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Italian Supreme Court President Writes Book Linking Bilderberg to Operation Gladio and the CIA
April 12, 2013 by Jack Blood
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Italian Supreme Court President Writes Book Linking Bilderberg to Operation Gladio and the CIA
"The Bilderberg Group is behind the so-called 'strategy of tension,' and therefore the massacres," says Ferdinando Imposimato, Honorary President of the Supreme Court as he makes references to a document written more than 40 years ago – and which was almost lost- during the promotion of his new book, "La repubblica delle stragi impunite," which translates to "The republic where massacres go unpunished."
From the Italian News Website www.net1news.org
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Translated by Mario Andrade for www.Deadlinelive.info
NAPLES – "The Bilderberg Group is one of the leading organizations behind the strategy of tension, and therefore the (Operation Gladio) massacres." This statement is not just mentioned by bloggers or conspiracy theorists, or even Beppe Grillo, but Ferdinando Imposimato, Honorary President of the Supreme Court. The former magistrate, who would be proclaimed by the '5-Star Movement' as one of the possible presidential candidates, speaks in Naples during the promotion of his new book.
His words are very clear. "We found the truth about the massacres," he says in an interview with a journalist. "There has been complicity between the state -or factions of the state- and the Mafia, as well as (black ops) terrorism and freemasonry. These elements came together during Operation Gladio, and consist of multiple international organizations, controlled by the CIA. This is a proven fact, " he says. The purpose of their actions was to destabilize public order and stabilize the political power.
The 40-year-old document
In his book, Ferdinando Imposimato also speaks of the Bilderberg Group, mentioned in a document written by Emilio Alessandrini in 1967 -more than 40 years ago. "In this document, which I have quoted literally, it is mentioned that the Bildenberg Group is one of the biggest promoters of the strategy of tension, and therefore also behind the massacres. Here's what Bilderberg does: It rules the world and democracies in an invisible way, influencing the democratic development of these countries."
It is important for Italians to know this, for some of their countrymen are among the members of this group and the Trilateral Commission, like of Mario Monti, the current Prime Minister, John Elkann, Chairman of Fiat Group, Pier Francesco Guarguaglini, former president of Finmeccanica or Marco Tronchetti Provera, chairman of Pirelli, also Enrico Letta, vice secretary of the Democratic Party.
Gov't won't even give page counts of secret PATRIOT Act documents
OAKLAND, California—Lawsuits challenging government secrecy have fared pretty terribly in the post-9/11 era, with the most recent example being the Supreme Court's ruling last month that a group of journalists and activists have no right to sue over the FISA spying law.
Only a few cases of this sort are left, including two Bay Area lawsuits being pushed forward by the Electronic Frontier Foundation. One is the San Francisco case over NSA wiretapping, which the government is trying to shut down using the "state secrets" privilege. The other is EFF's case demanding to see documents about how the government is interpreting Section 215 of the PATRIOT Act.
It isn't just activists that are concerned, either. In 2009, Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) said the government's use of "Section 215 is unfortunately cloaked in secrecy. Some day that cloak will be lifted, and future generations will ask whether our actions today meet the test of a democratic society." In 2011, two US Senators, Ron Wyden (D-OR) and Mark Udall (D-CO), publicly voiced their concerns, too, suggesting the government had a pretty wild interpretation of what it was allowed to do under the PATRIOT Act. "When the American people find out how their government has secretly interpreted the Patriot Act, they will be stunned and they will be angry," Wyden told The New York Times.
Feds Say Man Deserved Arrest Because Jacket Said 'Occupy Everything'
March 4, 2013 by Jack Blood
Filed under Police State
Florida man deserved to be arrested inside the Supreme Court building last year for wearing a jacket painted with "Occupy Everything," and is lucky he was only apprehended on unlawful entry charges, the Department of Justice says.
The President Barack Obama administration made that assertion in a legal filing in response to a lawsuit brought by Fitzgerald Scott, who is seeking $1 million in damages for his January 2012 arrest inside the Supreme Court building. He also wants his arrest record expunged.
What's more, the authorities said the former Marine's claim that he was protected by the First Amendment bolsters the government's position (.pdf) because the Supreme Court building's public interior is a First Amendment-free zone.
Fitzgerald was not disturbing anybody, but was repeatedly told by court staff to leave the building or remove the coat. Outside the building, about a dozen "Occupy" protesters were arrested.
Inside, Fitzgerald was handcuffed and arrested for unlawful entry as he was viewing an exhibit on slavery.
Here is the District of Columbia's 'unlawful entry' statute:
Any person who, without lawful authority, shall enter, or attempt to enter, any public building, or other property, or part of such building, or other property, against the will of the lawful occupant or of the person lawfully in charge thereof or his or her agent, or being therein or thereon, without lawful authority to remain therein or thereon shall refuse to quit the same on the demand of the lawful occupant, or of the person lawfully in charge thereof or his or her agent, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not more than $1,000, imprisonment for not more than 6 months, or both.
Prosecutors eventually dismissed the charges, and he sued. (.pdf)
To be sure, the courts have upheld convictions of those wearing inappropriate clothing inside the high court's building — once in 2011 for individuals wearing orange shirts that said "Shut Down Guantanamo" and in 2007 for protesters wearing orange jump suits and black hoods — all in violation of the so-called "Display Clause."
The Obama administration said Wednesday that Scott could also have been arrested and charged with violating the Display Clause, which makes it "unlawful to parade, stand, or move in processions or assemblages in the Supreme Court Building or grounds, or to display in the Building and grounds a flag, banner, or device designed or adapted to bring into public notice a party, organization, or movement."
"It also bears noting that, while plaintiff was initially charged with violating the unlawful entry statute, his conduct also violated the Display Clause of section 6135, and he could just as easily have been charged with an independent violation of that statute as well," the Obama administration said.
Supreme Court kills activists' challenge to FISA spying law
February 26, 2013 by Kristen
Filed under Police State
In 2008, Congress passed the "FISA Amendments Act," or FAA. This expanded the government's ability to use electronic surveillance on people located abroad—and, apparently, any Americans they're speaking to. A lawsuit was quickly filed by an array of civil rights groups, labor unions, and media organizations, including Amnesty International, the American Civil Liberties Union, The Nation magazine, the Service Employees International Union, and an international group of criminal defense lawyers.
The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA, was originally designed to allow spying on the communications of foreign powers. But after the September 11 attacks, FISA courts were authorized to target a wide array of international communications, including communications between Americans and foreigners. While it's tough to know exactly what kinds of communications are being picked up under the FAA rules (because it's all been kept secret), the evidence suggests there has been widespread dragnet-style surveillance of phone calls originating in the US.
75-year-old soybean farmer sees Monsanto lawsuit reach U.S. Supreme Court
Who controls the rights to the seeds planted in the ground? A 75-year-old farmer takes the agricultural giant to court to find out
As David versus Goliath battles go it is hard to imagine a more uneven fight than the one about to play out in front of the US supreme court between Vernon Hugh Bowman and Monsanto.
On the one side is Bowman, a single 75-year-old Indiana soybean farmer who is still tending the same acres of land as his father before him in rural south-western Indiana. On the other is a gigantic multibillion dollar agricultural business famed for its zealous protection of its commercial rights.
Not that Bowman sees it that way. "I really don't consider it as David and Goliath. I don't think of it in those terms. I think of it in terms of right and wrong," Bowman told The Guardian in an interview.
Either way, in the next few weeks Bowman and Monsanto's opposing legal teams will face off in front of America's most powerful legal body, weighing in on a case that deals with one of the most fundamental questions of modern industrial farming: who controls the rights to the seeds planted in the ground.
Scientology Hit With Federal Fraud Lawsuit
In what appears to be the most serious legal challenge to Scientology in several years, former high-level Scientologists Luis Garcia and his wife Rocio of Irvine, Calif., today filed a federal lawsuit against the Church of Scientology, alleging fraud over the way their contributions to the church were used. The suit was filed in Florida's Middle District with the help of veteran attorneys Ted Babbitt and Ronald Weil, who plan to file additional lawsuits by other former church members.
The suit seems to come at a particularly inopportune time for Scientology as it struggles to counter a massive dose of bad publicity over the publication of Lawrence Wright's damning history of the church, "Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, & the Prison of Belief." Among other things, Wright's book raises questions about the way Scientology leader David Miscavige has amassed wealth in the organization.
In 1993, when the Internal Revenue Service granted Scientology tax exempt status, the church was able to escape a $1 billion tax bill. But it was still held to a Supreme Court decision which required Scientology to give refunds to members who asked for them.
The Church of Scientology has strayed from principle and devolved into a cash-hungry enterprise that misuses parishioner donations to protect itself from questions and to intimidate its own members, a California couple charged Wednesday.
The couple said in a federal lawsuit that the church had misused about $400,000 of their money, including donations meant for construction projects and for relief from natural disasters.
Charlie Daniels: Precedent Teaches Us The Left Really Wants ALL Our Guns
January 13, 2013 by Kristen
Filed under Commentary
When the Supreme Court, or any other court for that matter, makes a ruling in a case they first look for precedent, in other words to see if there has been a court decision rendered on the same subject in the past and usually defer to the old decision in ruling on the case.
The greatest teacher in life is experience; it only takes one time of burning your fingers on a hot stove to know that you never want to touch another one.
The next greatest teacher is observation, paying attention to someone else's experiences and profiting from their wins and losses, trials and errors.
In my generation I have seen the rise and fall of fascism, communism, different experiments in socialism and the kind of downright social and fiscal foolishness that leads to what has recently happened in Greece.
Actually, The Newest Version Of NDAA Makes It EASIER To Detain Citizens Indefinitely
November 30, 2012 by Kristen
Filed under Police State
Here's the added clause in question:
"Nothing in the AUMF or the 2012 NDAA shall be construed to deny the availability of the writ of habeas corpus or to deny any Constitutional rights in a court ordained or established by or under Article III of the Constitution for any person who is lawfully in the United States when detained pursuant to the AUMF and who is otherwise entitled to the availability of such writ or such rights."
Yesterday we focused on the line "nothing … shall be construed to deny … any constitutional Rights …"
But today we offer another interpretation from Bruce Afran, a lawyer for the group of journalists and activists suing the government over the 2012 NDAA.
Afran explained that the new provision gives U.S. citizens a right to go to civilian (i.e. Article III) court based on "any [applicable] constitutional rights," but since there are are no rules in place to exercise this right, detained U.S. citizens currently have no way to gain access to lawyers, family or the court itself once they are detained within the military.
"The biggest thing about the [2012] NDAA was that you weren't getting a trial … Nothing in here says that you'll make it to an Article III court so it literally does nothing," Dan Johnson, founder of People Against the NDAA, told BI. "It's a bunch of words, basically,"
Afran noted that the newest version actually goes further than the NDAA that's now in effect.
"The new statute actually states that persons lawfully in the U.S. can be detained under the Authorization for the Use of Military Force [AUMF]. The original (the statute we are fighting in court) never went that far," Afran said. "Therefore, under the guise of supposedly adding protection to Americans, the new statute actually expands the AUMF to civilians in the U.S."
The suit against the government challenges the indefinite detention provisions of section 1021 of the 2012 NDAA—which allow the military to indefinitely detain anyone who commits a "belligerent act" or provides "substantial support" to the Taliban, al-Qaeda or "associated forces"—on the grounds that certain terms were unconstitutionally vague and could chill free speech.
The provisions were permanently blocked by Judge Katherine Forrest but went back into effect after Appeals Court Judge Raymond Lohier reinstated them in October because he agreed with the government that section 1021 was simply a "reaffirmation" of the AUMF, which gives the president the authority to indefinitely detain anyone involved in carrying out the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
The newest version of the NDAA seems to be equating the AUMF and section 1021 of the 2012 NDAA—which the government has argued all along—and thereby codifies precisely what the plaintiffs are fighting in court.
All of this makes the lawsuit—which will probably go all the way to the Supreme Court—central to the issue of the indefinite detention of Americans.
The bottom line, according to Afran, is that the NDAA "is still unconstitutional because it allows citizens or persons in the U.S. to be held in military custody, a position that the Supreme Court has repeatedly held is unconstitutional."
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/ndaa-americans-indefinite-detention2012-11#ixzz2Dj6slYbR
Is the Affordable Care Act Unconstitutional?
June 27, 2012 by Kristen
Filed under Commentary
Does Congress possess the constitutional power to force its citizens to purchase health insurance? Prof. Elizabeth Price Foley says that's the key question in the Supreme Court challenge to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. The Supreme Court must decide whether the "individual mandate" portion of the law falls under Congress's power to ""regulate commerce," as enumerated by Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution.
Prof. Foley argues that whether or not you personally support the health care legislation, you should be worried about the precedent that the individual mandate would set. If the power to regulate commerce is interpreted as including the power to force people to buy something, then that power doesn't just apply to health care. It would give Congress the power to make individuals buy anything, which poses a significant threat to individual liberty.
'Classified Woman' – Sibel Edmonds Finally Wins
May 3, 2012 by Jack Blood
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– Guest Blogged by David Swanson
[Ed Note: The BRAD BLOG has been reporting on the remarkable story of Sibel Edmonds since the darkest days of 2005 and in nearly 100 articles since then. Once described by the ACLU as the "the most gagged person in the history of the United States of America", the Iranian-born former FBI translator fought to blow the whistle on traitorous deception and cover-up inside the FBI, blackmail inside the U.S. Congress and startling allegations of espionage and nuclear secrets sold to U.S. enemies on the foreign black market by some of our nation's highest ranking officials.
In 2007, after the Supreme Court had refused to hear her case thanks to the Bush Administration's persistent use of the so-called "State Secrets Privilege," legendary "Pentagon Papers" whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg told The BRAD BLOG her allegations were "far more explosive than the Pentagon Papers" on the heels of her exclusive announcement on these pages that she would break her gag order to tell all to any major U.S. media outlet who would allow her a platform to do so.
Even though CBS' 60 Minutes had covered her story in 2002 when she was not allowed to speak, they showed no interest once she promised to do so anyway, leading Ellsberg to guest blog here decrying the American media as "complicit in cover-up". It took the UK's Sunday Times (a Rupert Murdoch property!) to finally break some of her most explosive allegations publicly in 2008, which outed CIA operative Valerie Plame Wilson would describe as "stunning".
Finally, her 3-hour long video-taped deposition, in answer to a subpoena in someone else's lawsuit in the summer of 2009, once Obama had come to power and declined to re-invoke the "State Secrets Privilege" against her, allowed the full story to begin to come out.
Now, after waiting more than 340 days for the FBI's pre-clearance review of her memoir — they are supposed to do so within 30 days — Edmonds has decided to release her own story, in full, without their prior approval or redactions. We've now got our own copy of her new book, Classified Woman: The Sibel Edmonds Story, but our colleague, author and activist David Swanson has happily beaten us to reading it in full and has generously offered us his own review which follows below. – BF]
The experiences she recounts resemble K.'s trip to the castle, as told by Franz Kafka, only without the pleasantness and humanity.
I've read a million reviews of nonfiction books about our government that referred to them as "page-turners" and "gripping dramas," but I had never read a book that actually fit that description until now…
The F.B.I., the Justice Department, the White House, the Congress, the courts, the media, and the nonprofit industrial complex put Sibel Edmonds through hell. This book is her triumph over it all, and part of her contribution toward fixing the problems she uncovered and lived through.
Edmonds took a job as a translator at the FBI shortly after 9-11. She considered it her duty. Her goal was to prevent any more terrorist attacks. That's where her thinking was at the time, although it has now changed dramatically. It's rarely the people who sign up for a paycheck and healthcare who end up resisting or blowing a whistle.
Edmonds found at the FBI translation unit almost entirely two types of people. The first group was corrupt sociopaths, foreign spies, cheats and schemers indifferent to or working against U.S. national security. The second group was fearful bureaucrats unwilling to make waves.


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Royals top division by edging Athletics 3-2
AP Wednesday, August 13, 2014, 12:02 am TWN
KANSAS CITY -- Kansas City won its eighth straight game and took over the lead in the American League Central division by edging Oakland 3-2 on Monday, led by pitcher Yordano Ventura.
The Royals, who have not made the playoffs since 1985, surged to the top of the division ahead of Detroit, which lost at Pittsburgh.
Among the day's other games, Baltimore beat New York to open a seven-game lead on the Yankees in the AL East, the Los Angeles Dodgers extended their lead in the National League by beating slumping Atlanta, and Seattle romped past Toronto.
Kansas City has not led its division this late in a season since 2003.
Ventura set up the victory by pitching the first six innings before handing over to Kelvin Herrera (3-2) who pitched a perfect seventh to take the win.
Alcides Escobar drove in a run in the second inning before delivering a two-out single off Sonny Gray (12-6) in the seventh, putting Kansas City in front.
Baltimore's Chris Davis hit a two-run homer after replacing an injured Manny Machado and helped the Orioles beat the Yankees 11-3.
After Davis put the Orioles ahead in the fifth inning, Nelson Cruz connected with a man on in the seventh and Jonathan Schoop added a three-run shot in the eighth to turn a tight game into a convincing win. Cruz now has 31 homers, tied for the major league lead with rookie Jose Abreu of the White Sox.
Machado, a 2013 All-Star third baseman, sprained his right knee in the second inning. He dropped onto his back in the batter's box and needed help getting off the field.
Los Angeles' Kevin Correia won in his Dodgers debut, setting up a 6-2 win over Atlanta.
The Dodgers increased their NL West lead to five games over idle San Francisco. The Braves have dropped 10 of 12 and fallen four games behind NL East-leading Washington.
Correia was tied for the major league lead in losses with a 5-13 record when he was traded from Minnesota to the Dodgers on Saturday. He excelled for Los Angeles, giving up one run and one walk in six innings, while striking out five.
Atlanta's Julio Teheran (10-9) allowed five runs in 7 1-3 innings.
The Chan sisters are both into the quarterfinals at Wimbledon
Tzunami of Linsanity: This Taiwanese 23-year-old is an instant Red Sox hero
Police: Williams lawfully entered intersection before fatal crash
Lin Tzu-wei is a 'pleasant surprise,' Red Sox manager says
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Wimbledon: Federer rolls Raonic, Murray crashes out, injured Djokovic quits
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The union said it would push for an end to performance targets in wage deals with the big four banks that required staff to try to sell extra products and do other things to increase profits.
The ANZ pay rise is dependent on staff meeting performance targets, which differ depending on the role, and the union said they could lead to some staff missing out entirely.
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The deal will establish one set of terms and conditions for staff and replace six sets. Chief executive
The ANZ agreement will cover about 23,500 Australia-based staff for 2010 and 2011. It was supported by 87 per cent of eligible staff. It mirrors a 4 per cent pay rise reached by
Business and economists have warned that relatively large pay rises could drive up inflation. But the union said the industry could afford larger increases.
The chief executive of ANZ's Australian operations, Philip Chronican, described the minimum standards as "fair and reasonable" and said the outcome formalised pay conditions while "incorporating the flexibility required for both ANZ's customers and people."
The union said the industrial relations climate in the banking sector had changed significantly since Labor won the 2007 federal election and changed workplace relations laws.
National secretary Leon Carter said ANZ chief executive
But Mr Carter said some staff might not receive pay rises because of performance targets tied to the 4 per cent annual increases and warned the union would campaign against this.
"Pay is too often linked to sales targets. We think that drives bad behaviour," he said.
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Ashton Kutcher is Basically the Pool Boy
she'd look like a mummified ferret if not for those buddy holly glasses.
She's vile and old and a has been. He would be CRAVING young women like there was no tomorrow!!!! Have u seen this bitch without makeup???!!! And those twitter bikini pics???!! She has a masive space between each fake tit, horrible surfer boy stomach…. Jesus. Poor Ashton! Get the fuck outta there and bang as many hot 20-somethings STAT!


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This North Korean Arcade Propaganda, My Goodness
If you've ever wondered what a North Korean propaganda clip for arcade gaming looks like, well, it apparently looks like this.
If you've ever wondered what a North Korean propaganda clip for arcade gaming looks like, well, it apparently looks like this.
Have you seen this video of North Korea's failed missile launch? It's quite impressive, in that GEE WHIZ EXPLOSIONS! kind of way. But it's not from North Korea.
I've seen a lot of disgusting things in my years on the internet, but this video takes the cake.
Figures. So are North Korean Photoshops.
He might hate the United States, but he sure digs those designed-in-California computers.
For years now, we've seen bad North Korean Photoshops. Now, according to Reuters, experts say the hermit kingdom is faking video clips.
Recently, North Korea's supreme leader Kim Jong-un "climbed" Mt. Paektu, the country's tallest mountain. The mountain is an important place, so Kim Jong-un's visit is very much a photo opportunity. A propaganda one, too.
Photos have emerged of a "new" Kim Jong-un hairdo. Simply put, it is spectacular. But how did we get here? When did this happen? Let's take a look back at Kim's coifs from over the years.
First announced in May 2014, Glorious Leader is a platformer where you control North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un. And just like the man it's based on, the game has been caught up in a hacking fiasco.
In what should surprise no one, The Interview features Korean that really doesn't make that much sense.
The 'Young Master' visited a North Korean Navy submarine base this week to 'provide guidance' over military drills. There he inspected a buffet, a WWII tactical table full of toy-like boats, some bunk beds, political education hall and a portion of the Korean People's Navy archaic fleet of Romeo Class submarines…
Sony Pictures is having a tough Thanksgiving week. After being hacked almost week ago (by maybe North Korea?), DVD-quality downloads of Fury and other unreleased Sony films have leaked on the web, according to TorrentFreak.
When I found myself in one of the most isolated and mysterious countries on the planet naturally the first thing I noticed was the profound assortment of vehicles in the airport parking lot. Behind the wall of mines and propaganda in North Korea are still people, and many people still like cars.
Aram Pram—a Singapore-based virtual tour photographer—says that he got special permission from the North Korean government to produce this exclusive 22-minute GoPro tour of Pyongyang. After seeing the entire thing, it kind of looks like any nondescript American city.
Think being a dictator is easy? Ha! It's stressful, and according to the South Korean media, it's caused Kim Jong-un to pack on the extra pounds.
It's hard to imagine the rotund dictator and supreme leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea was ever a cute innocent child, especially after what he did to his uncle last year. But lo-and-behold, North Korean central news agency KCNA recently released a series of photos of the young leader for all to see.
Something missing from your computer? Something North Korean? You can change that right now.
The Bronx Zoo has Siberian tigers. The San Diego Zoo has pandas. The Central Zoo in Pyongyang now has Yorkshire terriers.
North Korea and South Korea are separated by the most heavily armed border on Earth. But rest easy, there's a new guard on the lookout: Kinect.
The outside world doesn't know a whole lot about what is really going on in North Korea—how the people actually live and what they do. One thing we can prove, however, is that at least one North Korean citizen has played the Nintendo Wii.


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Last week was what is referred to as "Dead Week" by the Georgia High School Association By-Laws. The name is given to the July 4th holiday week by the association.
The Tiger basketball team has finished its summer basketball camp play. The team was very successful and finished the summer with a record of 23-11.
The Dawson County High School football team is preparing for the upcoming 2010 campaign. The team has been participating in workouts from 7:30-10:30 a.m. on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday at the high school.
Head Coach Thad Burgess and his Dawson County Tiger basketball team traveled to Auburn University last Thursday. The team played summer games against some of the best teams in Alabama and the Southeast during the 3-day camp.
Chase Gilreath has been named second team All-Area by the Gainesville Times. The Tiger senior will continue his baseball career at the collegiate level next year at Columbus State.
Sophomore track sensation Madalyn Walters was named first team All-Area by the Gainesville Times last week.
Senior Lady Tiger soccer player Lindsey Vinson was named second team All-Area by the Gainesville Times last week. Vinson recorded seven shutouts, five in area play, from her goalie position for Dawson County Head Coach Rick Corwin.
The Dawson County Lady Tiger basketball team has a new attitude and determination this summer. Coach Steve Sweats' squad began summer workouts a day after Memorial Day with a fire in their eyes.
The Gainesville Times recently named Dawson County Tiger soccer player Alex Cote to the first team All-Area. Cote helped the Tigers to a state playoff spot this past season.
The Dawson County boys basketball team continues to play well this summer.
Head Coach Jeff Lee, Dawson County football staff and players hosted a Fellowship of Christian Athletes youth football power camp last week at Tiger Stadium.
Coach Thad Burgess' varsity Tiger basketball team is starting its 2010 summer basketball season.
Rick Corwin has resigned from his head girls' soccer coaching position at Dawson County High School.
The Dawson County boys and girls golf teams held their banquets May 24 in the Dawson County High School auditorium.
The 2010 senior letterman awards program was held May 25 in the cafeteria at Dawson County High School. Sixty-two seniors were honored at the dinner and awards ceremony this year.
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UNM-Gallup Early Childhood and Family Center (ECFC) serves young children of students, faculty, staff and community with care and learning using best practices and a Reggio Emilia inspired approach. It trains student and early childhood professionals in knowledge and research of early childhood development and education and raises community awareness of young children's needs.
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UNM-Gallup Early Childhood and Family Center plans to become a comprehensive model for replication statewide in New Mexico. Best practices, family support, teacher training, and community outreach are key components. The center strives for a 5-star rating and National Association for Education of Young Children accreditation. Plans to study development of an Educare School inspired by Reggio Emilia philosophy that will serve 100-150 children in Gallup will grow from this smaller ECFC model.
Our Values:
- Treats all children with affection, dignity and respect;
- Uses best practices and Reggio Emilia inspired approach to learning;
- Teams with parents – children's first teachers – to support healthy growth and development for their young children;
- Provides a safe and inspiring environment at school and promotes the same for home and community;
- Has an open-door policy for local business people, professionals, and community workers to visit the school and engage children with their work or interests.
Our Philosophy:
ECFC believes in environments for intentional learning, self-directed learning and Reggio Emilia inspired interaction between teacher and child. The school, the child's second home, becomes a comfortable, safe, warm, engaging, and stimulating learning experience for the children and parents served. ECFC brings teachers and parents together as learning companions. Together they work to inspire thinking and to encourage emotionally intelligent children with the use of Mindful Discipline.
Our Goals:
- Provide children with the opportunity to make appropriate choices;
- Provide a safe, healthy, comfortable, responsive, and stimulating cognitive environment;
- Encourage children to think, reason, question, and experiment through engagement with their peers, teachers, and environment;
- Respect, accept, and appreciate each child and the cultural heritage of that child;
- Provide learning experiences designed to promote physical, cognitive, emotional, and social growth using Reggio Emilia approach to learning and best practices for early learning;
- Maintain an environment free of racial or sex role bias, stereotype or prejudice;
- Respect, accept, and appreciate each child's strengths and cultural heritage;
- Provide assessments twice a year to recognize each child's learning;
- Set limits that encourage emotionally intelligent choice and behavior.
- Provide high quality care for children while parents pursue their studies at UNM-Gallup;
- Provide evaluations for their child's developmental interests and strengths;
- Provide support for their child's learning style;
- Provide opportunities to make connections with other parents;
- Provide opportunities to learn and understand child development through planned support programs.
- Provide professional training to promote their life-long learning;
- Participate in State and National initiatives allowing for feedback and input on early childhood practice;
- Provide an outstanding work and early childhood environment that serves as a model for our community and state;
- Provide an environment for research, study and training for UNM.
- Create a strong partnership with families and clear communication about the importance of children's early learning experiences;
- Provide a model for early childhood education and comprehensive child care services;
- Provide leadership in promoting best practice using views and research that support early learning;
- Provide leadership for high quality professional roles in early childhood.
Please contact Kelly Dineyazhe-Hunter , Site Manager, at (505) 863-7632 or email@example.com. The center is located on UNM-Gallup Campus at 705 Gurley Avenue, Gallup, NM 87301.


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As a child I gave up sweet things for Lent, even my favourite tooth-rotting, corner-shop toffee. I wonder if our teachers saw the benefit - 36 children on a sugar-free diet. But willpower and resolve have vanished with the years. Few kids nowadays could be expected to abstain from chocolate consumption until Easter, with chocolate eggs rolling into shops at the end of January.
If, like myself, chocolate is your primary source of anti-oxidants, it's a bit hypocritical trying to persuade the children to abstain for their own good. Resourceful mothers try to distract them instead.
Easter isn't just a celebration, it's a holiday with a long lead-up, and the
young must be kept creatively occupied. They can write to the Easter Bunny, make
chicks out of cotton balls and pipe cleaners, and decorate eggs.
When it comes to egg embellishment, Orthodox Christian children have a head start. In the Orthodox church, friends and family exchange eggs in remembrance of the Resurrection. Melissa's and Renee's grandparents came from Greece, and when you've got grannies and grandads handy, you stay in touch with tradition.
Every year the girls look forward to a colourful session of dyeing eggs, turning the workbench and bits of their clothing bright red. The red symbolises the blood of Christ, the shell represents the sepulchre, and the breaking of the egg the Resurrection.
This year Granny plans to teach them how to make patterns on the eggs. It's an interesting process involving leaves, dye, old stockings and mess. Their mother's going to love it.
Their friend Jenny will be helping. Jenny's family is Welsh and Cornish, so she acquired her egg-craft skills at Girls Brigade craft sessions. At Easter she makes exquisitely decorated eggs to present to her friends, who cherish them until they go the way of all organic things and begin to pong.
When I was a young girl in Ireland, Easter was the time for the ritualistic setting aside of the winter layer, my beloved liberty bodice with its fleecy lining, satin ribbons and rubber buttons.
But Easters here can be warm and sticky, like hot-cross buns, perfect for health-giving outdoor activities.
Australian pioneers were great explorers, diggers and foragers. These skills made them ideal exponents of the traditional egg hunt, and every Easter armies of Aussie kids can be seen in parks and gardens, out scavenging with baskets and buckets for chocolate gold.
Ten-year-old Asleen is probably on to the truth about the Easter Bunny, but she's a sensible child and happy to play along with her parents' delusions to keep those egg hunts going. Childish compliance equals more eggs to scoff.
The Easter Bunny has great scope for secreting eggs in her bushy native garden. The children find them in the forks of gum trees, the volcanic holes in the landscaping rocks, the spaces between the garden sleepers, with the huntsman spiders in the letterbox and under the plastic plant sleeves needed to stop all those other bunnies eating the shrubs down to bare stalks.
But every year one or two eggs seem to go missing. Something gets them; probably magpies, rats or Pippin, the wild guinea-pig who lives under the cubby house. No wonder he won't eat wilted lettuce leaves.
But the day will come when Asleen won't want to leap out of bed at dawn to go poking around for eggs. Adolescents do Easter differently. Her older sister, Moya, is just so over foil-wrapped rabbits, if not chocolate. Lindt chocolate carottes are tolerated in large quantities, but bunnies, those symbols of rampant fertility, are definitely out.
Asleen admired a chocolate bunny recently and got a lecture from her sister on the destructive impact of vermin on the Australian landscape. "I mean, the whole country is like covered in rabbit burrows. Duh!"
The young activist and her friend Miko support the push to replace exotic furries with endangered native furries. They are prepared to sacrifice themselves by eating kilograms of chocolate bilbies, koalas and wombats in the name of conservation.
But Asleen and Miko's brother Sean remain bunny supporters. "I prefer bunnies because they've got longer ears," Asleen insists. "You get an extra bit of chocolate."
For some children Easter is all about Christ. For Nellie and Jack it's as special as Christmas. Since the Last Supper, when Christ said "This is my body ...", food - fasting and feasting - has been at the symbolic heart of the Easter season.
Like many children, Nellie and Jack aren't mad about fish, but their mother Wendy says they love a Good Friday lunch of smoked cod with buttery sauce. It's partly the taste, and partly the excitement of the ritual partaking of food leading up to a special event.
On Easter Sunday the whole family will get up at 4am and head for the Yan Yean Reservoir. They'll watch the sunrise over the Kinglake Ranges and meditate on the resurrection of God's Son. Afterwards they have a celebratory barbecue breakfast followed by hot cross buns and Easter eggs.
During the day, families of every ethnicity and persuasion will join them, because Melburnians flock to reservoirs at Easter. The mild weather is perfect for those elaborate Mediterranean-inspired picnics where extended families meet, bringing everything from a leg of lamb to champagne, crystal and entire suites of outdoor furniture.
I'll be there with my children, because Melbourne's reservoirs are rich in hills, and hills are essential for a proper Easter. Back in the Old World, we used to take our eggs up a hill on Easter Sunday and roll them down, heartsick at the thought they might smash on the way. But they never did.
Then we'd roll down the hill ourselves, several times, in our new spring outfits.
Elsewhere people have parades at Easter. The parades I used to go to weren't about bonnets and clover, but to commemorate the 1916 Easter Rising in Dublin. If you've seen Liam Neeson in the movie Michael Collins, you'll know the one I mean. Easter was political.
In Spain they have mega-parades during Semana Santa - Holy Week, Goya-style. The Spaniards capture the darkness of Good Friday with a passion that makes Mel Gibson look restrained. Thousands of hooded and robed penitents parade through the streets, carrying crosses or performing symbolic flagellation as they walk. Bystanders give ear-enthralling displays of improvised flamenco singing in Christ's honour.
In the middle of the procession a group of men moves slowly and in step, screened beneath a platform, carrying a life-sized Christ figure. It looks as if Christ himself is moving haltingly, painfully towards Golgotha, his clothes and hair blowing realistically about him.
But that's not the Aussie way - all that formality and flagellation. Instead, in Victoria we have the annual Good Friday Appeal for the Royal Children's Hospital. It's a sort of parade without the exercise. Children get to lie in front of the TV for a whole day and night, and are encouraged to make financial sacrifices, and sometimes fools of themselves, for a good cause.
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As you've no doubt heard, today marks the 200th anniversary of Charles Dickens' birth. Besides being a great writer, Dickens was a believer in travel. He did not always put a happy spin on his voyages (On crossing the English Channel: "I am bumped rolled gurgled washed and pitched into Calais Harbour.." or on the world's great capitals: "Naples is hot and dirty, New York feverish, Washington bilious, Genoa exciting, Paris rainy…"), but he is just as eloquent about the joy of experiencing the world around you:
He went to the church, and walked about the streets, and watched the people hurrying to and for, and patted the children on the head, and questioned beggars, and looked down into the kitchens of homes, and up to the windows, and found that everything could yield him pleasure. He had never dreamed of any walk, that anything, could give him so much happiness.
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Not too much is known about it yet obviously, but it is supposed to sport a 1.6GHz Atom processor, and up to 2GB RAM. It also is said to come with an optional SSD drive, three USB ports, an Ethernet port, SD/MMC slot, and 802.11 a/g/n. It's also got Bluetooth and options for three and six cell batteries. Rumor also has it there just may be touchscreen…although that isn't confirmed. They're supposed to weigh less than three pounds, so it won't weigh down the bookbag.
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According to Alison Arngrim, who played Nellie Oleson on the TV show "Little House on the Prairie," all was not so quiet on the western front. In her new memoir, Confessions of a Prairie Bitch (awesome title!), she admits that there was some major behind-the-scenes tension between herself, Melissa Gilbert (Laura Ingalls), and Melissa Sue Anderson (Mary Ingalls). Alison claims that she and Melissa Gilbert did not hit it off with "prom queen type" Melissa Sue Anderson. "Melissa Gilbert and I wound up bonding and becoming best friends like sisters and Melissa Sue became sort of the 'frenemy.' … So we were with her all day but I guess she was like, 'I'm not hanging out with you two.' She was just sort of appalled by Melissa Gilbert and I," Arngrim said. Yep, just another day on the homestead.
Get ready to get your reading bonnet on because her memoir also talks about other juicy stuff like the fights between Michael Landon and Katherine MacGregor and her personal life. She was sexually abused as a child and credits the role of bad girl Nellie with helping her cope. Sounds like a must-read. I'll break out my apron and floor-length calico dress. [FOX]


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A vote late this afternoon on partner health benefits by the DART board continues discussion until the next committee meeting.
The DART board met behind closed doors for more than half an hour to discuss the health plan before opening the meeting to visitors. The plan they were discussing was approved by the administrative committee earlier this month.
The plan under consideration is comparable to those adopted by the city of Dallas, DFW Airport, Austin and El Paso.
One motion to table discussion until after the U.S. Supreme Court rules on the California Proposition 8 case was defeated by a 7-6 vote that largely pitted Dallas delegates against the suburbs.
But because there were questions about the actual cost of claims, not just premiums, the board decided to continue discussion to the next meeting instead of passing the proposal for its second vote to the next committee-of-the-whole. From approval of the committee-of-the-whole, the proposal then goes to the board on a later date for approval.
Michael Mohammed, DART vice president for diversity, gave the committee estimated premium costs for the plan that will range from $60,748 to $734,849. But he didn't have a figure on the cost of claims. DART, like many large corporations, is self-insured. Board members said they were only asking actuarial questions.
If a dependent contracted cancer, how much would that cost DART, one board member asked.
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All Verizon Charge content has been removed from this web site. I've said it before and I'll say it again... this phone is EOL (End Of Life). There is no support for this phone any more.
This page will no longer be updated for the Droid Charge and all content from the site has been removed. The Droid Charge has been classified as EOL (End Of Life) by Verizon Wireless and will not be supported at all in the future. Yes, that means no ICS (Ice Cream Sandwich) for the Droid Charge which I was already highly skeptical about it ever coming to the phone in the first place.
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Some people have asked why you think that the Charge is EOL. Well... look at Verizon Wireless's web site. They are giving the phone away for free! Great deal. Right? But let's think about it. Why are they giving it away for what seems like a song? Because they are trying to unload what inventory they have left to make room for newer phones. If that doesn't sound like a desperate move on behalf of Verizon Wireless, I don't know what is. It's like they want to dump these phones as quickly as possible. Don't let that price tag of Free fool you, you aren't getting as good of a deal as you think you are. Just read the reviews for the phone; complaint after complaint after complaint. Do yourself a favor, don't get the phone even if it is free. The Charge is an embarrassment to other Android phones.
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TOP STORY > >Teen prescription drug abuse starts at home
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Editors note: This is part one in a series on teen abuse of prescription drugs, and what parents and communities can do to curb the epidemic.
Parents concerned about their teen getting high may lock up the liquor, but then forget the medicine cabinet, an easy source of the popular drugs shared, sold and abused by teens.
Prescription drugs have become the second-most-abused illegal substance among U.S. youth, after marijuana. As many as one in five teens have abused prescription drugs at some point in their lives, according to national studies.
One such study the National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) found that Arkansas teens and young adults lead the nation in abuse of prescription pain relievers. The same study found that Arkansas also leads the nation in the percentage of teenagers needing but not receiving treatment for illicit drug-use problems.
Ten percent of Arkansas teens ages 12 to 17 reported using prescription pain relievers for non-medical use in the past year; for young adults, ages 18 to 25, the rate was even higher 17 percent, according to the most recent NSDUH survey, conducted in 2005-06. The national rates are 7 percent for 12 to 17 year olds and 12 percent for 18- to 25-year-olds.
The federally funded NSDUH has been keeping tabs on Americans use and abuse of harmful substances tobacco, alcohol, and illicit drugs since 1971 with its annual, door-to-door survey. To protect the privacy of interviewees, participants key in their responses to sensitive questions about substance abuse on a hand-held computer device.
The drugs most commonly abused by teens are pain relievers, followed by tranquilizers, sedatives, and stimulants as well as over-the-counter and prescription cough medicines, according to a report by the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse (CASA) at Columbia University.
So why are so many young people using these drugs? Stress relief is one reason. Teens get high for the same reasons adults do: It feels good, better than the sometimes tough reality they must deal with at home, school, and on the job. Teens say that they are seeking a way to manage their lives or tone down the stress associated with family life, friendships, romantic relationships, academic pressures, competition for honors in the classroom and playing field, and the pursuit of the perfect physical image. And, then there is peer pressure, a perennial driver behind why kids do what they do, including abusing drugs.
Rena Kinney, who graduated from home school in 2007 after attending Jacksonville High in her senior year, remembers a lot of kids popped pills, because everyone wants to be cool. She was quick to name off the drugs of choice among kids and some adults too: the anxiety reducer Xanax, the pain reliever Vicodin, and Ritalin, widely prescribed to manage attention-deficit-hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). For those without an attention-deficit problem, taking Ritalin or similar drugs induces a high, so a lot of kids do Ritalin; a lot of people were running around selling it, Kinney recalled.
In Cabot, schools are dealing primarily with hydrocodone, oxycodone, all types of muscle relaxers, codeine from different types of cough syrups, and Xanax, according to Tony Thurman, superintendent of Cabot public schools.
But for the kid who experiments with prescription drugs, all the blame cant be placed on his or her peer group.
Adults too are using and abusing these drugs in record numbers, which is why they are in the family medicine chest in the first place. It can safely be said that the United States is a medicated society, increasingly looking for a quick fix for its ills.
The number of Americans with at least one prescription annually rose about 70 percent from 2000 to 2006, according to a study by pharmacy benefit manager Express Scripts. The number of prescriptions filled per person each year increased from 11 to 14 a 32 percent jump, the study found. Although most of increase was for drugs to treat obesity-related disorders such as diabetes and high blood pressure, the study also reported a 33 increase in prescriptions for anti-depressants.
In recent years, the abuse of prescription drugs has also increased dramatically.
According to a 2004 report of the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse (CASA) at Columbia University, from 1992 to 2003, abuse of controlled prescription drugs grew at a rate twice that of marijuana abuse; five times that of cocaine abuse; 60 times that of heroin abuse, prompting Joseph A. Califano, Jr., CASAs chairperson and president and former U.S. Secretary of Health, to declare: Our nation is in the throes of an epidemic of controlled prescription drug abuse and addiction.
In regard to teens abuse of prescription drugs, the CASA report noted, The explosion in the prescription of addictive opioids (painkillers), depressants and stimulants has, for many children, made their parents medicine cabinet a greater temptation and threat than the illegal street drug dealer.
School superintendent Thur-man concurs that the home is the prime source of the drugs that kids are abusing.
We have dealt with more situations in which students would target other students and befriend them for the sole purpose of gaining access to their home and medicine cabinet. It is crucial that parents keep a close watch on who their child is visiting and who is allowed into their home. All prescription medications must be locked in a secure location.
Fraudulent prescriptions, theft from pharmacies, doctor and dentist shopping, unethical health practitioners, and online sales are also means by which teens or dealers illegally obtain prescription drugs.
A 2008 study by CASA reports that teens now say that prescription drugs such as the painkillers OxyContin, Perocet, Vicodin, and Ritalin are easier to buy than beer. Jessica Hale of Jacksonville has been out of high school for a few years, but recalls that drugs prescribed for ADHD, such as Ritalin and Adderall, were popular drugs of choice among abusers.
A lot of kids that are supposed to take Adderall dont like it, Hale contends, so they make money selling it; that puts it in a lot more kids hands. Of the abuse of prescription drugs in general, she observed, It seems like a lot more would be doing it if they had the money. I knew a lot of kids even in junior high. I was surprised at how early it was happening. She recalled going to a party in seventh grade, at a rich familys home. Kids were getting into the liquor cabinet. Theyd allow alcohol and marijuana.


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VOTING opened this week in the first-ever community budget poll in Bucks as Amersham residents were asked how they want £10,000 of public money to be spent.
A total of six project groups from Amersham and surrounding villages are all vying for votes to get a slice of the cash being put forward in the 'Amersham Decides' poll.
The ballot is the brainchild of Buckinghamshire County Council's Amersham Local Area Forum, which has allocated the £10,000 from its local priorities fund.
The two projects which poll the most votes each win £3,000, the next two will be given £1,500 and the final will both get £1,000 each.
Young Carers Bucks, which supports 550 youngsters across the county, Contact the Elderly - an Amersham-based charity that works to prevent social isolation among the over 75s - and the Chiltern Youth Projects mentoring scheme are all on the shortlist.
The Amersham Stroke Support Group, Chiltern Youth Action Street Crew - staffed by young volunteers who offer a gardening service to the elderly - and the Amersham Museum's Listening Project are all also after your vote.
Cllr Martin Phillips, who chairs the Local Area Forum, said: "This project really does give everyone, whatever their age, the chance to have a say in how their money is spent. What's so good is that this is about local people making local decisions for local benefit."
The six projects will be showcased in the square outside St Michael's Parish Church in Sycamore Road on Tuesday, October 7.
Voting forms are available from Amersham Library, Amersham Museum, Chiltern District Council's offices, Coleshill Village Hall and Chesham Bois Parish Council. Ballot boxes are also available at those locations.
Residents can also vote online at www.amershamdecides.com before voting closes on October 31.


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James is a vampire, a newborn in a new world... and...
The Harvest
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- Published: 14 Aug 2014
- Updated: 30 Aug 2014
- Status: In Progress
Once a year, from the moment the sun sets on Halloween until sunrise, The Harvest begins. A deadly game of cat and mouse, where The Bringers rule and The Hunted live in fear. The only way to survive The Harvest is to not get caught. It's the most addictive game on the internet. Roped into playing by a new online friend, known only as Bret, Nat O'Connell intends to play for an hour and then get caught. But once inside the game, the addiction slowly draws Nat in and the longer he plays, the more danger he finds himself in. Both online and in the real world. And he soon finds that the game won't let him leave without a price. But maybe if he can understand the reason he keeps finding the words 'Save Our Souls', he ,might just make it out alive.
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Windows 10: users asked to pay subscription fee for ad-free Microsoft Solitaire
Windows 10 makes people pay for Microsoft Solitaire, the much-loved card game, if they want to have ads taken off.
The game comes bundled with the new operating system, and can be played for free. But users are heavily encouraged to upgrade to "Microsoft Solitaire Collection Premium" — paying $1.49 a month or $9.99 a year to get extra features as well as hiding advertisements.
As well as hiding ads, the Premium version of the game gives "more coins" — the currency that is won in the game — "for completing Daily Challenges", and gives players a boost in the special games Tripeaks and Pyramid.
Windows 8, the previous version of the operating system, also asked people to pay a similar charge for playing Solitaire. But in that version it wasn't one of the built-in apps and there were fewer charges.
The Windows 10 version brings new features like leaderboards and extra game modes.
The new PC operating system brings largely useful changes, including fixing some old problems. As well as the Microsoft Solitaire update, it brings a run of new gaming features including the option to stream Xbox games to PCs.
Solitaire is Microsoft's version of Klondike, which is also known as Patience. The game has been part of Windows since version 3.0, which was released in 1990, and was designed by an internet who didn't get any pay for doing so.
Since it was released, the game has become a famous way of killing time at the office, with employees evening being fired for having it on their computers. The game celebrated its 25th anniversary earlier this year, with special tournaments.
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Ok, I wasn't going to pile on John McCain after this morning's prank heard 'round the world, but after a reader sent in a tip a few minutes ago, I just can't pass this up.
A good 13 hours after my faux "Contacting John McCain" graphic was finally pulled, the McCain camp has now replaced it with their own graphic. The problem -- as noticed by the sharp-eyed reader who sent in the tip -- is that the intern who created the graphic for the Senator either does not know how to spell "Group" or chooses not to proofread his own Photoshop work. See the image to the right -- a screen capture I took at 11pm Pacific.
I'm sure you're a good man, John McCain. I advise you to get your cyberstaff up to snuff quickly. It's going to be very important soon.
Also, maybe check out Virb. It's like MySpace for people with better taste.


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The France international full-back ends a seven-year association with the Gunners as he opts not to extend his contract past this summer, with Manchester City set to swoop for him
As revealed by Goal, the Frenchman had already told the club on May 12 that he would exit the Emirates Stadium and he has since opened formal talks with Manchester City.
|Arsenal are 9/1 with Bet365 to win the Premier League
"It's no longer a secret, I will leave Arsenal for sure," Sagna told L'Equipe.
"They tried to make an effort but the discussions have not gone in the direction I wished it.
"There are a lot of calls, a lot of speculation. Frankly, it gives headaches. I'll sort it all out before the start of the World Cup."
The full-back was officially approached by City the day after he helped Arsenal end their nine-year trophy drought by winning the FA Cup final.
Sagna spent seven years in north London, having joined from Auxerre in 2007.


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LEWISBURG, Pa. -- Bucknell University women's water polo player Kandis Canonica (Burlingame, Calif./St. Ignatius Prep) has joined select company as she was named an Honorable Mention All-America for the second straight year by the Association of Collegiate Water Polo Coaches (ACWPC), joining former teammate Valentina Rozas as the lone Bison to earn the honor more than once.
Bucknell has now had four different players combine for seven All-America certificates since 2006. In addition to Canonica and three-time honoree Valentina Rozas, Meagan Gins (2006) and Aubrey Rowe (2009) were recognized in recent years. At least one Bison has earned Honorable Mention All-America plaudits in four consecutive years.
A four-time all-conference honoree, Canonica was recognized this past spring with her second straight first-team citation after a pair of second-team honors. She was also a two-time All-Eastern Championship selection, becoming the first Bison to accomplish that feat since Gins in 2006 and 2007.
Bucknell's all-time leading scorer with 423 points, Canonica led the Bison in scoring as a senior with 88 points on 43 goals and 45 assists. She also posted a team-high 50 ejections drawn and 15 steals in her final season.
The only player in program history to post three 100-point campaigns, Canonica finished her career with 65 more points than previous record-holder Rowe (358). She broke the career assists record as a junior and her final tally of 221 was 79 greater than Adrienne Schober's previous standard (142). Additionally, Canonica scored her 200th goal in her final career contest, becoming the fourth Bison to reach that plateau.
A left-hander, Canonica registered at least one point in 27 of 28 games in 2011 and in 57 of her final 58 appearances.
Canonica capped her career by earning the Lee S. "Bud" Ranck Award at Bucknell's annual Senior Recognition Dinner in early May. The award is presented "for outstanding spirit and contributions to the Bucknell athletic program."
Canonica helped Bucknell to a 74-55 overall record during her four-year career that also featured the program's first-ever Southern Championships title in 2010.
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AMMAN (Reuters) - Security forces have moved into central Syria and coastal areas ahead of Friday prayers in a test of will for demonstrators determined to maintain protests against the rule of President Bashar al-Assad.
In a show of force, tanks have taken up positions near the urban centers of Homs, Rastan and Banias in the past two days.
Last week, Assad ordered the army into Deraa, cradle of the uprising that began with demands for greater freedom and an end to corruption and is now pressing for his removal.
An ultra-loyalist division led by his brother Maher shelled and machine-gunned Deraa's old quarter on Saturday. Syrian authorities said on Thursday the army had begun to leave Deraa, but residents described a city still under siege.
Troops were also deployed in the Damascus suburbs of Erbin, Saqba, Douma and in the town of Tel, north of the capital.
A senior diplomat said demonstrations after Friday prayers, the only chance Syrians have to gather legally, were expected to increase "incrementally, not massively" in numbers compared with a week ago when tens of thousands took to the streets.
Human rights campaigners say security forces killed at least 62 civilians, including 17 in Rastan alone, during those protests.
A doctor who planned to take part in Friday's demonstrations said "indiscriminate killings and inhumane arrests have generated total disgust among the average Syrian."
"Soldiers with rifles no longer deter people. The propaganda that this regime is the only guarantor of stability no longer washes," he said.
The United States, which had joined a European drive to improve ties with Assad under the Obama administration, called the attack on Deraa "barbaric."
Diplomats said the European Union could reach a preliminary agreement on imposing sanctions on Syria's ruling hierarchy on Friday, but had yet to decide whether Assad should be included.
Iran, which the United States accused of helping Assad in his efforts to crush the demonstrators, said Syria's rulers were aware of plots by the United States and Israel to destabilize its only Arab ally.
An opposition figure said: "The international response is intensifying. But Assad will spill more Syrian blood before the world wakes up."
Human rights campaigners say army, security forces and gunmen loyal to Assad had killed at least 560 civilians during seven weeks of pro-democracy demonstrations. Thousands of people had been arrested and beaten, including the elderly, women and children, they said.
The authorities blame "armed terrorist groups" for the violence, including the killings of civilians and members of the security forces.
Syrian television showed what it said were confessions of terrorists arrested in Deraa and caches of weapons it said were seized.
Assad said the protesters were part of a foreign conspiracy to cause sectarian strife.
His father Hafez al-Assad used similar language when he crushed Islamist and secular challenges to his rule in the 1980s, culminating in the violent suppression of an uprising in the city of Hama in which 30,000 people were killed.
Hafez al-Assad lost two wars to Israel, as defense minister in 1967 and as president in 1973. He maintained Syria's position as a relevant player in Middle East geopolitics by building ties with Shi'ite Iran and backing Palestinian guerrilla forces.
The younger Assad has reinforced the anti-Israeli alliance with Tehran, despite disquiet on the part of Syria's majority Sunni population.
Additional reporting by Zahra Hosseinian in Tehran; editing by Andrew Dobbie


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But those ads could now backfire, said Dave Sargent, head of automotive research at J.D. Power.
Film legend Woody Allen picks his favorite books around the theme of memory, from J.D. Salinger to S.J. Perelman.
After a public forum and a straw poll, it settled on J.D. Winteregg, a 32-year-old teacher from Troy, Ohio.
J.D. Greear leads The Summit Church down the road from me in Durham, North Carolina.
That AEI fellow is J.D. Kleinke, and his defense pulls few punches.
J.D. Hayworth brands John McCain a "liar" in this campaign ad.
She finished her J.D. at New York Law School, where there were only five other women studying alongside her.
"It is a sigh of relief she has been found," said J.D. Hardin, a communications specialist with the Henry County School System.
Barack Obama, on the other hand, appears set to greet Vineyarders Sunday with all the vim of J.D. Salinger.
Jeff Mangum Jeff Mangum has been called the J.D. Salinger of indie rock.


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He's nine. She's 62. They just renewed their WEDDING VOWS??!?!
Now this is a big giant bunch of WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAT!?!?!!? He's nine. She's 62. That makes the age difference 53 YEARS.
9-year old boy and his 62-year old wife renew their vows http://t.co/D4TQqqfCYk pic.twitter.com/rFfGoIamVT
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The Hot Seat: Ohad Naharin, choreographer
Going gaga ... a scene from Batsheva Dance Company's Telophaza,
coming to Sydney in January.
A good dancer watches just as much as he is watched.
When Ohad Naharin walks into the Cedar Lake Contemporary Dance Centre in Manhattan's Chelsea district, he looks more like a bedraggled swimmer than the artistic director of one of the world's most celebrated dance companies.
New York has been in the grip of a late autumn deluge and the narrow cobbled streets in this still heavily industrial part of town have become miniature watercourses that require some degree of athletic prowess to traverse.
Naharin, the 54-year-old head of the acclaimed Batsheva Dance Company, carries no umbrella and is soaked to the skin, water streaming in rivulets down his close-cropped head, slowing momentarily as they encounter forbiddingly stern eyebrows, before picking up pace down the collar of his rumpled parka. He leaves a trail of water across the lobby, his shoes squishing noisily and extravagantly in the otherwise quiet space, but the man himself looks quite unconcerned. He blinks at me with watery dark eyes, not even bothering to attempt to swipe his wet brow as he shakes my hand. Very cool, I think. If there's such a thing as mastering the art of remaining unflappable in a rainstorm, Naharin has achieved it.
The veteran artistic director of Israel's premier dance company has been hailed for pioneering some of the most innovative work - and intriguing movement language - in contemporary dance during the past 20 years. He has battled all manner of inclement weather since taking over the helm of Batsheva in Tel Aviv in 1990.
Forget the usual battles faced by dance company managers - funding tussles with governments, dancer injuries and resignations, poisonous critics. Naharin's challenges go far beyond the normal purview of an artistic director. Security, for one. The Israeli company travels the world with its own security team at all times, for obvious reasons, and he pulls a pained face as he describes the effect of having bodyguards in 24-hour proximity ("very frustrating").
Or the fact that he has been at loggerheads with his own government for years over his outspoken views on the Arab-Israeli conflict and the US-led incursion into Iraq ("absurd" is one adjective that pops up regularly). Or that he has to create work against a backdrop of competing - often antagonistic - cultures, religious mores and histories.
In 1998, he pulled one of his most acclaimed dance pieces, Anaphaza, from the bill of events marking Israel's 50th anniversary after the then president of Israel, Ezer Weizman, asked Batsheva dancers to censor a scene that the orthodox Jewish community in Israel deemed offensive. It still raises blood pressure. "Recently, at a performance of it, I saw a woman get up and leave, and before she did, she spat in the air." He shrugs.
Naharin sits down to a cup of coffee and slowly dries off under the high vaulted ceilings of Cedar Lake's newly renovated dance complex. He looks a good 10 years younger than his age: lithe, slim and cat-footed. He grins when I mention this: "Aah, it must be the gaga" - gaga being the unique movement language he invented; based on natural biodynamics and efficient movement, it is now a company trademark.
In January, Naharin will bring Batsheva to Sydney to open the Sydney Festival with a three-bill dance program. It will be the company's Sydney debut after two previous Australian appearances: the Adelaide Festival in 1996, under Barrie Kosky, and the Melbourne Festival in 2000.
There is nothing remotely orthodox about Naharin, either privately or professionally. Born in Israel in 1952 to a psychologist father and a dance-teacher mother, he was raised on a kibbutz until the age of five. He was, he says, always a naturally good mover - keen on sports and gymnastics - but didn't start dancing professionally until the ripe old age of 22. His talent was spotted and nurtured by American dance legend Martha Graham, who co-founded Batsheva in 1964 with Baroness Batsheva de Rothschild. He started dancing with the company in the 1970s before going to New York, on Graham's invitation, to perform with the acclaimed Martha Graham Company.
He lasted a year before moving to the Juilliard School of Music. He flourished in New York, studying with noted choreographers and dance figures before forming his own company and creating work that has been shown around the world. In 1990, homesick, he returned to Israel and was appointed artistic director of Batsheva, continuing his choreographic innovation with works such as Anaphaza, Axioma 7, Naharin's Virus, Minus 16, Black Milk and Sabotage Baby.
I ask him why he left Martha Graham's company so quickly - I can't imagine opportunities like that would often fall into the lap of a rawboned, relatively older dancer. "You know, I have a lot of respect and love and admiration for what she did, but it's not her movement vocabulary or aesthetic that inspires me. I'm more attracted to minimalist dance, and Martha, she was completely different. She also separated women from men in dance, she had these roles, and" - he shakes his head - "there was a lot of presence of ego." He smiles ruefully. "But she was really a genius, amazing. Her influence on me [choreographically] is limited - I mean, it was only for one year of my life - but what I learnt from her was her spirit and her love of dance."
In Sydney, Batsheva will perform three dance pieces - Telophaza, Mamootot and Kamuyot - set against a wildly eclectic musical background, from Japanese pop and Israeli rock to Beethoven and Brian Eno. Telophaza is a joyful, exuberant work featuring 40 performers interacting with four giant screens. It's a way of blurring the lines between the audience and performers, part of a performance philosophy that often defines his work. "As a spectator, when I watch a performance, I don't think there is a barrier or wall. We all share one space, just different roles."
Naharin brings the audience in - literally, in this case - in the second piece in the festival bill, Mamootot ("mammoth" in Hebrew), by putting them on all four sides of a stage holding an ensemble of only nine dancers. With this intimate placement, everyone is watching everyone else. "When you watch Mamootot, you are being watched. And a good dancer is someone who watches just as much as he is watched."
There is a raw sexual energy to the piece and also a darker intensity - it was the first work he produced after the death of his wife, the long-time Batsheva dancer and collaborator Mari Kajiwara, in 2001. Her death at 50, from cancer, devastated Naharin. He left the company to mourn in private. After an 18-month hiatus, he decided to return.
I broach this subject with some trepidation, asking him how grief and loss affected his creativity. You can almost see him physically withdrawing, his face folding in on itself. "It's difficult," he says finally. "With this being so close to Mari's death, it affected me a lot, it affected the intimacy of the work, how I was with my dancers, how I was with the process of creating the work, how I grew from the experiences, all of it."
Any exploration of his art invariably takes in his politics and I ask him if it's frustrating being seen as some kind of globetrotting, de facto spokesman for the Arab-Israeli conflict. He pulls a droll face, grinning. "I don't think the Israeli Government would want me to be seen as any kind of spokesman."
But perhaps dance is the ideal medium to comment on real-world conflicts; it's a debate that has been given impetus by the recent London debut of William Forsythe's new work, Three Atmospheric Studies, which provides a direct commentary on the Iraq war, right down to depictions of suicide bombers. Naharin says it's fine if "Billy" wants to explore it, but he himself isn't keen. All art comes from passion and he's not passionate enough about politics, he says. "For me, it would be very boring to create a piece directly commenting on political situations. But I'm happy to talk about it. People in Israel know my views."
Is he optimistic about the future? He smiles and nods. "Yes, [Israel's] a pressure cooker, but the people of Batsheva - what unites, the love of what we do, the work that we create - shows that there is beauty that comes out of the country."
There's plenty apart from politics to keep those creative juices flowing. Recent works include a triple bill called Shalosh (Three), which aired on the company's recent tour of the United States, and a smaller work, Furo ("bathtub" in Japanese).
He'll take a short break home in Israel before starting on a new work called Max. I'm curious to know what he does to relax. He grins. "I like to watch trees grow." Really? He nods, smiling. "I meditate all the time. You know, I don't sleep much - it's a known fact that sleep is required more for the brain than the body because the brain needs sleep to dream. But I dream all the time. I dream when I'm awake, when I create work, with my eyes open. So who needs sleep?"
Batsheva Dance Company opens its three-show residency for the Sydney Festival on January 6.
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Meal plan: Chicken cotoletta
Make a weekly meal plan and the whole week is easier. A meal plan organises the week and stops the 'what's for dinner' blues!
Are you drowning in a busy life that isn't even yours? I know I should embrace my children's lives as my own, but when I'm spending most nights and many days schlepping them from one activity to another and the most exciting thing I've done myself is change my toenail polish, I start to get resentful. Especially when said toenail polish change happened in the car while I waited for my son's cricket training to finish. Sigh.
Mondays I do trombone lessons and Cub Scouts. Tuesdays gymnastics, Wednesdays gymnastics and band, Thursdays jazz ballet and swimming and by Friday I tend to just throw back a few whines. Saturday I'm back rallying with a cricket match and yet more gymnastics and Sunday I'm off to cricket training and in-car pedicures. Ah, it's the life, ain't it?
This week will be no different, although you can throw in my mother-in-law's 70th birthday party for 100 at my house on Saturday. We're having an American-style burger 'cook out' with all the 'fixings'… I think. That's going to need some serious planning which I'm sure I'll get around to very, very soon. Wish me luck!
Here's what we're eating up until then…
Meal plan Bron 2
My husband doesn't cook much but he does cook a mean pasta Puttanesca ("whore pasta", as he calls it – I guess he's allowed seeing as he's Italian and all!). Monday nights is a night that we are usually off at Cub Scouts with my boy, but this week there is no Cubs, so I've encouraged him to let the whore out… Image: Ben Dearnley
Sophie put this recipe up on Village Voices over a year ago and I'd never heard of harira soup either. Now it's a staple dinner on a busy weeknight and Tuesday is always a busy weeknight. I use about half the spices she recommends and the kids adore it. I urge you to give it a go. Image: Sophie Hansen
I confess that we are not natural fish eaters and it's a 'health thing' that makes me include at least one fishy dishy a week. On Wednesday I'll be making Sophie's delish fish pie and you can bet there will not be any leftovers. Image: Sophie Hansen
I'm a very lucky lady as my Italian mother-in-law (my suocera) cooks dinner for us all on Thursday nights. She is making chicken schnitzel this week – her recipe is a close-guarded secret, but I reckon this Taste one comes pretty close. Be generous with the Parmesan! Image: Ben Dearnley
Fridays used to be our 'take away' night until I moved it to Sunday. I find myself much less keen to make a big family meal on Sundays than Fridays. That's not to say that Fridays isn't an 'easy cook' night. We often have friends over on Friday afternoons that move into Friday dinners, so planning a big salad and adding a little chicken or fish on the day is a good standby. Image: Mark O'Meara.
Last week's meal plan featured Ella's five favourite dinner options