious Education
Claremont School of Theology is a founding member of a new multireligious consortium that is embarking on a bold 21st century experiment to desegregate religious education. At this year's convocation ceremony, the vision of the newly established Claremont Lincoln University was powerfully presented. Hopefully you can take a few minutes to watch the moving video [Read More…]
Welcoming Brian McLaren to Claremont
Claremont School of Theology president Jerry Campbell recently blogged about some very exciting news: the addition of author, activist, speaker, and emergent church leader Brian McLaren to the school's Board of Trustees. In fact, the title of this new blog that we are launching this week comes from Campbell's post about McLaren: "Without a doubt, [Read More…]


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Women put more effort into dieting than into their relationships, a new survey has found, which leads them to think more about food than sex.
And 10 per cent of those surveyed revealed they would feel guiltier straying from their diet, than being unfaithful to their partner.
Women think about food more than sex, study reveals as dieting is more important to them than their relationships
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President Obama vowed Friday morning that the United States will remain the world leader in fighting hunger and malnutrition around the globe -- but he said government can't do it alone.
On the eve of a two-day summit at Camp David with fellow leaders from some of the world's wealthiest nations, Obama told the Symposium on Global Agriculture and Food Security that the private sector must help give the poor the power to feed themselves.
"There is no reason why Africa cannot feed itself," Obama said.
A new program being unveiled by Obama today in conjunction with African leaders from Ethiopia, Ghana and Tanzania will parlay more than $3 billion in private assistance into a public-private partnership with an ambitious goal: lifting 50 million people from poverty over 10 years.
"I know there are going to be skeptics. There always are," Obama said. But he vowed, "This will remain our priority as long as I am United States president."
An earlier program unveiled by Obama in Italy in 2009 called on governments to chip in $22 billion over several years. Not all the money has been delivered, but the president vowed, "We're going to speed things up."
Obama cited progress across the developing world in areas such as microfinance, education, vaccines and the battle against HIV/AIDS. The effort to boost agricultural capacity can succeed just as those other efforts have, he said, citing positive examples from Rwanda to Haiti to Bangladesh.
In the audience for his announcement were celebrities involved in international development, including one -- Bono -- who Obama said "was my inspiration for singing at the Apollo." That was a reference to his musical effort at a New York City fundraiser this spring.
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Spacewar! Video Games Blast Off
This event has already taken place. Click here for the latest events.15-12-2012 12:00:00 03-03-2013 12:00:00 America/New_York Spacewar! Video Games Blast Off Spacewar! Video Games Blast Off looks at the first 50 years of video games through the lens of Spacewar!, the first digital video game, its development, and the culture from which it sprang. In addition to a model of the original PDP-1 (Programmed Data Processor-1) computer running a playable simulation of Spacewar!, the exhibition presents 20 playable video games ranging in platform (arcade, console, handheld, PC), genre (shooters, platformers, action, arcade) and developer (commercial, independent, experimental). From Computer Space to Portal, the exhibition draws connections and contrasts between these games and Spacewar!, signaling the latter's central place in the development of video games as a cultural form. http://www.nymetroparents.com/2015neweventinfo.cfm?id=128114 Museum of the Moving Image Museum of the Moving Image
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Venue Description: The Museum of the Moving Image, located in Astoria, serves New York City?s cultural scene with impressive collections and exhibitions that relate to film, television, and digital media. The museum?s mission is to foster an appreciation of the combination of art, history, and technology that underlies all forms of digital media. The museum is home to artifacts that attest to the rich history of film and television, and hosts screenings that are at once entertaining and informative, with directors, actors, and film critics often speaking. The museum offers exhibitions that cater to people of all ages. Behind the Screens, an interactive exhibit, is especially fitted for families, with its interactive activities, classic video arcade games, and a daily screening of the film The Red Balloon. Though more than satisfying in its current state, the museum is currently expanding so as to be able to house more exhibitions.There are special programs for educators and students, professional development programs for teachers, an afterschool program, and events for senior citizens.
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If there's anything I detest, it's the ghastly creeping of a telepath into my own thoughts.
Plain scared to death of what it means to have had a telepath loose in Washington.
An imbecile, apparently, would give himself away if he were a telepath.
Unless you have had the experience, you can't imagine what it is like to live with a telepath.
The telepath was a stoop-shouldered balding gent with large feet.
Malone needed no telepath to tell him what they were thinking.
"You didn't honestly think I was a telepath," the little old lady said.
Only a telepath like the doctor could have followed my jumbled ideas.
If what Farrow said was true, Catherine was telepath enough to control and marshall her mind to a faretheewell.
I was going to show 'em that a telepath can make Scholar of Medicine.


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Hello everyone!
I have problem with installing BT5 via DVD. Everytime I want to boot BT from DVD, ISOLINUX pops up (2 lines, first is about tool and its author, second starts with "boot: " and expects input from me). I don't have any experience working with that tool /shell / whatever it is. Any unix-like command I can remember fails.
I downloaded .iso and checked md5. It matches with one provided in torrent folder.
I burned it on lowest speed (1x) with two different burners (XPBurner and Active ISO Burner) 3 times - none of DVD is working how it should (starts ISOLINUX).
I checked md5 of burned files. Everything seems ok.
I went through few tutorials how to burn .iso file step-by-step (just to mention, this was heavly overkill, I'm not rocky with Linux or .iso files).
I found my old BT4 r2 DVD and it seems to boot nicely.
I know I'm doing mistake somewhere, I just don't know where. And it's really frustrating. I feel like Goliath being constantly slapped by David.
Thank you in advance.
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May 11, 2013
Ottawa Senators defence continues strong play in playoffs
By DON BRENNAN, QMI Agency
The Senators defence became a huge question mark when its two brightest young stars needed "season-ending" surgeries.
Without Jared Cowen and Erik Karlsson, heavy responsibilities fell to NHL-inexperienced guys like Andre Benoit, Mark Borowiecki, Patrick Wiercioch and Eric Gryba. Extra burdens would be placed on Sergei Gonchar, Marc Methot, Chris Phillips and Mike Lundin, who ran into his own injury problems. Surely, the blue line would crumble.
Yet the collection not only survived, but thrived, and now, with everyone at full health, the Senators have a defence that any GM in the league would trade his for. The only possible exception might be the blue line GM Stan Bowman has assembled in Chicago.


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