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From New York's favorite new-wave burger joint, Shake Shack.
From New York's favorite new-wave burger joint, Shake Shack.
An Old Bay–spiced, potato-, sausage- and shellfish-laden seafood boil, minus the stock pot.
From New York's favorite new-wave burger joint, Shake Shack.
An impossibly easy, crowd-pleasing dinner that's best kept simple.
Plus recipes from each, because Mom shouldn't have to lift a finger on Mother's Day.
From San Francisco–based bakery Tartine comes an absurdly easy upgrade to a crowd-pleasing favorite.
Bad eggs? Here's how to cook them better.
Take your smoker out of storage. It's time to make bacon.
From New York's breakfast-forward Egg Shop comes a riff on scrambled eggs that's fit for a king.
Low-effort, high-reward recipes comprised entirely of ingredients you already have.
A lesson in empty-fridge cooking (that tastes like anything but a last resort).
With bird's eye chilis and fresh ginger to cure colds and clear sinuses.
Kick mornings into high gear, and hangovers out the door.
Stick-to-your-ribs comfort food — in the comfort of your own home.
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A 14th-century invention, cassoulet is a hearty, caloric flavor bomb. And it's perfect for winter nights.
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If you're looking for a new twist on classic hummus, try making it with creamy red lentils.
Indian food isn't just a New Yorker's take-out darling.
The award-winning bistro at Amisfield winery cooks up a dish that speaks to the quality of local produce of Central Otago, New Zealand.
At the Gosling's family factory in Bermuda, we learn the legend behind the Dark 'n Stormy cocktail and get the original recipe.
For Super Bowl XLIX, we asked one of our favorite chefs, Jamie Bissonnette, to show us how to cook a crowd-pleaser. Here's his easy recipe for sweet and tangy chicken wings.
A full-palate salad that finishes with a kick. It's the perfect medley for the last days of our Indian summer.
We get three bagel sandwich recipes from Black Seed Bagels in NYC, where they combine New York and Montreal styles to build the king of donut-shaped foods.
Preparing duck confit is a quick way to tell everyone you know your way around the kitchen, and an even quicker way to put on a few pounds. It was developed by the French, and mastered by Chef Peter Droste. Here is his take on the classic cooking style.
Bacon doesn't need to be fixed. And so it's with some reluctance that we offer a recipe for making your own bacon, particularly one that requires two days, five different cooking techniques and more than ten ingredients. But once you've tasted chef Christopher Lee's Jamaican jerk bacon with tropical salsa at The Forge in Miami, Florida, you'll be spending plenty of quality time with swine belly and Jimmy Buffet's fifteenth album, Floridays.
We've come to the ICC in New York specifically to meet with Malivert, a native of the Rhône region of France and the man who oversees anything having to do with centrifuges and liquid nitrogen. His knowledge of food and cooking is apparent. He's both professor and craftsman, dressed in a crisp white uniform and tall chef's toque, presenting eloquently about sous vide cooking while simultaneously demonstrating.
The Thanksgiving turkey is the one dish each year that's make or break, and it's all yours. Get the turkey right and you'll be giving warm handshakes and sipping bourbon all night; dry it out and you've brought a dark cloud over the extended family. The good news is, roasting the big bird is easier than running the fumblerooski against the in-laws -- and that works every year. To find the most direct route to turkey perfection, we consulted with chef Harold Moore for his foolproof recipe.
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The biggest bone we have to pick with Food Network personalities -- or any telegenic chef for that matter -- is how much easier cooking looks when their ingredients are already on hand and nicely organized by an army of production
Products like the Amazon Kindle, Apple iPadand Skiff E-Reader are clearly aimed at putting all those paperbacks you have lying around out of their misery, but what about your cook books? The reality is, none of the current
You needn't be an employee at Sterling Cooper to appreciate the value of a well-made American cocktail. For our money, bourbon is one of the best ways to get there from here. Happily, food writer and chef Fred Thompson
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Really there is nothing for anyone to do, if we all discover the news of a drug overdose. All we can do is pray for his soul, the Tims family and his church. However, when we watched New Destiny Christian Center this morning we notice it was a day for emotional healing to get over the sadness, but the problem of the corporate service (which Paula White mentioned several times), we did not see an alter call specifically for souls to be delivered and set free from sin. We saw people running up toward the alter, but no mention of deliverance from demons through the mouth of Paula White as she twisted and turned and pranced around in her expensive black high heel pumps. Paula White sugar coated the situation of Zachery Tims death while allegedly slipping out the subject of heroin, she was not slick enough for us not to catch it. If you want to know exactly what our journalists allegedly heard, just stay up to date with AToast2Wealth.com next article on this morning's service and you will read it for yourself. Of course, Zachery Tims operated his church like a modern day church, but after his death we were looking for change, like no existence of the burning globe with fire burning under it (as you can see behind Paula White in the pulpit), for instance. we feel people will continue to attend New Destiny Christian Center as though he is still here, that's extreme danger, because there needs to be a complete anointing, no carnality whatsoever. We feel possibly there are a lot of Tims members who are struggling with a drug habit like he was, because when a pastor preaches to his flock, they immediately catch his spirit. So, there are certain demons of drugs that need to be cast out of their spirits this morning. Of course, we acknowledge he was a caring pastor and admitted to having been a recovering attic, but we saw his outreach page reveal coming soon on the website, it was not already in operation. Specifically, as of today, we saw no ministry to completely deliver drug attics and alcoholics from Satan's territory. Maybe he thought testifying about it was enough, but obviously not, because possibly if there was a ministry for that sort of deliverance, we would not be grieving for his death right now. It is very sad to know, that they may include a drug and alcoholic ministry after his death; but we cannot help but wonder why it was not in existence while he lived?
Furthermore, we did not feel an anointing of the Holy Ghost. Instead, we heard Caribbean style music while Tims praise team marched away from the pulpit before Paula White stepped up. It was too modern and was not a service for deliverance that would make demons flee. They called themselves praise and worshiping God, and we heard one lady speak in tongues while hosting the service, but the service seem to cease the presence of complete deliverance from those who needed it.
What next, if Zachery Tims Toxicology Tests Reveal Overdoes of Heroin or even if it does not reveal it?
- The church cannot just move on like nothing happened, which was the feeling we got this morning from Paula White's sermon at New Destiny Christian Center. She actually told them to carry on as though Pastor Tims is yet alive, which was very wrong.
- God wants a lot of the money that ministries take in to feed, clothe and shelter the homeless. Therefore, every church that is bringing in a lot of money through tithes and offerings should be taking care of those who are homeless and giving assistance to those who are poor. We are not talking about $10 Walmart gift cards like Benny Hinn gave to the Hurricane Katrina victims. God wants the demon of selfishness and greed to leave the church staff.
- We need a revival and please do not take that lightly. No more conferences, revival where people who attend, including these clergy members get totally delivered and set free.
- God wants people healed from various diseases and for them to also be raised from the dead. Therefore, he desires miracles to take place, thus saith the Lord.
- Right now after his death and after the toxicology results the church needs to abandon the corporate worship, it is too sophisticated and demons are remaining inside of the spirits of people who never get rid of their evil ways and sins. Services need to include deliverance services for people to get saved and delivered from idolatry, porn, fornication, adultery, homosexuality, prostitution, witchcraft, drugs and alcohol...
- God is expecting the church to no longer have pastors, bishops and evangelists with a celebrity status. He wants his church leaders to be holy, righteous and sanctified. He expects for pastors to stop hanging out with the celebrities and even dressing like them in the pulpit. He wants complete distinction in the way they speak, preach his Word and even in their mannerism. He wants these pastors to stop thinking of themselves above those who are fed the Word of God. He wants his church to be holy and not worldly, this means no hip-hop, no christian rock or christian rap, but He desires pure gospel music. He wants pure sanctification in the pulpit, the choir and among the members in the pews. He wants complete transformation. God had to allow this tragic death of Zachery Tims, because ministers of the gospel, including their congregations have been rebellious. They have been fascinated with the fame and fortune and glitz and glamor and have not served God with all of their heart, mind and soul. God did not kill Zachery Tims, but he allowed his death to get the church's full attention. There has been too much carnality and no sanctification.
- God is expecting for husbands to remain with one wife and to respect her. The husband is to raise his children and impregnate any other woman outside of the home, whether she be within the church or out in the world. God says the man has a responsibility and must lead his household in righteousness. He is not to dabble in a down low homosexual relationship while married but to remain a heterosexual man how he was created by God to be. He is not to wear women's clothes or to act effeminate, but to act and look like a man. He is to be the leader of his household and take on responsibilities. Now, is the time saith the Lord for men to stop selling drugs and women and to stop using them both.
- God is expecting first ladies to be more caring about women in their husband's churches. He is tired of them entering the church as though they are married to a celebrity and sharing the fame and enjoying the fortune as though they are celebrities, themselves. We have seen too many first ladies refraining from speaking out to teach women how to be ladies. Instead, women of all ages have been rebellious and not willing to dress holy, act holy or even speak holy; we have discovered the feminist movement because of it and therefore, this is one of the main reasons we have a lot of lesbians in the church today along with gay men. For example, first ladies should teach women not to look like hookers and strippers, but to look like God's virtuous women with class. For example, Vanessa Long only has spoken to women in her past (Heart to Heart) conference, one time a year. A few of our journalists who actually once were members at New Birth Missionary Baptist church says she never gets up and speak to the women, but is always silent in the church. The Bible instructed the older women to teach the younger ones (Titus 2:4).
- This morning when it was suppose to be a refreshed service, after mourning the death of Zachery Tims, we saw a lot of women on his praise team carrying on in their casual attire, wearing blue jeans. Women should no longer wear blue jeans in the House of God. Because God is trying to remove the lesbian and gay spirit out of the churches, he expects to see women wearing dresses and being more feminine and acting more feminine. God expects for women to carry themselves like genuine ladies, holy and righteous while submissive and obedient to their husbands and by doing so, their little girls will know why it is so very important to be ladylike, in the House of God and at all times. As you know the homosexual demon is very strong, so we must reveal a difference between the clean and the unclean spirit. Likewise, men should not be wearing tight muscle shirts and dressing like thugs. We should see men wearing decent attire that does not appear similar to gang members and drug dealers, but men should look holy as well as act holy. For instance, at New Birth one of our journalists went undercover and saw a few young men wearing their pants down going into the church, it should not be and now you see we do not agree with hip hop or christian rap. Also, it is so very clear why Bishop Eddie Long got caught in his past sexual allegations with those young men, he allowed some of them to attend church with their pants down.


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Invariably, true believers fall to fighting among themselves.
Add the fighting before that, and the American casualties came to over 62,000.
Random House is also the publisher for Fifty Shades of Grey and is fighting bans in Georgia and Wisconsin.
Where will they seek shelter in times of war, like the fighting that has raged in Gaza for almost three weeks?
America, he wrote, must recognize that "much of Islam is fighting us, and more is leaning that way."
Is that trumped up, farcical idea, your excuse for fighting me?
You, some of you Anglo-Saxons yourselves, destined to be obliterated as I shall be, are fighting me.
And the man you have arrested, do you think he is connected with the men who were fighting in the Museum?
They'll fight for everything they get, and sometimes for just the love of fighting.
Then his words were lost in tumult, for the third day's fighting began.
present participle adjective from fight (v.). Fighting chance is from 1877; fighting mad is attested by 1750.
Old English feohte, gefeoht "a fight;" see fight (v.). Cf. Old Frisian fiucht, Old Saxon fehta, Dutch gevecht, Old High German gifeht, German Gefecht.
Old English feohtan "to fight" (class III strong verb; past tense feaht, past participle fohten), from Proto-Germanic *fekhtanan (cf. Old High German fehtan, German fechten, Middle Dutch and Dutch vechten, Old Frisian fiuhta "to fight"), from PIE *pek- "to pluck out" (wool or hair), apparently with a notion of "pulling roughly" (cf. Greek pekein "to comb, shear," pekos "fleece, wool;" Persian pashm "wool, down," Latin pectere "to comb," Sanskrit paksman- "eyebrows, hair").
Spelling substitution of -gh- for a "hard H" sound was a Middle English scribal habit, especially before -t-. In some late Old English examples, the middle consonant was represented by a yogh. To fight back "resist" is recorded from 1890.
Old English feohte, gefeoht "a fight;" see fight (v.). Cf. Old Frisian fiucht, Old Saxon fehta, Dutch gevecht, Old High German gifeht, German Gefecht.
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Pitt's inability to find a starting center, combined with the emergence of sophomore tackle Jason Pinkston made the possibility of moving Mike McGlynn to a new position a hot topic of conversation.
The only one who hasn't had much to say about it was McGlynn, who missed the majority of spring drills with a torn labrum of his left shoulder but appears to be the leading candidate to play center.
Never mind that the fifth-year senior has made a team-high 31 consecutive starts at right tackle. Or that he hasn't played center since he was a high school sophomore. Eight years ago.
Even so, McGlynn is willing to make the switch.
"I'm open to anything that the coaching staff believes is going to help us win football games," McGlynn said. "If coach (Dave) Wannstedt believes me paying center is best for the team, I'm up for it. I'm not going to be a selfish guy and say, 'I'm only going to play right tackle.' I'm fine with playing anywhere."
Just don't expect to see McGlynn on the field when the Panthers open training camp Tuesday. Although he claims his rehabilitation is "ahead of schedule," McGlynn said he will be participating only in non-contact drills until his shoulder heals. He hopes to be ready by the season opener against Eastern Michigan Sept. 1 at Heinz Field.
Even though he's not guaranteed to get his right tackle job back, McGlynn figures to be somewhere in the starting lineup when he returns to the field for good.
"I hope that's the way we're taking it," McGlynn said. "I've been starting here for three years. Obviously, everybody has to prove themselves. When I get back on the field, nothing is going to be handed to me. That's how I approach things. But you have to be smart about it. It doesn't make sense to rush back and get hurt again."
That means the Panthers will once again hold open auditions at center. The leading candidate is fifth-year senior Chris Vangas, who has been the primary backup but also is capable of playing guard.
Redshirt sophomore John Bachman, who switched from tackle to center in the spring, is more athletic but struggled with center-quarterback exchanges and had off-season surgery on his ankle. Redshirt freshman Scott Corson has had similar troubles.
Snapping won't be a problem for McGlynn, who serves as Pitt's long-snapper on field goals and point-after kicks. He knows the offense, is confident he can handle making the calls at the line of scrimmage and a clean exchange.
"Center-quarterback exchanges wouldn't be a problem for me," McGlynn said. "I never had a center-quarterback exchange problem in high school. I played some center last year during spring. It's a very important position. You have to know everything about the offense, all your assignments. Being a three-year starter, I'm one of the guys who does know my assignments and has been under fire. I do have game experience and you can't replace experience."
Plus, the 6-foot-5, 315-pound McGlynn believes he might be best-suited to play center if he gets a shot at the NFL.
"It's one of my natural positions," McGlynn said. "If I'm fortunate enough to play at the next level, I think center would be a great position for me to play.
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Howdy! The resources and search strategies on this guide will assist you in locating books, articles, and videos involving chemical demonstrations.
Below are a few resources for safety information:
Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS)
Laboratory Safety for Chemistry Students
CRC Handbook of Laboratory Safety
NIOSH Pocket Guide to Chemical Hazards
Wiley Guide to Chemical Incompatibilities
Below are links to videos, mainly websites, showing chemical demonstrations.
A few of Dr. Shakhashiri's videos are on YouTube.
Dr. Peter Wothers Open Lectures
Six 1-hour public lectures based on annual chemical demonstrations for the public by University of Cambridge professor Dr. Peter Wothers.
Shakhashiri Chemical Demonstrations Videos
This DVD contains 49 demonstration by Dr. Shakhashiri. Includes a 91-page accompanying instructor's guide.
The Magic of Chemistry
Demonstration at the Royal Institution by Dr. Andrew Szydlo.
The Modern Alchemist
2012 Christmas Lecture by Dr. Peter Wothers at the Royal Institution.
CheMagic Chemical Demonstration Videos
Developed by Drs Rothenberger and Webb at Illinois State University.
Royal Society of Chemistry Videos
Select the videos with the generic filmstrip image.
The Periodic Table of Videos
Dr. Poliakoff's videos/demos for the elements.
Theo Gray's Mad Science
Demos based on Gray's book by the same title.
Below is a list of a few books containing chemical demonstrations, lecture demonstrations, and related information.
Chemical Demonstrations: A Handbook for Teachers of Chemistry
Authored by Dr. Bassam Shakhashiri, University of Wisconsin-Madison, this 5-volume set is the definitive collection of chemical demonstrations.
Spectacular Chemical Experiments
Chemical Curiosities: Spectacular Experiments and Inspired Quotes
Chemical Demonstrations: A Sourcebook for Teachers
Classic Chemical Demonstrations
Theo Gray's Mad Science: Experiments You Can Do at Home - But Probably Shouldn't
Illustrated Guide to Home Chemistry Experiments All Lab, No Lecture
Physics Demonstrations: A Sourcebook for Teachers of Physics
cheMagic: 50 Chemistry Classics and Magical Tricks
Chemical Magic
Favorite Demonstrations for College Science
Fire Bubbles and Exploding Toothpaste
To find books here at Texas A&M, you could just conduct a keyword search (e.g., chemical demonstration) in our library catalog called LibCat.
Another approach is to use Library of Congress Subject Headings, which search for items that could be described differently using keywords under a single subject heading. After changing the dropdown menu from "Keyword" to "Subject headings browse" in the advanced search of LibCat, individually try the following subject headings: Chemistry Experiments, Science Experiments, or Scientific Recreations.
To search for books beyond what is owned by Texas A&M, use a database called WorldCat to find and request.
Most of the journal articles involving chemical demonstrations will be found in the Journal of Chemical Education, Education in Chemistry, and Chemical Educator. If you want to search those journals plus many others you'll want to use a database.
Three education databases you might try are: ERIC and Education Full Text , and Education Index Retrospective. You can try keyword searching (e.g., chemical demonstrations) or try some of the following subject headings.
ERIC: DE "Demonstrations (Educational)" or DE "Demonstrations (Science)"
Education Full Text: DE "Teaching Demonstrations"
Education Index Retrospective: DE "Science -- Demonstrations" or DE "Chemistry -- Demonstrations"
You can also combine those with keywords like chemistry, chemical, or even a particular type of demonstration (e.g., kinetics, phosphorescence, or hydrogen balloon). If the full text is not available in the database, use the "Find Text @ TAMU" button to locate the full text or request the item through our Get It For Me service.
A Little History...
A few items about the history and art of the chemical demonstration:
Jensen, W. B. (1991). To demonstrate the truths of "chymistry." Bulletin for the History of Chemistry, 10, 3-15
Kauffman, G. (1996). Lecture demonstrations, past and present. The Chemical Educator, 1(5), 1-33.
Toftlund, H. (1988). History of the lecture demonstration. Education in Chemistry, 25(4), 109-111.
Taylor, C. A. (1988). The art and science of the lecture demonstration. Bristol, England: Adam Hilger.
History of the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures
Started in 1825 by Michael Faraday and continues to this day!
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Below is a list of a journals and magazines that feacture chemical and scientific demonstrations.
Chemical Educator
Prior to ~ 2009, each issue contained a feature called "Laboratories and Demonstrations". In addition to browsing each issue, you can conduct a keyword search for "Laboratories and Demonstrations" at the e-journal website.
Education in Chemistry
Most issues have a feature called "Exhibition Chemistry",which discusses a demonstration. The online version has a link for Exhibition Chemistry that lists a a dozen or so demonstrations, as well as links to a few videos.
Journal of Chemical Education
Most issues have a feature called "Demonstration". In addition to browsing each issue, you can conduct a keyword search for "Demonstration" at the e-journal website.
Other journals and magazines that may contain relevant demonstrations are:
Journal of College Science Teaching
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Physics Education
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The Science Teacher
Online or Print (Q181 .S38)
The Physics Teacher
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Former Vice-President Al Gore is kicking off his Climate Reality project with a 24-hour live streamed event on September 14, 2011 to expose the full scale of this global crisis.
It should almost be called Inconvenient Truth 2.0. Five years after Al Gore launched his original documentary project, the former vice-president returned on Tuesday with a new campaign aimed at exposing the full scale of the climate crisis.
Gore's Climate Reality project announced it would kick off with a 24-hour live streamed event on 14 September. The day's events will include a new multimedia presentation by Gore that will "connect the dots" between extreme weather events and climate change, a statement said.
The campaign represents a modest comeback for Gore who has reduced his public profile on climate action in the past few years – probably out of consideration for the political consequences to his fellow Democrat Barack Obama.
It is being launched four years after Inconvenient Truth, based on Gore's climate change slide-show, won an Oscar for best documentary.
The project made Gore the most visible advocate for action on climate change in the US – but it also made him an even greater target for the oil and coal lobby and Republicans.
Republicans attacked Gore's calls for climate action as a symbol of government excess. In recent years, the new conservative majority in the house of representatives has gone even further, casting almost any sort of environmental issue – including even a move to energy-saving bulbs – as an assault on personal freedom.
But Gore came back into the spotlight last month in an essay in Rolling Stone in which he also accused Obama of failing to fight hard enough for climate action.
Tuesday's announcement, which echoed some of the themes in Gore's Rolling Stone piece, suggests the former vice-president thinks the time has come for a broader fightback.
"As the impacts of climate change are growing more prevalent, so is the resistance to finding the truth and implementing solutions. Just like the tobacco companies that spent decades in denial that smoking causes cancer, oil and coal companies are determined to sow denial and confusion about the science of climate change, ignore its impacts, and create apathy among our leaders," the release said.
"This event is the first step in a larger, multifaceted campaign to tell the truth about the climate crisis and reject the misinformation we hear every day."
Gore gave further details of the project in an interview with the climate blogger Joe Romm, saying the event would feature a new 30-minute slideshow with video on extreme weather events. Gore will host the event from New York City, but new content will be added to the slide show for the 24 locations used in each time zone.
"Each site where a presentation originates will have basically the same 30-minute slide show, but with slides used in each time zone that illustrate particular impacts and particular efforts towards solutions at the venue representing than that time zone. And then the second 30 minutes of each hour will include a panel discussion focused on the climate crisis and the solutions to it from the perspective of leaders and scientists and others in that particular location. So it will be a 24-hour event," he told Romm.
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The experience of representing a 13-year-old girl who had stolen a belt from Target first taught Sarah W. Chaplin, then a high school student, the importance of paying attention to people's stories. "The stories behind these Teen Court cases made me think about my own privilege," she says. "Talking with that girl, I wondered why I wasn't in her place."
While attending UW, Chaplin volunteered at CASA Latina, a resource center for recently arrived Latino immigrants, and heard stories that showed her how a wide range of laws profoundly affect immigrants' lives. Working as a legal assistant for Columbia Legal Services after graduating, she saw how one attorney's presentations to immigrants at mobile home parks helped Latino mobile homeowners speak up for their legal rights.
"I thought it was cool to see how that kind of advocacy helped people become empowered," Chaplin says. "I realized I wanted to become a lawyer and become an advocate like that."
For the past two years, Chaplin has served as Peace Corps volunteer in the Dominican Republic near the border with Haiti. She has helped undocumented children – both Dominican and Haitian-born -- obtain their legal papers such as birth certificates and passports so they can gain rights to education, health care, employment, and social services. She also has trained local people to continue this documentation work after she leaves.
"We take it for granted that if you are born in a country you have citizenship rights," she says. "But these individuals are stateless and go their whole lives without any citizenship at all."
While she didn't plan it, she found that lots of local preteen girls were hanging out at her house, fascinated by the tall blonde gringa who spoke fluent Spanish. She listened to their stories and realized there were no organized activities for girls, who are only valued for looks, marriage, housework, and having children. So she started a girl's group, including sex education and art work. "I've seen a lot of these girls shine, and that's been an unexpected accomplishment."
Now Chaplin wants to take her listening skills, train as an attorney, and become an effective advocate for disadvantaged Washington residents. "You tend to want to focus on the big story, the one with the most impact," she says. "But lawyers have to remember that every single person's story has a lot of power. That girl who stole the belt from Target, her story is just as important as the O.J. Simpson trial."
The Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks spurred Shizuko Hashimoto into social activism during her sophomore year at Reed College. She joined the antiwar movement to try to head off what she feared would be a violent and racist U.S. response to the attacks. She hasn't stopped since.
The child of Asian immigrant parents who grew up in rural Maine, Hashimoto has always been sensitive to bias against immigrants and minority groups. "Having witnessed discrimination throughout my life, I feared there would be racialized backlash to the 9-11 attacks," she says. "I didn't want our response to violence to be more violence. But it did happen, and that definitely affected me."
Service learning trips to Nicaragua during college deepened her commitment to serving as an organizer for immigrant rights and for peace. Since then, she has taken the lead in a variety of immigrant rights projects in the Portland area. For the past three years, she has helped organize groups to stop the Multnomah County Sheriff's Office from collaborating with federal immigration officials in the deportation of non-citizens jailed for non-violent misdemeanors or lesser charges.
Those efforts recently led to the sheriff's office announcing it would no longer hold those individuals for Immigration and Customs Enforcement. She calls that a good first step in protecting domestic violence victims and others who might otherwise hesitate to call the police for fear that immigration authorities will be notified.
Hashimoto wants to use her community organizing background in her future public service legal work, helping educate and empower clients so they can work for needed changes. She currently works as a legal assistant for immigration attorney Stephen Manning, whom she admires for taking that approach. "There can be blatant violations of housing or discrimination or labor law, and if individuals don't feel empowered to challenge those violations, we all lose," she says.
A related issue she'd like to address is the growth of for-profit detention centers that hold immigrants facing deportation. She's driven by the knowledge that her grandfather, a physician in China, was jailed for 12 years for opening a private clinic, and her mother was jailed eight times in China for attempting to escape the country before arriving in the U.S. She finds it painful that for-profit jails are being pitched to communities as a new form of economic development.
"The fact that companies are motivated by profit to incarcerate people, denying them their freedom, continues to pose a significant threat to the American ideals of liberty and justice for all," she says.
Michael Huggins' grandfather left Mississippi and moved north in the 1950s due to bad treatment of African-Americans. He always stressed to his children and grandchildren the importance of getting a good education, even though he himself was illiterate. That inspired his grandson, who attended Stanford University, to want to serve as a legal advocate for children who lack access to the type of education they want. He has in mind not just people of color but those who are lower income, undocumented, and gay or lesbian.
"The fact that we currently are relitigating the issues of separate but equal education and affirmative action means that education rights will play a prominent role in politics for this coming generation and a few more generations," Huggins says. "People of color who want to get an education are coming under fire, and there need to be more people willing to fight on their behalf."
Huggins, a Cincinnati native, has participated in a number of service projects nationally and internationally, and found that he learned at least as much from the people he served as they learned from him. Studying abroad in Italy for six months, he taught Italian to low-income immigrants from Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, many of them undocumented. Even though Italy is an expensive country, many of them somehow saved their earnings and sent money to their families back home. He was impressed by their strength.
As a Peace Corps volunteer in rural Azerbaijan for the past two years, he taught English and organized conversation clubs in a secondary school. He got frustrated watching the local teachers teach students by rote. He's proud that he encouraged students to engage in critical thinking. By the end of the two years, his students were participating in issue debates -- in English.
A major lesson he learned in his work in Azerbaijan and elsewhere – and that he plans to apply to his future work as a public service attorney -- is the importance of connecting with and respecting the community you serve, what he calls community integration. "Any kind of progress can't come from the top, it must come from the people," he says. "The people are on top and the leader is on the bottom, encouraging the people to rise. That's my idea of public service."
Michael Jeter credits caring teachers and mentors in high school for helping him recover from his troubled childhood and turn a corner educationally and personally. He made a decision at that time to pay forward the help he received by committing himself to public service.
After graduating from University of Massachusetts, he worked with mainly Somai-Bantu refugee and Hispanic immigrant students at a low-income housing complex in the Portland area through the Americorps program. He found it satisfying to help them develop confidence in their ability to succeed.
But his next public service project showed him that achieving change can be tough. As a Peace Corps volunteer in rural Western Samoa, where he taught primary school and trained teachers, he watched in horror as Samoan teachers physically beat students, and many students went through the entire school day without food. "We were advised by the Peace Corps not to challenge it, otherwise you would get backlash," he says. "I showed teachers alternatives to corporal punishment like positive behavior reinforcement. But I had to pick my battles."
He discovered that services and protections afforded to Samoan students by law were not enforced. "When I returned home, I decided my next contribution should be to provide and guarantee the legal protections they and others lacked."
Jeter is excited to have the opportunity to become a public service attorney and do the type of work that matters most to him – advocating for children and young people, fighting for housing and civil rights, and defending indigent clients.
And since he's returned to his hometown Portland from Samoa, he's become aware that Portland is a hotbed for human and sex trafficking. "Lawyers are doing very good work prosecuting traffickers and johns," he says. "When I have a law degree, I would want to sign up for that."
Thomas Mann Miller traveled to Cambodia in 2010 to cover human rights issues as a journalist for the Phnom Penh Post. He met a brave environmental activist named Chut Wutty who was looking into the Cambodian military's involvement in illegal logging. Last year, Wutty was murdered by military officers during an investigative trip, but the courts dropped the case. Miller said the incident illustrated the challenges of protecting human rights and ending impunity where rule of law is lacking.
"I saw how fragile law can be -- how much it is shaped by social and political forces, and how much its promise depends on persistent and principled advocacy," he said.
Miller also met and interviewed a former Khmer Rouge military leader suspected of high-level involvement in the ultra-Maoist regime's policies, which led to the deaths of 1.7 million Cambodians in the 1970s. When he met Meas Mut, the former cadre was lying in a hammock reading Buddhist sayings, living comfortably, with little fear of being held accountable despite efforts of a United Nations-backed tribunal. "It is a disturbing fact that Khmer Rouge leaders like Meas Mut are likely to live out their final days without answering for the roles they played," Miller says.
These and other experiences helped Miller focus on what he'd like to do as a future public service attorney. "My experience in Cambodia deepened my commitment to using the law to promote human rights and accountability."
Miller was also influenced by the Seattle public schools he attended for 12 years which made him aware of broader inequalities along race and class lines. "That got me interested in understanding how racial inequality persists," he said. "You can outlaw segregation, but ensuring equal educational opportunities is a different kind of challenge, requiring substantial policy and political efforts that might not look like conventional human rights work."
Besides working as a journalist, Miller has served as a political campaign manager and an editor at a public policy think tank. He has also worked for a grass-roots advocacy group on the passage of national health care reform and was an active student leader at Whitman College. As he's learned from his experience, advancing social change requires a range of strategies, from rigorous intellectual work to crafting innovative policies, building coalitions and campaigns, and taking on individual legal cases.
To expand his skills even more, he plans to pursue a master's degree in public policy at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government at the same time he studies law at UW.
"I can't bring Chut Wutty back any more than I can erase the history of segregation in my hometown of Seattle," Miller says. "But I can work toward a better future, leveraging policy and the law to rectify past wrongs, protect human rights, and advance opportunity."
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TONY Smith could have the option of a returning star for Friday night's trip to Leeds Rhinos in round two of Super League 2014.
Simon Grix, one of Wolves' most consistent performers in recent seasons, faces a late fitness test.
He missed the opening defeat to St Helens with a shoulder injury.
His availability would hand the coach an additional option in the back row, in the half backs and at centre.


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Christopher trained at the Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, United Kingdom, graduating with a BA (Hons) in Theatre (Design for Performance) in 2009. He cut his performance designing teeth creating theatrical scenery for a wide range of performing arts ranging from English drama to Chinese musical theatre.
He has worked with UK performing arts groups such as Punchdrunk and Peut-être Theatre, as well as supplemented his experience with extensive involvement with local performing arts groups such as Pangdemonium, Toy Factory and W!ld Rice where he gained invaluable insights into visual storytelling and how to create a world in which the eyes see what the ears do not hear.
His design credits include The Masque of the Red Death (Punchdrunk/Battersea Art Centre, 2007 UK); This is That (Peut-être Theatre, 2008, UK); Isaac (Short film, 2008, UK); Merger and Accusations (Singapore Playhouse London, 2008, UK); Coffin Is Too Big For The Hole (College Project, CSM, 2008, UK); The Hour We Knew Nothing Of Each Other (College Project, CSM, 2009, UK); To Kill a Mocking Bird (Toy Factory, 2010); Maha Moggallana - A Story of Filial Piety (Toy Factory, 2010); White Soliloquy (Toy Factory, 2010); Take Heart (Temasek Polytechnic, 2010); Closer (Pangdemonium, 2011); Emily of Emerald Hill (W!ld Rice, 2011); 881 - The Musical (Toy Factory, 2011); Family Outing (W!ld Rice, 2011); All my sons (Open Stage, 2011); Don't Forget to Say Good Bye,记得说再见 (TCR Music, 2011).


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Bob Marley Heirs Sue Raising Cane's
The heirs of the late reggae singer Bob Marley have filed suit against Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers. The Advocate reports Marley's widow, and children allege the Baton Rouge based chain is infringing upon Marley's "One Love" trademark. Fifty Six Hope Road filed the suit in Massachusetts Federal court. The suit seeks to stop the fast food chain's use of the "One Love" trademark and damages of up to three times the damages Marley's heirs claim to have suffered.
"One Love" was one of Marley's best known songs, recorded in 1965, and later included on the Wailers album "Exodus" in 1977. Fifty Six Hope Road licensed the Trademark in 1991.


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Weekly Stupidity.
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This week It's Fighting Stupid brought you the years best in best in mma, boxing, journalism, and more. We had the return of Holly Madison, Chuck Liddell's retirement, Chael Sonnen's indictment, Steven Seagal's words of wisdom, the announcement of both Strikeforce's Heavyweight Grand Prix and TUF 13's coaches IE: Brock Lesnar and Jr. Dos Santos. All that in addition to It's Fighting Stupid's °360 coverage of UFC 125.


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Edward D. "Eddie" Gentry
Edward D. Gentry was born in October 1865 in Kansas or Indian Territory to Eli Gentry (1841–?) and his wife Lucy (1842–?). His parents were termed "mulatto" in Census records and "colored" in Denison City Directories. Edward had two younger siblings, William and Alyna or Alyssa.
In Edward's teen years, his father operated a saloon on South Austin Avenue, organized a black minstrel touring group, had frequent brushes with the law, and participated in lodge activities in the African American community. Living in a busy downtown location at 205 West Woodard Street, Edward's mother Lucy was a laundress or stayed home raising the children. In January 1880, the family mourned the death of a small child.
In 1887, the Denison City Directory listed Edward as a barber at Thompson & Lott, operated by two African Americans, Joseph Thompson and Sylvester Lott. This business, billed as "barbers, shop and bath rooms," occupied space at 104 West Main Street (the Lebrecht Building, built in 1884), at the southwest corner of Main Street and Houston Avenue. This was the heart of the action around the Union Depot.
In 1891, Edward was a barber with Eugene Lafon at 111 East Main Street. He was rooming with another "colored" barber, Jesse A. Coleman. Jesse's barber shop shared a location at 209 South Austin Avenue with Eli Gentry's nightclub; and Jesse lived at 104 West Bond Street.
Also in 1891, Edward married Susie, a black woman born in October 1862 in Tennessee. In October 1892, they would have a daughter, Bernice. Around this same time (1891), Eddie's parents and his sister Alyna/Alyssa either moved away or died, for they were no longer mentioned in existing records. Nor do they appear in local cemetery records.
Five years later, Edward had his own barber shop at 109 East Main Street, close to the Union Depot and in a prime location to catch travelers tired after loading commodities onto trains or emerging at their destination after long train rides. Working the barber shop with Edward was another African-American barber, James S. Love.
Edward continued to upgrade his enterprise, which was located on the second floor above other businesses and offered hot baths in addition to shaves and haircuts. The 1898-1899 City Directory called it the Palace Barber Shop, and Eddie's former employer, Sylvester Lott, worked there, as did Peter Williams and Sherley O. Platt. They were all African Americans. Williams may have been a part owner, as the directory listed him also operating another Palace Barber Shop at 106 North Rusk Avenue. At this time, Edward Gentry and his wife had taken up residence at 627 West Bond Street. Platt lived a block away at 527 West Bond.
Through 1905, Edward remained at the same location and lived at the same address. Then he moved his business to 107 West Main in 1907. Around this time, the interior of his shop was featured in Industrial Denison, a high-quality pictorial book advertising Denison's most impressive homes and businesses.
"Shaving Parlor of E. D. Gentry, 109 East Main Street."
Eddie passed away on July 14, 1908, and was buried in Denison's Oakwood Cemetery. As a fixture in downtown since his childhood, he seems to have been a great favorite of town leaders, who helped his surviving wife and daughter.
As the widowed mother of a school-age daughter, Susie took in laundry. But by 1911, she had snagged the prestigious position of matron at the Union Station. Bernice completed her education and by 1913 had become a teacher at Anderson School, the African-American school near her home. The two women continued to live at 627 West Bond.
Later Bernice lived in Dallas, where she died on May 4, 1969.
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Best HARP 2.0 Rates
One of the top questions from homeowner's these days seems to be, "What lender can get me the best HARP 2.0 rates on my refinance?", but this question should actually be second to the most important factor: "What lender can even do my HARP refinance?". Unlike most standardized mortgage programs we've all come to know, there are many factors that will determine which lenders can complete your transaction. There are also different "pricing hits" for various aspects of your scenario which are important to know before you start your search for the best HARP 2.0 rates. In this piece we'll be focusing on how to best educate yourself on the potential pricing hits:
Best HARP 2.0 Rates – Loan Level Hits to Watch for:
Though we'd all like to get our hands on the best HARP 2.0 rates, its important to know what the various "big banks" who will ultimately service these loans view as additional risk factors. The most common loan-level price adjuster is LTV(Loan-to-Value). There are also loan level hits for credit score, property type, and occupancy type (owner-occupied, investment property, etc.). Lets first focus on the most common: LTV pricing hit:
Best HARP 2.0 Rates – Price add-on's for LTV:
Now while this new version of HARP is not supposed to limit the LTV, there are only a select few banks willing to accept any loans over 125% LTV. In regard to pricing hits specifically, the best HARP 2.0 rates can be obtained with the lowest LTV. For example if your home is at 80%-85% LTV, there shouldn't be much of a pricing hit at all. However, once you exceed the higher LTV thresholds such as 90%, 95%, 105%, and especially the 125% LTV, now you should expect to pay about .25% higher in rate, depending on the lender. A good rule of thumb when looking for the best Harp 2.0 rates is to first ask the lender if they have the ability to complete your transaction based on your expected LTV, and second, what the pricing hit will be for your expected LTV.
During your search for the best HARP 2.0 rates, the first question should be, "can this lend actually do this deal given my property's current LTV?"
Best HARP 2.0 Rats – Pricing Hits Fee Structure for Credit Score and Property Type:
Other aspects to consider when searching for the best HARP 2.0 rates is credit score and property type. As you would probably expect, with less than perfect credit comes a bit higher rate. There are usually very little hits if you're at 680+ but typically there will be a small hit once you get below 660. Additionally, there is a hit for property type. Specifically, condominiums usually come with about .125% hit to rate (75bps to price) if the LTV is over 75%. This is an industry-wide Fannie Mae hit so plan on getting this bit higher rate if you own a condo and are over 75% LTV.
As you can see, there isn't a one-size-fits-all rate/price for this program and its important to take all aspects into consideration when in search of the best HARP 2.0 rates.
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In an evenly matched field of 2-year-olds, Georgie Boy broke through to turn the tables on his rival Salute the Sarge, winning a blanket finish to the $250,000 Del Mar Futurity (gr. I) (VIDEO) on Sept. 5, closing day of the 2007 summer season at the Southern California track.
Trainer Kathy Walsh felt Georgie Boy wasn't relaxed enough in the Best Pal (gr. II), the Futurity prep stakes on Aug. 12, so she took the blinkers off the California-bred gelding. After leading all the way into the stretch, Georgie Boy was defeated by one length by Salute the Sarge as the odds-on favorite in the Best Pal.
Ridden in the 60th Del Mar Futurity for the first time by New York-based Garrett Gomez, Georgie Boy rallied from out of the clouds. The dark bay didn't make the lead until the final strides, bursting through between horses to defeat Salute the Sarge, who who had to take up off heels in tight quarters leaving the quarter pole but finished gamely for jockey Kent Desormeaux. The winning margin was a half-length.
"(Gomez) knew (Georgie Boy) wanted to come from off the pace," Walsh said. "(Georgie Boy) does everything like an old horse except he's slow to change leads. Today he never even changed and he won anyway."
Gomez said he had several discussions with Walsh about Georgie Boy.
"Kathy was high on this horse, and that means a lot to me," he said. "Kathy is like family to me, like a second mother. When I was first getting started out here, she was a big part of that. And my wife worked for her for a bunch of years. She calls her 'Mom.'
"Kathy called me about him, several times. When I realized that she was that high on him, I had to take it seriously. We had the good trip and he did what he had to do. He's a 2-year-old and he's still a little green, but aren't they all? Today he did just fine."
Favored Drill Down, who appeared to bump with Salute the Sarge on the turn, finished a nose behind in third. The final time for the seven-furlong test was 1:25 1/5 on Polytrack.
Georgie Boy was 12th and next-to-last in the early portion of the race as Good Man Dan, with pressure from Whatever Whenever, set fractions of :23 and :46 3/5. As the field rounded the bend, though, the complexion of the race changed completely with Phone Chatter and Leonides vying for the lead briefly. Salute the Sarge, who had to wait for room after recovering from his traffic encounter, slipped through between horses to get the lead in deep stretch as Drill Down, along the inside, and Georgie Boy closed powerfully.
The homebred Georgie Boy prevailed late to earn his second win in five starts for Walsh and owner George Schwary. The son of Tribal Rule--Ippodamia (Peterhof) broke his maiden in the 5 1/2-furlong Graduation Stakes for Cal-breds on the Del Mar Polytrack July 25. The victory more than doubled his earnings to $286,806.
The loss was the first in four starts for Salute the Sarge, who also won the Hollywood Juvenile Championship (gr. III) on the Hollywood Park Cushion Track this summer.
"Oh, he gave me a brave run," Desormeaux said of the runner-up. "But I had to thread the needle with him in the stretch and I think that might have cost him the race. He wasn't able to progress the way I'd hoped. He may not be the fastest one out there, but he's the most courageous. When they go long, he'll go better."
Drill Down was sent off as the 2-1 favorite in the field of 13 -- the largest Futurity line-up since 1967 -- after an impressive 2 1/4-length maiden win at six furlongs July 28. Bettors were also aware that leading rider Michael Baze had hopped off the mount on second-choice Salute the Sarge to be aboard the quickly developing Drill Down, trained by Michael Machowsky.
"I had to wait and wait, all around the turn," said Baze. "You have to wait on this course if you're going to do any good, so it worked out okay. The other two who beat him just out-quicked him at the end. He ran good and he'll run better when they go longer."
Sent off as the third choice in the bulky field, Georgie Boy paid $13.60, $6.20 and $3.60. Salute the Sarge, a Forest Wildcat colt purchased at Barretts for $300,000 in March, returned $5.80 and $3.80, completing a $69.20 exacta. Drill Down, an El Corredor colt who came out of the same sale for $350,000, was $2.80 to show.
Leonides finished fourth, followed by Dixie Chatter, Kanan Dume, E Z's Gentleman, Drewthegentleman, Overextended, Sky Cape, Ford Island, Godd Man Dan and Whatever Whenever.
The final day's attendance was 17,069.
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About the Book
"Pieces" is Gregory Rothstein's newest photographic project. It blends portraiture and still life into one as the book explores individuals relationships to material objects or their bodies. "Pieces" is going to be hopefully a long term career project for Rothstein as he now embarks into the real world post graduation. If this book is any indication of what Gregory Rothstien is capable of, he is most definitely someone to keep your eye on in the photographic world.
Features & Details
- Category Arts & Photography
Standard Portrait, 7.75×9.75 in, 20×25 cm
70 Pages
- Publish Date Feb 20, 2014
- Language English
- Tags photography, potraiture, photos, pieces, chicago, Illinois
About the Creator
"I almost find bios such as these challenging. You see, I love to talk, more importantly I love to talk about myself and tell people about myself, because I consider myself quite an interesting human being. However finding the words to talk about myself I feel is difficult at times. By nature, I am loud, obnoxious, and most importantly funny. Creativity has always been something very close to me, whether it was creating my own Lego sets, writing the two movie scripts I have completed or making elaborate excuses as to why the dishes never got done I have always found ways to be creative and express who I am. I want all of this to be demonstrated in my work, whether it be in a single print or in a book. The visual arts are truly something I am passionate about.
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Sexy, blood sucking, sparkling vampires are in. Awkward, blood allergic, average vampires – like teen – Jane Jones are not. After more than 90 years dealing with high school mean girls – vampire and human – it's starting to make the Dust Bowl look good. Jane is ready for a change, and it seems to be right around the corner when two guys--super-smart, human Eli and super-rich, suave vampire Timothy – start paying attention to her. Before Jane decides which boy might be a friend for life (which is a really long time for her) she discovers a family secret, battles a vampire teacher, rescues her brother and wards off a mad scientist. Not bad for possibly the worst vampire ever.
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Tag Archives: Arizona
Adventure: The Search for a Coues Deer
Posted on March 31, 2013
Excitement fills the air as this bowhunter heads toward the rugged mountains of Southern Arizona, all in search of the cagey, gray ghost Coues deer. I tucked my face into my Sitka jacket as the cold morning breeze stung my cheeks. Growing up in North Dakota, I have … more
Bowhunting Mule Deer in Arizona
Posted on December 14, 2011
It was late December 13 years ago when I embarked on my first journey to Southern Arizona to hunt desert mule deer. My hunting buddy and I each had an over-the-counter archery deer tag in our pockets, and with other hunters' stories in our heads, we were positive we would … more
Doubling Up on Coues
Posted on May 20, 2011
A father and son defy the odds, both taking trophy coues bucks in back-to-back seasons on public land in Arizona. By Brandon Ray Rick Forrest is one of my favorite guys to write about. I've known him for 20 years. Not only is he a talented archer and a wildly … more


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Tonight's episode is twinned with Prisoners' Wives, as plans by Danielle to marry on her 16th birthday depend on whether her fiance Brendan is sent down for receiving stolen goods.
The suspense of wondering whether Danielle's hen night will be spoiled by a prison sentence totally blots out a couple of other pressing questions.
Firstly, why is she so keen to get married at 16?
And how come the gypsy girls look so gorgeous and the men, well ... don't? Sorry, but somebody has to say it.
Interestingly, there are no actual weddings this week, big or otherwise, as the episode focuses instead on the travellers' frequent run-ins with the law.
We ride alongside one group moved on from one illegal site to another before they're inevitably moved on again.
But nothing showcases their interesting relationship with the police quite as thrillingly as their passion for staging trotting races on the open road – putting not only their horses at risk, but also any other motorists.
* Big Fat Gypsy Weddings - C4, 9pm


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Lynyrd Skynyrd Shout Outs In Country Songs – All Summer Long
To celebrate Lynyrd Skynyrd coming to Evansville's Ford Center on August 1st, we're featuring country songs that give the legendary band a shout out. Today, it's Kid Rock's 'All Summer Long.' This genre-crossing song gets right to the meat of it with a sample and mention of 'Sweet Home Alabama' not to mention, allusions to other classic hits.
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After the transition from my old Blogger blog to Patheos, I lost all my post tags, and I've been adding them back in a haphazard manner. I'm finally committing to checking links and retagging, starting from the beginning (some 500 posts ago) and working my way back to the present. As a result, I'll be regrouping some posts into sequences, so don't be surprised if you see new index posts popping up in your RSS feed. This will make it a bit easier to track topics across the site and may stir up some old discussions.
I'm also finally overhauling the 'Burden of Proof' tab, which is getting renamed 'About' (more generic, but a lot more intuitive to a new visitor). The old blog descriptions are archived, in case you like seeing how my idea of the purpose of this blog has changed (or just the errors in tone I've caught and changed).
These revisions always tend to be a little fraught, so I'd appreciate it if you could use this thread to give me your impressions of the new 'About' section and point out any red flags.


text: [Federal Register: October 3, 2003 (Volume 68, Number 192)] [Notices] [Page 57469-57470] From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov] [DOCID:fr03oc03-86] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES Food and Drug Administration [Docket No. 03N-0286] Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission for Office of Management and Budget Review; Comment Request; User Fee Cover Sheet; Form FDA 3397 AGENCY: Food and Drug Administration, HHS. ACTION: Notice. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- SUMMARY: The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing that a proposed collection of information has been submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and clearance under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. DATES: Fax written comments on the collection of information by November 3, 2003. ADDRESSES: The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is still experiencing significant delays in the regular mail, including first class and express mail, and messenger deliveries are not being accepted. To ensure that comments on the information collection are received, OMB recommends that written comments be faxed to the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, OMB, Attn: Fumie Yokota, Desk Officer for FDA, FAX: 202-395-6974. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Karen Nelson, Office of Management Programs (HFA-250), Food and Drug Administration, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD 20857, 301-827-1482. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In compliance with 44 U.S.C. 3507, FDA has submitted the following proposed collection of information to OMB for review and clearance. User Fee Cover Sheet; Form FDA 3397--(OMB Control Number 0910-0297-- Extension Under sections 735 and 736 of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (21 U.S.C. 379h), the Prescription Drug User Fee Act of 1992 (PDUFA) (Public Law 102-571), as amended by the Food and Drug Administration Modernization Act of 1997 (Public Law 105-115), and the Prescription Drug User Fee Amendments of 2002 (Public Law 107-188), FDA has the authority to assess and collect user fees for certain drug and biologics license applications and supplements. Under this authority, pharmaceutical companies pay a fee for certain new human drug applications, biologics license applications, or supplements submitted to the agency for review. Because the submission of user fees concurrently with applications and supplements is required, review of an application by FDA cannot begin until the fee is submitted. Form FDA 3397, the user fee cover sheet, is designed to provide the minimum necessary information to determine whether a fee is required for review of an application, to determine the amount of the fee required, and to account for and track user fees. The form provides a cross-reference of the fee submitted for an application with the actual application by using a unique number tracking system. The information collected is used by FDA's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER) and Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER) to initiate the administrative screening of new drug applications, biologics license applications, and supplemental applications. Respondents to this collection of information are new drug and biologics manufacturers. Based on FDA's database system for fiscal year (FY) 2002, there are an estimated 225 manufacturers of products subject to PDUFA. However, not all manufacturers will have any submissions and some may have multiple submissions in a given year. The total number of annual responses is based on the average number of submissions received by FDA in FY 2000 through 2002. CDER estimates 2,494 annual responses that include the following submissions; 105 new drug applications; 1,557 chemistry supplements; 670 labeling supplements; and 162 efficacy supplements. CBER estimates 737 annual responses that include the following submissions; 11 biologics license applications; 640 manufacturing (chemistry) supplements; 72 labeling supplements; and 14 efficacy supplements. Based on previous estimates, the rate of submissions is not expected to change significantly in the next few years. The estimated hours per response are based on past FDA experience with the various submissions and range from 5 to 30 minutes. The hours per response are based on the average of these estimates. In the Federal Register of July 3, 2003 (68 FR 39954), FDA published a 60-day notice requesting public comment on the information collection provisions. No comments were received. Table 1.--Estimated Annual Recordkeeping Burden\1\ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Annual 21 CFR No. of Frequency Total Hours per Total Section Respondents per Annual Response Hours Response Responses ------------------------------------------------------------------------ FDA 3397 225 14.36 3,231 0.30 969 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Total ............. .......... .......... ......... 969 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ \1\There are no capital costs or operating and maintenance costs associated with this collection of information. [[Page 57470]] Dated: September 25, 2003. Jeffrey Shuren, Assistant Commissioner for Policy. [FR Doc. 03-25043 Filed 10-2-03; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4160-01-S


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80/20 Your Work
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Career Mash Up 7
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Career Mash Up 5
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Career Mash Up 3
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Career Mash Up 1
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Landing a Job as a New Music Grad
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In the 2001 film, Vanilla Sky, starring Tom Cruise, there's a scene where he welcomes a guest at his apartment. There's a party's going on. With the camera behind him, he proceeds through the rooms until coming to one where you can see up ahead what looks like a grainy black and white image of a man playing the saxophone. Turns out it's a life-size hologram of John Coltrane performing...Read More
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USA Network, which is finishing as the No. 1 cable network for a sixth straight year, has long ago secured a place at the big table next to the broadcast networks. Now the top cable network is formalizing its status as a peer to the broadcast nets by holding an upfront presentation and party during the traditional broadcast upfront week in May. USA's upfront event will take place at the Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall on the last day of upfront week — Thursday, May 17 — in the evening. After years of private dinners with ad agencies, USA Network held its first upfront presentation at the Tent at Lincoln Center last year on May 2, two weeks before upfront week. The network is moving to a higher-profile time slot and a bigger space this year but plans to keep the emphasis on talent with actors from USA's original series Burn Notice, Covert Affairs, In Plain Sight, Fairly Legal, Necessary Roughness, Psych, Royal Pains, Suits, White Collar and the upcoming Common Law introducing their shows. USA joins selected few other cable networks — including Turner's TNT, TBS and Adult Swim and ESPN — that host events during the broadcast upfront week.
USA Network Joins Upfront Week In May
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What took them so long? They must have a secret inferiority complex and they shouldn't. They have fun light stuff, although some of the shows might need some refreshing.
Need some refreshing? Have you watched In Plain Sight lately? It needs some canceling!
Well, you got your wish. The upcoming 2012 season will be the last.
USA is the new NBC.
It's about time.
Hmmm… does this mean they're going to start paying full network rates to their content providers?
Hmmm… as well as paying full basic agreement production rates to crew?


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Chicago (Oct. 8)
Max Shulman, veteran Zionist leader, was reelected president of the Chicago Zionist Organization at the annual conference held here yesterday at the Sherman Hotel. Other officers reelected to serve with him were William M. Katz, first vice-president; A. Z. Halperin, second vice-president, and John Rissman, treasurer. Joseph Levinson was elected secretary to fill the vacancy left by the resignation of Joel David Wolfsohn, now the executive secretary of the National Power Policy Committee in Washington.
Greetings were extended to the conference in the name of Jewish organizations in the city. Dr. A. E. Abromowitz eulogized two Zionist leaders who died recently, Dr. Victor Jacobson and Oskar Wassermann.
The conference adopted a series of resolutions opposing formation of a legislative council in Palestine; urged Great Britain to increase Jewish immigration to the Holy Land; renewed the pledge to boycott all German-made goods; pledged full support for the American Palestine campaign; and called for an end to factional fights in the Zionist movement.
Another resolution adopted committed the organization to join in the protest against the Palmer House and the Hotel Stevens for renting quarters for the DAWA convention.
The Chicago Zionists also adopted a number of resolutions calculated to strengthen the organization in the city.
The officers were officially installed at a mass meeting addressed by Dr. A. L. Sachar of the University of Illinois and B. Horwich, veteran Zionist leader.


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Steelers notebook: RB Bell still sidelined by foot sprain
Running back Le'Veon Bell (mid-foot sprain) was the only player to sit out practice Wednesday.
Fullback Will Johnson (hamstring) and outside linebacker Jarvis Jones (chest) were limited participants. Tight end Heath Miller practiced for the first time since injuring his right knee Dec. 23, but he participated in only individual drills. The Steelers haven't said when their 2012 leading receiver can practice.
"Heath is the best tight end in the game," quarterback Ben Roethlisberger said. "We definitely miss him, and we wish him a speedy recovery."
• First-round pick Jarvis Jones wanted to start his first NFL game but is comfortable coming off the bench. To him, finishing is more important than starting. "It's not how you drive, it's how you arrive," he said.
• Last year's first-round pick, right guard David DeCastro, was only a few weeks into rehabilitating a preseason knee injury a year ago. He doesn't often show emotion, but he is excited about his first NFL season opener; his only 2012 playing time came late in the season. "It's a whole different feel this year," he said. "(I'm) more prepared and more comfortable."
• Center Maurkice Pouncey, guard Ramon Foster and DeCastro are among those encouraged by the offensive line's adoption of the outside zone-blocking scheme. DeCastro estimates the Steelers used it on slightly less than half the plays during the preseason. "We feel good about it," he said. "We'll see how it goes on the field."
• Running back Felix Jones was a first-round draft pick by Dallas, but he has fought for playing time throughout his career, beginning at Booker T. Washington High School in Tulsa, where he played with two other future NFL players. He began his Arkansas career as a backup to star Darren McFadden. "You've got to seize those opportunities," he said. "When you've got the ball in your hands, you've got to make the best of it."
• The Steelers are 6-0 in home openers under Mike Tomlin and 10-0 since 2003. … Roethlisberger begins the season with 191 touchdown passes, second in team history to Terry Bradshaw's 212. Roethlisberger had five TD passes in his last home game against Tennessee, in 2011. … Felix Jones ran for 109 yards in his only previous game against Tennessee, with Dallas in 2010. … Titans kicker Rob Bironas, once with the Steelers, has 214 field goals since 2005, second only to David Akers' 228. … New Steelers kicker Zoltan Mesko speaks four languages.
• Steelers coach Mike Tomlin was the first to flash the Pirates' Zoltan sign to new punter Zoltan Mesko. And, yes, the former Patriots punter knows what it means. Turns out, he's always liked Pittsburgh black and gold even while growing up in suburban Cleveland. "It's pretty funny. The fourth or fifth grade, I went into a Wal-Mart and purchased a Steelers jacket," Mesko said. "But I didn't know the emblem, the symbol, I didn't know what it stood for. So I was walking on the streets of Cleveland, getting (angry gestures)." Now he'll get a whole different set of signs.
• Just another game? Not to Ben Roethlisberger. As he starts his 10th NFL season, he has begun to realize how important the season opener is. "You have to approach the first game and every game like it's the biggest," he said. "I think the thing about the first game of the year is it sets the tempo. It usually should set the tempo."The Steelers lost a fourth-quarter lead during their 2012 opener in Denver, setting the tone for an 8-8 season in which they lost six times after leading.