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Last night was the conclusion of the latest season of The Bachelor, which ended with Sean Lowe (spoiler alert!) proposing to Catherine Giudici. The last episode of the season traditionally features the Bachelor or Bachelorette's family meeting the final two contestants and telling their son/daughter which one they liked better. Sean is a born-again Christian, and he's also a born-again virgin. Though he's had sex in the past, he recommitted to his faith and took a vow of celibacy until marriage. … [Read more...]
I Just Really Wanted to Post This Image from Last Week's Episode of 'Community'
Thanksgiving is in March - if you're season 4 of Community and your episodes are airing way behind schedule, that is. Luckily, the episode was fun of cool stuff and some serious plot development in the form of Jeff's first meeting with his dad. But my personal favorite joke was Shirley (Yvette Nicole Brown)'s apron. I like how Community lets Shirley be devout in her faith without being a jerk or cliche. Plus, Troy (Donald Glover) is a Jehovah's Witness and there roughly zero others on TV. … [Read more...]
Anna Duggar Is Pregnant Again, But Michelle Duggar Isn't
This morning, the entire Duggar family - from mom and dad Jim Bob Duggar and Michelle Duggar down to their youngest kids and grandkids - appeared on the Today show. When the family appears on Today it usually means they're announcing a pregnancy, and today was no exception - Anna Duggar, wife of oldest son Josh Duggar, is expecting her third child. The couple, who are choosing all M names for their kids, already have Mackynzie and Michael.While it's great that Anna and Josh are having … [Read more...]
FGP Celebrity Quote of the Week: Mandy 'Inigo Montoya' Patinkin Talks Faith, Prayer, and Israel
If these musings from Mandy Patinkin, aka Saul from Homeland and Inigo Montoya from The Princess Bride, aren't FGP Celebrity Quote of the Week material, I honestly don't know what is. From Esquire's "What I Learned" feature:"My sense of religion is Einstein's sense of relativity. I don't believe in God. I believe that energy never dies. So the possibility exists that you might be breathing in some other form of Moses or Buddha or Muhammad or Bobby Kennedy or Roosevelt or Martin Luther King … [Read more...]
David and Priscilla Waller Are Having a Baby Boy in March
Earlier this year, I reported that David Waller and Priscilla Keller, the sister and brother-in-law of Anna Duggar whose wedding was featured on 19 Kids and Counting, were expecting their first child. Well, the Kellers have updated their blog and let everyone know the sex (boy) and due date (March 9) of their baby.I really like David and Priscilla on the show, mostly because I like how all my commenters speculate about David's sexuality. But overall, I find the Keller family much less … [Read more...]
TLC's New Reality Show 'The Sisterhood' Is Like 'Real Housewives' With Pastors' Wives
TLC really loves its reality shows about religious groups - they already produce Sister Wives and 19 Kids and Counting, both of which I enjoy covering exhaustively. They also produced the controversial-yet-extremely-boring Muslim in America, which got cancelled more because of the boredom than the controversy. Next up: a show called The Sisterhood, which is about a group of pastors' wives in Atlanta. The show premieres January 1.The concept of the show seems to be The Real Preacherwives. … [Read more...]
Lisa Welchel Makes It to Final Six on 'Survivor' and Gets a Visit from Her Pastor Brother
Former Facts of Life star Lisa Whelchel joined the cast of this year's Survivor, effectively launching her comeback. But how is the newly-divorced evangelical Christian doing on the show?Last week, another Survivor was voted off, leaving Lisa as one of the top six finalists. She's not the only famous face in the group - former Survivor Michael Skupin is there too, and retired baseball player Jeff Kent was voted off two weeks ago.Later on in the show, contestants often compete to win … [Read more...]


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Anandan, C and William Grips, VK and Rajam, KS and Jayaram, V and Bera, P (2002) Investigation of surface composition of electrodeposited black chrome coatings by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy. Applied Surface Science, 191 (1amp;4). pp. 254-260.Full text available as:
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Solar selective black chromium coating was electrodeposited on pre-treated electroformed nickel substrates from a hexavalent chromium containing bath. The composition of the film was investigated before and after annealing at 400xB0;C for different durations. In the as-deposited condition, the surface of the film was found to have trivalent chromium hydroxide and chromium in the chromate form contrary to previous studies which report the presence of hydroxides and metallic chromium. However in the present study, no evidence for metallic chromium was found. The major component, chromium hydroxide, was converted to Cr2O3 on annealing at 400xB0;C with the loss of water vapor. The chromate form remains but with a lowered concentration. xA9; 2002 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
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Without clients Les Enfants are idle. Our maggots cast out into the depths of the internet, we wait for a bite. When the water ripples we yank hard on our rods and reel in whatever inquisitive beast has taken a bite.
Sometimes it's a corporate trout, other times it's an independent tiddler. Les Enfants could not care less, we're always hungry.


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A nagging lack of overall confidence in the economy coupled with concern about wobbly world prices for metals is expected to keep the pace of corporate mergers in Canada over the next year slow, Bay Street lawyers say.
That doesn't mean veteran deal makers at some of the country's most prestigious business law firms say they have been left idle.
They point to activity outside the dominant resources sector, such as the recent spate of retail deals.
And they say that many potential deals, particularly in the resource sector, are worked on for months, only to be put on hold by nervous buyers – a situation few see improving until commodities prices stabilize. This despite companies with ample supplies of cash and credit.
"There are a lot of deals that are looked at very closely and that ultimately don't see the light of day," said lawyer Jeff Lloyd of Blake Cassels & Graydon LLP. "Buyers do remain cautious."
What is to blame in the resources sector is the so-called "value gap," as buyers are reluctant to pull the trigger on deals based on commodity prices that could sink suddenly, and sellers are unwilling to let their assets go at steep discounts.
Getting around this problem is one key focus of a report from Torys LLP on mergers-and-acquisitions trends for the next year.
It says the tough environment has been spurring "innovative deal practices," such as a more widespread use of what are known as "contingent value rights" – or provisions that try to bridge the gap between what buyers are willing to pay and sellers are willing to accept.
John Emanoilidis of Torys LLP says the idea, commonly called "earnouts" in the acquisition of private companies, allows sellers to receive additional payments if the company hits certain performance benchmarks.
With public companies, shares in the new company can be handed over, but with arrangements called "collars," which entitle shareholders to compensate them if the shares sink below a certain price.
"On transactions that we've been involved in, it has come up as a possible bridge," Mr. Emanoilidis said, adding that they are common in pharmaceutical deals where the effectiveness of a promising drug is not yet known, but could be used in other sectors such as resources.
The M&A report from his firm also highlights other trends, including increasing shareholder activism.
And it punctures the idea that the federal Competition Bureau, seen to have more aggression in recent years, has been slowing down deals. According to the Torys report, the watchdog's reviews have been taking less time on average, not more.
Lawyers also say new, but unconventional, potential buyers are also showing interest Canadian mining companies: U.S. private equity funds.
"They are all kicking the tires, they are looking at operating assets," said lawyer Shea Small of McCarthy Tétrault LLP, who adds that private equity funds are hiring mining experts and looking at mines that have been put up for sale as the sector retrenches.
But without a change in commodity markets, few Bay Street lawyers expect dramatically more merger activity in Canada overall over the next year, given the dominance of the resource sector.
Still, David Woollcombe, a colleague of Mr. Small's at McCarthy, expects activity across a wide variety of industries, and cites banking as a potential bright spot: "There's lots of signs of life beyond resources."Report Typo/Error
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A native of Sulphur Springs now stationed with the U.S. Air Force in Germany and her family lost virtually all their possessions in a fire at their home Tuesday.
Genevieva Michellea Fly, the daughter of George and Audrey Greenway of Sulphur Springs, and her husband and daughter are living in a hotel while they try to patch their lives back together, her father said today.
"It's awful," George Greenway said. "We don't even know what to do."
Genevieva Greenway graduated from Sulphur Springs High School in 1994. After working as a waitress at TaMolly's, she joined the Air Force in 1996, where she met her husband, Bill Fly. They have one daughter, Madison, 8.
The family is stationed at Ramstein Air Base in Germany, where Genevieva is a technical sergeant specializing in computer security. Her husband works for "Stars and Stripes," shuttling between Iraq and Germany every three months.
The fire that occurred Tuesday afternoon at the home they rented destroyed virtually everything they owned, George Greenway said. Initial assessments indicate the only salvageable items are a bookshelf and a dining table.
The family dog somehow survived, but a pet cat perished in the flames.
"Her daughter is just distraught over it," George Greenway said.
He said he and his wife had planned to fly to Germany for a visit next month. He said they had to cancel those plans, incurring an $800 cancellation charge on the $1,600 travel package from a local travel agency.
He described his daughter as a "really good person."
"She's like her Mama — she volunteers for everything," he said. "It's a bad thing to happen to a good person."
Mr. Greenway said anyone who wants more information can call him or his wife at 903-885-2075.
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Africa is in the midst of a renaissance. The telecommunications sector is on pace to have as many mobile phones on the continent as there are people by 2016. A highly educated and vocal diaspora is contributing its intelligence to the online human archive via social media and fuelling the continent's economy to the tune of $50-billion in annual remittances. A smattering of African countries head the list of top 10 fastest growing economies in the world. And let's not overlook the fact that 300 million Africans are knocking on the door to middle-class status.
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They know full well that the stimulative effect of the reduction creates jobs, too.
They say publicly, as Senator Jon Kyl does in this clip, that the reduction has not had a stimulative effect.
It will necessarily be years before such projects will have a stimulative effect on growth.
For spending to be stimulative it must bring forth economic activity that otherwise would not have taken place.
This has had a stimulative effect on the logging business, for now the logger is independent of the snow.
It introduces us to some of our most agreeable and stimulative friendships.
The modus operandi of these stimulative agents is not yet fully understood.
At least they have exercised a helpful and stimulative influence.
A comprehensive list of questions, stimulative of thought, is appended.
The air was new, it was stimulative, it recharged me with buoyant youth.


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Think Progress Slams Conservative Bloggers for Citing a Mere Weatherman on Climate Issues, Yet It Cites a Politician Over a ClimatologistThe ridiculous Think Progress is slamming John Coleman for expressing his opinion on climate change because -- get this -- Coleman is a just a weatherman:
The conservative blogosphere is pushing Coleman's junk science today. Matt Drudge links to NewsBusters' "marvelous" take on Coleman this morning. Red State [sic], Qando [sic], Sister Toldjah, and the Free Republic also join in by approvingly linking to Coleman's piece.Think Progress doesn't believe a mere "weatherman" should speak his mind on climate, but...
The right wing should check Coleman's credentials before touting his "scientific" work. As Coleman admits, his "expertise" is in weather — not climate change science. In fact, he "has been a TV weatherman since he was a freshman in college in 1953."
...as recently as November 5, Think Progress promoted the climate views of a politician over those of a bona fide climatologist:
This morning, former vice president Al Gore appeared on NBC's Today Show to talk about global warming. Host Meredith Vieira brought up a Nov. 1 Wall Street Journal op-ed by climate skeptic John Christy, a former member of the IPCC. In the op-ed, Christy wrote, "I see neither the developing catastrophe nor the smoking gun proving that human activity is to blame for most of the activity we see."Christy has a B.A. in mathematics and an M.S. and Ph.D. in atmospheric sciences. Gore earned a degree in government and then attended divinity school and law school.
When Vieira asked about the op-ed, Gore noted that Christy "no longer belongs to the IPCC" and is "way outside the scientific consensus." He also sharply criticized the media for giving so much air time to such climate skeptics...
As Gore noted, scientists such as Christy are outliers, yet the media continue to give them an overblown amount of airtime. Last month, for example, Colorado State University professor Dr. William Gray sharply criticized Gore, saying that he is "brainwashing our children" on global warming.
If conservative bloggers are foolish for citing a mere weatherman on climate issues, what does that make a website that cites a politician?
The headline for the Think Progress piece, by the way, is "Right Wing Trumpets Global Warming Denial Of Discredited 'TV Weatherman.'" When was Coleman "discredited"?
I'm wondering if the Think Progress staff just made that part up.
Full Disclosure: I cited meterologist John Coleman's remarks yesterday, and would do it again.
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PHILADELPHIA – The NCAA released the first of three Coaches Panels today, highlighting the top 33 wrestlers in each weight class as voted on by the nation's head coaches. Penn has six wrestlers featured in the first Coaches Panel – each in either their first or second year as collegiate competitors.
The Quakers are third among the 18 members of the EIWA in terms of grapplers ranked inside the Top-33 at their respective weights, trailing Cornell (nine) and Lehigh (seven) in the first ranking period. No other EIWA school has more than five wrestlers ranked inside the Top-33.
Leading the way for Penn is No. 13 Lorenzo Thomas at 184 pounds. The 2012 Ivy League Rookie of the Year is 16-6 this season with seven wins by fall and 12 total wins with bonus points. Thomas is 3-4 against Top-33 opponents to this point in 2013-14, with the four losses coming to wrestlers inside the top-10 (No. 1, No. 2 No. 7 and No. 10). Thomas has wins over No. 11, No. 21 and No. 33 to his credit, with three remaining matches left on his schedule against Top-33 opponents – including No.3 Gabe Dean of Cornell.
No. 19 Casey Kent is Penn's second wrestler inside the top-20, entering this weekend with a 12-4 record. One of four EIWA grapplers ranked between No. 13-19, Kent is 3-3 against Top-33 opponents, with his losses by a combined five points and his wins by a combined 14 points. Kent will have plenty of chances to improve his ranking, with four scheduled matches remaining against wrestlers inside the Top-33.
No. 24 Frank Mattiace is one of two true freshmen in the Coaches Panel for the Quakers, entering with a 13-7 record. Mattiace is 2-5 against Top-33 opponents this season, including a 12-4 major decision over No. 8 Christian Boley of Maryland. Mattiace has three Top-33 matches remaining on his schedule, highlighted by a meeting with No. 15 Brandon Palik of Drexel in the season's final dual on Feb. 22.
Another true freshman, Caleb Richardson, ranks No. 27 in the opening Coaches Panel of the 2013-14 season. Richardson is 2-6 against Top-33 opponents, including a split of two matches with No. 22 Anthony Zanetta of Pittsburgh. Out last week with injury. Richardson should return this weekend and has a looming match with No. 1 Nahshon Garrett of Cornell on Feb. 1.
No. 30 Jeff Canfora is one of seven EIWA wrestlers ranked inside the Top-33 at 141 pounds. Canfora is 13-8 this season, with wins in six of his last seven matches. He has yet to pick up a win in four tries against opponents inside the Top-33, with the four losses by a combined 10 points and three by two points or less. Canfora has three dates circled on his calendar to test himself inside the Top-33, including No. 8 Mike Nevinger of Cornell on Feb. 1.
Ray Bethea rounds out Penn's six-pack of Top-33 wrestlers, sliding in at No. 30 at 157 pounds. 14-6 this season, Bethea is one of seven EIWA wrestlers ranked at 157. He has wrestled five matches against Top-33 opponents to this point, all inside the top seven. In those bouts, Bethea is 1-4, with a split in two bouts with No. 6 Nestor Taffur of Boston University – the highest-ranked EIWA grappler at the weight.
The Quakers (4-3) host Army this weekend, taking on the Black Knights on Jan. 26 inside The Palestra at 1 p.m.
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Doubts Linger as Council Prepares to Vote on CPS Energy Rate Hike Request
San Antonio City Council will take a vote this week on whether to jack up your electric bills, and at least one member of council is not convinced that the utility has properly justified the rate hike request, 1200 WOAI news reports.
"We do want to invest in capital projects and make sure our system works well, but I also want to make sure our system stays efficient," Northeast side Councilman Carlton Soules said.
CPS Energy has been fighting for months to win approval of the rate increase, which the utility says is needed to meet the up front costs of new growth, especially n the city's north side. CPS Energy says the costs of building new substations and stringing new electric lines is not offset by the revenue coming in from new customers.
But a wide array of opponents has criticized CPS Energy for alleged inefficiency. The utility has responded by making significant cuts in an executive bonus program, and agreeing to use that money to improve its Residential Energy Assistance Program for low income households.
But Soules says all of the actions by CPS Energy have only dug the utility a deeper hole.
"As I dig into it and look at all the questions we need to be asking, they just raise more questions," he said. "I am not sold yet."
Soules says it wants the utility to do more to justify its massive and controversial investment in solar energy. The utility has partnered with several firms who are building large solar plants around town. Soules says he wants to know 'the direct impact to customers' of the solar power investment, so they can decide if the solar energy commitment justifies paying a higher monthly rate for electricity.


text: Some Other Place was founded in 1968 by the local religious community to meet the unfulfilled emergency needs of the poor and "hurting" residents of the Beaumont community. When no one could help, they were told they had to go to some other place...thus, the name Some Other Place. It allows people to have somewhere to go when all else fails. All S.O.P. services are offered at no charge to the recipient.


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THE number of former Burnley players managing Football League clubs has reached nine after Tony Philliskirk was put in temporary charge of Oldham Athletic.
Philliskirk is Oldham's head of youth but is taking first-team training as the Latics search for a new manager following the exit of Paul Dickov at the weekend.
The 47-year-old scored nine goals in 49 matches for Burnley between 1994 and 1995 and is likely to take charge of Oldham for their League One match at home to Yeovil tonight, with an appointment yet to be made at Boundary Park.
Philliskirk's new role follows the recent rise of Brian Flynn from scout to manager at Doncaster.
The 57-year-old was a popular figure at Turf Moor during two spells at the club and was recently put in charge of Doncaster until the end of the season following Dean Saunders' departure to Wolves.
He took over a side second in League One, in contrast to his previous Football League jobs with Wrexham and with a Swansea side then battling to avoid relegation to the Conference.
"It's better than the last two jobs and where I started there," Flynn admitted about his new job, having left his role with the Welsh FA last summer.
"I'm enjoying it, it's a great place to be.
"I took up the international role for eight years, working with elite talented players, playing against European sides like France, Italy, Germany on a regular basis and pitting my wits against them at different age groups.
"Travelling all the way round Europe and looking at different styles, tactics, the way they train – I've picked up many things."
In temporary charge at Huddersfield is former Burnley youth team player Steve Eyre along with Mark Lillis. Eyre, 40, never made a first-team appearance for the Clarets but went on to manage Rochdale in 2011.
Blackpool are currently being led by ex-Burnley midfielder Steve Thompson, who is said to be hoping to get the job on a full-time basis following Michael Appleton's departure.
In League One, Steve Davis has guided Crewe to 12th after being on the shortlist for the vacancy at Turf Moor earlier this season. But Scunthorpe, with Brian Laws back in charge for a second spell, sit third bottom.
In League Two, Mark Yates' Cheltenham are well placed for promotion in third position.
Graham Alexander has taken 13 points from his first nine games in charge at Fleetwood, who are in ninth place. Paul Cook's Chesterfield are in 11th position.


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I had breast augmentation surgery last Tuesday. I was a 34 A and wished to be a C or D cup. My consultant advised me that it was achievable, and I would need to go for a 260cc silicone over the pectorals for a C-cup, or 300cc submuscular for a D-cup. I decided to go for the 260 cc in case I would go too large.
However, after the surgery I thought I looked rather small still. I had been professionally measured at 2 different places, and both agree that I am still only a B-cup, albeit a large B-cup. I feel really disappointed with the end result, even before it was confirmed with measurement. My partner maintains that after I've fully recovered and come the summertime, I will be happy with the end result. However, I'm so annoyed that I have had to go through all the surgery, pain, and upheaval (not to mention to be thouasands of pounds out of pocket), supposedly to make me feel so much happier with the way I look.
My partner thinks that I'll be able to put a padded push-up bra to gain the desired effect, but that's missing the point of me deciding to go through breast surgery, right? I'm meeting with a patient advisor and consultant next week. I really am not happy with the smaller than anticipated size, and do not think that I should have to put up with the size and use push-up bras to try to achieve the desired effect I was wishing to attain. How should I approach this with the consultant, and what will I be able to achieve? Would I be able to have the procedure repeated to, so I can achieve my desired full C-cup?


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Simply put, gestures are a problem with the Metro UI. Here's how the UI expert Jakob Nielsen put it in a post last November:
The tablet version of Windows 8 introduces a bunch of complicated gestures that are easy to get wrong and thus dramatically reduce the UI's learnability. If something doesn't work, users don't know whether they did the gesture wrong, the gesture doesn't work in the current context, or they need to do a different gesture entirely. This makes it hard to learn and remember the gestures. And it makes actual use highly error-prone and more time-consuming than necessary.
As an extreme example, Nielsen mentions the gesture to reveal the list of currently running applications, which requires a sort of finger pirouette. Me, I find creating a new group of tiles a little taxing. The first step -- dragging a tile all the way to the right until a gray bar appears -- can be tricky. Nor would I have randomly guessed that zooming out and swiping down would serve up an option to name that group.
I could go on. Few users seem to like the Metro version of IE10 and its minimalist UI with URLs arbitrarily on the bottom. Fewer still like the Metro Xbox Music app. Plus, Bing gets pushed in your face a lot, and as CITEworld's Matt Rosoff pointed out recently, Bing still can't hold a candle to Google search.
There's more, but it's not necessary to the obvious conclusion: Metro itself is an inhibitor to Windows 8 adoption, not just the mashup of Metro and desktop.
Tweaks and promises
Windows 8.1 (aka Windows "Blue") addresses some of the drawbacks -- for example, 8.1 adds the ability to sort tiles by most used, date, and category. Of course IE11 is on its way, along with improvements to other fundamental Metro apps, including the Xbox Music app.
To be fair, I have little doubt that some of the resistance to Metro is simply because the UI is truly new. Microsoft partisans shriek loudly that those who refuse to spend time learning their way around Metro are simply Luddites who are too blind to see the beauty of a fabulously fresh UI.
Perhaps. But to get users to climb any learning curve, you need a reward at the end of the rainbow. Today, Metro apps do not exactly amount to a pot of gold -- and as yet we've seen little sign that third-partly developers will flock to a platform that has yet to prove itself in the marketplace.
This article, "Is Microsoft's Modern UI the real problem?," originally appeared at InfoWorld.com. Read more of Eric Knorr's Modernizing IT blog. And for the latest business technology news, follow InfoWorld on Twitter.


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Steelers hold off Chiefs in overtime with a win on Monday Night Football
The Chiefs did all the celebrating, and they lost. The Steelers gutted out a win, but they might not know for days whether there is truly reason to celebrate.
With Ben Roethlisberger missing most of the second half with a right shoulder injury, and the Steelers in danger of losing to an inferior team that hadn't led in regulation all season, Lawrence Timmons' interception on the second play of overtime set up Shaun Suisham's 23-yard field goal and a 16-13 win over the Kansas City Chiefs on Monday night.
Timmons' pickoff of a Matt Cassel pass intended for Dwayne Bowe — James Harrison called it a "big time play" — was the Chiefs' NFL-leading 30th turnover, and it cost them badly, much like most of the previous 29 did.
"Every year at the end of the season, you look at a couple of games and say, 'We should have lost those,'" linebacker Larry Foote said. "We pulled this one out … but we never make it easy. We like it hard."
Suisham put them ahead, 13-10, early in the fourth quarter with a 31-yarder, but Ryan Succop tied it with a 46-yarder on the final play of regulation after Cassel hit Bowe for 27 yards on fourth-and-15. Those were the only points allowed after halftime by the Steelers, who have given up only 18 points in the second half during their four-game winning streak.
Cassel said of the interception, "I was throwing the curl, and unfortunately one of the defensive linemen deflected it a little bit, and it came off and went in a direction I didn't want it to go."
What direction the Steelers (6-3) are headed — winning streak or not — might be determined by Roethlisberger's injury.
The Steelers didn't immediately reveal the severity of the injury or how long Roethlisberger might be out, though it seemed his shoulder might be sprained or separated. A sprain would be less worrisome. He is expected to undergo an MRI.
"Any time your quarterback is hurt, you're worried," receiver Mike Wallace said.
"It scares you," left guard Willie Colon said. "Hopefully it's not as bad as they're talking about."
Asked what he first thought when he knew Roethlisberger was hurt, James Harrison said, "When is he coming back?"
That's a question of all Steelerdom will be asking this week. And safety Ryan Clark might have his second concussion in a month, too.
Backup quarterback Byron Leftwich played for the first time in 22 months, and was rusty at first before hitting Emmanuel Sanders on a 31-yard dart that led to the second of Suisham's three field goals. Suisham, who is 20 of 21 this season, also hit a 35-yarder.
The Chiefs led — those words hadn't been written all season — 10-0 in the second quarter after the Steelers came out playing like they were looking ahead to their AFC North showdown against the Ravens (7-2) on Sunday at Heinz Field.
"You're focused on this game, but in the back of your head you may have been (looking ahead)," Harrison said.
Kansas City outgained the Steelers, 290-249, as Jamaal Charles ran for 100 yards. Cassel, back in the lineup because Brady Quinn has a concussion, was 11 of 26 for 154 yards with his league-leading 19th turnover and 12th interception.
The Steelers had a 100-yard rusher in their previous three games, but with Jonathan Dwyer held to 56 yards and Isaac Redman to 21 a week after gaining 147 against the Giants, they were outrushed, 142-95.
The Chiefs' 10-0 lead could have been a lot more, and it ended up costing them; they managed only a Succop field goal after recovering a Redman fumble inside the 10. And Succop later missed a 33-yarder at Heinz Field's tricky open end, shortly after an apparent Cassel to Bowe touchdown was nullified by a holding call.
"We were already celebrating and moving on," Cassel said. "It was unfortunate to have seven points taken off the board."
The Chiefs (1-8) truly were the Chiefs at a time they could have secured one of the season's biggest upsets.
"Turnovers are killing them," Foote said. "They shouldn't be 1-8."
A few minutes later, a 15-yard excessive celebration penalty kept a Steelers drive going. That play began with the ball tumbling out of Leftwich's arm on a pass attempt and the Chiefs' Justin Houston returning what he thought was a fumble for a touchdown.
The call was quickly reversed upon review — Leftwich's right arm was going forward — but there was a minute of anxious nervousness on the Steelers' sideline because a near-identical play by Roethlisberger last week in New York was ruled to be a fumble.
It certainly wasn't pretty, but the Steelers had just enough to get by a team that hasn't had nearly enough of anything all season despite going 10-6 only two years ago under Todd Haley, now the Steelers' offensive coordinator.
"We're not going to apologize for the win," receiver Jerricho Cotchery said. "It's in the W column, where it's supposed to be."
All week, Steelers players said they wanted to win this one for Haley in the worst possible way. And they did, even as they won their 15th in a row at home on Monday night, a streak that dates to 1991. They are 4-0 at Heinz Field this season.
Roethlisberger was a pedestrian 9 of 18 for 84 yards before leaving early in the third quarter after being sandwiched by Houston and Tamba Hali on a third-and-4. He went to the locker room, clutching his arm; in training camp, he disclosed he had a slightly torn labrum.
"Any time you don't see him, you know it's serious," Wallace said.
Roethlisberger's only completion to a wide receiver in the first half — he focused almost exclusively on his tight ends — was a 7-yard fade to Wallace for a touchdown 3:16 before halftime.
The Steelers never found the end zone again. But neither did the Chiefs, who celebrated every sack, every moderate gain, every nullified touchdown as if they had something to cheer about. As usual, they didn't.
Right now, the Steelers don't know if they do, either.


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Wendy and Lucy
With earnest hopes for a fresh start, Wendy Carroll (Michelle Williams) sets her sights on a high-paying job at an Alaska cannery. But her journey takes a heartbreaking detour when her beloved dog, Lucy, goes missing and her car decides to conk out in Oregon. There was a time when Wendy had nothing to lose, but now she could lose everything. Kelly Reichardt directs this nuanced drama that was nominated for a Best Feature Independent Spirit Award.


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It's a question that can cause tension and tears in a circle of home-school moms in a Bible Belt church fellowship hall.It's a question that can have the same jarring impact in a circle of feminist mothers in a Manhattan coffee shop.Here it is: Will you buy your daughter a Barbie doll? Other questions follow in the wake of this one, linked to clothes, self esteem, cellphones, makeup, reality TV shows and the entire commercialized princess culture.The Barbie question is not uniquely … [Read more...]
God, Barbies and girlie girls
Twin rocking chairs for ELCA gays
There was no way for the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America to affirm the ministries of clergy living in "publicly accountable, lifelong, monogamous, same-gender relationships" without attracting attention.After all, debates about the Bible and sexuality had rocked America's largest Lutheran flock since it was born in 1988 through the merger of three older Lutheran denominations. Similar fights have caused bitter divisions among Episcopalians, Presbyterians, United Methodists and other … [Read more...]
United Methodists do the math
From coast to coast, United Methodists are doing the math.America's third-largest flock just survived another quadrennial General Conference rocked by media-friendly fighting over sex. Now it's time to dissect the numbers.Delegates voted 570-334 to affirm the historic doctrines of the Christian faith.Efforts to back laws defining "marriage as the union of one man and one woman" passed on a 624-184 vote. Same-sex union rites fell -- 756-159. Should the church delete its "faithfulness in marriage … [Read more...]
Boomer bishops on the rise
Some of the lessons Father Kevin Martin learned in seminary have faded with time, but he remembers when the future Episcopal priests were taken to see Catherine Deneuve play a Paris prostitute in the soft-porn "Belle de Jour." The late 1960s were heady times at Yale University's Berkeley Divinity School, he said. The sexual revolution inspired people in clerical collars to do things that, today, would turn a sexual-harassment attorney into a pillar of salt."It was the spirit of the day," said … [Read more...]
Faith Crisis in Blogosphere
The news from Rome infuriated the most quotable Catholic, gay, HIV-positive, political conservative in cyberspace.But Andrew Sullivan knew where to find comfort after the Vatican's recent reminder that gay unions are in no way "similar or even remotely analogous to God's plan for marriage and family." He poured out his frustration at www.andrewsullivan.com and his online community responded."Times are terrible," wrote a Catholic priest. "The church says gay people are not permitted to get … [Read more...]


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For Mr. Spock.
Ugh, I really dont want to write this opening paragraph. Seriously, can I skip it? I just spent a whole day researching and writing this column and Im bad enough at these intros as is. Dont be surprised if I just turn this opening into one giant pop culture reference that makes a Community episode look like a regular NBC sitcom. Fuck, its happening already! And this is after I worked so hard to make this column serious, serious, and even more serious. Just kidding. Or am I? Does it show I dont care about this opening paragraph?
But enough about the struggle being real, nows the fun part. For this ColuMania Battle Royal event that Im showing up really late for, I decided to abandon the creative column spree Ive been on and do a good old fashioned Cult Tribute. The idea, in fact, came to me thanks to this thread in the General Wrestling section of the forum called the Mt. Rushmore of Wrestling. Basically, youre deciding which four wrestlers will have their heads carved into a massive mountain that will eventually serve as the climax for North By Northwest and that Family Guy episode with Mel Gibson (Theres a dog turd in here!). While I was thinking about who would be on my wrestling Rushmore, I started to think outside of the box, because hey, a Rushmore of Hogan, Rock, Austin or Cena/Flair is the easiest, most boring Rushmore you can think of. And thats when I remembered a name I had read about before in the Death of WCW; he hadnt actually wrestled in WCW, but he was someone that Bryan Alvarez and R.D. Reynolds made a point to bring up as someone who was such a massive draw that he became bigger than wrestling in his homeland of Mexico. More importantly though, it didnt appear that his story was one well known outside of Mexico, and well, you know how much I love to tell stories about the little known stars of wrestling. So thus, after a day of research, I present to you this story about an icon, a legend, a hero. May I introduce to you the greatest wrestler that you never knew existed, the one and only, El Santo.
The man who would become El Santo was born Rodolfo Guzmán Huerta on September 23rd, 1917 in Tulancingo, Hildago, Mexico. The fifth of seven children (hot damn), Huerta would spend most of his youth interested in spots like American football and baseball. By early adulthood however, he fell in love with professional wrestling, and after training in both Ju-Jitsu and classical mat wrestling would debut in the mid 1930s (the date of his debut is up for debate). Much like Hulk Hogans early career in the states, success didnt find the man who would go on to become one of the biggest icons in Mexican history. From 1936 to 1942, Huerta would wrestle under four different names; Rudy Guzmán, El Hombre Rojo, El Demonio Negro and El Murcielago II. Each run produced little to no fanfare, and Huerta was even forced to drop one of the names (El Murcielago) after the original owner of the name complained to the Mexican boxing and wrestling commission. For all intents and purposes, Huertas career looked to be over, leaving him nothing more than a footnote of Lucha Libres dawning days.
Things would change in the spring of 1942, when the then 24 year old Huerta was approached by wrestling manager Don Jesús Lomelí with a proposal. Looking to put together a group of villainous masked wrestlers dressed in silver, Lomelí asked Huerta to join. Recently married and not ready to give up on his dream, Huerta accepted the offer. Lomelí would then give Huerta three choices for his new name; El Diablo, El Angel, and finally El Santo. Huerta quickly chose El Santo, believing its meaning (El Santo translated to English is The Saint) was the perfect contrast to his role as a rudo (heel). In the long list of great decisions, Huertas choice of names lists right up there with the Bulls taking Michael Jordan in the 1983 draft, David Finchers casting of Rooney Mara in the Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, and Vince McMahon choosing Roman Reigns to win the 2015 Royal Rumble (just kidding. Or am I?).
Huerta would wrestle for the first time as El Santo on June 26th, 1942, winning an eight man battle royal in Mexico City. Despite his status as a rudo, fans immediately fell in love with Santo due his mysterious personality and his masked appearance. More importantly however, Santo caught the eye of Salvador Lutteroth, the creator of Mexicos first major promotion Empresa Mexicana de la Lucha Libre (EMLL) and man considered to be the Father of Lucha Libre. Immediately seeing the response the fans gave El Santo, Lutteroth immediately moved to make Santo a big star, including the brilliant tactic of having Santo go everywhere wearing his silver mask. The decision only helped fuel Santos popularity, and aside from his final public appearance before his death in 1984, the public never saw him without his silver mask on. The influence of Lutteroth decision is still felt today, as many masked wrestlers in Mexico (including Santos own son) do not appear in public without their masks on.
Over the course of the next 35 plus years, Santo would become the face of wrestling in Mexico and Lucha Libre, helping to establish EMLL as one of the biggest wrestling promotions in the world. Seriously, the way we see WWE right now is the way EMLL was during Santos massive run. He would win a total of twelve championships (most notably becoming the first ever NWA World Welterweight Champion, a title still defended today), and is listed as having spent over 6,500 total days as a champion. That would make him a champion for over seventeen years of his legendary run, a number that is likely higher as his reigns as Mexican Tag Team Champions with Ray de Jalisco were for an unknown amount of days. However, Santos most famous exploits in the ring didnt involve titles.
El Santo and his greatest rival, Blue Demon
In 1952, a still villainous Santo (yes, despite being the most popular guy he was still technically a rudo! The dude was the original smart mark choice!) would engage in a heated rivalry with the popular Black Shadow, culminating in a Luchas de Apuestas match (mask vs. mask) on November 7th. In what is still considered one of the greatest matches in Lucha Libre history, Santo would defeat and unmask Shadow, shocking the Lucha Libre world. More importantly though, it also drew the ire of Blue Demon (who yes, was father of Lucha Underground star Blue Demon Jr). Also a rudo at the time, Blue Demon was so angered by Santos actions that he would turn technico (face) and target Santo. For over a year, the two would face off in a series of high profile matches, with Blue Demon coming out victorious each time. The significance of this is major; while Santo lost his fair share of matches over his career, he generally came out on top of every rivalry. Not this one; Blue Demon was the Cardinals to his Cubs, and he was never able to entirely get the better of him. Wisely, EMLL used that to their advantage of the next couple of decades, and thus the Santo-Blue Demon rivalry never entirely died down and produced more enticing stories going forward.
Despite coming out on the losing end, the feud would firmly establish Santo as an icon both in and out of the ring. Not long after his battles with Blue Demon ended, Santo became the star of writer Jose G. Cruzs Santo comic book, a series that would run for over thirty years. Yes, long before Warrior was releasing his awful comic, Santo was having his (apparently quite good) comic released. Go figure. He would also become immortalized on the big screen, first as the inspiration for the film The Man in the Silver Mask (Santo declined to appear in the film) and then later as a film star himself. From 1958 on, Santo appeared in over 52 Lucha Libre films, mostly starring with many of his fellow luchadores. To the shock of no one, Santo wasnt exactly The Rock and most of his films were low budget B-Movies; even his most famous film, a horror film called Santo vs la Mujeres Vampiro (translated to Samson vs. The Vampire Women) is mostly known due to its appearance on the wonderful show Mystery Science Theater 3000. Never the less, Santos films generally made good money at the box office, and he continued to both make movies and wrestle up to his retirement in 1982. Note to Hayden Christensen and Paulie Shore; evidently putting on a mask helps hide your flaws and makes mad money at the box office. Might be something to look into dudes!
Poster of El Santo's most famous film Santo vs la Mujeres Vampiro
Following a grand retirement tour in 1982, Santos health pretty much all but deteriorated, despite being in his mid 60s and in decent shape. I dont know if it was a case of Santo being unable to let go of wrestling, but he never recovered from his failing health and died of a heart attack two years after his retirement on February 5th, 1984. Thousands upon thousands ended up attending his funeral, and fittingly, Santo was buried wearing the silver mask that had made him the hero all those years ago. He was survived by at least one wife and ten children, including his youngest son Jorge Guzmán Rodríguez, who wrestles in Mexico to this day as El Hijo del Santo (Son of the Saint).
Best Moment
While the Blue Demon feud may have been the most profitable run of Santos career, the one thing that constantly stands out in everything you read is the mask vs. mask match between him and Black Shadow. This match may in fact be the greatest match in wrestling history that no one ever remembers; its considered to have re-established the importance of the mask in Mexican wrestling and was so anticipated that several thousands had to be turned away from the door (Lutteroth is said to have created the legendary Arena Mexico in order to make sure everyone could attend shows). Not only that, but the match went 70 minutes. Thats right, 70 MINUTES! Imagine Hulk Hogan and Andre the Giant at Wrestlemania III, only if it had been an hour and ten minute classic. Thats how big Santo-Black Shadow was for wrestling in Mexico, for EMLL and for the two men involved. Without it, Santo may not get the comic book or the movie roles that helped enhance his legend tenfold. Its a damn shame theres no video of this match; Id pay big money to see it.
The legacy of El Santo is one that, quite frankly, I dont think I could even put in words. Here in the states, most of us fans like to think of Hulk Hogan as a cultural icon, a larger than life persona that transcended professional wrestling. Not only did El Santo do the same in Mexico, it appears he did it to a greater extent. For almost four decades, el Enmascarado de Plata (the Silver-Masked One) sold out arenas, movie theaters, comic book shelves and helped pioneer what Lucha Libre and the masked wrestler means in Mexcio. But more than that, he became a folk hero, an almost mythical character the likes of which I cant even fathom another wrestler becoming. It endures today in Mexico; statues of El Santo stand in several cities in Mexico, several movies and TV shows have been made in his honor and his youngest son, El Hijo del Santo, has continued his fathers legacy with an outstanding career of his own in and out of the ring (do yourself a favor and watch him and Octagon vs Eddie Guerrero and Art Barr from When Worlds Collide 1994). This isnt to knock Hulk Hogans status; he has sold out arenas, movies and many other things along the way himself. But, perhaps because hes still alive, I know so much about him or due to his sometimes spotty backstage reputation, there appears to be a limit to how far Hogans legacy can go. I dont see that with El Santo; his legend is limitless in Mexico, where the mystique and mysteriousness that made the character popular continue enthrall fans young and old.
If thats not a good enough explanation for how massive a name El Santo was, then the best I can do is this. Wherever his spirit may be right now, I truly hope Rodolfo Guzmán Huerta is proud of the legacy he created. He created something in El Santo that has lived on long after his days, and will continue to live on long after even his sons days. But more importantly, he accomplished it all doing, what it appears to me at least, the number one thing he loved to do in life. Now thats pretty cool.
Thatll do it guys. Hope you enjoyed this look at a wrestling legend. Ill be back someday. Till then, may we all live long and prosper, kick out the jams, watch Watchmen: The Ultimate Cut, always have an escape plan, tell your mother you love Paige (no questions, JUST DO IT!), know there are actually pictures online of the iceberg that sunk Titanic, get me a fucking Pepsi, and dont ask questions when you see DUCHOVNY staring up at the sky in your yard.
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CLERMONT — As if educating kids weren't enough of a challenge, some Hall County schools have to worry about more mundane matters, such as treating their own sewage.
Wauka Mountain Elementary School, near Clermont, was recently cited by the Georgia Environmental Protection Division for violating its wastewater permit.
The amount of the fine was small, just $400, but the penalty was mandatory.
"They are in the Chattahoochee River basin, which the EPD considers a no-tolerance zone (for water pollution)," said Vickie Yarbrough, an environmental specialist with the EPD's Athens office.
Wauka Mountain has to have a state permit because it's the only Hall school that uses a sand filter system. Wastewater collected in its septic tank is pumped through a layer of sand for purification, then sent through underground drainpipes that discharge near a small tributary of Lake Lanier.
The school is required to sample its effluent each month and report the results to the EPD. Yarbrough said on two occasions in January and February, the wastewater exceeded its permitted limit for fecal coliform bacteria.
"They probably didn't have enough chlorine tablets in the chamber," she said.
Lloyd Smee, maintenance supervisor for Hall County Schools, said someone neglected to fill the tank's chlorinator.
"The maintenance man is supposed to do it every three or four days, but I think he may have been out sick and it didn't get done," he said.
Smee said after the EPD cited the school, some changes were made to prevent the problem from recurring.
"We've now assigned a backup person in case the designated person can't do it," he said.
Though the incident was minor, it illustrates the burden of having a large number of schools that don't have access to sewer service.
Two local high schools, East Hall and North Hall, have their own sewage-treatment plants, using a biological process known as activated sludge. North Hall High shares its system with the adjacent North Hall Middle School.
The treatment plants are usually trouble-free. But Smee said it makes him uneasy knowing that the school system bears full responsibility for treating the wastewater.
"One of my nightmares is that I get a call from North Hall saying that the plant has quit working and we have to close the school," he said.
In addition, about one-third of the Hall system's 33 schools are on septic tanks, according to Hall County Environmental Health director Pat Braswell.
"Generally we don't have many problems with schools," she said. "The septic system usually does OK because though it has high peak usage during the day, it gets a chance to 'rest' because it's not in use during nights and weekends or during the summer."
Braswell said her department only issues permits to install septic tanks, not to operate them. Inspectors typically don't go out to a school unless there has been a sewage overflow, or if the school has applied for an expansion of their system.
One drawback to septic, Braswell said, is that school authorities have to purchase a larger piece of property than would otherwise be necessary.
"You have to have a lot of land that can be set aside (for drainage fields) and not used for anything," she said.
Smee said the growth in the student population can also create headaches.
"If the school has to add classrooms, then you have to do a major expansion of the septic system, and it can get complicated," he said.
Smee said in an ideal world, every school in Hall would have sewer service. Occasionally, as sewer lines are extended into underserved areas of the county, a school is able to switch from septic to sewer.
That's going to happen with South Hall's Spout Springs Elementary, he said, perhaps as soon as next summer.
"But for some schools, sewer service just won't be possible," he said. "Even some new schools won't have sewer. (When choosing a school site), you have to go where you can find land at a reasonable price, and then you can worry about sewer service later."
For the foreseeable future, at least a few Hall schools will have to be vigilant about their wastewater. "Flush it and forget about it" is not an option.
And there's always the possibility of an incident like the one at Wauka Mountain.
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(CNSNews.com) – Panelists at a feminist conference have made it clear that they believe Barack Obama is the first feminist president.
"We've been locked out of the White House for eight years," said Eleanor Smeal, president of the Feminist Majority. She was among those taking part in a panel discussion at George Washington University on Monday.
Smeal passed out the special inaugural issue of her organization's Ms. magazine, the cover of which features Obama ripping off his shirt and tie to reveal a T-shirt reading, "This is What a Feminist Looks Like."
Smeal wrote that Ms. "wanted to capture both the national and feminist mood of high expectations and hope as the 44th president of the United States takes the oath of office."
She said when she met Obama, "He immediately offered, 'I am a feminist.'"
The mood was buoyant at the conference, dubbed Fem2.0: Society's Issues and Women's Voices.
Panelists and participants expressed the belief that Obama will advance their agenda -- introducing the Freedom of Choice Act; increasing funding for family planning around the world, including abortions; ending funding for abstinence-only sex education ; and making access to contraceptives available to all women.
"Week One of Obama's administration, we thought maybe we should start packing our things, because our whole agenda is going to get done by the end of the month," said Christina Page, conference panelist and author of "How the Pro-Choice Movement Saved America."
In his first week in office, Obama reversed the Mexico City Policy that was initiated by President Reagan and reinstated by George Bush after the Clinton administration lifted it. The policy barred U.S. tax dollars from funding organizations that promote or perform abortions abroad. The policy's reversal by Obama means U.S. taxpayers will now be paying for abortions abroad.
The Freedom of Choice Act would strike down virtually all state laws restricting abortion and allow federal funds to be used for abortions. The act has to be passed by Congress to become law.
The conference featured several panelists discussing how the "new media" can be used by feminists to advance their agenda of "reproductive choice and justice," and other issues facing women, including discrimination against minority women and those who have children.
Page and Gretchen Borchelt, the latter a senior counsel with the National Women's Law Center, discussed how Bush's appointment of conservative judges to the U.S. Supreme Court dilutes the intent of Roe v. Wade, the 1973 court decision that legalized abortion.
"The fact is that the court has gutted Roe," Borchelt said. She cited state laws that call for informed consent, waiting periods and parental consent.
"The only thing that the court struck down in 1992 was the requirement for spousal consent for a woman to have an abortion," Borchelt said. "And the reason that happened probably is because Judge (Ruth Bader) Ginsberg was on the court at the time, and she said, 'I'm willing to live with these other restrictions, but you're telling me I have to consult with my husband about what to do with my own body?'"
Borchelt said the ban on partial-birth abortion, signed into law by Bush and upheld by the Supreme Court, also "undermined" Roe v. Wade.
"It's a very, very troubling situation," Borchelt said.
Other topics covered by panelists included the injection of feminism into popular culture and organizing the next generation of feminists.
Organizations taking part in the conference included the National Organization for Women, Feministe, National Council of Negro Women, American Association of University Women and VivirLatino.


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Origel also assured investigators that landing in Little Rock that night wasn't some tragic act of machismo. Despite the rain, hail and wind gusting to 75 mph, Origel said that the plane approached the airport through a break in the clouds -- and that both pilots could see the runway through the entire approach. Thus stymied, the NTSB has turned its gaze to Flight 1420's own hulking corpse. On Monday, investigators began to remove the twisted and charred fuselage of the American Airlines jet to get to computers that controlled the aircraft's mechanical systems -- computers that could help the NTSB team learn whether something went wrong with the plane's innards that the black box didn't reveal. "Everything is a possible cause," said lead investigator Greg Feith. "What we need to do is... start narrowing the scope." From where will the answers come -- man or machine? Probably both. Quite possibly neither.
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The copilot has surpisingly little to tell. From his hospital bed, where he was recovering from a broken leg, First Officer Michael Origel told National Transportation Safety Board investigators that he believed Capt. Richard Buschmann set the wing spoilers that should have helped Flight 1420 slow down to landing speed; that he believed the plane hydroplaned on that wet Little Rock runway. But the flight recorder says the spoilers never popped up -- indicating either a mechanical malfunction or that Origel is covering for his dead colleague -- and investigators say the runway was properly grooved and that the jetliner had a firm grip on the pavement.


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"Bellini, Titian and Lotto: North Italian Paintings from the Accademia Carrara, Bergamo"
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Giovanni Bellini, Pieta Bergamo
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Major-loan shows have become something of a rarity, given the cost of mounting them in a still-sputtering global economy. As it happens, the Accademia Carrara in Bergamo, Italy—home to masterpieces dating from the late middle ages to the 1800s—is closing for restoration. The Met is seizing the occasion to borrow 15 works from the 15th and 16th centuries, representing the high-water mark of the Venetian and Northern Italian Renaissance. Substantial contributions by the biggest names of the period are on view, all evincing the brilliant use of color and velvety-smooth brushwork that defined the art of that time and place. It's essential viewing for Old Masters fans.
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Death is not a lugubrious occasion here, but more often a celebration of a life.
She is likely to shoehorn her pain into lugubrious scenarios that are perfect for country-music videos.
For despite its dull and lugubrious setting, feast of some kind it certainly must be.
In all this a predominant and lugubrious impression of keys and bolts.
Of course, about this lugubrious pun, there could be no misconception.
He was too downcast even to sing one of his lugubrious hymns or to whistle.
No doubt he dined at his club, drank a pint of wine and smoked a cigar or two, though he did it all after a lugubrious fashion.
"I see nothing for it but to give up," said one lugubrious member.
We turned into the sala grande—from whence proceeded the lugubrious sounds.
"A most lugubrious spot," said Will, surveying it sadly as he rode forward.
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The world is drowning. The natives say three witches in Ograpog were sentenced to death directly by King Amemnus, drowned by the rising tide. With their dying breath, they cursed Caribdus, the land itself, to drown as they were, to drown in fifty fathoms of cold dark sea.
The people of Caribdus are adapting to their wet new world. Crab-like scurillians, massive grael, lonely doreen, mysterious kraken, cruel kehana, and the near-human masaquani now sail the seas aside the new visitors, humans from the age of piracy, dashing corsairs, bloodthirsty bucaneers, and savage sea dogs drawn from the mists of earth on unfamiliar tides. Many believe these visitors to be destined to defeat the Sea Hags and save Caribdus from a watery grave, but most seem interested only in joining the plunder of forgotten treasures in a drowning world.
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Ministry brings clean water to villages in Honduras
Updated 2:03 pm, Monday, December 9, 2013
When Mark Smith traveled to the jungles of Ecuador in 1988 to build a system to bring clean water to a village, the Fellowship Bible Church pastor didn't know how much it would transform his life — and the lives of so many others.
"It changed that village," said Smith, now 65. "Clean water reduces chronic sickness, diarrhea and death from contaminated water. (It) gives three to four hours back to the women every day because they're not walking miles to the stream for contaminated water to drink and to wash clothes. The labor force increases because the men aren't sick anymore, and school attendance for the children goes up."
And building the water system had a big impact on the nine men from the church who accompanied Smith on the mission, he said, because they witnessed the obstacles that the impoverished villagers faced and how their contributions could help.
Twenty years and more than a dozen mission projects later, in April 2008 Smith left the church he founded in 1984 to work full time on water projects. As executive director of Impact, a faith-based nonprofit, he brings teams of men to villages in Honduras to build fresh potable water systems. He also shares the Gospel with the villagers and holds Bible study with his team.
"I wanted to focus my ministry on men the rest of my life, and I wanted Impact to be the vehicle," Smith said.
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Since beginning to work full time on water projects in 2008, Impact has completed water systems in 15 villages to carry water to 659 homes, affecting the lives of nearly 4,000 people.
Materials for each water project cost about $17,000. Private donations fund the projects. Each man on the team must raise $1,450 for his travel, meals and other expenses. In 2012, Impact's expenses for water projects totaled $196,601.
Smith organizes the projects in each village with a Honduran engineer, who works with men in the village to begin building the water systems. Then Smith and his team spend a week working with the village men to complete the systems. The gravity-fed systems carry water from a clean flowing spring through pipes to a storage tank, then pipes carry water from the storage tank to each home.
Smith has plans for four or five more water projects in 2014.
"When I get on the plane to do a water project, I'm just as excited as the first one that I ever went on," Smith said.
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The organization needs donations for its water projects in Honduras.
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I just finished publishing a new Wowza module: wms-plugin-auth-mysql – MySQL authentication for Wowza. This module is really tweakable and customizable. It basically allows you to authenticate all or a subset of clients connecting to your Wowza Media Server instance. The documentation goes into great detail about how to customize it and get things rolling.
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Is the plugin limit connection per user?
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This module is extremely complete, unlike most other out there.
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If you've ever tried out for something like a team of some sort, getting cut shouldn't stop you at all. At least that's what Paula Abdul might say, as she revealed a carefully guarded secret about dancing for the Los Angeles Lakers back in the 80s.
Sitting down with her ex-beau, Arsenio Hall, on his late night talk show, Abdul said she was cut from the Laker-girl squad two different times, but because there were over 700 women competing, she was able to change clothes, change her hair and audition again. But the judges never caught on.
Abdul said her never-say-die-attitude comes from being rejected many times in the past, so when she was told 'no,' it didn't stop her at all. "I just went into the fabulous forum ladies bathroom, and I went into my office, the stall, and I quickly changed into another [pair of] festive leotard tights, and I wore my hair now up in a ponytail and I entered as my middle name Julie," she said.
But she was still cut from the team, so again, she headed to her office--the bathroom stall-- changed clothes yet again, and snuck into a third audition. However, this time she made the team, and she said if anybody ever tells you 'no', it should be the beginning of your pursuit, not the end. "It starts with the mantra that 'no is just the beginning of a negotiation,'"she said. "I'm used to not being selected. I'm used to rejection, which I embrace because I have nothing to lose."
Hall then said that everyone can learn from Abdul's experience, and he also took the time to tease her a little bit about auditioning three times. "It's a story for young women and young men to hear and say 'never give up' for starters, and also you must have been a horrible dancer that you had to go three times."
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ST Helena's Hospice celebrated their hospice week with a special afternoon tea in Clacton
The tea took place at the hospice's Tendring Day Centre, in Jackson Road, Clacton, on Monday.
Patients enjoyed the tea with staff as part of the hospice's bid to promote their week-long Time We Talked campaign, which ends on April 6.
This year the charity is asking people to pledge to talk more about death, dying and bereavement in a bid to create a better understanding.
Holly Smart, head of marketing and communications, said: "We know that North East Essex has a population growing at a rate faster than the national average, with a higher than average proportion of older people in the population, and that since 2012 the actual number of people dying each year is also increasing.
"We also know most people wish to die in their home or care home, or under hospice care but many still die in hospital.
"A lack of openness can affect the quality and range of support and care services available to patients and families. It has also affected our ability as individuals to die where or how we would wish."
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There were 2,078 in the city last year, an increase of 15% on the year before.
Support workers said action was being taken after previous attempts to tackle the problem had failed to bring the figures down.
Dundee Domestic Abuse Forum chair Elaine Zwirlein said the ultimate goal was to eliminate the problem.
They now plan to try to completely stop violence against women and children in the city.
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Charities, the authorities and support services have signed up to the two-year strategy.
It aims to gradually reduce the amount of domestic abuse by helping victims leave abusive relationships, rehabilitating perpetrators and raising awareness of the issue.
Ms Zwirlein told the BBC Scotland news website: "It's an ambitious strategy but I don't think it's beyond us and I think we've got the right structure.
"It was brought in as a direct response to increases in the number of incidents reported to the police, and recognises the scale of the problem.
"However, we may well see an increase in the number of women coming forward before we see a decrease."
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2010's AIDS Heroes and Villains: Unknown Crusaders and Thorny Foes
Posted by , December 22, 2010 at 8:55pm
As we approached the end of the year, the Update conducted an entirely unscientific survey of AIDS activists in an effort to bring you, loyal readers, a list of 2010's most important unsung AIDS heroes and all-too-familiar villains.
Our heroes received infrequent recognition but worked tirelessly to fight AIDS. They spoke out against repressive regimes, helped focus the world's attention on AIDS, and served as bellwethers in challenging economic times.
Our villains stymied efforts to combat the epidemic. They cut funds, championed discriminatory policies, went back on promises or refused to use their power to advance the fight against AIDS.
Renegades to celebrate
Lisa Armstrong, Journalist
For bringing AIDS in post-quake Haiti into the spotlight
Armstrong is the only writer focusing consistently and exclusively on HIV issues after Haiti's quake. With support from the Pulitzer Center, she's brought the danger of the resurgence of HIV after the disaster to the mainstream media, writing for The New York Times, The Atlantic and The Daily Beast. "The story for me here is not one of poverty, of pity, of catastrophe. It is one of strength, of the fortitude of a people who have already overcome so much," she wrote in February.
Tian Xi, Chinese AIDS activist
For standing up to the Chinese government
In an act of enormous bravery, 23-year-old Tian Xi arrived at a hospital in August to demand his government compensate him and tens of thousands of others infected with HIV through the contaminated national blood supply. He was jailed, and has since become a symbol for those who choose to stand up for their rights, no matter the cost. "Tian Xi … has shown a greater sense of responsibility for the Chinese blood disaster than many of those double his age who were, in fact, responsible," China AIDS Solidarity Network cofounder Meg Davis told the Update this fall.
Britten Pund, National Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS Directors
For consistent documentation of the nation's AIDS Drug Assistance Program crisis
Pund is in charge of issuing NASTAD's weekly ADAP Watch, which has become the tool for tracking the growing number of U.S. citizens who are unable to access medication through the country's ADAPs. By staying in constant contact with state directors, Pund and NASTAD have allowed advocates and journalists to track the nation's most pressing AIDS issue since the 1980s.
Jim Lister, New York State AIDS activist
For his tireless efforts to pass the 30 percent rent cap bill
Working with the NYC-based group VOCAL, Lister has been at the front of an effort to pass the 30 percent rent cap bill. The legislation would have provided housing security for at least 10,000 low-income HIV-positive New Yorkers by capping their rents at 30 percent. In the past three years, Lister made passage of the bill his mission, visiting Albany more than 100 times to convince politicians of its necessity. When Gov. Paterson vetoed the bill this year, Lister vowed to continue his fight.
Perry Junjulas, AIDS Service Provider
Junjulas sits at the helm of the Damien Center in Albany, which provides meals, transportation and health care to some 300 HIV-positive people and their families. Ninety percent of clients live below the poverty line. When New York State failed to pay out tens of millions of dollars in money owed to AIDS service providers this summer, Junjulas made Herculean efforts to keep Damien running, including delaying several months of personal salary. "It … actually made me physically ill," he told the Update in September. "The people who come to us, I couldn't imagine what they would do without us." He is a symbol of the thousands of AIDS service providers who struggled to serve clients in an uncertain economic climate.
Foes we opposed
Michael Bloomberg, New York City Mayor
For continued efforts to slash programs for low-income New Yorkers with HIV
Bloomberg has never had a great reputation for helping low-income people with AIDS, but this year was particularly otrageous. Besides playing a key role in convincing Gov. David Paterson to veto the 30 percent rent cap bill, Bloomberg delivered us a budget that proposed slashing 248 case managers from the city's HIV/AIDS Services Administration. The cut would have eviscerated the organization, and the case managers were saved only after Housing Works sued the city.
David Bahati, Ugandan Member of Parliament
For pushing for the death penalty as punishment for homosexuality
Aided by U.S.evangelists, Bahati is the mastermind behind a law that would allow Uganda to kill homosexuals. He fought arduously for its passage this year. If passed, the legislation would push HIV further underground, making treatment access and safe-sex measures increasingly difficult to implement, eventually costing thousands of lives—and paving the way for similar legislation in other countries.
Ezekiel Emanuel, Special Advisor for Health Policy at the White House
For crusading to destroy PEPFAR
Emanuel, the architect of President Obama's global health policy, has repeatedly suggested that treatment for HIV/AIDS diseases is not cost-effective. Unfortunately, his analyses could lead to millions of deaths worldwide: his views are reflected in the Obama Administration's budget for the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, which essentially flat lines funding for PEPFAR.
David Paterson, New York State Governor
For vetoing the 30 percent rent cap bill
Our governor has a done a lot good for poor people in the state, including overseeing a huge Medicaid overhaul. But we're calling him out for vetoing the 30 percent rent cap bill in September, breaking multiple promises to pass the legislation. The bill was a major setback for advocates in the state, and would have created housing stability for thousands of low-income New Yorkers with HIV.
Who are your heroes and villains? Does Obama's near silence on ADAP and weak National HIV/AIDS Strategy qualify him as a foe? Or does the passage of health care reform make him a friend? This is the final Update for 2010— weigh in, and check back for AIDS information in 2011.
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