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The silence of a most dark night was interrupted by a violent breeze which swept the sand on the jagged terrain of this part of Iwagakure into a sizeable dust cloud. Onoki observed this and was quick to ascend higher into other to avoid the dust. Highly elevated from the earth, Onoki began to head in the direction of the Konoha camp at a very slow and relaxed pace. His wrinkled face softened and his lips curved into something of a grin.
It was rare that this old timer was happy, after all, he alone bore the woes and troubles of Iwagakure on his aged spine which was absolutely nothing to smile about. But it was a good night, he had quickly caught wind of an invasion of foreign ninja, tracked them to their hiding place and murdered the trump card of their attack force, the angel of death known as the Yellow Flash. A peculiar ninja who had an abnormal amount of prowess and fame for his age, the Yellow Flash was quite an individual. Onoki almost wished he was on Iwa's side rather than Konoha's. The Tsuchikage would have made sure to beat into him the ruthlessness that marked an Iwagakure ninja and he would definitely not have grown into adulthood with, what was in Onoki's opinion, a flimsy resolve. A true ninja, knowing how outnumbered they were in addition to the presence of a ninja of Onoki's level, would have abandoned his team and teleported far, far away and left them for dead. After all, there was no way their lives could be more valuable, the Yellow Flash could probably compensate for the abilities of everyone of them in a battle. But it was too late now, the youth's talent and genius was now forever gone. Onoki shrugged and picked up the pace. "Kitsuchi and the others better be done by the time I get there." he mused and he floated through the cloudless, moonlight sky.
"Crap! Kushina, there's about to break through!" a Konoha ninja cried out. His face was the very picture of fear. Eyes wide in complete dread, his face pale and lifeless, drenched in sweat and he was visibly trembling, barely keeping a good grasp on the kunai he held in his right hand. He was referring to the bright yellow dome that encompassed the entire camp. A barrier of the highest quality, crafted by Uzumaki Kushina herself using some of the strongest chakra in existence. The dome was receiving an overwhelming amount of punishment from the hundreds of Iwa ninja who were on the other side of the defense and it was cracking under the pressure.
"More! Put in everything you've got and crush that thing!" Kitsuchi ordered in a deep, hoarse voice that could match the Tsuchikage's and carried the same authority. The horde of shinobi, in large numbers, weaved a number of hand seals and simultaneously unleashed a tremendous variety of powerful attacks. Devastating everything that stood in its path, the massive conflagaration of ninjutsu smashed into Kushina's barrier and obliterated it. The legion of Iwagakure shinobi rushed into the barrier space through the hole they created like a pack of hungry wolves about to devour their unsuspecting prey.
Kushina was seated on the ground, her mind miles away from the ensuing confrontation. "Minato, did you really die?" She wondered as her vision began to blur due to the tears that formed in her eyes. Her bright aquamarine pupils immediately turned to a terrifying crimson and her canines grew larger and sharper. A red cloak of chakra bearing three long tails coated her entire body as her nails sharpened into long, dreadful claws. She roared, an animalist cry completely absent of reason and set her sights on the Iwa nin with a deathly, blood curdling glare before disappearing from sight in a burst of immense speed. Kushina arrived in front of the enemies in much less than a second and repelled the ninjas at the forefront with a loud roar of immense chakra.
"What the fu..." an Iwa shinobi began to speak but was cut off by the sudden appearance of the enraged Nine Tails jinchuuriki directly in front of him much to his shock. A chakra arm launched out from her blood red cloak and the ethereal appendage captured his neck then snapped it, killing him instantly.
Kushina then proceeded to cut a swath through the opposition, leaving a trail of blood and cries of pain in her wake while her comrades could only look on in shock. As she tore asunder yet another ninja, she came upon the burly figure of Kitsuchi.
The Iwagakure ninja gazed at his incoming opponent with anger because she had just laid waste to many of his comrades and also with awe and fear since she wielded the power of the strongest Bijuu. He quickly slammed his two palms on the ground. "Doton: Chidokaku." he intoned. The ground beneath Kushina sectioned off from the rest of the terrain and sunk deep into the earth, trapping Kushina in a pit with a rectangular shape. "Bury her." he ordered in a guttural voice.
Five Iwa shinobi appeared and surrounded the hole before each formed a set of identical seals. "Yōton: Sekkaigyō no Jutsu" then simultanously spewed what resembled wet cement into the cistern. The sludge rained on Kushina and she winced in disgust, her feral features wearing a annoyed visage. One of the five ninja then formed another set of seals. "Suiton: Mizurappa" he muttered before spewing a large volume of water at Kushina. The water mixed with the cement, expanding it around Kushina and slowly immoblizing her.
"Tsuchikage-sama will be pleased with our capture of the Kyubi's jinchuuriki." remarked Kitsuchi with a slight smirk as he watched the mixture of cement and water slowly submerge the red-haired kunoichi. "Unearth her after she's had a few minutes without breathing." he commanded and began to walk away. Suddenly, Kitschi heard the all too familiar roar of the Kyubi's jailor followed shortly by the sound of rock shattering and the cries of his comrades. He turned around to see the Iwa ninjas, who had earlier trapped the jinchuuriki, laying on the ground with blood seeping out of their unconscious bodies and Kushina was hovering over them, her blood red eyes dead set on Kitsuchi himself, giving him a hateful glare.
"She escaped that!" he mused before he was suddenly sent flying by a direct punch to the face. He tumbled several times on the ground before coming to rest when his back smashed into a nearby rock and he grunted in pain.
Kushina smirked, revealing elongated canines and turned to her right, where she saw a black haired Konoha ninja fending off a number of Iwa ninja with a sword. She rushed to his aid, laying waste to his enemies in an instant. "Are you ok, Uchiha Kato?" she asked in a cold voice.
"I...I'm ok Kushina." the ninja replied, his voice shaky, as his crimson Sharingan eyes scanned the blood red cloak of chakra that surrounded Kushina. His fear was understandable since he stood in the presence of the awe inspiring power of the Nine Tails. Both he and Kushina fell silent and the air carried the battle cries of the ninja around them. "I can't find Minato anywhere." he began sheepishly, breaking the silence between them. " I know he must have gone to face them first but since he hasn't returned and this many Iwa ninja made it to our camp..." his words trailed off and he hesitated to continue.
"Yes, Kato. Minato is most...likely..." her voice began to break. The pain of the loss of her fiancee swelled within her and leaked through her eyes as tears streamed down her cheeks. Suddenly, her coat of bubbling chakra gained a fourth tail and her skin began to flake off and burn away.
"K...Kushina what's going on?" asked Kato, eyes wide with fear as he took a step back from the kunoichi.
"I'm losing control..." Kushina muttered under her breath. "Damn it!" she cursed then grabbed her head as a searing migraine shot through her skull. Her skin continued to dissolve into thin air, leaving behind dark red layer of chakra. She felt her consciousness swaying and that of beast within her assuming control of her body. Suddenly, a bright yellow flash of light appeared before her eyes and she suddenly regained herself. Her crimson eyes returned to their warm shade of blue and the Kyubi's chakra dissipated. Kushina's jaw dropped when she saw the figure who stood in front of her. "Minato?"
"I've locked your seal Kushina. Sorry, I'm late." he responded with a warm smile then turned towards the battlefield where the Konoha forces were being overwhelmed. "Time to put an end to this."


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BEIRUT (Reuters) - An Arab observer mission will limp on in Syria after a Gulf pullout led by Saudi Arabia and Qatar but the two have also engineered an unprecedented Arab League call for President Bashar al-Assad to step down.
Arab foreign ministers meeting in Cairo on Sunday also asked the U.N. Security Council to endorse their Syria plan, which Damascus has rejected as blatant interference in its affairs.
The exit of 55 Gulf monitors dealt another blow to the 165-strong team's credibility, after a month in which bloodshed raged on in their midst, although a remaining monitor insisted they would be replaced and the mission would be unaffected.
"The decision to leave was political," said a Gulf observer heading for Damascus airport on Wednesday, asking not to be named. "Islamic and Arab countries will send more monitors."
Asked if their departure would damage the mission, he said with a smile: "Not really, we are all Arabs."
The monitoring mission has been condemned by Syrian opposition groups as a mechanism to buy more time for Assad to try to crush demonstrators and armed rebels. But the mission, with its limited mandate to observe but not investigate, also allowed an internally divided League and an equally divided U.N. Security Council to defer concrete action on Syria.
Nevertheless, the League's demand that the autocratic Assad end his 11-year-rule as part of a power transition in Syria is unprecedented in its 67-year history.
"What have the Arab League guys been drinking?" asked Rami Khouri, a Beirut-based analyst who hailed the new approach.
The observer mission is the first mounted by the Arab League, awoken from its former somnolence by a wave of popular revolts that toppled three entrenched Arab rulers in 2011.
Figures given by Syrian opposition groups and the state news agency SANA suggest that hundreds of people have been killed since the monitors arrived, although their leader, Sudanese General Mohammed al-Dabi, put the death toll at just 136.
He said the level of killings had dropped. But Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moualem told a news conference on Tuesday that the number of civilians, soldiers and policemen killed in Syria had tripled since the Arab monitors arrived, accusing rebels of "exploiting their presence.
The League's call last year for a no-fly zone to protect Libyans from Muammar Gaddafi's forces paved the way for a Western air campaign that helped rebels oust him, breaking the 22-member body's tradition of superficial solidarity.
Unlike the peripheral Libya, Syria straddles the main fissures of Middle East conflict, including its alliances with Iran and Hezbollah, reinforcing Arab League reluctance to seek another outside military intervention in an Arab country.
However, the League surprised many diplomats by setting a timetable for Assad to hand power to his deputy, pending formation of an interim unity government, constitutional and security reforms, and elections.
All the League's members backed the call for Assad to go except for Syria, suspended for ignoring an earlier Arab peace deal, and Lebanon, which "dissociated" itself in a nod to the political power of pro-Syrian Lebanese groups such as Hezbollah.
The Saudi-led push for a strong Arab stance stems in part from the kingdom's Sunni rulers' desire to weaken their Shi'ite regional adversary Iran by dislodging Assad, whose Shi'ite-rooted Alawite minority rules Sunni-majority Syria.
Syria has itself pointed out the irony of Gulf monarchies leading demands for democratic reforms that they shun at home.
Peter Harling, Syria analyst for the International Crisis Group, said the Arab League had been engaged constructively and that without the observers the violence might have been worse.
"Unfortunately, its more assertive members are those with the least credibility to take the lead: Gulf monarchies that united to put down popular protests in Bahrain tend to adopt a sectarian perspective on regional events and have paid only lip service to reforms at home," he wrote in Foreign Policy.
"Other Arab countries are essentially in disarray, bogged down by domestic tensions, fearful of more regional instability, and distrustful of the West, given its track record of making things worse, not better, in this part of the world."
Harling said the Arab plan gave Syria a chance to "recognise the reality of its domestic crisis and negotiate an exit, while fending off any risk of hands-on Western involvement."
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I know full well that it is not at all healthy or constructive to be thinking nasty, vindictive thoughts like this while sitting on a beach. This is, after all, a holiday, when people who sit on beaches should be relaxed and mellow, using their hard-won leisure time to wind down and forget about the pressures of work and the daily drudgery back home.
But I am not relaxed. Even though I am on a lovely stretch of sand near Padstow in Cornwall, widely perceived by clean-living, middle-class holidaymakers to be among Britain's most attractive, I am a scowling, tightly-balled knot of tension, shooting murderous looks at the large, happy group of people who have just walked past.
Don't ask what started me off. I think it was something as uncontroversial as the fact that three of the party's children were wearing identical striped towelling Boden tops - not in itself a criminal offence, but nevertheless one that makes up a highly relevant piece of the vicious jigsaw of prejudice and wild preconception that is forming in my head.
I know it's wrong to dislike children - especially nicely dressed children with tumbling curls and diligently laundered clothing - but I can't help myself. Even though I know they are merely powerless conduits of their parents' taste (in the case of this family, I venture, the children will have been hauled out of their wretched boarding schools for the holidays then repackaged, for the purposes of public perception and guilt assuagement, as carefully dishevelled free spirits), they get on my nerves; they irritate me. I am not charmed by their shambling clumsiness or side-splitting mispronunciations of elementary, everyday words.
It probably doesn't help that my beach novel of choice is Lionel Shriver's book We Need To Talk About Kevin - a tense account of a mother who gives birth to a child she unapologetically dislikes from the start, and who grows up to be a teenage mass murderer - although the book serves only to reinforce what I already knew: that it is unreasonable, not to say unnatural, for adults to be expected to like all children just because they are small.
Not that I am getting much opportunity to focus on the book. I am too busy gathering evidence to support my view that, out of the scores of children I know, I truly like only a handful of them, and two of those are my own. As for the others, they regularly reveal themselves to be beasts, antichrists, wreckers and thieves. For instance, as this family passes by, I know almost for certain that one of the Boden towelling children will have the temerity to trespass on our patch of sand and wordlessly help himself to one of our buckets or plastic sandcastle moulds.
But I also know that the correct adult reaction is to smile benignly and, despite cries of protest from my own children, agree to let him borrow it. Still, I am finding that, lately, I distrust myself not to expose my true feelings in the face of child-instigated transgression. Last week, during the daily school drop-off, a nine-year-old red-headed boy in my son's class loudly commented on the burgeoning silveriness of my husband's hair. "You're growing grey hair, you are!" he yelled across the road. "That may be," I found myself bellowing back, "but at least he's not bloody ginger!"
Now, with the Boden child, I simply can't trust myself not to pull a horrible face and shout at him to eff off and play with his own miserable toys. But I must keep my mouth shut this time, because it's not acceptable to be nasty to children in public, especially children in upmarket mail-order clothing whose parents look as if they might hold down reasonably high-powered jobs in the City. If I shout, the child will cry, there will be a hideous scene, and I will expose myself as a misanthropic inadequate whose core problem, besides the child-hating element, is that she is full of insecurities about not being able to do beach holidays properly.
Look at me, then look at them. A sixth sense for wind-free, sheltered areas propels this family group to just the right part of the beach, whereas I am habitually guided, by some malignant inbuilt navigational malfunction, to the bit littered with dog shit, fag ends and bucket-snatching devil-spawn.
Once installed on their prime spot of golden sand, this charmed gaggle of seasoned beach-goers will reveal themselves to have made better provision for possible sunburn, packed far superior picnics and have a mature and relaxed approach to semi-nudity. Their picnic rugs will be nicer, their iceboxes more efficient and their sandcastles more architecturally inventive. In addition, they will have chosen just the right sort of mood-lifting beach literature, whereas I have saddled myself with this harrowing Shriver novel.
Still, I comfort myself with the thought that Shriver would almost certainly be of the opinion that the bucket-snatchers of today grow up to be the ruthless granny-muggers of tomorrow. With this in mind, I wrench the yellow plastic thing out of the Boden kid's hand and tell him to go away. He may be howling his head off now, but I daresay he'll thank me for it in the end.


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11 million people think they've had a spooky encounter, which is nearly double the number 20 years ago!
But don't get too scared just yet: experts reckon loads of them are imagining it!
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Tonight marks the start of Vancouver's five-game road trip that completes the team's pre-Olympic schedule. The team also goes to Detroit, Boston, Montreal and Toronto.
The Canucks feature eight players who previously spent time in Winnipeg playing for the AHL's Manitoba Moose, once Vancouver's affiliate team.
The list is now complete. Vancouver is the last team to make a visit to the MTS Centre for a regular-season game in the Jets 2.0 era. The Jets have played twice in Vancouver, both losses, once late in the 2011-12 season and in December of the current season.
Forwards Daniel and Henrik Sedin share the team's scoring lead through 55 games, each at 40 points. Henrik, the team's captain, has missed the last five games with a rib injury, snapping his iron-man streak at 679 games.
Vancouver has lost two in a row, including 5-2 Wednesday night at home to Chicago, and three of its last four. The team has scored just 18 goals in its last 10 games, only twice in that stretch scoring more than two.
Seven Canucks are headed for the Olympic hockey tournament: Roberto Luongo and Dan Hamhuis for Canada, Alex Edler, Daniel Sedin and Henrik Sedin for Sweden, Ryan Kesler for U.S. and Yannick Weber for Switzerland.
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Posted By Alex Belth On December 7, 2011 @ 8:25 am In 1: Featured | Comments Disabled
Before long, Albert Pujols will agree to a long contract worth a whack of cash. The Marlins? The Cards? I still figure he'll stay in St. Louis [1] but would enjoy seeing Pujols shaked things up and head to Ozzieland in Miami.
Meanwhile, the Yanks play Take My A.J., please [3].
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- Present: President Stephen R. Lewis; Deans Mark Govoni, Elizabeth McKinsey, and Stephen Kelly; Professors Cathy Yandell, John Ramsay, Jennifer Manion and Sarah Hurst; Students Kate Lundeen, Andy Pierce, Jenny Houghton, and Alyssa Thomas; Staff Person Lois Perkins; Trustee Observer Louise Heffelfinger
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The College Council minutes of the meeting of February 13, 2001 were approved in a voice vote.
President's Report
President Lewis reported that a survey had been taken of Carleton alumni in the Class of 1989, and strength of the academic program and the community was rated very highly relative to other comparable institutions. The President also commented on the success of both the women's basketball and swimming teams.
Approval of the 2001-02 Budget
Dean Steve Kelly reported that making this year's budget had been full of hard choices but that it was a good budget which supports excellence. This year's budget was particularly difficult to make because of the 26% increase in utilities due to the cold winter and the increase in fuel prices. The motion to approve the 2001-02 budget was approved by a voice vote without dissent.
Capital Renewal Program
Richard Strong reported that we were now using the term "capital renewal" rather than the confusing term "deferred maintenance" when referring to projects involving major renewal and renovation of older buildings. Evans and Severance Halls are next for renovation and Evans will be offline next year. Evans will be completely overhauled and the "columns" will be replaced with full floor arrangements. Dean Kelly reported that the capital renewal program is funded through the operating budget and the ten-year model shows that we will reach a level of support for maintenance equal to 2.5% of the value of the physical plant by 2008. That level of support will fulfill a long-term goal of the College. Mr. Strong reported that the utilities infrastructure will also be included in the capital renewal program.
Common Time
Dean McKinsey reported that the faculty had voted in favor of Common Time. She said this time would be attached to large events at times and would be used for groups that cannot find time to meet otherwise to meet and "un-jam" very busy schedules. Dean McKinsey assured the Council that the impact of Common Time would be monitored and reviewed after two years. Jenny Houghton reported again that 70% of students had voted against Common Time. President Lewis added that this provides opportunities for discussion in times of crisis and for times when the College has distinguished visitors on short notice. Dean Kelly stated that, in his opinion, the possibility of community trumps the inconveniences.
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Ancient Hebrew Poetry
A couple of years ago I read Seamus Heaney's modern English translation of Beowulf. In his introduction Heaney writes about his attempts to imitate the poetic forms and style of the original language. As I read the translation, I really felt that Heaney's linguistic and poetic considerations helped me to form more of a connection with the text. It felt organic and alive, and I enjoyed reading Beowulf in a way that I hadn't before.
It occurred to me then that much of the Hebrew bible is also poetry from an ancient culture. The English translations used in most Christian churches, however, seem to pay little attention to the poetry of it, and frankly, most of it is pretty boring to read. After seeing what Seamus Heaney did with Beowulf, I began to wonder what it would be like to read a translation of Psalms that is sensitive to the poetry and certain linguistic characteristics of the original text. I know, for example, that Psalm 119 is an acrostic poem, in which the initial lines of each stanza begin with the same letter, with one stanza devoted to each letter of the alphabet (the lines of the first stanza begin with aleph, the lines of the second stanza begin with bet, etc)--yet I have never seen a translation of the Psalm that attempts to duplicate this form. And this is really the only example I've heard about. I would love to know what kinds of poetic devices are used in the other Psalms, to say nothing of Job, Song of Solomon, Proverbs, Isaiah, and the rest.
So I decided to look for a translation that looks at the bible in perhaps more of an aesthetic way than merely a straightforward conveyance of information...and I found nothing. Well, almost nothing.
One thing my search did turn up is Ancient Hebrew Poetry, the blog of John Hobbins, a very knowledgeable pastor and Hebrew scholar. He writes very interesting commentary on scripture and contemporary issues in the church (check out his Screwtape Letters-inspired thoughts on faith and science).
My favorite thing about his blog, though, is a series of posts he's started in which he gives a traditional translation of a particular passage, than provides his own translation, explaining why it better reflects the Hebrew language. Here are his posts for Psalm 19:2, 19:4, 19:5, and 19:5c-7. The translations are lovely and the explanations are very insightful.
My appetite for well-translated Hebrew poetry whetted by these posts, I asked him in the comments where I can find more, to which Hobbins graciously made a few suggestions, including some nice pieces he hosts on his own site.
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I don't know how well they translate Hebrew poetry, but I do know that The Books of the Bible seeks to bring back the acetic of reading the Bible, instead of doing a verse by verse doctrine hunt.
There are no chapters, there are no verses, and the emphasis is on reading whole books as books.
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Traditional light bulbs could be outlawed in California if groundbreaking environmental legislation being proposed by a state legislator is approved. Democratic politician Lloyd Levine said his bill -- the "How Many Legislators Does it Take to Change a Light Bulb Act" -- would ban the sales of cheaper incandescent bulbs in favour of compact energy-efficient lamps.
Levine said the ban, which would take effect from 2012, would save consumers money over the long-term despite the fact that energy-efficient bulbs are more expensive to buy.
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According to the Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI), a nonprofit organization which specializes in energy policy, replacing a 75-watt incandescent light bulb with a 20-watt compact fluorescent would save 1,300 pounds of carbon dioxide and save customers 55 dollars over the life of the bulb.
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These medical procedures require you to give written informed consent:
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Schouten R, Edersheim JG. Informed consent, competency, treatment refusal, and civil commitment. In: Stern TA, Rosenbaum JF, Fava M, Biederman J, Rauch SL, eds. Massachusetts General Hospital Comprehensive Clinical Psychiatry. 1st ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Mosby Elsevier; 2008:chap 84.
White C, Rosoff AJ, LeBlang TR. Informed consent to medical and surgical treatment. In: ACLM: Legal Medicine. 7th ed.Philadelphia, Pa: Mosby Elsevier; 2007:chap 33.
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The afternoon practice and qualifying sessions have come to a close in East Rutherford, New Jersey's MetLife Stadium. The track was protected from the overnight rains by plastic tarps, but practice was delayed due to moisture that found its way onto the track through the cracks in the tarps. The first sessions proved to actually be a tad dusty in some sections, though, as the track was constructed extra early this week and had been sitting in the sun and wind. The clouds gathered and rain began to fall during the second sessions, however. For the 250s, the precipitation produced great conditions, but by the time the 450s wrapped things up, the track surface was slippery at best. Rain continued to fall after practice and the weather report calls for a 50% chance of rain throughout the rest of the night, but as we type this the sun is shining and the track crews are working feverishly to whip the course into shape.
Yamalube/Star Racing/Yamaha's Jeremy Martin was quickest in the 250 class with a 55.066 lap, besting privateer Honda rider Vince Friese's 56.029. GEICO Honda's Justin Bogle, the rider who stands to gain the most tonight in New Jersey with the absence of points leader Martin Davalos, came home third with a 56.305.
"I felt great out there," said Martin. "I was able to get a good lap in before the rain started to fall, and I feel good about tonight."
"I'm not thinking about the championship," said Bogle. "I mean, look at my number plate. It's black. I don't even have the points lead."
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The song comes as unexpected result of 'Why We Create Music', a documentary film by ASCAP which examines the power of music by some Grammy Awards-winning performers.
More than a dozen of Grammy Awards-winning musicians team up to celebrate the 100th anniversary of ASCAP, the professional membership of those who write, compose and publish music. They released a birthday song called "More Than the Stars" and its accompanying video on Tuesday, December 17.
The song came as an unexpected result of "Why We Create Music", a documentary film by ASCAP which explores and examines the power of music by performers like Ne-Yo, Lady Antebellum, Aloe Blacc and Bill Withers. Also participating in the project are Dan Wilson and Amy Grant.
The star-studded video opens with Lady Antebellum's Charles Kelley singing the track in a recording studio while other musicians are writing songs and playing some musical instruments. It was directed by fillmaker Michael Marantz, who also helmed "Why We Create Music" documentary.
Commenting on "More Than the Stars", recent ASCAP Foundation Champion Award honoree Ne-Yo said, "It's really special for me to be a part of something that speaks so heavily to the art of songwriting and what it does to people... a kind of 'We Are the World' for songwriters. The song came out fantastic. The film came out fantastic. And I was happy to be a part of it."
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IT HAS BEEN eight years since the great Freddie Mercurey died but the influence of the legendary rock band he fronted - Queen - lives on. Monday will see a signifiant moment in the band's post-Freddie period with the release of a third hits collection.
IT BEGINS with a tribute to the majestic talent of the late Freddie Mercury - in the form of the previously unreleased Queen-Elton John version of The Show Must Go On.
It continues as a celebration of the latter years of a band that, come what ever, will surely in some form or other always be with us.
Queen: Greatest Hits III, released Monday, highlights the extraordinary musical and songwriting strength of John Deacon, Brian May, Freddie Mercury and Roger Taylor, all powerful as Queen, the band in which each member can lay claim to having written a top 10 song.
As this package shows, it was not only Mercury who was able to enjoy chart sucess away from Queen.
Brian May, encouraged by Mercury and the band, took a solo outing in 1991 with Driven By You and scored a massive hit around the world. It was followed by another huge single, Too Much Love Will Kill YOu and two well received solo albums.
Taylor's solo work has been even more prolific and he was, in fact, the first band member to go it alone. One of his early outings away rom Queen, Heaven For Everyone, was later recorded by the band and became one of their 'posthumous' hits from the Made In Heaven album, reaching number two in the charts when released in 1995.
The album also assembles Queen's great collaborations: with David Bowie on a song taht began as a jam session and became an instant number one, Under Pressure. This album version features fresh recording work by May and Taylor and has been especially remixed for this release.
Geroge Michael joined the three surviving members of Queen at the Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert at Wembley to perform Somebody To Love, and 17 years after the band first released their original version of the song, they had another chart-topper with this live version.
A seemingly unlikely coupling, Queen's collaboration with rap star Wyclef Jean last year on a new version of the John Deacon smash Another One Bites The Dust gave them a top five hit around the world and briefly and unexpectedly turned the band into a dance act!
But what will excite most Queen fans is what must rate as one of the album's more poignant moments: Elton John featuring with May, Taylor and Deacon on a previously unheard version of The Show Must Go On.
The track was recorded live in Paris in January 1997 by Queen and Elton on a night at which Freddie Mercury was remembered in a performance of a powerful AIDS inspired ballet which focussed on Mercury's death as an example of the many talented lives that are cut short before their time.
It was only the second time Queen had played live since Mercury's death. Their performance together spurred Elton John to say:
"You guys should go out and play again. It must be like having a Ferrari in the garage waiting for a driver."
It is eight years since the release of Queen's previous Hits II, and eight years since Freddie Mercury's death, yet still this new, and inevitably final, collection of 17 tracks is able to justify the 'hits' title - all, with the exception of the new The Show Must Go On, have continued Queen's unbroken run in the charts, four of them reaching number one.


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Results from Lulu
I got an email from the Lulu Customer Service department.
"Dear Lonnie,
Thank you for bringing this to our attention. I was able to trace this defect to the Print-Ready PDF we created for your photo book. This appears to be a bug in our system. I have issued a full refund [...]. I truly apologize for this error on our part.
I have forwarded this issue to our engineering team so that they may find and fix the root cause for this error. Please note that any future orders of this project will have the same result until we can fix the problem that caused this error.
If you would still like to make this project available for sale, or order it again for yourself please make a revision to the project first. I would be happy to check any revision you make to see if this error persists.
Thank you,
Leon T
Lulu Enterprises, Inc"
I've asked them if there's anyway to get these books reprinted in time for the convention at the same price I paid previously. If not, I guess I'll just get the ones printed for the pre-orders and mail them off when they are ready.
I'm happy they took care of the refund, but it's still annoying and frustrating.


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On Saturday, the Postal Service and its letter carriers will stage their annual food drive.
Utahns are encouraged to participate by placing nonperishable food items in bags, and leaving them by their mailboxes before mail delivery. All food collected will go to local food banks and pantries.
Examples of items are peanut butter, canned soup, canned meats, canned vegetables, fruits and juices, boxed goods (such as cereal), pasta and rice. Do not donate items that have passed expiration dates or are in glass containers.
This is the 21st year for the Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive, which has collected more than 1 billion pounds of food. Last year, Americans donated more than 70 million pounds, including 1 million in the Beehive state.
The food drive is part of a nationwide drive designed to fill food bank pantries through the summer months, when levels are traditionally low. The effort by the USPS, members of the National Association of Letter Carriers, Rural Letter Carriers and other volunteers is the largest one-day food drive in the nation.
More than 50 million Americans, including 17 million children, are food insecure, meaning they live at risk of hunger. In Utah, an estimated 137,824 households face food insecurity, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
For more information about the annual Stamp Out Hunger food drive, visit www.helpstampouthunger.com or www.facebook.com/stampouthunger, and follow the drive at www.twitter.com/stampouthunger.


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Comrade Vlad lectures Obama -"I carefully studied his address to the nation on Tuesday. And I would rather disagree with a case he made on American exceptionalism, stating that the United States' policy is 'what makes America different. It's what makes us exceptional.' It is extremely dangerous to encourage people to see themselves as exceptional, whatever the motivation. There are big countries and small countries, rich and poor, those with long democratic traditions and those still finding their way to democracy. Their policies differ, too. We are all different, but when we ask for the Lord's blessings, we must not forget that God created us equal."


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Rock-and-roll husband-and-wife duo performs Bush's single 'Glycerine' at Almost Acoustic Christmas concert.
Gwen Stefani, lead singer of No Doubt, joined her husband, Bush's frontman Gavin Rossdale, for a rare duet during KROQ's Almost Acoustic Christmas. The couple performed the Bush hit single "Glycerine" over the weekend, at the same annual event where the two met 17 years ago in a dressing room.
Rossdale's band Bush were performing that night when Stefani stepped in to join Rossdale during his rendition of "Glycerine" for an appearance that surprised the crowd. It started out with Rossdale on the stage with just his guitar, singing the first verse, then Stefani popped-in by the second verse, sending the crowd to go wild. The band joined in at the end and the two rocked-out to finish the song.
Prior to this, the famous couple had been touring for two years and the idea to do a song together was to commemorate the anniversary of the first time they met, at KROQ's Almost Acoustic Christmas 17 years ago. Although Bush's hit "The Afterlife" was Stefani's favorite song, they settled on "Glycerine" for their duet.
KROQ is a Los Angeles-based radio station known for championing alternative bands. The station's Almost Acoustic Christmas is an annual, two-night event held every December. "Glycerine", meanwhile, is the fourth single from the Bush debut album "Sixteen Stone", while "The Afterlife" is on their fifth album "The Sea of Memories".
Rossdale and Stefani married in 2002 and have two children together, Kingston, 6, and Zuma, 4. Both of their bands, No Doubt and Bush, broke out in the 1990s.
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Camino Waves
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An experimental pattern with waves of dropped stitches designed for colorful variegated yarns.
The sample was knit on 3.5mm/US4 needles with 50g/200m/220yds of Lang Jawoll Magic Dégradé Superwash 75% new wool, 25% nylon.
Difficulty level: difficult, due to large quantity of dropped stitches.
Dimensions of sample (with 3 repeats of wave chart):
approx. 17in/43cm wide x 30in/76cm in length.
Each repeat of the chart adds approx. 9.5in/24cm to the length. One ball of yarn will suffice for 5.5 or 6 repeats of the wave chart and a finished length of approx. 60in/150cm.
Allow 2 balls of yarn for a larger project.
Charted pattern with short written instructions.
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State government plays an important role in the lives of people across Massachusetts. From turning around low performing schools to making the health care system more cost-effective, from developing new approaches to reducing youth violence, to supporting job creation and economic development – state government is making a difference on critical issues that matter to the people it serves. Success on these issues in recent years stems in part from the unprecedented investment the Patrick-Murray Administration has made in these areas and that are prioritized in the FY2014 budget. However, how much money is spent by state government is not the benchmark this Administration uses to determine whether the state's goals have been achieved. Ultimately, it is the results of those investments that matter. Has school performance improved, has health care cost growth been contained, are kids safer in their neighborhoods, are jobs being created in all parts of the Commonwealth – those are the real tests of state government's success.
That is why as part of its FY2014 budget, the Patrick-Murray Administration is launching the MassResults initiative, which seeks to further embed a results-oriented culture in state government. In launching MassResults alongside the investments proposed in this budget, the Administration is making a further down payment towards changing the way state government does business.
MassResults aims to make state government more effective, more accountable and more open – building a results-oriented culture by:
Building a more results-oriented government is the specific charge of the Office of Commonwealth Performance, Accountability and Transparency (CPAT), which was created by the legislature in 2012 and housed within the Executive Office for Administration and Finance. CPAT has: directed the Administration's comprehensive strategic planning and performance management efforts; brought a greater level of coordination to federal grant management than ever before; led efforts to enhance controls to prevent and detect fraud, waste and abuse; and improved economic and caseload forecasting capabilities to enable state government to better predict and address fiscal impacts. CPAT will lead the MassResults initiative to make government more effective, accountable and open.
The first phase of the Administration's comprehensive strategic planning and performance management effort culminates with this budget. In February 2012, Governor Patrick signed Executive Order 540 to embed performance management across state government. Consistent with EO 540 and legislation (Chapter 165 of the Acts of 2012) signed by the Governor in July 2012, the Patrick-Murray Administration's FY2014 budget includes:
Articulating what success looks like and being held accountable for results is something that every resident should expect from state government. Together, the publication of strategies for the Governor's four priorities, the Secretariat strategic plans and the new all-funds program-based budget show the public not just how much state government is spending, but what it plans to achieve with these investments. This is something that state government has never done before and should never fail to do again.
Many state agencies have been using performance management practices to achieve better outcomes and improve service delivery. Already this year, the Department of Transportation (MassDOT) has conducted its first-ever public accountability meeting to share its results with interested residents. The Executive Office of Health and Human Services (EOHHS) revamped its EHS Results performance management system to measure progress across its agency clusters. The Executive Office of Housing and Economic Development (EOHED) led the development of business plans with outcome measures for all of its 18 public and quasi-public economic development agencies. And to support the spread of these practices, CPAT, in partnership with the Collins Center for Public Management at the University of Massachusetts in Boston (UMASS Boston), has trained more than 300 state managers in performance management techniques and implementation.
The Administration is committed to embedding performance management practices across state government. By setting clear goals and regularly using data and evidence to make better decisions, state agencies have achieved some notable successes. For example:
In addition to implementing performance management, the Patrick-Murray Administration has sought to change the way state services are paid for and delivered – requiring local and private partners to measure results, using incentives to reward success and pioneering the use of innovative funding models. Reforms to health care payment methods encompassed in the recently passed landmark health care cost containment legislation are but one such example. The Administration's Safe and Successful Youth grants program, which is aimed at reducing youth violence, has outcomes built into its grants and recipients are required to report regularly on progress meeting them. The state's accountability and assistance framework for elementary and secondary schools requires that turnaround plans for low-performing schools include measurable goals on indicators such as participation rates, educational attainment, college readiness and school culture.
Additionally, the Administration is finalizing a pay-for-success contract to reduce juvenile recidivism in the Youth Recidivism Project, outlined in more detail in "Positive Youth Development and Violence Prevention." Under the contract, the state will only pay when a successful intervention has been delivered by providers, using agreed upon data and performance measures to determine whether outcomes have been achieved. The Administration is also partnering with providers and funders to create stable housing for several hundred chronically homeless individuals, and is developing a similar pay-for-success mechanism to address this issue.
Beyond these signature initiatives, there are examples across state government of performance-based incentives being built into funding streams, grants and contracts for the delivery of vital state services. Examples include:
Further reforms to change the way state government pays for and delivers services have also been developed as part of the Governor's FY2014 budget. Building on the enactment of landmark reforms to the community college system last year, the Administration is proposing that community college funding become performance-based to reward better student outcomes, workforce development and the completion of certificates and degrees in fields of high employer need. The Administration is also seeking to provide incentives for local communities to improve their effectiveness and efficiency. A new incentive aid pool has been proposed to reward cities and towns for adopting better financial practices and policies and participating in performance management programs. Through these efforts, state government can stretch taxpayer dollars to get better results.
The Administration has also started to apply a results-oriented philosophy to tax expenditures – the provisions in the tax code that are designed to encourage certain kinds of activities or investments. In April 2013, the Tax Expenditure Commission, which was formed to study and recommend methods for measuring and reviewing the effectiveness of tax expenditures, charged CPAT and the Department of Revenue with identifying the public purpose and desired outcomes for each expenditure and to develop metrics for assessing tax expenditures' effectiveness at achieving these purposes and outcomes. The first part of this charge has been met, with public policy purposes and outcomes identified. These are now being vetted with stakeholders and legislators. Metrics and data are also being collected for a number of grant-like tax expenditures. This work will continue throughout 2013.
Consistent with EO 540, CPAT will lead the next phase of MassResults performance management efforts in 2013. These efforts include:
Today's fiscal reality demands that every taxpayer dollar is stretched as far as possible and utilized to its fullest extent. Three important elements of CPAT's charge are to better manage federal grants; provide leadership in program integrity efforts across state government; and use economic and caseload forecasting to better assess impacts on the state's finances.
The Federal Grants Management Office (FGMO) in CPAT was created after the state government's successful coordination of $7.5 B in additional funding through the America Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA). In managing ARRA funds, real time information was used to track usage and outcomes. This ensured ARRA funds were spent in a timely manner to create and retain jobs and support economic recovery.
Learning from ARRA is enabling the state to improve its management of the $16 B in annual state revenue that derives from federal funding. This includes identifying information gaps in how well federal grant funds are managed and spent. While spending from federal sources is accounted for, it was found that grant awards could be better coordinated and used more effectively. Additionally, better management of federal grants could enable deeper analysis of the effects of federal budget policies on state finances. To play this critical central oversight function and lay the foundation for more effective grants management, the FGMO has:
Going forward, the unit will continue to work to maximize federal awards, ensure federal funding is aligned with Administration priorities and that it best supports the goals state government is working to achieve.
Regardless of the source of funding, state government has an obligation to root out fraud, waste and abuse. CPAT's Program Integrity Unit has led efforts to share best practices across state government and enhance internal controls, including:
These efforts will support continued improvement and learning in preventing and detecting fraud, waste and abuse throughout state agencies.
To be more accountable and effective, state government must have a long-term outlook, particularly regarding its finances. CPAT's Economic and Caseload Forecasting Unit is helping state government develop that perspective by:
The Economic and Caseload Forecasting Unit will work to expand the Long-Term Fiscal Policy Framework, including estimating the impact of further federal deficit reduction policies and Affordable Care Act implementation. The unit also is taking on responsibilities related to the health care cost containment legislation in forecasting economic growth.
The Patrick-Murray Administration has been committed to an unprecedented level of transparency since it took office six years ago. At that time, Massachusetts was given a failing grade for sharing information on state spending with the public according to the Massachusetts Public Interest Research Group (MassPIRG). Since that time, the Commonwealth's transparency rating has steadily improved and MassPIRG gave the state an A- in 2012. Fulfilling a promise to build a more open government, the Administration, through CPAT, has created new tools and strategies to share more information than ever before on state governments' spending and performance.
The most important transparency initiative implemented in recent years is the Commonwealth's Open Checkbook. Launched in December 2011, the Open Checkbook provides the public with easy access to state spending information. During the last year, the Administration has continued to make enhancements to the site, adding new content such as information on 13 categories of tax credits. Since its launch, the Open Checkbook has received more than 420,000 hits and will continue to be an important source of spending data for residents of the Commonwealth.
In addition to the Open Checkbook, the presentation of the new program-based budget is a vital step forward in the Administration's transparency efforts. For too long, the presentation of the budget has been more about informing government insiders than engaging the public – satisfying accounting requirements as opposed to meeting democratic and civic demands. The program budget is part of efforts to make the budget more accessible and understandable to state residents. It sets out state spending in more detail than ever before, showing:
Building on the progress the Administration has made to make government more open, CPAT will do the following in 2013:
The Patrick-Murray Administration is committed to making government more effective, more accountable and more open. It recognizes however that changing the way government does business cannot occur through the actions of government officials alone – it requires the collaboration and support of an engaged citizenry. Ultimately the results achieved by government matter only if they are the results that people want to see.
Your ideas and insights are therefore essential to this effort so please visit the MassResults website: www.mass.gov/MassResults. There you will be able to find more information about this initiative and contact us with ideas and feedback.


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From: "Donna \(History Buff\) M. St. Felix" <>
Subject: [DNA] What to order? Dad's 92 & fading
Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2009 06:05:20 -0400
I'm in a real rush as my dad is 92 and fading fast. We give him just a few
weeks. He is the only male in his family line living and he had all
To order a DNA test to cover all possible, where do I go and what do I
order? I need to get all that can be done ASAP.
I did find a 'Super DNA' test at
http://www.familytreedna.com/products.aspx?type=Male but I'm not sure if I
need to order anything else or if this is the best place to go to.
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Girl Talk: Is This What Happiness Feels Like?
At 13, it was being the odd kid and Zoloft. At 16, dark self-loathing and Prozac. My 17th birthday brought parental issues and Celexa, while my 19th pushed me to anorexia and Prozac again. My early 20s: failed relationships, Effexor, Ativan, fear of getting nowhere, issues at work, and Lexapro. Long story short: I've never been a happy camper. True, depression does run in my family, but being diagnosed with it so young, it's come to be something that's part of my personality. Sometimes feeling sad would make sense because it would force me into isolation. There, I could concentrate on writing. Even if I wasn't very good at it, the time spent and the mindset it put me in seemed worth something. There have even been times that I've been thankful for my depression, knowing that years of therapy have taught me how to look at people and situations differently. (Although I've come to realize that having psychological epiphanies doesn't change scenarios, relationships, or how you feel.)
As a result of all this, I've largely lived my life in the future—either fantasizing about the next life transition that will finally make me the fabulous person I'm meant to be, or visualizing a lifestyle a few years down the road that doesn't involve antidepressants. Unsurprisingly, this often means crushing disappointment when the transition arrives and doesn't live up to my Disneyland standards, as well as meds freak-outs that prompt me to go cold turkey, only to desperately return to them a few months later.
What I want to write now is something like … and then something changed, but that's not quite right. There was no huge light switch or magical day when I woke up to birds singing. What actually happened was this: I got bored and gave in. I began Wellbutrin about a year ago, and when it seemed to be working a bit, I didn't say, "Well, now I can go off," but rather, "You might be on this drug for the rest of your life, so you should just shut up and stop reading ladymag articles about how it may make you fat or infertile." In my head, I let some aspirations go, and stopped agonizing over the disappointment in vanilla days where nothing eventful happened and I just went through the motions.
It began to feel peaceful inside when I expected less of myself—and of my depression.
In turn, I did end up completely changing my life, but slowly this time. The lack of self-obsession made the world seem less serious, and so I started doing the things I wanted to do: I left my job, and I moved an ocean away from everything, to France. Because, why not?
Weirdly, when I turned my life upside-down like this, I expected my traditional sadness and issues of loneliness to set in. Even warnings came from my friends and family: "You know, those first few months are going to be really hard, and you'll want to give up, but you have to ride through it! You're finally doing something for yourself, and from your heart. Don't self-sabotage." I agreed with them. But when a few weeks into things, I didn't experience those feelings, I became confused. Where was the anxiety and stress about my future? Why wasn't I freaking out about something, goddammit?
Could I actually be happy? I thought to myself one day. Let's see … these days I don't think I'm gorgeous, but I don't feel ugly either. I'm content with where I am professionally, and haven't felt guilty about not doing more. I don't have a boyfriend, but then again, do I really want one?
So, yes, for the first time in my life, I'm happy. Very happy. I wake up knowing that where I am in life is a great place to be, and I want to enjoy everything about it, rather than sulk in a corner. The biggest difference is that I want to feel this way, and learn how to keep the ball rolling for as long as possible.
Yet, I must admit the newness of being happy is a weird feeling. At times, I'm not quite sure how to handle it, because it certainly has changed my habits. I almost feel guilty about not having issues to deal with. I've also realized that I need to come up with new conversation topics. The ones I used to use with my girlfriends no longer seem relevant. ("Why is there no love in my life?"; "Why am I so stressed all the time?"; "Ugh … my day was so awful, let me detail every sucky second …").
But, I guess that if being happy is now my biggest issue to deal with, then I might actually get to know who I am. And maybe like who that is.


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