text:
Casaburo found herself thrust into the lineup after Savannah Buck picked up her fifth foul.
"I was scared to go in," Casaburo said. "I went in and was like, 'Crap.'"
With the Spartans down one with 55 seconds to go, Casaburo got the ball and, without thinking too much about it, threw up a three-pointer.
It went in.
"After I shot it, I was confident, but not at first," Casaburo said.
Just 30 seconds later with the game tied, Casaburo shot another three.
Casaburo's two late three-pointers, her only two shots of the game, proved pivotal in Homestead''s 81-80 victory over previously undefeated South Side.
"Cali played some quarters in the junior varsity game so she got warmed up then had to sit down for a while," Homestead coach Rod Parker said. "To be able to come in like that, be in the game for 10 seconds and hit a shot with us down one, then hit another one … I am really proud of her."
South Side (5-1) would cut it to one again with 17 seconds left, but a pair of free throws by Sydney Buck put the Spartans back up three. The Archers then turned the ball over on the in-bounds play by stepping over the end line and Homestead hit a free throw to go up four.
A three-pointer at the buzzer by the Archers trimmed the lead to one, but it was too late.
The Spartans pulled off the huge win without a single senior on the floor. Emily Bley once again sat out nursing her ACL injury. After playing limited minutes against New Haven last week, Parker felt it was wise to rest the senior against the Archers.
"We knew this game would be physical," Parker said. "Knowing Emily, she would push herself beyond what the knee was ready for."
Homestead (6-1) appeared well on its way to routing the Archers even without Bley, hitting 10-of-12 shots in the first quarter to open up a 14-point lead.
The advantage would swell to as many as 17 points before South Side's pressure defense and Simmons' scoring and rebounding prowess brought the Archers back in the second half.
Leading the way was sophomore Josie Fisher, who finished with 31 points, 10 rebounds and six assists to lead the Spartans.
"Josie just played absolutely great," Parker said. "Along with Simmons, those two were the best players on the floor. Everything we did this week that we thought we had to do to beat South Side centered around Josie because she is such a playmaker."
The Archers struggled from the field in the first half and with turnovers. Simmons was held to just six first-half points, but turned it on after the break and finished with 28 to lead South Side.
But in the end, it was a young reserve who stole the show.
"To go into a game like that and without hesitation pull off two big shots for us is great," Parker said about Casaburo. "We always talk about your opportunity, it may come setting a screen, it may be hitting a free throw or it may be hitting a big shot.
"She got her opportunity (Tuesday) and took advantage of it."


text:
Always a tremendous letter writer, Sister Virginia McMonagle wrote friends to let them know she was leaving her job as director of constituent relations at the University of San Diego to help start an orphanage in Haiti. In her notes, she wrote, "One never knows what God has up His divine sleeve. This time 'tis myself!"
From the moment she arrived in Port-au-Prince in early 1988 to establish the mission of NPH Haiti with the Rev. William Wasson, the Sacred Heart Roman Catholic nun declared herself "totally hooked." She developed educational programs and was particularly devoted to the sickest children, often arranging for them to come to San Diego to receive medical care at Rady Children's Hospital. Ultimately, she spent six months of the year at USD and six months in Haiti, a schedule that lasted into the 1990s.
Sister McMonagle died after a brief illness on Easter Sunday at Oakwood Retirement Center in Atherton. She was 91.
"She was generous and fun-loving, a woman of deep faith and frequent prayer, always optimistic," said the Rev. Richard Frechette from the mission in Haiti. "She was a committed friend to the poor, and also had many lifelong friendships with people with phenomenal resources.
"Sister knew how to connect the dots, get things done, and have fun in the process. Virginia was an enormous gift to all of us."
Sister McMonagle first came to San Diego County in 1957 when she was assigned to be mistress general for the Academy of the Sacred Heart in El Cajon. The school was so new that students were expected to bring their own camp stools to furnish the empty classrooms.
"She was very charismatic, the students just loved her," said Sister Virginia Rodee, a Sacred Heart teacher in 1961. "She was always intent that the girls have fun.
"Sister McMonagle used to love to spring a congé, like a free day, on them. Students would be ready to go to class, in uniform with their books, and she would announce this surprise congé with wonderful food and fun games."
Betsy Manchester, one of Sister McMonagle's first pupils at the El Cajon school, forged a lifelong friendship with the nun, calling her a "beautiful mentor."
"She was one of those earth angels," Manchester said.
Virginia Rose McMonagle was born Aug. 9, 1921, in Roslyn, Wash., the eldest of three to George and Rose Tierney McMonagle. She attended the Forest Ridge School of the Sacred Heart in Seattle, where she first met the Society of the Sacred Heart.
While at the San Francisco College for Women, where she earned bachelor's and master's degrees in English, she felt the call to religious life. On Aug. 24, 1940, she entered the Society of the Sacred Heart at Kenwood, Albany, N.Y., and pronounced her first vows on May 1, 1943.
Her first job was at Forest Ridge, where she was a teacher, assistant principal and head of the boarding school.
After her El Cajon directorship, she returned to Forest Ridge in 1963 as principal, responsible for overseeing the school's move from Seattle to Bellevue, Wash. Proving to be an accomplished fundraiser, she raised the money for 129 acres and the buildings.
That acumen brought her back to San Diego in 1972 to be director of development at USD. Over the next 30 years, she served on advisory boards and constituent groups and lived in an apartment among the students.
She had a keen sense of adventure her whole life, friends said. That included a wanderlust that often involved no itinerary or hotel reservations, just a plane ticket and a rental car.
"We just went with the wind," said Laura Nottoli, her longtime executive assistant at USD and traveling companion. Their sojourns included the Mediterranean, Hawaii, Haiti and Northern Ireland to see the McMonagle ancestral home, Doe Castle.
"When we got there, it was roped off for restoration," Nottoli said. "Sister looked at me and said, 'I didn't come all this way and wait 75 years to not be able to see my family's castle.'
"Then she hopped the barricade. She immediately charmed the man on the property and we ended up having a private tour of the castle. That's the kind of fun she was."
Sister McMonagle was predeceased by her sister, Marguerite McMonagle, also a religious of the Sacred Heart, and brother George McMonagle, a Jesuit brother.
A memorial Mass will be held at 1:30 p.m. April 27 at the Oakwood Retirement Center in Atherton. A Mass will also be held at 12:15 p.m. May 1 in the Founders Chapel at the University of San Diego.
Memorial contributions may be made to the Society of the Sacred Heart, 4120 Forest Park Ave., St. Louis, Mo., 63108.

subset: commoncrawl


text:
Category: how to pick a middle name
No sooner had we declared the death of such old-style middle names as Ann, John, and Marie – mere connective tissue between the first name and the last – than we started seeing the rise of a whole new generation of undistinguished middle names.
There are now officially enough little girls with the middle name Rose, thank you very much, and so too have we heard an awful lot of Grace, James, Claire, Lee, and Rae for girls, Ray for boys.
Granted, middle names are not as important as first names and may be rarely used after the birth announcements are printed. But that's no reason to default to whatever's easiest. In fact, the middle can be the perfect place to use a name that's more meaningful and distinctive than one you dare put in first place.
Here, some places to find distinctive middle names:
— HONOR THY MOTHER, THY FATHER, AND THY GREAT-UNCLE – If your family is barging into the baby-naming act, make peace by using a family name in the middle. My husband and I used both grandmothers' names as middle names for our daughter, for instance, and revived a great-great-grandpa's distinguished but eccentric name as our older son's middle name.


text:
Cleveland Browns coach Pat Shurmur and general manager Tom Heckert are expected to part ways with the organization or be fired by Monday, NFL sources told The (Cleveland) Plain Dealer.
The Browns are under new ownership (Jimmy Haslam) and have a new CEO (Joe Banner). A shakeup was expected after the sale of the team to Haslam was approved, Banner was hired and former team president Mike Holmgren departed.
Banner had told reporters last week that a decision on Shurmur and Heckert's future with the franchise would come quickly after the season.
Shurmur and Heckert both know they will be gone following Sunday's game against the Pittsburgh Steelers, even though they hadn't yet been informed, sources told the newspaper.
Shurmur has a 9-22 record in two seasons heading into the 2012 season finale. The Browns have had one of the youngest rosters in the league this season; 26 players have less than two years' experience, the Plain Dealer noted.
Multiple reports have named former Browns personnel executive Michael Lombardi, currently an analyst for the NFL Network, as a possible replacement for Heckert.
New England Patriots offensive coordinator Josh McDaniels and Alabama coach Nick Saban have been linked to the potential head coach opening, according to reports. Saban is staying put, however, sources told the Plain Dealer. Saban was a Browns assistant under Bill Belichick from 1991 to 1994.
Last week, the Browns hired Alec Scheiner to be the new team president.
The Browns are expected to be one of several teams to dismiss coaches and/or general managers early this week.


text:
GeoIP Tutorial: CMS
In this chapter of the SiteGround's GeoIP tutorial we will familiarize you with GeoIP solutions for several of the most popular CMS (Content Management Systems).
GeoIP in Joomla
Joomla is probably the most widely used open-source CMS in the world. Its latest branch is 1.5.x. You can find our detailed Joomla 1.5 tutorial at:
Here at SiteGround we have developed a Joomla 1.5 module based on the GeoIP API. Its name is jGeoIPFilter and it allows you to filter the requests towards your web site based on the GeoIP database.Once the module is published, it will recognize the visitors' countries based on their IPs. The country code and the flag will be shown in the web site's front end.
The module can be downloaded from the following location:
The SiteGround jGeoIPFilter module can be installed in the same way as every standard Joomla 1.5 extension.Detailed instructions on how to install a Joomla 1.5 extension can be found in our comprehensive Joomla 1.5 tutorial:http://www.siteground.com/tutorials/joomla15/joomla_extensions.htm
The module can be enabled from the Joomla administrator area -> Extensions -> Module Manager.
You can adjust the module parameters.
In the Title field you can enter the module title. Below you will find the Show Title radio buttons.
Through them you can define whether the module title will be visible on your web site.
Next, you can enable or disable the module.
You can also pick its position according to the standard positions defined in Joomla.
The Menu Assignment section allows you to pick the menus where the module will be assigned.
You can change the access level. This is a standard Joomla option. The default one is set to Public.
This means that everyone has access to the item. The Registered option gives access only to registered users and the Special option allows only users with author status or higher to access the item.
The parameters of the SiteGround jGeoIPFilter module are:
- GeoIP Database File - Defines the location of the GeoIP database file. The path is relative to your Joomla installation folder.
- Filter by country - Here you can select the countries with the filtered access to your web site. You can pick multiple countries by holding the Ctrl keyboard key.
- Proxy Filter - You can decide whether requests from proxy servers to be accepted.
- Filter Action - The possible filter actions are to display 403 Forbidden or 404 Not found error messages, to redirect the visitor to a new site or to perform no actions.
- Redirect URL - Here you can enter the URL to which the filtered visitor should be redirected.The advanced parameters are:Module Class Suffix - A suffix to be applied to the CSS class of the module.
- This will allow an individual module styling. Invisible mode - By enabling it any output generated by the module is suppressed.
- Caching - Defines whether the module content will be cached.
- Cache Time - The period in minutes before the module is re-cached.
The access to the administrator area is not filtered. Even if you filter the access from your own country you still will be able to log in your Joomla's administrator area.
GeoIP in WordPress
WordPress is the most popular blog-oriented php open-source application. Detailed instructions regarding the script installation and maintenance can be found at:
The GeoIP plugin for WordPress is called WP GeoLocation. It can be downloaded from the following URL:
The plugin can be installed as a standard WordPress extension:
Once the WP GeoLocation plugin is installed and activated you can include the following short-code calls in your posts:
- [mmjs-countrycode] - returns the ISO 3166-2 country code
- [mmjs-countryname] - returns the country name
- [mmjs-city] - returns the city name
- [mmjs-region] - returns the ISO 3166-2 country code (state or province abbreviation)
- [mmjs-regionname] - returns the region name
- [mmjs-lat] - returns latitude
- [mmjs-long] - returns longitude
- [mmjs-postalcode] - returns post/zip code
- [mmjs-ip] - returns ip address
Also, you can include the corresponding Javascript variables directly in your WordPress template code.
If you want to visualize the geographical information for the visitors in the header of your web site you should edit the wp-content/themes/YOUR_THEME/header.php file. Replace the YOUR_THEME string with your actual WordPress theme.
Find the
<?php bloginfo('description'); ?>
 line and below enter the following code:

Location:


text:
- Doctors
- California
- Redwood City
- Ophthalmologists
- Dr. L. Scott Feiler
You may also like
Ratings for Dr. L. Scott Feiler
I just got done reading all the reviews and most are very negative, and I can't help vut wonder if they're confusing the two dr Feilers bc I've experienced alot of these complaints with the one based out of San Mateo. I started seeing the RWC based dr Feiler a few yrs ago when I had an ulceration and of course the other dr fieler had no time for me. This one however put me in durring his lunch break and numbed my eye gave me the proper meds in a sample and new contacts also in sample form. His staff is fantastic. The dr. is great. Yes he went in on his whole LASIK speech, but that was only after I brought up wanting to have it. I never ever have problems with getting an appt. My wait time isn't any longer then any other doctor's appt. Yes the office is small but that's not really worth complaining about. To sum it up with the exception of the eye doctor I saw as a kid he is by far my favorite!
I was referred to Dr Feiler by a friend who has worked with different doctors over the years and had even interned at a pretty well-known clinic in Hollywood. He assured me that he's seen more positive results post-lasik with Dr Feiler than with other doctors. I took his word for it and has not been disappointed. Every visit was easy breezy (though probably helps that I always go see him pre- or post- rush hours) and he's knowledgeable in a lot of areas. At my first visit, I was concerned about a cyst I had in my left eye. While unrelated to my lasik surgery, he gladly answered my questions relating to the cyst. I had went to Kaiser 4 times (=4 copays) prior, each time being referred to a PA or NP and none of them could give me an answer. Dr Feiler advised that I try warm compress instead and it should resolve, since the position of the cyst would require an outside incision to remove it and could possibly leave a scar. So I heeded his advise and the cyst went away.
I came here as a VSP first-time patient. Front desk was helpful and courteous. Met with Dr. Caul, who was fantastic, made me feel comfortable, did a great job providing a thorough eye exam, and even gave me her email address. That was worth the slight wait to see her. Afterwards waited a little more before meeting with Dr. Feiler, who was pleasant, conversational, and only briefly mentioned laser correction surgery but didn't push it. All in all, I felt very well taken care of and comfortable, with personal attention that is well worth the slight waiting periods. I'm not quite sure where all the poor ratings are coming from, but my visit was fantastic.
i can in and it was empty just a few people not a long wait.the doctor was very nice and explained everything to me. gr8 job keep it up
My parents had seen Dr. Feiler for more than 10 years. My father complained of vision problems so we scheduled a visit. The visit took almost 2 hours, we saw the Dr. for only a few minutes and were given new prescriptions. The new glasses were no improvement. We took the glasses back and were told the prescription was correct. Dr. Feiler, after some discussion, told me my father was simply at an age where they could not offer him any improvement. My father had kept 12 glasses that he had received from Dr. Feiler over the years. The doctors own technician examined all of them (including the new ones) and was unable to put them in any chronological order or even identify the oldest or newest ones. The technician told us all the glasses had exactly the same prescription. I asked both the doctor and the technician why my father had received exactly the same prescription on a dozen glasses over the years. I never got an answer to that question.
This was the single worst doctor I have ever been too. I was in the office for over 2 hours for a simple eye exam. I was with the doctor for less than 5 minutes of this time, the rest was waiting.He also has his technicians do most of the work. He had a terrible rushed attitude, and gave me an incorrect contact prescription. The office is also very shabby and out dated. I think it use to be a small house. I would NEVER recommend this doctor to my family and friends. I felt this visit was a complete waste of time and money. Overall I would rate this visit : AWFUL!
Absolutely terrible practice. I went to their location with an appointment for a contact lens fitting, After a 2 hour wait (for which no apology was given) they were rude and curt when they finally saw me. They then attempted to give me, and charge me for, a complete eye exam which I had clearly had 1 week earlier. We exchanged words and I walked out 10 minutes into the exam when I realized I have been misled. After this incident I recieved bills several times for the visit, despite everything, and only got them to stop with threats of a lawyer.
Dr. Feiler's office is really small and old. I think it is a converted house. His staff is pleasant enough, but the exam felt rushed and all his equipment is really old. His glasses selection is very poor and his optician was very rude to me and did not know what my insurance covered. Overall an OK experience but not great.
He did a wonderful job on my eye with laser correction. No more glasses!!
Dr. L. Scott Feiler's Credentials
Facility Affiliations
Accepting New Patients
- University Of Michigan Medical School (Grad. 1971)
Other Specialties
Areas of Expertise
Awards & Recognitions
Publications & Research
Insurance accepted by this Doctor
Top Hospitals in Redwood City, CA
Find a Doctor by Specialty
Featured News
You may also like
Top Ophthalmologists
#1 of 12
#2 of 12
#3 of 12
#4 of 12
#5 of 12


text:
ANN ARBOR, Mich. Borders announced the addition of the new Kobo Wireless e-reader to its digital assortment that now includes an industry leading selection of seven e-reading devices.
Borders' said its new Kobo Wireless e-reader comes with a built-in wireless connection, upgraded hardware in three new colors and a new processor that drives faster page turns. According to the company, the lightweight e-reader is available in three sleek color combinations: onyx, porcelain with a metallic silver back and porcelain with a pearlized lilac back.
The new Kobo Wireless e-reader allows consumers to browse more than 1.5 million books in the Borders eBook store and update their digital library wirelessly, directly from the e-reader device, a smartphone or the Borders Desktop Application, the company reported. In addition, customers can add documents using an SD card, Adobe Digital Editions, or drag-and-drop.
Priced at $139.99, the device can be pre-ordered beginning today at www.borders.com/kobowifi and will be available for purchase in Borders stores by the end of October, the company reported.
"We are committed to offering our customers the best of the physical book and eReading worlds," said Mike Edwards, CEO of Borders, Inc. "For decades readers have known Borders as a trusted destination for exploring and discovering traditional paper books — and now as the only major book chain with a comprehensive selection of e-readers and digital content, we are meeting our customers' reading needs on all fronts. Nowhere else can you browse a selection of more than 82,000 paper books, walk over to Area-e, our new digital hub, where you test drive a variety of e-reading devices, and then search for your next favorite book in our e-bookstore.


text:
You're seeing this message because you're using an older version of Internet Explorer that is unsupported on our website. Please use these links to upgrade to a modern web browser that fully supports our website and protects your computer from security risks.
Registration for graduate students is conducted using the PAWS web-based registration system. Visit the Registrar's Office Registration Overview page for complete registration information and up-to-date lists of course offerings.


text: Politics 17 December 2012 The Vagenda Christmas gift guide - for those tired of clichés and stereotypes Why not eschew the rhinestone-encrusted dusting pan or the "motoring boys' toy" in favour of something the recipient might actually like? Sign up for our weekly email * Print HTML There was a time when all anyone wanted for Christmas was their two front teeth, but in the last twenty years, gift demands from the music world have undoubtedly accelerated. Mariah Carey famously wanted you (yes, YOU! Er, and you, and you, and you) something which sounds like quite an understated demand when put in the context of her pimptastic New York abode as seen by millions of awestruck viewers on MTV Cribs, but starts to seem like a big ask when you put the merely financial aside. Meanwhile, the Victoria's Secret Angels have appeared in their annual yuletide advert, dressed in the requisite festive uniform of Santa hats and not much else, imploring the innocent shopper to give up their love and dignity for a glimpse of their stocking-clad body. This ends up with them making the kind of Christmas demands that, let's face it, women who don't look like Miranda Kerr in red lingerie (hello there! Pleased to meet you) would worry made them seem a little, well, needy ("tell me you want me", "delight me", "dazzle me"). Playing it cool they most certainly are not. Whatever's on your Christmas list this year, it goes without saying that this whole business of gifting is worryingly fraught, whether you're a taxpayer trying to avoid using Amazon in protest (incidentally, isn't it wonderful how, in light of the mass boycott of Starbucks this year, there are barely any gingerbread latte Instagram shots being posted to Facebook by smug fucks?) or a feminist trying to avoid your goddaughter's increasingly persistent demands for a Barbie. Everyone knows the festive season provides the perfect excuse to make everyone else aware of your personal principles – perhaps by buying you a goat for an African village or donating your present money to a homeless shelter. And while that might cause a fraction of disappointment on the face of the sister who expected a pair of GHDs, it remains a preferable alternative to the stress of trying to find that perfect gift to encapsulate the recipient's personality, a quest which is almost always fruitless and inevitably ends with the ubiquitous panic-bought scented candle - something everyone knows is the Holy Grail of last resorts for the person you just don't love enough. Which is where the Christmas Gift Guide comes in. In recent years it has become something of a festive tradition, inhabiting as we do a hollow capitalistic society devoid of any real sentiment or genuine emotion. Every year, magazines and newspapers will step in to assist helpless and overwhelmed little you in your quest for seasonal stocking fillers, with a big dollop of help from the people representing all the products that need pushing in time for 25 December. OK, so none of these people have any knowledge of the inner workings of your sister-in-law's personality, but they never let that stop them. Christmas gift guides have the answer to everything, mainly because they have the 'helpful' tendency of breaking down entirety of the human race into easy categories. Thus your dad, an agoraphobic introverted Luddite with allergies, becomes "the gardener", "the gadget lover", or "the foodie", and your mum gets "glamour puss", "fashionista", or "domestic goddess". Granted, both sexes are being subjected to serious gender affirmation here, and in a sense capitalism takes no prisoners, but more often not the hypothetical magazine bloke ends up with an iPad or something that opens booze while, (if you're following the Independent gift guide at least) the lady gets a bloody kettle. A kettle. For Christmas. Follow the signage in your local M&S, meanwhile, and, come the morning of Christmas Day, we the vaginally-possessed could be lucky enough to receive the kind of floral tat that even Cath Kidson rejected as too twee - or, failing that, a decorative plaque bearing the legend "Baking in Progress!". The Guardian has a ring with a fuzzy kitten attached for the lady in your life, and the Telegraph is chockablock with "motoring boys' toys" and "gifts for the hostess" (while simultaneously going all self-parodic on us with a "worst Christmas gifts" guide as well.) But even these have nothing on the Tesco-recommended "whoopie pie maker". Just what a "whoopie pie" is remains shrouded in esoteric mystery, but we have it on good authority that it is to replace the cupcake as the Baked Good That Women Should Be Losing Their Shit Over come 2013, which is why we'll be using the term to refer to our genitalia from now on. If you're pre-pubescent, the results of your parents paying heed to a present guide or the recommendations of a toy shop can be even more terrifying. Dolls will always be high on the agenda for little girls, and the Lottie doll is apparently set to overtake Barbie this year on "cool factor" - she doesn't have an oversized rack that would crush her internal organs if she were alive, but she still wears pink while riding her pony on "super cute" outings. The majority of stores separate their wares by "girl" and "boy" toys, despite some excellent and successful campaigning this year to separate toys by function rather than by gender in some of the UK's biggest retailers, and this often continues to mean "things that kill things" versus "things that simulate housework". Meanwhile, even literature isn't safe, with sex-specific adventure books like The Dangerous Book for Boys ("building go-karts and electromagnets, identifying insects and spiders, and flying the world's best paper aeroplanes") and The Daring Book for Girls ("friendship bracelets, cats' cradle, the perfect cartwheel [and] the eternal mystery of what boys are thinking") making a resurgence, big-time. Happily, some parents and kiddie marketers are biting back, with innovations like the Goldiebox - an interactive toy that aims to foster engineering skills in girls - quickly accelerating in popularity. Victories like these can make the battle to the counter on Christmas Eve all seem worth it in the end. And over at Vagenda Towers (not a real place yet, but set to be the only non-phallic building on the London skyline in years to come), we've got our own little Christmas list that we're hoping Mrs Claus might be kind enough to fulfill. Top of the list, just before nuclear disarmament, has to be something small but bad to happen to the editorial team at UniLad (the site that "recommended" date rape because most sexual assault goes unreported.) Perhaps they become so heavily magnetised that every computer they touch explodes, which would be a fitting Christmas gift to the entire internet and probably society in general. Additionally, it would be just delightful if David Cameron was made to wear a dress and attend feminist book groups in Hebden Bridge for the rest of the year. And if the next Dr Who could turn out to be a time-travelling woman who liberally quotes Germaine Greer, that would just put the icing on the Christmas cake for both of us. Ultimately, you can't please 'em all - and we doubt the BBC will really be slipping a line from The Female Eunuch into their yuletide Dr Who special - but it's worth keeping your eye out for the worst examples of gender stereotyping while you trudge around Westfield this December. Because every step we move away from Barbie's pink palace of patronising is a step towards taking everyone else seriously, regardless of sex. Turn your back on the Christmas gift guide this year and dare to relinquish the cliché that's even a fraction less innocuous than a tangerine in the bottom of your stocking. Because of all the traditions worth acknowledging this season, the rhinestone-encrusted dusting pan (seriously) definitely shouldn't get a look in. › How hard-working is that Tory family? What could it be? Image: giftsgreat.com Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett and Holly Baxter are co-founders and editors of online magazine, The Vagenda. Subscribe from just £1 per issue More Related articles The National Trust is right to bring gay history out of the closet I hate musicals. Apart from Guys and Dolls, South Pacific, Follies – oh, wait From war and slavery to prison – life inside an immigration detention centre Subscription offer 12 issues for £12 + FREE book LEARN MORE Close This week's magazine


text:
Hi, I got to visit LV back in 2010, and then was able to come back again this month. Very nice town!
As we drove up 84 south of town in 2010, I noted a building or structure being constructed, and I saw a couple weeks ago that it is apparently still being built. It's about 30 miles south of town.
I got a couple good photos of it from the road. What is this? I thought at first it was a church or something like that, but on a closer view I don't think so. The photos are at the following links.
Any insight would be appreciated.
Cheers, Bill
The structure in the photograph is not the Scientology facility. It is an earthwork project of the New York artist Charles Ross. Ross has been working on this project for the last 40 years and says it is nearing completion. Star Axis is an architectonic earth/star sculpture constructed with the geometry of the stars; earth-to-star alignments built to human scale. It offers an intimate experience of how the earth's environment extends into the space of the stars.
Ross is known for using sunlight and starlight as the source for his art. According to his web site, he creates creates large-scale prisms to project solar spectrum into architectural spaces; focuses sunlight into powerful beams to create solar burn works; draws the quantum behavior of light with dynamite; and works with a variety of other media including photography and video.
His work is featured in Las Vegas on the campuses of Highlands University and the United World College.
The Scientology facility is northeast of this structure by many miles. I do not believe it is visible from any paved road, although I have heard that commercial airline passengers and pilots see it from the air.
Look for Star Axis at Staraxis.com
Harold, thanks for the information. I checked out the website; that's an interesting project being built.
I appreciate it.
A Church of Scientology Compound. They are building on it, so it looks different now than it did a few years ago.. not sure what the new part shown in your pictures is... see some of these related links..
News Station -- http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=5&ved=0CGgQ...
More if you google..... Boy Scouts Rocks!!!
Questions: If you're headed towards Las Vegas from Santa Fe, will it be on the right or left side of the road? East or west of Ribera? East or west of Glorieta? East or west of Starvation Peak?
Hi, David. I was on 84 coming from I-40 north to Las Vegas.
The road location is 35.24631, -105.11 (N35 14' 48.3 W105 6' 37.6).
From using Bing/Google maps, the structure itself is at 35.26446, -105.08724 (N 35 15' 52" W 105 5' 14.1").
I appreciate the help.
Thanks for the coordinates. Now I have a better idea of where to look. While I'm on the subject, how did we ever get by without GPS? Well, first you walk down that arroyo about half a mile 'til you get to this dead Piñon tree. Then you walk to the rusty car door that is leaning up against a rock. Then you look up across the valley and there it is about two miles away. If you squint real hard, you can barely see it….


text:
Green Bay's shutdown cornerback featured in white jersey...
For a great selection of sports action figures and collectibles, check out BigBadToyStore.com, ToyDorks.com, ToyWiz.com, Urban-Collector.com, and BriansToys.com.
To insure your action figure collection, get in touch with our sponsor Collectibles Insurance.
Charles Woodson (the 2009 NFL Defensive Player of the Year) makes his McFarlane Toys SportsPicks debut in NFL Series 25 with a pair of Collector Level figures, one in Oakland's black uniform and one in Green Bay's green uniform. Now there's another opportunity for NFL collectors and Packer fans alike to get their own Charles Woodson figure through SportsFigs.com and their exclusive Charles Woodson figure, featuring him in Green Bay's white uniform.
This exclusive figure is in stock now.
Source: Edited McFarlane PR


text:
I need help with fishing bass. I fish out on a pond where my mom lives over on the northwest side of indy by eagle creek. The only thing I've ever caught bass with are 2 and 3 inch Rapala minnow grey/black crankbaits.
Now my issue is that I catch between 1-3 per day despite sometimes fishing for 5-7 hours sometimes. I don't know what I'm doin wrong, live worms don't work, fake worms don't work, fake crawfish don't work.
P.S. have no clue how to rig lines.


text:
What is up with the defense, not containing the outside, and not breaking down, OSU should have punted by now.
'); var yuipath = 'clientscript/yui'; var yuicombopath = ''; var remoteyui = false; } else // Load Rest of YUI remotely (where possible) { var yuipath = 'http://yui.yahooapis.com/2.9.0/build'; var yuicombopath = 'http://yui.yahooapis.com/combo'; var remoteyui = true; if (!yuicombopath) { document.write('
What is up with the defense, not containing the outside, and not breaking down, OSU should have punted by now.
Why so SERIOUS
Why so SERIOUS
That was a stupid play on 3&5, I just do not get it, I really hope we do not lose this game. I would have really preferred if we would have left Trebush in the game actually.
I forgot our guy did not get out of bounds either, and also if were were going to run a play like that we should have ran it to a side where Siller could have been blocking.
Why so SERIOUS
Hell yes, man I knew the TD would happen, we have to play better in those situations, now hopefully we can have Wiggs finally convert on a long FG, I hope we put in Terbush instead of Mavre.
Why so SERIOUS
And this is what the HELLLLLL I am talking about, wtf
Why so SERIOUS
If Mavre turns this over Hope should be fired, just saying.
Why so SERIOUS
Honestly, neither of these QBs is great...Marve is higher risk-higher reward...
Last edited by dal9; 11-12-2011 at 04:36 PM.
I get home from work and we're in OT with OSU?! What the hell's happening? TerBush hurt or Hope's just going with Marve?
That is for everyone who said we had "NO chance" against OSU, extremely happy right now.....
Why so SERIOUS
Gotta feel good for Marve after his career
Why so SERIOUS
Got very lucky on the XP, had a few good drives, and OSU offense is incredibly bad (although we even stopped their run today, which was a pleasant surprise).
If he beats IU, Hope deserves another year, I would have to say.
Ohio State's now 2-4 in their last 6 trips to WL
OSU sucks this year, but you guys seem to have their number even when they are good. I am actually glad to see you guys win. Some team in Indiana has to keep the pride up. Plus I live in the thick of Ohio State country and I love seeing these people freak out after every loss. Congrats on saving Hope's job for another year!
Meh, Hope'd probably be back next year regardless, his contract goes through 2014 and unless Morgan Burke leaves before then we're stuck with Hope until at least through next season if not 2 more seasons. Going to the Burlington Coat Factory Bowl or something probably doesn't make a difference.
I checked his Wikipedia article to make sure about the contract length, there's a section on "worst defensive performance in Purdue history," the Wisconsin game a few weeks ago.
Volleyball swept #2 Nebraska Saturday night too.
You guys certainly cut it close tonight...
I can't decide if I am glad I had an exam during the game or not. It is sad that is was even close, but I guess it was an exciting game.
I've got a shitload of complaints about that High Point game but it's late/early and I'm not going to type them out. Just a memo to Matt Painter, since I know he's reading, you can score points inside of 20 feet. Win's a win and all that, but that was pathetic.
Free throw shooting was awful too. Robbie was shooting free throws at 11:30 last night. I don't think we can count on Ryne to save us very often...
Really disappointed with the final score, but Robbie was outstanding again. Ryne looked great.
I wouldn't be too worried. Close score, but a win is a win. You guys had a lot of turnover from last year and it will take some time to gel.
Many more performances like this and Hale will be playing.
The Boilers have a lot of work to be done as was seen last night. A win is a win though...albeit an ugly win.
[/center]If you havin' depth problems, I feel bad for you son; I got 99 problems but a bench ain't one! - Hicks


text:
What's your toddler's personality type?
Knowing this could impact your parenting style more than you realise. more
The flu (influenza) is a highly contagious virus that affects the respiratory system. It is most common in winter and should not be confused with the common cold.
The flu is an air-borne virus. You can catch it when someone with the flu releases droplets from their throat or nose (this can happen while sneezing, coughing or even talking) into the air.
Basic hygiene and good old-fashioned common sense will go a long way to protecting your child from falling ill. You'll have a better chance of flu-proofing your child if you teach him to:
Coming down with the flu is an unpleasant experience for everyone but for children, particularly young children, who are unable to articulate their symptoms, it pays to keep a close eye on their general health at all times during flu season, as they can quickly become unwell once the first symptoms of flu appear. Symptoms can include:
Children may also experience nausea, vomiting and diarrhoea.
When a family member is unwell with the flu, you can limit the spread of the illness to other family members by these simple steps:
The flu vaccine offers protection against influenza infection and must be given every year as each year the influenza virus changes. It is recommended that children under 9 years receive two doses of flu vaccine at least one month apart when receiving the flu vaccine for the first time to receive the maximum protection.
You cannot catch the flu from the flu vaccine. The vaccine is made of dead flu viruses and transmission of the illness in this way is not possible.
With reported cases of swine flu increasing across Australia, it's easy to become concerned about the potential risks this flu outbreak may cause you and your family. The best things you can do to protect your family against swine flu are:
Most cases of swine are mild and can be treated at home like other forms of seasonal flu. Potentially, any strain of the flu can be fatal. The young, the old, pregnant women, as well as those living with chronic illnesses are particularly vulnerable to flu-related complications.
This article was written by Ella Walsh for Kidspot - Australia's leading website for kids health. Sources include WA Govt's Dept of Health
Last revised: Monday, 1 June 2009
This article contains general information only and is not intended to replace advice from a qualified health professional.


text: Over the next two weeks, the Colts travel to improving Kansas City and then host Minnesota on Monday Night Football the following week. All three teams have explosive offfenses and suspect defenses. What the hell do you make of the next two weeks for the Colts? I certainly believe the Colts can win both, but losing each is not out of the question.


text:
Join our newsletter for new products, special offers, and more!
Enter email address
Sell your stuff or turn those old games into new!
Don't see what you're looking for? Create a Want List!
Partner with the Knight!
Publisher of Dragon Hordes, a "sweeping battle game." Also publishes card games, role-playing products, and collectible dice games.


text:
1. They're a fresh way to dabble in masculine chic. They've got tons of charm--plus fun details like metallic finishes and animal prints--and unlike boyfriend jeans, you'll never have to worry that they make you look fat.
2. You can find one to suit any aesthetic. Penny loafers have prep appeal. Oxfords give you a polished cool-kid vibe. And smoking slippers are all about relaxed glamour.
3. Did we mention that they're flat? So you can work in them, walk in them, live in them. That sound you hear is your feet cheering!
Loafers, Coach, $188; coach.com. Shirt, Joe's, $148; joesjeans.com. Sweater, Boden, $78; bodenusa.com. Bracelet, Wanderlust + Co, $40; wanderlustandco.com. Pants, Reiss, $230; reissonline.com.
Rhianna gets comfy in loafers.
Reese Witherspoon's Cute & Casual Mom Style


text:
After 80% of cold sore sufferers admitted they've cancelled dates due to outbreaks, experts explain why the nasty mouth sores occur - and how to deal with them so you're ready to pucker up on Valentine's Day.
By Lisa Salmon.
If there's one thing that will stop you puckering up on Valentine's Day, it's a nasty cold sore on your lip.
They may be small - and often barely noticeable to others - but to the sufferer they can seem huge, and very obvious.
Indeed, a survey by skincare company Skin Shop found that cold sores had ruined at least one Valentine's Day for 30% of respondents, while 80% had cancelled dates due to outbreaks, and 40% said they'd rather risk getting dumped than go out with such an affliction.
The reality is, however, that if sufferers were brave enough to go on their dates, their partners would probably sympathise, as the Herpes Viruses Association (HVA) estimate that by the age of 25, 60% of people will have become infected with the herpes simplex (HSV) type 1 virus that most commonly causes cold sores.
How do you catch them?
The virus is very much a kissing disease, passed on by mouth-to-mouth from someone who has a cold sore on their face.
"It's skin contact with friction, so you're more likely to catch a cold sore off somebody if it's a long kiss, rather than just a peck on the lips," says Nigel Scott of the HVA.
However, as the virus is fragile and dies very quickly when it's off the skin, it's only caught by direct skin contact. So there's no need to worry about sharing cups or towels with sufferers. It can also be killed by water, or getting too hot or cold.
Not all people infected with HSV will develop cold sores as a result, say experts. In fact, only around a quarter of carriers will ever experience symptoms.
"You can catch it and never get symptoms," says Scott. "Or there could be a trigger at any stage of your life and you get a cold sore."
What are the triggers?
Once you've caught HSV, it hides in nerve sheaths and can be reactivated by various situations, including tiredness, illness, stress, being run-down, menstruation, too much alcohol or the ultraviolet rays from sunbeds or sunlight.
Some people can have recurrent outbreaks as often as once a month.
Scott says: "If your mouth and lips get very sore if you do something like eat a very scratchy French loaf, if you get very run-down, or something upsets your immune system - any of these things can act as triggers.
"The immune system would normally keep this virus suppressed, but if it's really stretched with something else, sometimes it doesn't quite manage."
How does it feel?
There will be an itchy, tingly feeling on or near the lip when a cold sore is developing, and perhaps a feeling of pressure.
This is the time to treat the area, as at this stage it's possible to stop the cold sore developing, says Scott.
If left untreated, the itchy feeling develops into a small red patch, then a blister, which bursts and heals into the classic cold sore scab, normally lasting around a week.
Sores tend to appear where you've been kissed, although they can occasionally recur anywhere on the face. In general, the virus prefers the moist skin that lines the lips, mouth and nose.
Treatment The HVA says the best way to avoid cold sores is to look after yourself, and those who are prone to them should steer clear of any potential triggers.
GP Dr Phil Hammond, a patron of the HVA, warns that exposure to bright sunlight, which can trigger a cold sore outbreak, is a particular risk for skiers at this time of year, and advises them to use a good sun block.
"A few unlucky people seem to get frequent repeat outbreaks - sometimes triggered by stress, poor diet, lack of sleep or exposure to bright sunlight," he says. "A long-term course of antiviral tablets can deal with this."
Aciclovir, a medication used to treat a variety of viral infections including cold sores, shingles and chickenpox, is commonly prescribed to sufferers, and some aciclovir creams can be bought over the counter at pharmacies.
Other cold sore treatments include using a herbal cream made with lemon balm, or a liquorice balm, which can help reduce the severity and duration of outbreaks.
Medical nutritionist and former GP Dr Sarah Brewer says liquorice extracts stimulate immunity by increasing production of the antiviral substance 'interferon'.
"When applied to the lips, it suppresses the production of viral proteins needed to keep the herpes virus in its latent state, so they're less likely to cause an eruption," she says.
"When applied to a sore, it promotes more rapid destruction of infected cells."
Fight those cold sores The Herpes Viruses Association has these suggestions for sufferers...
:: Start treatment as soon the characteristic tingling starts.
:: Apply well-wrapped ice for 90 minutes to cool the area.
:: Use over-the-counter creams.
:: Apply cold, used teabags to the sore every hour.
:: Use tea tree oil or geranium oil to help speed healing.
:: Keep the sore moist so it doesn't crack with a dab of Vaseline.
:: See your doctor for antiviral tablets if you have recurrent outbreaks.


text:
Top racing performance for everyone
14 bikes
We use cookies to make your experience better. To comply with the new e-Privacy directive, we need to inform you about the cookies. Learn more X
Top racing performance for everyone
14 bikes
Price from
This is everything necessary to distance your friends during those mid-ride city limit sprints. The CAYO represents fairytale performance at a fair price. From local rides to amateur races, the CAYO's rigidity and low weight will win your favour, just as easily as you win those sprints. Your thoroughbred for every occasion.
Bike radar awarded the FOCUS Cayo 105 Mix with four out of five stars. What the testers liked most? The awesome balance between racy handling and smooth comfort! Read more
Bicycling Australia subjected our FOCUS CAYO a solid all around test and drew some very interesting conclusions. The CAYO Ultegra is "a bike to perform in both a race context and also provide comfort and performance on longer distance epic adventures." The magazin highlighted the superb frameset: thoughtful engineering, tasteful design and a light and agile frame that is a rare find at this pricepoint. Read more
With the CAYO, you can take part in races and any other racing bike events too. This racing bike has excellent ride characteristics and an attractive price to boot.
The CAYO profits from years of experience and months, weeks and hours spent tirelessly developing and perfecting its geometry and materials.
When it matters most, the CAYO is always in the mix. Thanks to its exceptional rigidity, there is no power loss, no energy wasted. Your watts are immediately transferred into speed.
Optimally protected and aesthetically satisfying. No dirt will hold you up, as the internally routed cables perform unrestrictedly.
The tapered head tube increases the headset stiffness while also reducing the steering weight.
To ensure that all bike sizes offer the same level of quality, all frame sizes on offer are designed individually. This Stable Stiffness Per Size (SSPS) production method ensures that all sizes provide the perfect ratio of weight to stiffness.
R.A.T. stands for Rapid Axle Technology. This is the first thru-axle system to combine the stability and lateral stiffness of a floating axle with extremely fast wheel changes. The patented system is available for all road bike and cyclocross models with disc brakes, as well as on our race MTBs FOCUS O1E and Raven.
The cables and hydraulic lines are routed inside the frame for protection, creating a neat look and extending the service life of the lines for perfect gear shifting and braking at all times.
Butted aluminium tubes are designed so that the walls are thicker at areas under more stress, with a constant external diameter. FOCUS aluminium tubes are triple-butted. This reduces the weight without impacting on the stability.
Pressfit 30 combines the benefits of the BB30 and Pressfit bottom brackets. Pressfit 30 features a preassembled seal in the cups to further prolong the bearing life.
Thanks to ongoing checks and the use of the latest manufacturing methods, we can offer the very best carbon quality with a long service life. For this reason, we can offer a 6-year manufacturer's warranty on all FOCUS carbon frames and forks.
The DONNA line focuses on the female rider. We've considered the essential differences that exist. Those points of contact with the bike are decisive. That's why we fitted female-specific bars and saddles, so that you'll feel great on the bike, whatever you ride. Your preferences. Your colourways. Your bike. This is where you come first.
Anja Kallenbach has just returned from the training camp in Majorca – with ample kilometres of training under her belt. Anja absolutely loves cycling and has already been all over the place on her FOCUS Cayo.READ THE STORY
You are now leaving the FOCUS website of Derby Cycle Werke GmbH and are redirected to an external website. Derby Cycle Werke GmbH is not liable for the use nor the content of this external website. Please refer to the Privacy Statement, Cookie Policy and Terms of use of this external website for details.


text:
An ex-policeman and a magistrate have come out on top in a very close first round of votes in the Surrey Police and Crime Commissioner election.
Kevin Hurley (Independent) received 26.12 per cent of the vote with 34,378 people voting for him, while Julie Iles (Conservative) won 26.13 per cent after 34,391 people voted for her.
The election is being held using the supplementary vote system in which voters make a first and second choice from the list of candidates.
There will now be a second count of second preferences because no one candidate achieved at least 50 per cent of the votes in the first count.
The results in full were as follows:
Robert Evans: 17,384 (13.21 per cent)
Kevin Hurley: 34,378 (26.12 per cent)
Julie Iles: 34,391 (26.13 per cent)
Nick O'Shea: 8,503 (6.46 per cent)
Robert Shatwell: 10,684 (8.12 per cent)
Peter Williams: 26,292 (19.97 per cent)
The overall election result for Surrey is due to be announced later this evening.


text:
Bluefin's S.H.Figuarts Dragon Ball Z Legacy Continues...
With titles chosen by feedback received from surveys on the Bluefin Tamashii Nations USA facebook page and threats received from the Planet Trade Organization, the S.H.Figuarts Dragon Ball Z legacy continues with S.H.Figuarts Frieza Final Form. This set features and extensive array of option parts- finishing technique Death Ball effect parts, characteristic interchangeable tail parts, as well as interchangeable folded arm parts and two sets of interchangeable head, hand and feet parts. A special display stand is also included, ideal for recreating iconic Planet Namek battle scene (post Spirit Bomb battle damage, POOR KRILLIN ).
S.H. Figuarts Frieza Final Form is scheduled for release June/July 2013 priced at $51.99.
Source: Bluefin
To insure your action figure collection, get in touch with Collectibles Insurance, the official insurance company of the Figures.com network. Say "Figures.com" to get 5% off your first term premiums.
To buy action figures, take a look at BigBadToyStore.com, Toynk.com, BriansToys.com, ToyWiz.com, and MonkeyDepot.com.


text:
ORMOND BEACH, Fla. - Volusia deputies said they shot and killed a suicidal man on Wednesday after he approached them while carrying a gun.
The Flagler County Sheriff's Office said they requested Volusia County's assistance around 4 p.m. when a 52-year-old Bunnell man, later identified as Kenneth Morrow, sent text messages to his ex-girlfriend threatening suicide. His cellphone was tracked to Highbridge Road near Ormond Beach, just west of the Halifax River.
A Volusia deputy found Morrow and his parked motorcycle west of the bridge that spans the river. Authorities said Morrow had the gun in his hand and told the deputy to stay away from him. He then continued to text suicidal messages, including demands for law enforcement to leave him alone. He also pointed the gun at himself at times, said police.
Deputies said they attempted to talk to Morrow by calling his cellphone and sending him text messages. He initially ignored them, but then responded with more suicidal statements.
At one point, police said Morrow fired his gun, but it is unknown what he may have been shooting at. Around 6:15 p.m., Morrow advanced on deputies in an aggressive manner while brandishing his weapon and refusing to heed their warnings to stop, officials said.
Deputies said they protected themselves by firing at Morrow, who was struck and fell to the ground. Once deputies determined that it was safe, paramedics approached Morrow and pronounced him dead at 6:25 p.m.
The Volusia County Sheriff's Office says the two deputies involved in the shooting, 38-year-old Christopher Jones and 34-year-old Joel Hernandez, were placed on paid administrative leave. Jones has been with the Sheriff's Office since May 2002 and Hernandez has been with the Sheriff's Office since February 2003.
The Florida Department of Law Enforcement has been called in to investigate the shooting.
Copyright 2013 by ClickOrlando.com. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.


text: Lessons learned from Steubenville rape case By Rick Ryan April 26, 2013 Story Share CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Last month's rape case involving two football players from Steubenville (Ohio) High School drew a lot of attention around the country.One possible reason for that widespread interest, undoubtedly, is that the situation could have happened in virtually any community across the United States.Athletes elevated to hero status. Teens with perhaps too much freedom, not to mention access to alcohol. And, of course, the explosive new world of social media.The basic ingredients are present almost everywhere. Unfortunately, they came together and reached the boiling point last fall in Steubenville.To recap, a 16-year-old West Virginia girl was assaulted during a series of drunken parties last August - the results of which were captured on cell phone photos and video and discussed in a flurry of texts and Tweets. Steubenville High players Trent Mays, 17, and Ma'Lik Richmond, 16, were found "delinquent'' (the equivalent of a guilty verdict in juvenile court) on rape charges March 17 after an extensively scrutinized four-day trial.The case still simmers even now, as an Eastern Ohio grand jury is set to convene on Tuesday to delve into possible additional charges, including an alleged cover-up that could include Reno Saccoccia, the school's head football coach.Kanawha Valley educators, coaches, parents and community leaders have kept a close eye on the Steubenville situation, with hopes they can learn something from how it all happened.Clinton Giles, principal at Capital High School, said the case had less to do with sports and more to do with unsupervised youth."It could happen anywhere,'' Giles said. "It just happened to be a football team. It could be any team or any group. A group of young people get together to have a good time, then you introduce alcohol and the good time turns into tragedy. Young people and the games they play are far more serious, and the potential consequences are far more grave now than they were in decades past."It's not like it was 30, 40 years ago. Youthful indiscretions anymore take on a far more serious tone. It's not a bunch of guys getting together and riding up to the mountaintop strip mine with a case of beer after a game in the '60s and '70s. That's not what happens now. With the freedom given young people at times, they make poor decisions, and unfortunately the consequences of those decisions seem to be far more severe."We've sort of lost our innocence,'' Giles said, "and it's not just football. It's not just athletics. Parents are away on vacation and they leave the house to the kids. The next thing you know, people are called over and the party gets started and bad things happen. Steubenville got the publicity because it was a high-profile football team. But that same thing happens every weekend somewhere in the United States of America, including here in Charleston, West Virginia.''Rev. Matthew Watts, the senior pastor at Grace Bible Church in Charleston, thinks the newfound freedom of young people, along with technological gains, have formed a "lethal combination'' that signals danger. "We're now in the 21st century,'' Watts said, "and children are more mobile than ever before. They have access to automobile transportation and the technology of communication. It allows them basically to have freedom no other generation has had."Along with that, I believe, is somewhat of a relaxing supervision of adolescents and teenagers, and young people who are still minors really have too much in the way of financial resources at their disposal, too much transportation at their disposal, access to alcohol and drugs and no parental supervision. Then a lethal combination forms and something is bound to happen.''One of the things that shot the Steubenville story into the headlines was the purported special treatment of athletes in a community that is passionate about football. "That area is a hotbed for football,'' said John Messinger, the former coach at South Charleston. "Those people are held on a pedestal to begin with, and maybe they think they can get by with something and there be no consequences."If adults and coaches were to make an effort to sweep things under the rug or somehow hide it, they're not helping those kids, the program, the community or that school [because] kids continue to think they can get away with those behaviors. We have to give them discipline, good images of what discipline is, good role models.''Giles thinks it's possible some towns may turn a blind eye to situations that arise like the one in Steubenville. "What was done was done in fun,'' Giles said, "and the feeling in the community is that they were football players - the good guys who carry our honor and pride and uphold it every Friday night. And because of that, it initially appeared that the situation was sort of dismissed as youthful indiscretion when, in fact, a serious crime had been committed. Now the young people who are victims will wear the scar of that for a lifetime.''From his work at Grace Bible Church, Watts is aware of the perils of underage drinking at unsupervised parties that can often bring about abuse of young girls."Bad things normally happen,'' Watts said, "and they're going to be sexual in nature . . . This happens much more than what gets reported. In many cases, a lot of young girls are sexually assaulted and misused and it's going unreported. I know that for a fact because those types of things have come to my attention over the years I have worked in the Charleston community. Young girls come to me and share things that happen to them because they're afraid to tell anybody about it. "I think preferential treatment [is given] to any people of stature and status. Athletes get the benefit of the doubt more often. There's inconsistency, really, is how we normally administer the laws based on socio-economic status and, occasionally, popularity.''Messinger pointed out that the arrests of nationally known athletes such as Michael Vick and Kobe Bryant don't always send up red flags to young players."We have become a very, very forgiving society,'' said Messinger, who led SC to back-to-back Class AAA football titles in 2008-09. "They see their sports athletes and heroes do things that go against the grain - not very disciplined things. It goes to the forefront, there are consequences and then all too soon we forget what happened."Vick and Kobe, those are professional athletes kids look up to. They see their behavior and the punishment, but in the long run they get away with it, and in the long run, kids think they can get away with the same things. We don't stick to our guns as adults and teachers and enforce discipline as to what is wrong and what is right."These kids are not getting the discipline they need to function successfully in society today. Something they do becomes accepted behavior, and we write it off. One thing we lack in general as a society with our young people is just discipline . . . You have to give them something they can live by, some code of ethics so they understand, 'This is the way things are.' As a coach, as an adult, as a parent, we're responsible to supply that. I tell our players and kids in the classroom I almost feel sorry for this generation of kids - radio, TV and music bombard them with all the wrong images, standards and codes. It becomes an accepted lifestyle for them.''Watts believes everyone - youth and adults - is responsible for situations like the one that happened in Steubenville."I talked about that in one of my sermons,'' Watts said. "You deal with young boys and girls and there's real conversations about the dangers of drugs and alcohol, and the dangers of the situations that really could have a negative outcome. You have to hold everybody accountable for their decisions."Certainly, you can't excuse the behavior of the young men, and they need to be held accountable - and they are by law. And also from the standpoint of young women to allow themselves to be in that situation - intoxicated and inebriated and losing control. If I lose control of my thinking, I'm able to be exploited. We need to control the actions of what we do and try not to get in situations where things like this can happen."Also, kids need to be supervised. You can't give kids access to a house and just go off somewhere. They need to be supervised.''Even with all the negative images left over from the Steubenville case, Capital's Giles feels like there's still hope for youth growing up today and in years to come."We adults, parents, school teachers and administrators can't do enough to expose students to positive messages and encourage them to engage in responsible decision-making,'' Giles said. "That's the majority of my job. At end of each day at our school, the last three things we say are, 'Every day make good decisions, wear a seatbelt and continue to commit to graduate every single day.' The last thing you hear are those three things."We spend a great deal of time and effort and energy to expose students to positive messages throughout the day. Encourage people to do the right things, help them to develop a sense of patriotism, civic responsibility, a sense of wanting to contribute and give back to the community."I have tremendous faith in young people,'' Giles said. "They're our future. I was a young person and I made a ton of mistakes and benefited from being corrected from people who saw more in me than I saw in myself. They felt I could contribute and be something. That's the approach we have to take with all kids. We have to teach them well and afford them opportunities to demonstrate their skills, talents and their maturity, and the vast majority grow up to be responsible adults.''Reach Rick Ryan at 304-348-5175 or email@example.com. Story Share Story Share Trending Now 1 Facebook founder visits Cabin Creek Health Systems 2 Volunteers aid flood victims in Elkview, Clendenin 3 Teen pleads guilty to voluntary manslaughter in Oakes Field shooting 4 WVU hopes to get injured defenders back for TCU 5 Huggins, WVU tap South Florida hoops talent Herd lines up today for Green-White Game Previous Story Marshall's Dobson picked by Patriots in 2nd round Next Story


text:
Prize Recipient
Troy Carter
University of California, Los Angeles
"For the experimental investigation of driven magnetic reconnection in a laboratory plasma. In this work, careful diagnostic studies of the current sheet structure, dynamics and associated wave activity provide a compre-hensive picture of the reconnection process."Background:
Troy Carter received B.S. degrees in physics and in nuclear engineering (summa cum laude) from North Carolina State University in 1995. He received his Ph.D. in Astrophysical Sciences in 2001 from Princeton University, where he was supported first by an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship and later by a NASA Graduate Student Researchers Program Fellowship. For his dissertation, he performed an experimental study of turbulence in the current sheet of the Magnetic Reconnection Experiment, supervised by Dr. Masaaki Yamada and Prof. Russell Kulsrud. This work provided the first experimental evidence of the operation of the lower-hybrid drift instability in a laboratory current sheet and with it the first opportunity to study the role of the instability in the process of magnetic reconnection. After completing his graduate work, Dr. Carter was awarded a DOE Magnetic Fusion Energy Postdoctoral Fellowship, which he took to UCLA to pursue experimental studies of turbulence and transport in magnetized plasmas. Dr. Carter is now continuing this work as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at UCLA.
Selection Committee:
Ricardo Betti (Chair), Christina Back (12/02), Richard Groebner ('01 Rcpnt) (12/02), Y.Y. Lau (V Chair) (12/03), K. (Dennis) Papadopoulos (12/03)


text:
A library is a home filled with our stories. On every shelf, we see ourselves, experience our collective conscious, describe our dreams and our great longing for times that have passed, the sterling moment of the present and the glorious future known only in our imaginations.
Enlightening and Inspiring Generations with Generations of Ideas


text:
Seminaris CampusHotel Berlin4
Price FromView Rooms
- Very Good
- 1 guest reviews
About the hotel
This hotel in the peaceful Dahlem district enjoys exciting surroundings with charm and history. Dahlem-Dorf metro station is a 4-minute walk away. Trains run to the city centre in 30 minutes.
Berlin's International Congress Centre is a 20-minute drive from the hotel. There are unique attractions in the vicinity, such as the Botanischer Garten Berlin, the Domäne Dahlem and the Alliiertenmuseum Berlin. Berlin-Schönefeld and Tegel International Airports are located roughly 30 km and 14 km from the hotel respectively.
Read MoreLess
Facilities Show/hide
- Main
- Hotel Non-Smoking Throughout, Air conditioning in rooms, 24 Hour Reception, Cots available, Safety Deposit Box, Minibar in each room, Telephone In Each Room, Limited Hours Room Service, Limited room service for hot food, Laundry/Valet Service, Wake Up Call Available, Interconnecting rooms available, Pets Allowed, Doctor on call, Lift to all floors, Public Air Conditioning
- Parking
- Car parking available onsite
- Business
- Wi-Fi Available, Meeting Facilities, In-room Broadband, Wi-Fi Available In Public Areas, Wi-Fi Available In Rooms, Business Centre, Private dining services
- Dining
- Restaurant, Bar
- Leisure
- Gymnasium, Sauna, [Channels] News, [Channels] Foreign (European), [Channels] Foreign (Other), [Channels] Music, [Channels] Childrens
- In Room Entertainment
- TV, Satellite TV, Radio
Useful Info Show/hide
- From 14:00 hours
- By 11:00 hours
- Up to 12 years old
- The price shown is based on the occupancy and dates you have searched for. Prices and availability are subject to change based on the arrival date, number of nights and occupancy searched for. All prices are inclusive of all local taxes.
- Pets are allowed
Customer Reviews
Our reviews are from genuine LateRooms.com customers. We verify that the customer has stayed before leaving a review.
No reviews yet


text:
The fort which is located on 13th and Quackenbos streets NW was part of the extensive fortifications built around Washington, D.C., during the American Civil War. It was constructed in 1861 as "Fort Massachusetts" and later enlarged by the Union Army and renamed "Fort Stevens" after Brig. Gen. Isaac Ingalls Stevens, who was killed at the Battle of Chantilly, Virginia, on September 1, 1862. Throughout the Civil War, Washington was separated from enemy territory by the width of the Potomac River. In 1861, Fort Stevens was surrounded by cornfields and farmhouses, guarding the important Seventh Street Road (now Georgia Avenue).
By July 1864, most Union soldiers were needed for Ulysses S. Grant's assault on Richmond. Washington's forts were manned by inexperienced volunteers and convalescent soldiers. As at Bull Run, civilians came out to watch the fighting and among them was President Lincoln, who insisted on watching the proceedings from a parapet inside the fort. He became a target for Confederate sharpshooters; a surgeon standing near the president was hit. Eventually, he was ordered down. Today, a stone monument next to a cannon immortalizes the incident.
Jonathan, Innkeeper
American Guest House in Washington DC


text:
Processing your request. Please wait…
Your session will end in seconds due to inactivity.
If you wish to continue your application, please click the "Continue" button below. If you are purchasing a new application and need more time and wish to save your application, please click the "Save Application" button at the bottom of the application in order to resume progress later.
Please complete the following form in order to begin your GlobeHopper® Senior Multi-Trip application.
If you would like to save your application and complete it at a later time, simply click on the "Save Application" button at the bottom of any page of the application after selecting a premium amount and before submitting your credit card information. If you have the Authorization Number and Password from a previous application that was not completed, click here to continue with the previous application.
* Denotes a required field.
Cookies must be enabled in order to access the secured portion of this site. Please enable cookies in your browser.
Safari users: Safari is currently not supported. Please use a different browser.How We Use Cookies
When you visit our website as an anonymous visitor, personal information (such as your name, address and email address) is not collected. However, we use cookie technology to collect information about how IMG's website is used. Our server automatically tracks an online visitor's IP address, browser version and pages visited. Cookies cannot be used to reveal your email address from your hard drive, pass on computer viruses or learn confidential or personal information about you that you have not already expressly revealed.
Please note: If you have chosen to disable cookies on your browser, you will not be able to log into the secure areas of our website. This is because we use cookies to store and remember your user identification number and email address in order to recognize you when you return to the IMG website. The online application may also not work properly if you do not have cookies enabled.
Other IMG plans that may be of interest
For a complete list of international medical insurance plans, please click here.
This privacy statement applies to IMG websites, services, products and applications that collect data and display these terms. It does not apply to other IMG products and services that are not affected by the IMG Privacy Statement.
At International Medical Group®, Inc. (IMG®), we are committed to earning your trust by respecting and protecting the privacy of the information you provide to us online. The following is an overview of how IMG gathers, uses and safeguards information about you when you visit our website.
When you use IMG services with a web browser, we will place one or more "cookies" on your machine. If you sign into IMG or other IMG services using an IMG account, we will set or read one or more additional cookies. We use these cookies to operate IMG services and provide you a more relevant search experience. You can use your browser settings to remove or block cookies on your computer; however, doing so may result in a website to become unusable.
We may also use web beacons to help deliver cookies and compile analytics. These may include third-party web beacons, which are prohibited from collecting your personal information. Please see below for more information about cookies and how to control them.
Most IMG web sites use "cookies," which are small text files placed on your hard disk by a web server. Cookies contain text that can be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you. That text often consists of a string of numbers and letters that uniquely identifies your computer, but may contain other information as well. Here is an example of the text stored in a cookie that IMG might place on your hard disk when you visit one of our web sites: E3732CA7E319442F97EA48A170C99801
Some of the cookies we commonly use are listed in the following chart. This list is not exhaustive, but it is intended to illustrate some of the reasons we set cookies. If you visit one of our web sites, the site may set some or all of the following cookies:
|Cookie name
|This cookie stores the producer number who will get credit for the sale. When a producer sends a customer a link to purchase a product, they will include "imgac=99999" in the URL where 99999 is their unique producer number. This cookie is stored for the duration of your session.
|This cookie is used to ensure whether or not the user's browser has the ability to set cookies. If creating and reading this cookie does not work, then a message is presented to the user stating that cookies must be enabled in order to use our website.
|This cookie stores a number that represents how many times this browser has visited the website. It starts out at "1" and increments by 1 for each unique visit to the website.
|These are First-Party cookies used for performance purposes. IMG did not create the cookies directly; rather, another website such as Google or YouTube created them. These would all be standard across the Internet and widely used by many websites. The website at http://www.cookielaw.org/google-analytics-eu-cookie-law/ has a good description about how the Google Analytics cookies are used.
In addition to the cookies IMG may set when you visit our web sites, third parties may also set certain cookies on your hard drive when you visit IMG sites. In some cases, that is because we have hired the third party to provide certain services on our behalf, such as site analytics. In other cases, it is because our web pages contain content or ads from third parties, such as videos, news content or ads delivered by other ad networks. Because your browser connects to those third parties' web servers to retrieve that content, those third parties are able to set or read their own cookies on your hard drive.
For example, in Internet Explorer, you may block cookies by taking the following steps:
Instructions for blocking cookies in other browsers are available at http://www.allaboutcookies.org/manage-cookies/
Please be aware that if you choose to block cookies, you may not be able to sign in or use other interactive features of IMG sites and services that depend on cookies, and some advertising preferences that are dependent on cookies may not be able to be respected.
For example, in Internet Explorer, you may delete cookies by taking the following steps:
Instructions for deleting cookies in other browsers are available at http://www.allaboutcookies.org/manage-cookies/
Please be aware that if you choose to delete cookies, any settings and preferences controlled by those cookies, including advertising preferences, will be deleted and may need to be recreated.
Most web browsers have a feature related to tracking protection that helps prevent the web sites you go to from automatically sending details about your visit to third-party content providers. When you add a tracking protection list, the browser may block third-party content, including cookies, from any site that is listed as a site to be blocked. By limiting calls to these sites, the browser will limit the information these third-party sites can collect about you. And when you have a tracking protection list enabled, certain browsers may send a do not track signal or preference to the web sites you visit. For more information about Tracking Protection Lists and how to find them, please see your browser's privacy statement or help.
IMG web pages may contain electronic images known as web beacons - sometimes called single-pixel gifs - that may be used to help deliver cookies on our sites, let us count users who have visited those pages and deliver co-branded services. We may include web beacons in our promotional e-mail messages or newsletters to determine whether messages have been opened and acted upon.
We may also work with other companies that advertise on IMG sites to place web beacons on their sites or in their advertisements to let us develop statistics on how often clicking on an advertisement on an IMG site results in a purchase or other action on the advertiser's site.
Finally, IMG sites may contain web beacons from third parties to help us compile aggregated statistics regarding the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns or other web site operations. These web beacons may allow the third parties to set or read a cookie on your computer. We prohibit third parties from using web beacons on our sites to collect or access your personal information. Nevertheless, you may be able to opt out from data collection or use by these third-party analytics companies by clicking the links for each of the following analytics providers:
In addition to standard cookies and web beacons, web sites can use other technologies to store and read data files on your computer. This may be done to maintain your preferences or to improve speed and performance by storing certain files locally. But, like standard cookies, it can also be used to store a unique identifier for your computer, which can then be used to track behavior. These technologies include Local Shared Objects (or "Flash cookies") and Silverlight Application Storage.
IMG collects many kinds of information in order to operate effectively and provide you the best products, services and experiences we can. Some of this information you provide directly to us. Some of it we get by observing how you interact with our products and services. Some of it is available from other sources that we may combine with the data we collect directly. Regardless of the source, we believe it's important to treat that information with care and to help you maintain your privacy.
We use a number of methods and technologies to gather information about how you use our sites and services, such as:
We store search terms (and the cookie IDs associated with search terms) separately from any account information that directly identifies the user, such as name, e-mail address, or phone numbers. Further, we have built-in technological and procedural safeguards designed to prevent the unauthorized correlation of this data.
IMG uses the information we collect to operate, improve and personalize the products and services we offer. Information collected through one IMG service may be combined with information collected through other IMG services to give you a more consistent and personalized experience in your interactions with us. We may also supplement this with information from other companies. For example, we may use services from other companies to help us derive a general geographic area based on your IP address in order to customize certain services to your geographic area.
For IMG services, we use this information to provide you with relevant search results. We also use the information we collect to maintain and improve the quality, security and integrity of our products and services. For example we may use this information for research purposes and to improve the relevancy of search results. This information is also necessary in order to detect and protect against security threats such as botnet attacks, click fraud, worms, and other threats.
We also may use the information to communicate with you, for example, informing you when an insurance contract is ending, letting you know when updates are available or letting you know when you need to take action to keep your account active.
We also may use this information to assist in the fulfillment of the insurance product you purchased or the processing or any insurance claims that you may submit. This information may be securely transmitted to third party business partners we have engaged to adjudicate, reprice, fulfill and or pay claims.
IMG provides many of our sites and services free of charge because they may be supported by advertising. In order to make these services widely available, the information we collect may be used to help improve the advertisements you see by making them more relevant to you. For example, we may use search query data for the purpose of personalizing the ads we display to you as you use our services or those of our advertising partners. The search terms you enter in IMG are categorized and certain user segments are inferred based on those terms. For example, if you search on terms associated with sports, we may associate a "sports segment" with the unique identifier contained in your cookie, and you will then be more likely to see ads related to sports.
Except as described in this privacy statement, we won't disclose your personal information to a third party without your consent and as permitted under applicable laws.
We may share some search query data with selected third parties for research purposes. Before we do so, we remove all unique identifiers such as IP addresses and cookie IDs from the data. We also run the data through a process designed to remove identifiable information that users may have included in the search terms themselves (such as social security numbers or credit card numbers). Additionally, we require these third parties to keep the data secure and to not use the data for any other purposes.
When using a web browser, you can access and manage your information, including Search History, through the preferences page. You may clear your search history from appearing on the site by following the steps provided in see your search history. Clearing your history removes it from the Search History and prevents that history from being displayed on the web browser, but does not delete information from our standard search logs, which are retained and anonymized.
When an IMG site or service collects age information, it will either block users under 18 or will ask them to provide consent from a parent or guardian before they can use it. We will not knowingly ask children under 18 to provide more information than is necessary to provide the service.
Parents can change or revoke the consent choices previously made, and review or, edit their children's personal information.
Many of our web sites and online services may be supported by advertising.
Most of the online advertisements on IMG sites and services are displayed by IMG Advertising. When we display online advertisements to you, we will place one or more persistent cookies on your computer in order to recognize your computer each time we display an ad to you. Because we serve advertisements on our own web sites as well as those of our advertising and publisher partners, we are able to compile information over time about the types of pages, content and ads you, or others who are using your computer, visited or viewed. This information is used for many purposes, for example, it helps us try to ensure that you do not see the same advertisements over and over again. We also use this information to help select and display targeted advertisements that we believe may be of interest to you.
We may also allow third-party ad companies, including other ad networks, to display advertisements on our sites. In some cases, these third parties may also place cookies on your computer. These companies currently include, but are not limited to: [24/7 Real Media, AdBlade, AdConion, AdFusion, Advertising.com, AppNexus, Bane Media, Brand.net, CasaleMedia, Collective Media, InMobi, Interclick, Jumptap, Millennial Media, Mobclix, Mojiva, PrecisionClick, ROI Media, SpecificMedia, Tribal Fusion, ValueClick, Yahoo!, YuMe and Zumobi]. These companies may offer you a way to opt out of ad targeting based on their cookies. You may find more information by clicking on the company names above and following the links to the web sites of each company. Many of them are also members of the Network Advertising Initiative or the Digital Advertising Alliance, which each provide a simple way to opt out of ad targeting from participating companies.
If you receive promotional emails from us and would like to stop getting them in the future, you can do so by following the directions in that message.
Some of our websites allow you to create an IMG account by providing an email address, a password and other "account proofs," such as an alternate email address, a phone number, and a question and secret answer. We will use your "account proofs" for security purposes only - for instance, to verify your identity in the event that you cannot access your IMG account and need assistance, or to reset your password if you cannot access the email address associated with your IMG account. Some services may require added security, and in those cases, you may be asked to create an additional security key. The email address and password that you use to sign up for your IMG account are your "credentials" that you will use to authenticate with our network.
When you create an application, we will also ask you to provide certain demographic information which may include: gender; country; birth date; and postal code. We may use birth date to verify that children obtain appropriate consent from a parent or guardian to use an IMG account, as required by local law.
You can use an email address provided by a third party (such as those ending in gmail.com or yahoo.com) when signing up for your IMG account.
Upon creating an IMG account, we may send you an email asking you to verify that you are the owner of the email address associated with your IMG account. This is designed to verify the validity of the email address and help prevent email addresses from being used without the permission of their owners. Thereafter, we may use that email address to send you communications relating to your use of IMG products and services; we may also send you promotional emails about IMG products and services as permitted by local law.
When you sign into a site or service using your IMG account, we collect certain information in order to verify your identity on behalf of the site or service, to protect you from malicious account usage, and to protect the efficiency and security of the IMG account service.
If you received your account from a third party, like an employer, a producer, spouse, or the legal representative, that third party may have rights over your account, including the ability to reset your password, view your account usage or profile data, read or store content in your account, and suspend or cancel your account. In these cases, you are subject to the IMG terms of use and to any additional terms of use from that third party. If you are the administrator on behalf of an employer or producer and have provided your users with IMG accounts, you are responsible for all activity that takes place within such accounts.
All sites or services that offer or market IMG's products are required to have a posted privacy statement, but we do not control or monitor the privacy practices of external sites, and their privacy practices will vary. You should carefully review the privacy statement for each site you sign into in order to determine how each site or service will use the information it collects.
Below you will find additional privacy information you may (or may not) find important. Much of this describes common practices that we want you to know about but don't think it's necessary to highlight in every one of our privacy statements. And some of this is just stating the obvious (for example, we will disclose information when the law requires it), but laws make us say it anyway. Please keep in mind that this information is not a complete description of our practices – this is all in addition to the other, more specific information contained in the privacy statements for each IMG product and service you use.
On this page:
You may access IMG services when using other non-IMG sites or services. These sites may use the IMG API. You should refer to the privacy policy of the site for any questions about their information collection and usage practices.
In addition to any sharing described in the privacy statement for the product or service you are using, IMG may share or disclose personal information:
We also may share or disclose personal information, including the content of your communications:
Please note that our sites may include links to third-party sites whose privacy practices may differ from those of IMG. If you submit personal information to any of those sites, your information is governed by the privacy statements on those sites. We encourage you to review the privacy statement of any site you visit.
IMG is committed to protecting the security of your personal information. We use a variety of security technologies and procedures to help protect your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. For example, we store the personal information you provide on computer systems that have limited access and are in controlled facilities. When we transmit highly confidential information (such as a credit card number or password) over the Internet, we protect it through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.
If a password is used to help protect your accounts and personal information, it is your responsibility to keep your password confidential. Do not share it. If you are sharing a computer, you should always log out before leaving a site or service to protect access to your information from subsequent users.
IMG may retain your personal information for a variety of reasons, such as to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, enforce our agreements, and as long as necessary to provide services. To learn how to access your personal information, visit Accessing Your Information.
We will occasionally update our privacy statements to reflect customer feedback and changes in our services. When we post changes to a statement, we will revise the "last updated" date at the top of the statement. If there are material changes to the statement or in how IMG will use your personal information, we will notify you either by prominently posting a notice of such changes before they take effect or by directly sending you a notification. We encourage you to periodically review the privacy statements for the products and services you use to learn how IMG is protecting your information.
Last Updated: February 2015