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Xavier Dance Team Places Program Highest 5th in Nation
April 16, 2010
The Xavier University Dance Team was named 5th in the nation in the NDA Collegiate Championship in Florida in April. They compete in the Open Division I. During the school year, the squad practices eight hours a week. In addition, they do numerous performances and fundraisers. Team members are also required to do an additional hour of cardio conditioning each week. They have performed at Reds games, Xavier Club Football games, XU men's and women's basketball games, and area high school basketball games. Coaches Steve Chapla and Erica Carey lead the team. "The team is dedicated and works really well together!" says Chapla.
Members of the Xavier Dance Team are:
(40065) Gretchen Hochstrasser, 18, of Shelbyville, KY is the daughter of Emil & Beth Hochstrasser. She is a freshman sport marketing major.
(41091) Samantha Edwards, 18, of Union, KY is the daughter of Richard & Jody Edwards. She is a freshman natural sciences major.
(43140) Alexa Baumann, 21, of Columbus is the daughter of Mark and Angi Baumann. The junior special education major attended Bishop Ready HS.
(44133) Victoria Masny, 18, of N. Royalton, OH is the daughter of Walter & Lydia Masny. She is a freshman accounting major, with minors in Spanish and communication arts.
(44149) Gabrielle Patsey, 18, of Strongsville, OH is the daughter of Bruce & Darlene Patsey. She is a freshman marketing major with a minor in Spanish.
(45039) Emily McCracken, 21, of Maineville is the daughter of Pat & Mike McCracken. A senior social work major, she attended Kings HS.
(45233) Becca Lipps, 20, of Cincinnati is the daughter of Jerry and Patty Lipps. The sophomore art major attended Oak Hills HS.
(45238) Kristin Strehle, 19, Cincinnati is the daughter of Dave & Angie Strehle. A junior accounting major, she also attended Seton HS.
(45244) Angela Fraiz, 20, of Cincinnati is the daughter of Juan & Kathy Fraiz. The junior nursing major attended McNicholas HS.
(47025) Alex Valentine, 21, of Lawrenceburg, IN, is daughter of Jim and Bev Valentine. The junior athletic training and pre-physical therapy major attended East Central HS.
(48144) Ashlee Bennett, 18, of Lambertville, MI is the daughter of Ertman & Susan Bennett. She is a freshman chemistry major.
(60565) Erin McGrail, 19, of Naperville, IL is the daughter of Jack & Judy McGrail. The junior early childhood education major attended Nequa Valley HS.
(63017) Alex Hagenhoff, 22, of St. Louis is the daughter of Michael & Sandra Hagenhoff. A senior business major, she attended St. Joseph's Academy.
(77381) Katerina Kovach, 18, of The Woodlands, TX is the daughter of William & Melissa Kovach. She is a freshman early childhood education major.


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Thursday, March 30, 2017
What Are We Teaching The Best Players Early In Their Development
In the quest to hang banners, win championships and collect hardware we are teaching our best players all the wrong things. Everyday on Facebook and Instagram I see some coach proclaiming victory and holding up hardware.
Edwin Ebube Taking Official Visit To Niagara
Lawrenceville School's SF/PF Edwin Ebube is scheduled to take an official visit to Niagara right after the dead period ends next week. The 6'7 post grad has several D1 programs taking a close at him including Lehigh, Rider and Niagara. He is a proven winner and really strong student. Programs looking for a that profile in a player should take the time to head down to Princeton and recruit him.
Loomis Chaffee SG/SF Getting Interest From Multiple D1 Programs
Jesus Cruz is one of the best available unsigned combo guards as recently reported by New England Recruiting Report. The 6'5 combo guard is getting interest from several D1 programs including American University, Marist College and UNC Greensboro. Expect more D1 programs to take a close look at Cruz who has the size and skill to help a lot of programs.
Blue Ridge School Point guard Josh Colon Gets First Division 1 Offer
2017 point guard Josh Colon recently received his first D1 offer from VMI. The underrated guard who led Blue Ridge to a Virginia Independent Private School Division 2 State title had over 10 D2 offers before he received the offer from Virginia Military Academy. Look for Colon to receive more offers in the coming weeks. He was the player of the year in the state on a team full of high major talent. If you need a PG he is your guy!
Friday, March 24, 2017
South Kent School Stretch 4 Nick Washington Visits Georgetown
South Kent School 2017 Power Forward Nicholas Washington visited Georgetown last week per sources. Washington is one of the best available unsigned "Bigs" as reported by ESPN's and New England Recruiting Report ('NERR") Adam Finkelstein. Coach JT3 's firing from Georgetown two days after the visit could impact Washington's interest in playing of the Hoyas next year.
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Your Vegas – A Town And Two Cities
There is something distinctly British about Your Vegas. No, it's not that their band members hail from Leeds but perhaps the convergent sound of a British alternative group meeting Nirvana then deciding to make songs as sweeping as U2.
The album is short. 3 songs. But all three songs are ear-catching, emotional and it's almost like someone created a brief best hits of the Your Vegas catalog. Lead singer Coyle Girelli gives a haunting performance with epic, yet sad vocals, it is British after all.
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Old 4WDs, like-new prices
Whether it's here in my column in Successful Farming magazine each month, in my weekly online column for Agriculture.com, or in my blog at Machinerypete.com, I always try to make my point early on in my ramblings. Easier for the reader to follow along, I think.
So look at the first two lines in the table at the left containing auction sale price data I compiled on older four-wheel-drive tractors sold from January 2010 to January 2011. A 1982 Allis-Chalmers Model 4W305 sold for $34,000, and a 1979 Case 4490 went for $22,000.
Here's My Point
Over the last year, a definite premium is being paid out there when very nice-condition older four-wheel-drive tractors show up for sale at auction. The Allis-Chalmers and Case tractors were both record-high auction sale prices — not just by a smidge either, but by a mile.
The next highest price on a 4W305 was $26,000, followed by $16,000 on the 4490.
I saw this trend at work numerous times in 2010.
On March 20, 2010, I was at a large consignment auction in southeast Iowa. On that sale was a 1978 Steiger ST325 Panther II tractor with 4,200 hours.
I got visiting with a farmer who drove from Ohio to Iowa just to bid on this Steiger. It sold for $27,500, the highest sale price I've seen since 1998 on an ST325 Steiger.
On July 16, 2010, I was in south-central Iowa at a nice farm retirement sale. A 1990 Case IH 9180 with 4,225 hours sold for $53,000, making it the second highest auction price I've seen on a 9180 since 1998.
On August 24, 2010, I was at a farm estate auction in northeast Missouri. A 1982 Massey-Ferguson 4840 tractor with 5,651 hours sold for $13,000 — the second highest sale price I've seen in the U.S. on that model since 2004.
Older Tractor, Higher Value
Here is more hard proof of rising values on used four-wheel-drive tractors.
At a March 1, 2000, sale in southeast North Dakota, a 1998 New Holland 9682 tractor with 1,050 hours (excellent shape) sold for $86,500.
On a November 28, 2009, auction in north-central Ohio, a 1998 New Holland 9682 with 1,560 hours (excellent shape) sold for $96,000. Here is a tractor that is almost 10 years older, with 510 additional hours, and it sells for $9,500 more!
Examples Galore
Look through the table. You'll see eye-opening numbers right and left. Note the $24,000 for the 1976 John Deere 8630 with 7,557 hours. That's the highest sale price I've seen since 2001 on an 8640.
Notice those last three items in the table — the three Deere 9200s. Those are the three highest auction sale prices I've ever seen in the U.S. on 9200s.
So you can see that it's not too hard to make my point this month. Used four-wheel-drive tractors in really nice shape, with a bit of age on them, are worth more now than ever.
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Anthony V. Dixon was on his way to work Easter Sunday when he stopped at a convenience store in Douglas, Georgia, and witnessed a sight he said Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. "would have loved."
"I saw a city police officer helping and teaching a young brother how to put air in his tires," Dixon wrote on Facebook about the photos he snapped, noting the "heavy rain" pouring down at the time. "This touched my heart because of the negative media about black men and officers of law."
Dixon, who is black, called it "a positive sign" of love in America and "not hate, discrimination, nor racism."
"MLK would have loved this moment," Dixon wrote, but lamented that "this post most likely won't go viral because it's not showing a black man being harm[ed] or being murdered by an officer of law."
However, it appears Dixon was incorrect about his prediction, as the photos are making their way across social media and on news stations.
WAGA-TV in Atlanta asked Dixon how the images he posted might help people appreciate each other. Here's how he replied:
The answer to that is simply love… When we were created, God placed in us the most beautiful gift, and that gift is love. Yes, this country has experienced many awful events such as slavery, terroristic attacks, and etc; however, we as one unit, despite of our differences, must show and act upon this same exact love. A tree, becomes a strong tree throughout time, but it first has to be a planted seed. Despite of our differences, let's plant a seed of love in all the lives of people, so that this country and the world will grow to be a better and greater place to live.
Later in his Facebook post Dixon called what he witnessed an "unforgettable experience that I will cherish for a lifetime." He identified the officer as Chris Youngblood and the man he was helping as a "Minister."
"They both greeted me with a smile and kind words," Dixon added, saying they were "drenched from head to toe" from the rain.
Youngblood, Dixon said, "showed a tremendous amount of selfless service and great character. I say this because he did not pull behind the man of God to search or [harass] him, but rather pull along beside the minister to give a helping hand of work and service."
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Located amidst the Ozark Mountains in the small agricultural community of Green Forest, Arkansas this two-story middle school roots itself in the heart of the existing public school campus. We recognized the importance of the existing central greenspace as a common area, used throughout the day as a gathering place for middle school and high school students during lunch and before and after school. Furthermore, it is a transitional space consistently traversed by all students and members of the community to access the community stadium. The space acts as a plaza between the old CWA gymnasium, art + music, cafeteria, and agricultural buildings on the campus.
In the early master planning stages, the school's desire to fill in the entire green space with a one-story classroom building—which would have eliminated the central outdoor space of the campus—was overcome by proposing a modern 2-story building capable of preserving 2/3 of the available exterior space as a student commons and community plaza. The sustainable design is resolved through the use of economical and intelligent materials combined to enrich the existing campus through the interaction of people, space, form, and color—both internally and externally. The structure has a poignant presence in the newly defined plaza space, ready to receive students and visitors under a 16′ cantilever of white standing seam roof. This covered zone, combined with the figure-ground of the concrete block and corrugated metal panel of the western wall is an event space that serves the school and the greater community. The landscaped plaza uses native plantings to define a functioning rain garden and an alumni garden that contains the relics of carved concrete pavers with signatures from the early graduates of the public school system. A large processional sidewalk leads to the building entry and is marked by the cantilevered library box, clad in red metal panel; a bow to the school's signature color.
A spacious atrium on the interior hosts a floating stair with a large skylight above that creates a pivotal intersection of light and movement at the primary hub of circulation. The vertical red wall of the elevator is a beacon, again emphasizing the school's signature color as the catalyst for activity. The exposed structure reveals the bones as an innate educational experience and provides a relief of volume in the entry, reception areas, and the corridors connecting the individual classrooms. Upstairs, the library and circulation spaces open to the entry below. Conceived as a transparent platform, the library floats above the entry with the projection of the window box framing a view to the west overlooking the plaza and high school beyond. The projected box becomes a deep window seat suitable for students to be immersed in the books around them. Economically sized classrooms with custom millwork and large windows, for daylight and fresh air, flank the wide corridors of the first and second floors, and custom steel lintels mark the threshold of each learning space with a room number. The north end of the second floor corridor resolves into another projected window seat box to provide a respite from the busy hallway and secondary stair.
The Special Education Learning component is located on the northeast corner and contains its own garden, covered porch entry, and services providing a private, safe, and comfortable atmosphere for the practical applications of teaching daily resource classes. This element is also conceived as a projected box, providing spatial relief to the eastern façade—which is adjacent to the football field—and acts as a compositionally balances the structure. As a building located in the geographic center of the campus, all elevations are carefully composed with the play of concrete block and metal panel to dynamically address each approach. These durable, low-maintenance materials are common to economical school construction, but are creatively used to provide a unique design aesthetic. As a base material, the standard-sized, sand-blasted, stack-bond concrete block is used instead of split-face block, which is the most typical material for school construction. This smooth block keeps the building friendly to students and other users occupying the landscaped gathering spaces around the building. The standing seam shed roof of the building channels all water to the east side in continuation with the natural hydrology of the site while also providing a compositional shell embracing the main volume of the new structure.
The context of the greater campus was also addressed through the development of a new pedestrian plaza which connects the middle school and high school across the primary street of Philips Avenue; the existing street was shut down from all vehicular access during school hours. A new street design carefully controls vehicular movement speed, maximizes circulation for parking and bus (un)loading and creates a tree-lined boulevard to beautify the primary school zone.Location: Green Forest, Arkansas, USA Architect: Modus Studio Project: Green Forest Middle School
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Interest costs hit Fountain Set result
Out of an attributable net of $210 million, knitted fabric producer Fountain Set (Holdings) says interest expenses were $100 million to service total debt of $2.86 billion.
'Textiles is a capital-intensive industry which needs heavy investment,' said chairman and managing director Ha Chung-fong.
He said heavy bank borrowings had prepared the company for further expansion. The company's debt-to-equity ratio had dropped to 170 per cent, finance director Lawrence Lau Hong-yon said.
Despite the heavy borrowings, Mr Ha said the company was committed to spending $60 million on machinery this year, including the second-phase development of its knitting and dyeing plant in Sri Lanka.
Executive director Lam Wing-tak said after the expansion, daily production of dyed fabrics could double to 40,000 pounds.
'We will start the expansion programme in the second quarter,' he said.
'After the expansion, sales from the plant will account for 15 per cent of the company's total turnover.' He said fierce competition in the dyeing industry on the mainland had set the profit margin lower than in Sri Lanka.
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are we listening to the same album?!
Album Rating: 4.5Yea, there's no way this is a 2..
Pff, BTBAM's new record is gonna be the album of the year. Not because it goes from "br00tal to sweepies" but because it's fucking good.
This CD still kicks ass. I wish Roman Holiday was better, though.
Oh the bonus tracks rock too.
Album Rating: 4.5"For the Record" could be the best song they have ever made. Needs more reviews!
no that would be either Logic of Crocodiles, Ebolarama or Off Broadway.
Album Rating: 4.5"Off Broadway" is pretty good, but it doesn't stick out to me as much as "For the Record" does. It's
such a surging song and I can't help bouncing in my car when the line "Can't stop stepping along on
for too long with this paper trail" comes in. I have actually been listening to this non-stop so I
hope I don't get burned out on it.
Album Rating: 4.0I dunno.. I might just give this a 4. This album is so much fun.
because it's a trippy dude with a beard.
Album Rating: 3.5 | Sound Offalbum art looks like brent hinds in wonderland yes
stupidest band name of all time.
nah, I'm pretty sure that's Job for a Cowboy.
Album Rating: 3.0lol
this is actually near a 3.5 for me. need another listen or so
is this out yet?
Out in the US on Tuesday although I got my pre-order a few days ago. This. Fucking. Destroys.
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too often.
redsky and rasputin should win awards for their short reviews!
Album Rating: 4.5I think this is a great southern hardcore record, great review as well.
It's the summation of ETiD's sound from the all their previous records, and I feel the best bits of those...
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Climb the diagonal and increasingly grassy crack left of the big roof to meadows.
don't bother. first half is nice but the crack on the second half of the route is now heavily vegetated. Unless you pull all the grass (and woodlouse!)out theres not much gear left
Bad condition. The route's horribly over-grown and I needed to do some gardening to get any gear in the second half of the crack.
Yes, it's overgrown, but that means it needs more traffic, not to be ignored! It's a nice line, and I don't think it's as overgrown as it possibly was now anyway. I soloed it to the ledge and decided the top half too necky without a rope, since the route changes style from positive to smooth. Luckily the ledge is big enough to sit on and wait to be rescued :)


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LOCATION-DATE—Modern man faces a plethora of pains and illnesses that our ancestors did not know. Many in the scientific community attribute the low health of Americans to a stressful modern lifestyle and even what is now called "The Sitting Disease". These metabolic syndromes have been associated by research scientists with negative effects upon muscles, immune systems, and neurology. Many people will look to over the counter remedies, pharmaceutical aids, and even CBD (cannabis based oils) to treat many of these ailments. While CBD has been proven to have an effect on the body system, not all states will allow its use or sale, and the effectiveness has been limited by the distillation process. Natural Remedies has created a patch which mimics the frequency of CBD and can be used to treat ailments of muscle and the central nervous system.
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Written on: 25/10/2005 by tim5165 (1 review written)
Good Points
The packaging can be resealed.
Bad Points
Wet and slimy.
General Comments
Cathedral City Cheddar cheese is eminently forgettable. It has a spurious identity: precisely which Cathedral City does it pretend to represent? I wonder if it is really made in Britain or just repacked. There is no clue, except that the plastic packaging doesn't carry the Farm Tractor logo. This logo is the subtle way to show that the food reaches certain standards, rather than some diktat agreed between factory and supermarket and EU bureaucrat.
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Five minutes of investigation revealed that Cathedral City originated in St Albans (although it's now made in Davidstow in Cornwall). So there is nothing spurious about the name, nor is there any pretence. It was no surprise to find that mature Cathedral City, whilst certainly a little waxy, has an otherwise excellent taste. Probably the best tasting of the mass-produced cheeses.
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I recently acquired the Gateway TA6 laptop, with problems:-Napster shows up in Control Panel Add/Remove programs and nowhere else and refuses to go away. -PC MightyMax 2009 shows in systray (lower right desktop) and nowhere else and refuses to go away. -It is a Win XP Tablet, and I would like to disable the Desktop 'Tablet PC Input Panel' somehow.-I will never use the Motorola fax feature in systray and wonder how to disable it.-How can I selectively disable McAfee safe web browsing?Any helpful sugs would be greatly appreciated.
I am still trying to disable the Motorola fax from auto-starting.
I keep touching the touchpad accidentally with the base of my thumb and everytime I do that the cursor jumps halfway across the screen and it beeps at me, so then I have to grab the external mouse and put the cursor back where I'm typing. I tried blocking the pad with a post-it note and an index card but it didn't block it.
If push comes to shove...you could remove its driver and disable the device in the Windows Device Manager. That means though that you will not be able to use the trackpad at all. Be sure to carry a working computer mouse with you the whole time when you decide to go drastic like this.
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The long journey home
The year is 2180, a time of a technological boom. The party are all members of a military contingent that is on board the space exploration vessel, Wanderer. The main purpose of the vessel is discovery and exploration, into the outer reaches of space. On board the Wanderer are numerous scientists, diplomats, linguists, diggers, mechanics and pilots that will be used for exploring any planets or other interesting locations they arrive at. The military contingent on board, named Starseeker, is made up 100 soldiers hand picked by the Commodore of the Wanderer, Katsuya Okado. Starseeker is composed of 18 squads of 5 men and a command retinue of 10 men including the commodore. Each team is designed as a balanced squad to protect the people on the vessel in case of any difficulties the ship might sustain during it's travels. Not many complications were forseen which is why there are only 100 soldiers out of the nearly 2000 men on board the wanderer.
This is the first deep space exploration vessel that has state of the art equipment on board, thus the importance of the mission is critical. After the first jump into space the Wanderer veers of course ending up in a place far beyond where the crew intended. The Wanderer also has become damaged in a mysterious assault as soon as they arrived at their unknown destination. After surviving the initial attack it is up to the soldiers of Starseeker to help the crew survive on the long way back to Earth.
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Shakespeare said, "All the world is a stage, the men and women merely players."
Homebrew Setting:
This is a magic infusion, early technology, fantasy world. The particular technological age is deliberately set at the late Iron Age moving into the Golden Age of Discovery so that the non-combat related actions of the characters have a direct effect on political, social, and technological development.
- Races / Character Description -
All characters should be humanoid, meaning 2 arms and 2 legs. No tails, wings, feathers, or scales at inception, of a relative height from 4' to 8', with general earth tone coloration (melaninic) or yellow to reddish (caratenoic) or some hue from black to white (chromatic). Star Wars has its own diversity. The people of this world are more uniform.
- Classes / Levels -
In a beginning adventure to a beginning campaign. The term beginner is important. Classes are only relevant to the players own vocabulary and archetypal design not to the playable mechanics of this system. Diversity is pliable to all, free of penalty. Beginning age of characters should be late adolescent to early adult for relative plausibility.
- Equipment / Money -
As per the introduction, the technological age is late iron. This is important to starting gear. Suits of armor have never even been heard of, much less seen. Metal weaponry does, of course, exist but it is general and simple. Rapiers and katanas and such are yet to be designed, waiting on character input and alloy component discovery. Some indigenous peoples are still using weaponry made of stone or bone.
All characters may begin with a simple melee weapon no larger than a longsword or single-blade fighting axe and/or a simple bow (long or short) with 20 arrows. If choosing knives, small swords, or hand axes, a character may begin with 2. Clothing should be homespun, wool, or cotton, no armor yet. Shields or bucklers are small and will be made of wood or hide.
The base currency is a medium sized coin made of tin that has various names from the 4 cities where it is minted but the same value. All characters are considered to have acquired 20 coins at the start of play. This is more than adequate. You will see.
This may come across as strange, but the system of origin for your character is irrelevant. I can use whatever stats you already have to relate them to what is important to keep track of development through play. Everyone has a favorite archetype or character. The question is can you take it and develop it through your own ability to play it, outside the rigid parameters of a gaming system? Where would you take it if the next step were entirely up to you?
Technical Mechanics are based on percentile and advancement is a point-buy system.
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The Society of 3.5 Revisionists is for folks who seek to tweak, fix, or revise part or all of the D&D d20 system. Whether you're just looking for a few new rules or a complete overhaul (backwards compatible or not), this is the place for you.Last Activity: Tuesday, 7th November, 2017 05:20 AM
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Arcanum of the Stars is both the name of my Dragonstar campaign and one of the main forces behind that campaign. However, Arcanum of the Stars (AotS), the campaign, isn't going to be just about that one power group. Many other resources whether D&D, D20, or something else entirely has influenced how Arcanum of the Stars has developed and will continue to be developed. And not only is Arcanum of the Stars a campaign, it is also designed to be a Dragonstar resource for other players and GMs to add new material to their own Dragonstar campaigns.Last Activity: Tuesday, 1st August, 2017 04:33 PM
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The Volunteer Zombie Eradication Force
Towering directly over your head is an ragged and imposing drill sergeant in his fifties. His tidily worn fatigues mock his appearance and presence: his leathery, scarred face wrinkles a hundred times over and he spits as he talks. Looking directly into your eye, into your soul, he yells,
"This is where all V.Z.E.F. recruits come to learn how to survive the madness of the apocalyptic world.
Report here to gear up and to find out how, when and where you will be stationed!
Check back to take on new missions (if available) and to meet other recruits.
If this is where it all ends, then this is where it all begins. Soooooound GOOD?!"
Ok, but seriously...
This is just a place to get started before you even know what's going on.
Some won't know what D&D is let alone table top role playing games, let alone what this site is for.
Some of you won't have a character yet, some will. Either way, if you're new you're in the right place.
For anyone interested in the Volunteer Zombie Eradication Force, 3.5 D&D, undead apocalypse campaign (aka VZEF Camp), this Community is for:
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- learning about what Dungeons & Dragons is and how to play
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- choosing a group you wish to play with (unless you are playing solo)
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Please be respectful, even if you can't be kind.
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In a sharply divided vote, Aryan Nation, a formerly all-white supremacist group, voted today to allow "light skinned negroes" and those of mixed heritage to join its organization. They will also be allowing Jews who have converted to Christianity.
"We have to learn to grow with the times", said Aryan Nation leader John Bolton in a prepared speech. "It has come to our attention that light-skinned negroes usually have white in them. That makes them at least part Aryan. Therefore, we have changed our all-white policy to include light skinned and interracial black, Hispanic and Asian people. Also, most Jews also have some other nationality in them such as German or English. So long as they become good wine-drinking Christians they will also be allowed".
Not all members of Aryan Nation approved of the new policies. "If we start allowing negroes, spics and gooks then it won't be Aryan anymore then would it?" asked lifelong 73-year-old member Dick Balmy. Just because someone has some white in them doesn't make them a little Aryan!"
Aryan Nation has come under fire from civil rights groups for painting swastikas on the homes of Jewish Rabbis, burning crosses on the homes of African-Americans and promoting violence and hatred. Bolton said that such activities will no longer be tolerated and Aryan Nation will now work toward peace and understanding among people of different ethnic and religious groups.
"I sincerely hope that in the future we will be able to have every ethnic group join Aryan Nation", Bolton continued.. "Our new motto is 'an Aryan should be judged on the content of his character and not on the color of his skin'".
The Reverand Al Sharpton praised the Aryan initiative. "This is good", Sharpton said.
"Bolton should be strung up by the balls for this!" shouted Aryan member Richard Meltzer. "Aryan nation is all about mayonnaise faces and chubby cheeks. The things that made America great!".
The Aryans have already accepted their first black member, 37 year old stockbroker Rafael Washington. "My father was black and my mother was white", Washington revealed. "Of course, I am trying to focus as much as I can on the white half of me, at least for the time being".
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Yesterday at CES, T-Mobile made a hard push to turn more people onto its service.
It announced two enticing things:
- Its 4G Unlimited plan for mobile users, contract-free, for $70 per month. That means you can text, call and use endless amounts of data without committing to a full year with T-Mobile. T-Mobile will no longer offer the annual contract, just a month to month service, which 46% of its customers chose last month anyway.
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In the wake of the Steubenville High School students who were convicted of raping a sixteen year old girl, the internet has bounced me from blog to blog, from article to article…
I'm overloaded, and raw, and thoughtful, and angry, and strangely stirred.
The internet is on fire and I'm glad. The term "rape culture" has never seen so much play. Turns out everyone's got a lot to say. Reactions have been divided and loud… but we need reactions – we need discussion, because something that happens as often as sexual assault should have gotten a hell of a lot more discussion a lot sooner. In fact, let's all keep talking about it until everyone is so exhausted hearing about it that no one ever rapes again.
There has been a lot of the usual victim blaming in this case, and most of the media coverage has been about the loss of the "promising futures" the convicted boys had ahead of them. The general reaction to the media coverage from the blogosphere seems to be "How did this even happen?" "Glad the rapists will pay for their crime." and "Holy Rape Culture, Steubenville!".
Presently, I am struck by the lack of humanizing the young girl who survived the rape. She was violated, photographed, and then those pictures were distributed far and wide – accompanied by various disgusting jokes. Whatever trust she had in the world around her has been violently ripped away, and it's likely she'll spend a lifetime healing from this.
I, like many, are shocked at the coverage, sympathy, and rallying behind the rapists. Most of all, I am ill over the arrogance of these football players and those that surrounded them – the arrogance that made them think it was okay to violate another human being the way they did, and the culture that led these boys to believe that what they were doing wasn't all that wrong – that allowed the complete dehumanization of a young girl.
The rape culture is alive and well. Women are still often portrayed as objects… to be owned or given… to be controlled. Objects aren't human. Kicking a box is a lot more acceptable to the mind than kicking a person. These football players were raised in a culture that values violence and aggression in its masculinity. They were town football heroes – "better than" and "powerful". They also sadly ended up doing one of the least masculine things there is – taking advantage of the weak. When they came across a young girl sick from alcohol and barely conscious, where was the masculine urge to protect? When friends witnessed the violation of this girl, where was the instinct to be brave… to stop it… to fight for someone who couldn't?
A friend in the Steubenville case on the night of the party fought to take keys away from a friend who was going to drive home drunk. Moments later he walked in on a naked girl sprawled on the floor being violated and did nothing.
Yes, the rape culture is alive and well, but I haven't lost hope.
As a feminist and a survivor, I not too long ago realized why I gave birth to boys… and not the girl I always wanted. Any true change in the rape culture must and will come from the men and future men. Rape is not a women's issue. Rape is a man's issue. Trying to teach our daughters not to be raped will never change the culture. We must teach our sons not to rape.
More and more parents, like myself, are steering away from gender stereotyping our young kids. I am teaching empathy and compassion. I am not valuing aggression simply because my kids are male. I am emphasizing respect for fellow human beings and honoring both (classically defined) feminine and male qualities. As my boys get older, I'm hoping to foster the knowledge that violence toward another person is usually done by the weak and out of control.
They will know that the strong take care of the less strong…
and that they can never be brave without first being afraid.
They will always know that they are loved, that they are worthy, and that others are worthy too.
They will know that no person is "less than" another because of their color, sexual preference, or gender.
When they are age appropriate, I will talk to them about sex…
and I will talk to them about rape – because the two are not the same…
and some day a very long time from now, I will tell them about what happened to their mother.
I have no reason to be ashamed of it,
and they should have every reason to want to change it.
We can actually teach our sons not to rape. We can teach them to step up, and speak out against rape (and any other violent dehumanizing act). The groundwork for human decency starts at a young age.
When you truly see someone else as a fellow human being – as an equal, an act like rape is unfathomable – it doesn't make sense.
We can teach our children to hold the door open for someone, and to cover their mouths when they sneeze. We can teach them to shovel snow off of an an ill neighbor's driveway. We can teach them to hold a crying friend's hand. We can teach them to tell the truth. We can teach them not to rape.
This past week has brought a slew of blog posts from parents on rape culture and boys… and how to change it.
There is a new generation of boys rising, and mine will be among them.
I believe it is possible that someday…
common sense
and common decency
will be more common than rape.
** Some posts on the subject I recommend:
- Henry Rollins Comments on the Steubenville Rape Verdict – UnderTheGunReview.net
- What You Really Need To Tell Teens About Sexual Assault – TheArtfulFlower.blogspot.com
- Friends Don't Let Friends Rape – LateEnough.com
- Prevent Another Steubenville: What All Mothers Must Do For Their Sons – HuffPost Parents
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This is so powerful and wonderful. I too am a feminist & mother to three sons and one daughter. I am proud to join you in raising a new generation of boys. Thank you for writing this.
Yes, this. I am raising two boys, and I'm raising them to be gentlemen. I'm sick of the BS of 'boys will be boys'.
Common sense, common decency, and common ground. I want them to prevail. I do.
Jenni, thank you for sharing such an important post. Like you, I having been reading non-stop, posts and reactions to the Steubenville case. Most of them are of women sharing their all to similar stories of sexual violation. I've been horrified, disgusted, angered and shocked, not only by the stories themselves, but more importantly, by the treatment of these victims of such heinous crimes.
In the end most of these posts gather sympathy, a thanks for sharing their difficult story and a cry for justice. What is lacking however, is an option for change. Thank you for giving your readers that.
Below is a little excerpt from a comment I left on another post. Funny how I stumbled upon you right after posting this.
"The "boys will be boys" mentality can be changed. It can be changed starting now, with each and every young mother out there. We are raising the next generation of men and women. We can teach, guide and inform them. It is time women world wide unite for the right to be safe."
Ah, we woke up with the same driving agenda.
This has to stop. We don't treat people as if they're nothing.
We are all human beings and anyone who is blind to this fact needs to be re taught, in some way that makes sense, to break through with the excuses they've been given, the entitlement, the reward for whatever superiority and hubris they think places them above others.
One household at a time. I tell my boys, they are made stronger for a reason, and that reason is not abuse. I can guarantee that. It is to lead, to protect, to drive away danger.
Say it enough times to them, enough times to where they hear it when your voice isn't around any longer, and it becomes their truth.
I love you, Jenni.
Jenni, thank you so much for your thoughtful take on what we CAN do to help our sons, and for your kindness in linking to my article on HuffPost. I love what you said about how if we can teach our sons to cover their mouth when they sneeze, shovel the driveway, etc then we can teach them not to rape. It makes teaching them about sexual responsibility a TASK of parenting. I like that you framed it that way, because it makes it sound a bit less scary. I feel fortunate to be part of a community of parents who are all doing such hard work 🙂 Thank you!
This, "There is a new generation of boys rising, and mine will be among them" is exactly how I feel. We have the power to talk to our children and to steer them in the right direction. In fact we have the obligation to do so. I hope more mothers are out there thinking about this. More fathers too. It starts with us.
Unfortunately I think that part of the "lack of humanizing of the victim" is due to the system that is set up to protect her. She is not supposed to be pictured or named in the press and the perpetrators are. We are such visual beings. Nothing we read or hear can override what we see. And we see the young men (who I have no sympathy for) in the media coverage. We see that they are young and human and fallible. We don't see the girl who was assaulted. And if we are not capable of conjuring her and all that happened to her, then the boys become more real in our minds, maybe even more human and sympathetic to some. I'm not suggesting that any victim of rape should have to make herself know to us so that we can humanize her. But I still think it's a source of this disparity.
So well said in every way Jenni. I honestly cannot imagine where we are headed as a society when our children do not attempt to save someone from harm. And this case has proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that we have a very long way to go in regards to rape.
Very powerful post! It has been so disturbing to hear the media express how sorry they are for those two boys. Not just disturbing…disgusting actually. I like what you said about knowing the reason you had boys. They are lucky to have you!
Thanks for this, Jenni. The whole situation had left me feeling so sad and so hopeless about our culture's relationship to gender, sexuality, and aggression. I hope so much that the way that we — those of us with sons — raise our boys will change things going forward. But I think we also have to work to change the culture that we live in, as much as we can. I don't think it's enough to raise your boys well. We also have to try our hardest to make changes in the wider world.
Well said, Jenni. I will do everything in my power to insure that my son will be one of the new generation of boys.
There are so many disturbing issues that arise from this entire case. I can't believe that folks sat around and laughed and took pictures. What's funny and photo worthy about any of this? It's disgusting and super immature. I know they're kids, but my goodness, so they have any sense at all? Ridiculous! #sitssharefest
It's not just this generation. It's men in general.
I'm an exotic dancer and my target demographic is men over 50.
I can't count how many men have shoved their hands in places they weren't supposed to be…even after it was made clear that it was not acceptable.
Then men are married…they have kids and grandkids.
They are probably "good" men in every other aspect of their lives.
But because I work in the adult industry I'm a thing. A product with no feeling or human traits. There, only for them to use. They see nothing wrong with their actions.
I have a boy and a girl. They will both be taught that rape, sexual assault, and harassment is wrong. If they see it then they need to say something. If they commit an act like this I'll have them put in jail myself. It's just not acceptable and it's scary to me how many men of all generations think that it is ok to force himself on a woman because "she asked for it" or "she got drunk" or whatever other idiotic reason they have.
Sorry for the rambling comment….this whole thing just sets me off.
Simply, Jenni, well-said. It truly disgusts me to see just how inhuman these football players became. The breakdown is, obviously, at the society level. The boys need to be punished for what they did, surely. Those who knew it was happening & did nothing need to be punished. But something needs to be done, radically, because there is no way, in a civilized society, that the chain of events that unfolded in Steubenville can unfold as they did.


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I borrowed the pink shirt and shoes from Saku because I don't actually like Serah other than the fact that Snow does, and because I am lazy. At KatsuCon I also forgot ALL of my jewery, which was fun, but idk its okay. The white shirt is gaberdine and some kind of see thru fabric that I had laying around. AND BIAS TAPE HURHUR. The skirt is a patterned cotton and I'm actually kinda proud it came out the right shape since I free handed the entire thing LOL CARING IS FUN.
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Kayla turned 13 yesterday. She looked beautiful in the dress she insisted on buying the day before her birthday so she looked cute. She is a diva thats for sure! She is my little chef/animal lover. She helps feed the babies for me when I work (the animal babies) and she loves cooking! She will bring me breakfast in the mornings sometimes. She is the one kid I don't have to worry about the food tasting like shit or being burned! LMAO!
This is her preschool graduation-- she wanted to be a mom like me. See the 4 babies and the nextel phone by her ear? Yeah. lol Little shit she is!
My pouty princess!
Here she is yesterday-My Birthday Girl!
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I can't believe how much Alli looks like her in a couple of those pictures!
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Where did she get that ?
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Aww.. that's really cute. Makes me think of my daughter when she was that age.
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A 13 year old model that looks just like Fergy who will pose with any baby animal I bring into the room and whip up a 5 star meal for the photographer and crew after the shoot?
I'd TF that!
Happy Birthday to the official teenage ray of sunshine!
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Can she teach me to cook?!
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She's been trying to teach her 17 year old sister how to make my eggs right (ha, they end up scrambled!), and how to make a cake the right way. So yeah I am sure she can teach someone to cook. Although she LOVES cooking dessert better than anything, she took a cake decorating class for adults. She did better than the other adults in the class, the lady teaching was floored! Her decorating ROCKS! She is helping with Kelsey's grad stuff so I will take pics then. I don't know if I have pics of her cakes on this computer.
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Kayla looks like both her mom and her dad in my opinion. I think Fergy's oldest daughter, Kelsey, is her twin!!! Serious.
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Funny thing is that for Christmas one year she asked for a set of knives.
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She's adorable. Tell her I said so, and tell her happy birthday for me.
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This is true. My dad came in the kitchen the other day and thought Kelsey was me. LOL When we went on our cruise, a lot of people thought we were sisters and we were on a cruise with our mom! lol I said, well that is MY mom and she is MY daughter. But Thank you! lol
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Yes, and she uses those knives all the time! I do watch food network with her. But I can't stand some of those cooking shows! I hate Paula Dean!!
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There are several offensive lineman from the Golden State this year that are not well known nationally or even locally, but have some upside to them. One such player is Beverly Hills (Calif.) OL Caylin Hauptmann who had a very solid showing at the SoCal NIKE Camp a few weeks ago.
Hauptmann measured in at 6-3, 307 pounds and projects as a guard at the next level. He has great hip flexibility and suddenness for a big man and is very strong at the point of attack.
Hauptmann shows up well on film and is a physical kid and very aggressive. He plays a bit high at times but as he continues to work on his overall athleticism, and improves his explosiveness, he has a chance to be a very solid college player down the line.
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Short Indraprastha Gas, says Sudarshan Sukhani of s2analytics.com. The charts suggest that may be it will come back to the Rs 210 area that's a very deep correction or even a small bear market.
Short Indraprastha Gas, says Sudarshan Sukhani of s2analytics.com.
Sukhani told CNBC-TV18, "Jubilant Foodworks has now stalled in the Rs 1300-1350 area repeatedly. It is now turning around, which means its making something like a rounding top, some distribution patterns. Now this is a very strong momentum stock. It is not going to come down in a hurry or tumble down but the sense is that it is not going up."
He further added, "For a person who is looking for a short trade Jubilant Foodworks is a good idea. Upside risk is limited and whenever it decides to correct there is money on the downside. This can happen even if the Nifty were to go up."
"In Indraprastha Gas for the short-term trader we are looking at a target of Rs 242-243 that is 1.5 percent lower than the closing prices but what's really happening is Indraprastha Gas Limited (IGL) after the news, after a lot of sensational movements, it has stalled. It is now in the Rs 245-270 area and it is breaking below Rs 245 now, in fact Rs 248 is the exact support, so the stock is breaking support."
"The news is no longer supporting it. There are buyers who want to get out and presumably expect a lower level. The charts suggest that may be we'll come back to the Rs 210 area that's a very deep correction or even a small bear market. So IGL is a short sell for day traders and for somebody who is considering positions."


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Mission & Vision
Mission Statement
Carondelet High School inspires excellence by preparing young women to live with heart, faith and courage in the Catholic tradition and spirit of the Sisters of St. Joseph.
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A Carondelet graduate is empowered by her Catholic, college-preparatory education and is known as a woman who responds to the needs of the times and makes a positive difference.
A Renewed Mission
In September 2014, as part of Carondelet's strategic planning process, Carondelet's Leadership Team and Board of Directors assembled a group to examine how to better integrate Carondelet's mission into everything we do. This group, comprised of Sisters, board members and faculty and staff, quickly realized that in order for our mission to come to life and be actionable, it would first need to be refreshed to be simplified and easier to remember. Thus, the project of mission integration took a bit of a different path, starting not at integration but instead by looking at reworking the language in the mission itself. The group's aim was to reinforce the original spirit of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet while making the mission clear, actionable and easy to remember, so that it could provide direction for all we do as we take our school forward.
After much prayerful reflection and months of work to get the language and feel "just right," the group presented the renewed mission to the Board and to the Sisters of the L.A. Province for final approval - which was given at the end of March 2015.
Mission Statement History
The year was 1965! Carondelet High School opened its doors for the first time. The mission was living in the hearts of the Sisters of St. Joseph who envisioned our school and in six women of faith and courage who put their vision into practice.
The year was 1991! As part of our school's strategic planning process, a committee was gathered to formulate and proclaim a written Mission Statement. The wisdom of these words have guided and inspired us for the past 24 years. We are grateful.
Carondelet High School, founded and sponsored by the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet, provides quality Catholic education in a caring environment. Carondelet educates, challenges, and enables young women to integrate gospel values, to intelligently apply these values to their lives, and to reflect these values through leadership and service to the greater community. (Mission Statement 1991)
Vision Statement: Carondelet High School, founded and sponsored by the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet, will serve those seeking to become all of which woman is capable through a curriculum that integrates intellectual, moral, physical, psychological, social and spiritual development.
Carondelet High School will model collaboration among students, faculty, parents, alumnae, Board, and the greater community.
Integrating a counter-cultural stance based on gospel values, the School will nurture an environment of risk-taking that enables each person to assume roles of leadership and service to the dear neighbor.
Graduates of Carondelet High School will know their responsibility to reflect the CSJ charism of unity and reconciliation in their personal and professional lives.


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HOUSTON - Security will be beefed up at a Galena Park high school after several fights broke out on campus Thursday, leading to arrests.
At least four fights broke out at North Shore High School, 353 North Castelgory, before school began and at lunchtime. They were caught on cellphone video.
Teachers tried but could not break up the fights, so Harris County Precinct 3 deputy constables got involved.
Two students were arrested -- for resisting arrest and for interfering with the duties of a police officer. Five students were issued criminal citations for fighting, officials said. Their names were not released.
No serious injuries were reported.
The motive behind the brawls was not released, but officials said the original issue occurred off-campus.
Approximately 3,150 students attend North Shore.
Deputy constables regularly patrol the school.
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Derrick Rose(notes) says that performance enhancing drugs are a huge problem in the NBA, in a snippet that made the pages of ESPN the Magazine a few weeks ago, and the reaction to his comment seems to have hit a fever pitch.
And while we don't question Rose's knowledge of the inner-workings of this league, and what he's seen versus what we've observed and learned from afar, this does appear to be much ado about nothing. I'm hardly the NBA's favorite scribe these days, but it should be pointed out that this league has had strict testing for both drugs and supplements for decades, with ever-evolving guidelines, and that those who have been caught in the crosshairs with these sorts of things have been quickly sent to the sidelines. The league tests, and the few who use get caught.
In one of those quickie Q and A's ESPN Mag likes to run every-however-often-they-publish, Rose was asked to rate the NBA's problem with PEDs on a scale from one to ten. He classified it as a "seven," and then dropped this:
"It's huge and I think we need a level playing field, where nobody has that advantage over the next person."
What matters here is context, and you understanding that I'm not trying to argue away on behalf of Rose and/or the NBA.
Is "it" huge, or would the idea of PEDs being legally dumped into the NBA's bloodstream be huge? Was this question offered to Derrick as an idea, or as his take on what he knows about the league? Does he really think that the NBA doesn't have a level playing field because of these drugs and/or supplements? Or was he responding to a hypothetical that would come as a result of this uneven scope?
So far, only middling types like Don MacLean, O.J. Mayo(notes), and Rashard Lewis(notes) have been suspended because of testing positive for this stuff. Others have been banished due to other chemical additives (be they recreational or otherwise), and if you want to get into some argument that allows for the idea that the NBA would knowingly gloss over some superstar who had tested positive so as not to keep him away from the national television cameras, then you're going to have to go to some message board for that.
Because it takes two to tango, and several to test and then react, and if that were actually the case with [name your All-Star], then some doctor or lab assistant would have a million-dollar exclusive on their hands. Unless you think the NBA, which regulates and labels headbands, would pay off a doctor or lab assistant. And then … wait, why am I even listening to you?
Rose denied through a team spokesman on Sunday that he even made the comments, and that'll be more than enough to fuel the fire, because nothing satiates a conspiracy theorist more than an outright denial spun through the professional hands of a team or league employee.
Common sense, here, everyone. I'm on nobody's payroll save for Yahoo!'s, and I'm not out to save "my boy." Give it a moment's thought before prattling on.
Steve Aschburner, as he usually does, clarifies my thoughts in a more articulate fashion, while adding a nugget taken from the Chicago Tribune:
And the possibility loomed large that what Rose was asked, or thought he was asked, different significantly than what showed up on the final magazine page. That was the view of a Bull spokesman, who denied the quote on Rose's behalf that he was alleging a current, ongoing problem in the NBA.
The Chicago Tribune also reported:
One person close to Rose said the question was posed to him as "How big of a problem would it be if steroid use were rampant in the NBA?"
Fitting answers to questions reconfigured and slanted later happens sometimes in print journalism. It's a shoddy practice, mostly undone these days by video or audio recordings of most interviews. But without pictures or sound of this Q&A exchange between Rose and the reporter, it's hard to know if what was asked —- and what was answered -— were precisely as portrayed in the one-page, graphics-heavy feature.
Your read, so to speak, as to what happens from here.
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Yorba Linda, city, Orange county, southern California, U.S. The area was explored by a Spanish expedition in 1769, and in 1801 Juan Pablo Grijalva received a Spanish land grant known as Rancho Santiago de Santa Ana; Grijalva's descendants, the Peraltas and the Yorbas, inherited the land, and the Yorba family retained ownership until the mid-19th century. In 1907 part of the former Yorba land was sold to the Janss Corporation, which subdivided it and named the new city Yorba Linda (linda meaning "pretty" in Spanish). The city developed as a livestock, agricultural (citrus, avocados, tomatoes, and cabbage), and—with the establishment of the Pacific Electric Railroad line in 1918—transportation centre. Agricultural lands were retired with the post-World War II expansion of Orange county's municipalities, and Yorba Linda is now a mainly residential community of the Los Angeles metropolitan area. It is the site of the Richard Nixon Library and Birthplace. Chino Hills State Park is adjacent to the city. Inc. 1967. Pop. (2000) 58,918; (2010) 64,234.
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The Netherlands Society for Statistics and Operations Research (VvS+OR) is a learned society and a professional organization of approximately 800 members that unites those engaged in the fields of Statistics and Operations Research, from areas of application to fundamental research.The Society was founded on August 15, 1945. Conform to the goal of the Society, membership is open to everyone who pursues to improve the application and study of sound statistics and operations research, in the service of science and society, both on a national and international level.
To achieve this goal, the VvS+OR has numerous activities, among which:
- The organization of events, including the Annual Meeting of the Society.
- The publication of the scientific journal "Statistica Neerlandica" and the Society's magazine STAtOR
- The Van Dantzig Prize that is awarded every five years to someone up to the age of 40 with an eminent, theoretical or applied, contribution to the Science of Statistics or Operations Research in the previous five years.
- A yearly award for the best thesis in both a Bachelor and a Master program.
- In addition, events, conferences, and awards are organized separately by the various divisions of the VvS+OR.
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"I've never been this serious," Gingrich told AP reporter Mike Glover in Des Moines, Iowa, where the former speaker took part in a fundraiser and workshop for local candidates. Does that mean Gingrich was joking on the numerous previous occasions when he said he was considering a possible run for the roses in the next quadrennial election? It's hard to tell with Newt. Because even when he says he's never been this serious he means he's not really serious yet.
"It's fair to say that by February (2011) the groundwork will have been laid to consider seriously whether to run or not," Gingrich said. So even though he has "never been this serious," he is still at least six-and-a-half months away from considering it "seriously." While he is not as serious about it now as he will be next February, he is still more serious than when he was when considering it in the past, though with less seriousness than he has in considering it now. And chances are he will be even more serious each time he addresses the subject over the next few months, but not as serious as he will be in February, when the groundwork has all been laid for his serious consideration. Thus doth the Spotted Newt (a remarkable amphibian) make the future clear-and serious.
Some of the movers and shakers in the Republican Party are clearly taking the possibility of a Gingrich candidacy quite seriously. Some even appear to be awaiting it eagerly. For our nation is in trouble — serious trouble — and some see Gingrich as a viable alternative to the status quo, that fancy Latin phrase for "the mess we is in." Grover Norquist, founder of Americans for Tax Reform, told Newsmax he would welcome a Gingrich candidacy.
"Newt Gingrich, like Ronald Reagan, has spent his whole life building the modern Republican Party," said Norquist, who apparently meant that as a compliment. "Newt Gingrich, like Obama, is a community organizer," said Norquist. "Newt, however, is on the side of individual liberty."
Except, of course, when liberty gets in the way of the omnipotent Security State, of which the PATRIOT Act is a regrettable example.
Well, there you have it. How could a candidate who resembles both Ronald Reagan and Barack Obama lose? Simple. He's not tall enough. At about six feet even, Gingrich falls an inch short of measuring up to the incumbent. What difference does that make? A lot. In most presidential elections, the taller candidate wins. By that measure, the best Gingrich could do would be to make the election close.
Americans, as satirist Mark Russell observed years ago, believe in "peace through height." But Republicans may be hard pressed to find a candidate taller than Obama. They may have to find a retired NBA star who is conservative enough to embrace the Republican platform. He need not believe in it, as recent history has shown, but he must be willing to embrace it until Election Day.
But at least Gingrich is old enough, though just barely, to be a Republican candidate for President. Sure, the Constitution says the President need only be 35 years of age. But the Republican Party, being loaded with strict destructionists, appears to have come up with an age requirement of its own. Republicans like to nominate candidates who personify the growing power of the senior citizens lobby. The elephant has gotten grayer in recent elections. George Herbert Walker Bush was a stripling when he entered the White House at a youthful 64 in 1989. Son Georgie was but a callow youth when he took up residence there 12 years later at a mere 54. The Bushes were aberrations. Ever since Ronald Reagan stepped into the Oval Office just two weeks ahead of his 70th birthday, the age of the typical Republican nominee for President has been determined by carbon dating.
Bob Dole was 73 when he became the party's standard-bearer in 1996. John McCain was 72 when he took the mantle in 2008.
So don't expect Sarah Palin to be the nominee anytime soon. Even discounting the height factor (Palin is believed to be about 5'5"), she is far too young (and probably too thin) to lead a party of septuagenarian elephants. Palin may have a shot at the nomination in 2036, when she will be a fine old mama grizzly of 72.
Now Gingrich will turn 69 on June 17, 2012, which means that if elected President that year, he will enter the White House 69 years and seven months of age — six months younger than Reagan was on assuming office, but close enough for government work. And he'll be old enough to make age an excuse for forgetting his campaign promises and making the same promises all over again when he runs for reelection. As John McCain said, the nice thing about Alzheimer's is that you can hide your own Easter eggs.
Some of the sentimentalists among us might wish to believe that wisdom comes with age, but don't count on it. The old-timers who tell us they have forgotten more than we'll ever know have forgotten that that is precisely the problem. And the maturity of judgment that supposedly comes with age is not always obvious. As Britain's Harold Wilson said of Tony Benn, "He immatures with age."
But "Newtsie" (as "Uncle" Bob Dole used to call him) will make a fine candidate. He's smart. He's glib. He'll push the right buttons, say all the right things. He may even bring back an old Republican campaign promise that was finally discarded after two decades of being studiously ignored. He could promise to abolish the federal Department of Education, the department for which Republican administrations and Republicans in Congress have provided steady and generous budgetary increases, year after year. It is the department "Newtsie" voted to create in 1979, when he was a freshman representative from Georgia, despite the obvious fact that the Constitution he had sworn to uphold delegates no power over education to the federal government. But, of course, he was much younger then and perhaps had not begun to "consider seriously" the implications of his votes.
Within the cluttered confines of my humble abode lies a paperback copy of The Federalist Papers, with a blurb on the front cover that says, "… Newt Gingrich's … required reading…" In No. 45, James Madison assured those fearful of an overly powerful consolidated government that the new Constitution was designed to prevent just that.
"The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite." Gingrich likely lacks the gift for self-deprecating humor that served Ronald Reagan so well. So we may never hear him paraphrase Lloyd Bentsen 's famous remark to Dan Quayle in the 1988 vice presidential debate as he advances in age: "I knew Jim Madison. Jim Madison was a friend of mine."
But Gingrich should reread his own required reading and consider the words of Mr. Madison.
Consider seriously, that is.
Photo: Newt Gingrich is the keynote speaker on the subject of the new federal health care law July 13, 2010, at a Georgia Chamber luncheon in Atlanta, Ga.: AP Images


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Study Results Reveal Oral Growth Hormone Boosting Supplement May Be Capable of Producing the Same Benefits as Synthetic Growth Hormone Injections
Experts at Obesity Week Intrigued by SeroVital® Compound's Implications for Body Weight and Excess Fat Mass
Nov 21, 2013, 03:06 ET from SeroVital
NEW YORK, Nov. 21, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- While human growth hormone (hGH) therapy has become a staple among the rich and famous thanks to its notoriety for purportedly being able to reduce wrinkles, tighten saggy skin, decrease body fat, increase lean muscle mass, boost energy, rev up sex drive, and make people look and feel decades — not years, but DECADES — younger, there has been a marked lack of clinical studies exploring these benefits. That's why a recent study on an oral growth hormone booster's effects on endurance garnered so much attention among experts attending the prestigious Obesity Week Conference held recently in Atlanta, Georgia.
The study revolved around SeroVital®, an hGH secretagogue that's been causing quite a stir at scientific conferences around the world ever since a group of some of the most renowned researchers in the world revealed that it was capable of increasing mean, serum (blood) growth hormone levels by 682%. This was headline news, because up until this point most felt the best way to increase hGH levels was through expensive prescription injections (costs can run as high as $1500 per month). In addition to their high cost, these synthetic hGH injections are extremely controversial, because some experts fear that introducing synthetic hGH into the body may upset the natural production of hGH.
"That's what makes SeroVital so different," says Dr. Amy Heaton, PhD, Director of Scientific Affairs for SanMedica International™, SeroVital's distributor. "Rather than introducing synthetic hGH into the body via injections, SeroVital increases the body's own, endogenous levels of human growth hormone by promoting pituitary health, the gland that manufactures hGH. SeroVital not only provides a more affordable way for people to raise their hGH levels, but does so in a clinically validated way that allows users to achieve this naturally and without the risks associated with injections."
And now SeroVital is making news again with the release of a study analyzing its effects on endurance. The results of this study showed that after two weeks of daily supplementation with this patented hGH secretagogue, not only was subjects' VO2max (the established measure of endurance) significantly increased, but numeric increases in both resting metabolic rate and estimated daily calorie expenditure were also seen.
"Increased measures of endurance are a well-established outcome of synthetic recombinant human growth hormone (rhGH) injections in adults," explains Dr. Heaton. "But our research on the SeroVital compound is so exciting because it's the first study of its kind to show that an oral growth hormone secretagogue may be capable of producing an expected benefit the same as that of synthetic hGH injections. And while the present study was not sufficiently powered to detect a significant change in mean resting metabolic rate and estimated daily calorie expenditure, these parameters showed increased values over baseline following the treatment period, evidencing the potential of the supplement to impart long-term fat burning effects."
The promise this research holds — especially because it doesn't require the administration of controversial synthetic hGH injections — could lead to an increased understanding of the ability of youthful growth hormone levels to impact excess body weight and fat mass, which is quickly becoming a major global health hazard. Dr. Heaton adds, "Further research in this area may provide insight to potential effects on body composition and weight regulation by the amino acid based hGH secretagogue. A larger multi-center study is being planned."
For more information about Obesity Week, visit www.ObesityWeek.com. To get the full details on SeroVital, visit www.SeroVital.com. You can purchase SeroVital directly from SanMedica International by calling 1-800-285-5192 or www.SeroVital.com. Use the promo code SERO43 at checkout and shipping is free.*
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