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Choosing who should be the next leader of the greatest and most powerful nation on earth is a serious business. It should not be based on a candidate's likability, charisma or skin color but by his record of leadership and intelligence along with the backbone that is imperative to ensure the leaders of other countries, friendly and unfriendly alike, have a healthy respect for this country. This man must be seasoned, basically honest and truly willing to work with all members of Congress to attend to the people's business.
We all chuckle at the thought that our President should be upright and honorable since honesty is not usually high on a politician's agenda but it is critical that the American people are able to count on this man to do his very best to keep his campaign promises. The average American wants their President to abide by our Constitution and Bill of Rights, balancing the need for national security while jealously guarding the freedoms which our Founding Fathers labored so diligently to frame.
It's a given that Obama will be the Democratic nominee, but who among the Republican candidates would best fulfill the requirements listed above enough to deserve the honor of running against Mr. Obama? One who is experienced in the ways of Washington but has a historically duplicitous marital record or one whose entire life and way of thinking is a twisted lie?
Should a candidate's personal life carry more weight than his opponent's entire belief system of how God, family and society are put together??
Mitt Romney is a pretty face and presents himself as an all-American guy but, because he was raised in the Mormon church, the whole paradigm of his life is so warped and bizarre it defies the most basic logic. Allow me to explain.
The entire Romney family has been enmeshed in the Mormon church, also known as the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, since its inception. Mitt Romney's great-great grandfather, Parley P. Pratt, was teenage founder Joseph Smith's, right hand man. He supported Smith financially for years and was one of the original twelve Apostles, an ardent supporter of polygamy and was literally shot in the back while he was stealing his 12th wife!
Mitt's father, George Romney was the Governor of Michigan, U.S. Secretary of HUD under the Nixon administration and ran for President in 1968. He was also a very high official in the Mormon church, serving as Patriarch and regional representative of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of the United States. Mitt is currently a High Priest and Bishop.
'So what', you ask? 'The Mormons are known as good, solid family oriented people and believe in Jesus Christ. They don't believe that polygamy stuff anymore so what's the problem?' That is exactly what they want you to think! They go out of their way to present themselves as completely benign and just like everyone else. Oh Lord in heaven help me, sit back, read and get ready for the hair on the back of your neck to stand up…
Joseph Smith was a teenager who had a vision from God that he was to start the TRUE Christian church because God didn't like the ones which had already been established. Naturally, he was alone in the woods so there were no witnesses to this blessed event.
In other words, all the disciples, theologians and millions upon millions of Christians got it wrong for nearly 2000 years, but a teenager with a 3rd grade education really did receive the 'last prophecy', even though it has been changed and updated approximately 4000 times since.
Mormons hold great disdain towards Christianity; they believe it was "hatched in hell" and "inspired by the devil," and consider Christians to be the, "whore of Babylon" yet they will look you in the eye and emphatically state they themselves are Christians. Bottom line, they lie!
Mitt has openly expressed faith in Jesus as "Lord and Savior" to Evangelical Christians but routinely gives slick non-answers to questions about his loyalty and beliefs in the Mormon church.
Yet, in the Mormon pamphlet, What the Mormons Think of Christ, pg.22 it says: "Christians speak often of the blood of Christ and its cleansing power. Much that is believed and taught on this subject, however, is such utter nonsense and so palpably false that to believe it is to lose one's salvation. For instance, many believe or pretend to believe that if we confess Christ with our lips and avow that we accept him as our personal savior, we are thereby saved. They say that his blood without any other act than mere belief makes us clean." "In addition, the sacrifice He made was conditional."
Remember what Paul said in Galatians 1:8-9 "But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed. As we said before, so say I now again, If any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed." Could he have been any clearer?
Mormonism is the very definition of 'another gospel!' Got it?
Here are a few other examples of their beliefs; these are considered current doctrine in the LDS.
Jesus is really Lucifer's (a/k/a Satan) older brother (no, I am NOT kidding!) and both are offspring of "our Heavenly Father" and some unnamed celestial mother/s, "and therefore spiritual brothers, but Jesus is the First Born of the Father." Jesus was with the Father from the beginning and Lucifer was also a spirit child who had authority in the presence of God and called "a son of the morning." But he made bad decisions, so now he's evil. Okaaaay…
In fact, all humans, including Jesus Christ, angels, demons and Lucifer are all originally spirit children of a Heavenly Father and Heavenly Mother. You don't hear much about her.
God the Father was once a regular guy on some other planet who lived a really good life and achieved godhood and got to start his own world, known as Earth and populated it with people whose men have the potential to achieve godhood themselves and start their own planet someday. No. Really.
Women will never be equal to men and her purpose is to follow her husband, have children and accept the other wives her husband will marry in heaven.
The moon is inhabited by people who are all about 6 feet tall, dress like Quakers and live to be around 1000 years old. (You can't make this stuff up, folks!)
The Garden of Eden was in Missouri.
Dark skinned people, especially Negroes, are cursed of God. In the Journal of Discourse 11, it states, "Why are so many of the inhabitants of the Earth cursed with a sin of blackness? It comes in consequence of their father's rejecting the power of the Holy Priesthood and the law of God. They will go down to death." EXCUSE ME??
The United States of America is to be overthrown because of wrongs committed upon the Saints in the state of Missouri.
Even though Mitt publically denounces polygamy, as a temple-Mormon, he is required by church doctrine to agree to practice it for eternity. This is from the current Doctrine and Covenants 132 of LDS canon.
Now, the average Mormon peon doesn't even know some of these things! According to an internet acquaintance who was a Mormon for 50 years and subsequently became a born-again Christian…(you know, the REAL kind), "There is so much [information] to digest and the average Mormon doesn't even know a lot about their early history and doctrines because they are actually discouraged from reading it! It's an ever changing god and gospel they have, and they are kept too busy 'earning their salvation and exaltation' to read much at all."
Ezra Taft Benson, the President of the LDS and the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture during the Eisenhower Administration stated in a speech in June 1981 that , "In conclusion, let us summarize this grand key, these 14 Fundamentals in Following the Prophet; for our salvation depends on them." What are these 14 Fundamentals? They stress that members of the LDS give complete obedience to the church.
1. The Prophet is the only man who speaks for the Lord in everything. (Gee, that's convenient!)
2. The Living Prophet is more vital to us than standard works.
3. The Living Prophet is more important than a dead prophet.
4. The Prophet will never lead the church astray.
5. The Prophet is not required to have any earthly training or credentials to speak on any subject or act on any matter at any time. (Hey people, cash in your 401K's and give the money to ME!)
6. The Prophet doesn't have to say, "Thus saith the Lord" to give scripture. (He'll make it up as he goes…)
7. The Prophet tells us what we need to know, not always what we want to know.
8. The Prophet is not limited by men's reasoning.
9. The Prophet can receive revelation on any matter temporal or spiritual.
10. The Prophet may advise on civic matters.
11. Two groups who have the greatest difficulty following the Prophet are the proud who are learned and the proud who are rich. (No kidding! The ones who are 'learned' can see through your crap!)
12. The Prophet will not necessarily be popular with the world or the worldly.
13. The Prophet and His counselors make up the First Presidency- the highest quorum in the church—exalted themselves with positions of God. (There is no way the average member of the church could ever have a face to face meeting with someone in the highest quorum.)
14. (This is the kicker!!) The Prophet and the Presidency, the Living Prophet and the First Presidency—follow them and be blessed. Reject them and suffer.
Did you know that Mitt Romney is bound by a blood oath, given during a secret ceremony in the church, that he as a temple-Mormon is to obey the Mormon church OVER U.S. Law and the U.S. Constitution? NO? If you think this man's potential Presidency won't be greatly influenced by this church, you're deluded!
Finally, there is The White Horse Prophecy.
According to The White Horse Prophecy, given by God to Joseph Smith in 1843, the U.S. Constitution will one day "hang like a thread" and will be saved "by the efforts of the White Horse," described in the book of Revelation in the Bible and which the LDS defines as itself.
Brigham Young, the leader of the Mormon church right after the death of Joseph Smith stated, "When the Constitution of the U.S. hangs as it were, upon a single thread, they will have to call for the Mormon Elders to save it from utter destruction, and they will step forth and do it."
Is Mitt Romney the 'White Horse', chosen by God to save the Constitution? Is being elected the President of the United States his 'destiny'? When exactly will he achieve godhood? After his second term?
Everything I am telling you people is absolutely true. I do not have a fertile enough imagination to make this nonsense up!
So the question we need to ask ourselves is this: Would we rather have a President who is intellectually brilliant but has a personal marital history that stinks, or have a President whose most personal beliefs, and those of his family for generations, are narcissistic, grandiose and preposterous?
We need a good, strong President.
Not a god.
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- J/psi Erhöhung (1)
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- Transverse momentum spectra of J/psi and psi prime mesons from quark gluon plasma hadronization in nuclear collisions (2001)
- Recent results on transverse mass spectra of J/psi and psi prime mesons in central Pb+Pb collisions at 158 AGeV are considered. It is shown that those results support a hypothesis of statistical production of charmonia at hadronization and suggest the early thermal freeze-out of J/psi and psi prime mesons. Based on this approach the collective transverse velocity of hadronizing quark gluon plasma is estimated to be <v^H_T> \approx 0.2. Predictions for transverse mass spectra of hidden and open charm mesons at SPS and RHIC are discussed.
- Statistical coalescence model with exact charm conservation (2001)
- The statistical coalescence model for the production of open and hidden charm is considered within the canonical ensemble formulation. The data for the J/psi multiplicity in Pb+Pb collisions at 158 A·GeV are used for the model prediction of the open charm yield which has not yet been measured in these reactions.
- Statistical coalescence model analysis of J / psi production in Pb + Pb collisions at 158 A GeV (2001)
- Production of J/psi mesons in heavy ion collisions is considered within the statistical coalescence model. The model is in agreement with the experi- mental data of the NA50 Collaboration for Pb+Pb collisions at 158 A·GeV in a wide centrality range, including the so called anomalous suppression domain. The model description of the J/ psi data requires, however, strong enhancement of the open charm production in central Pb+Pb collisions. This model prediction may be checked in the future SPS runs.
- Power law in hadron production (2001)
- In high energy p+p(bar) interactions the mean multiplicity and transverse mass spectra of neutral mesons from eta to Upsilon (m = 0.5 - 10 GeV/c^2) and the transverse mass spectra of pions (m_T > 1 GeV/c^2) reveal a remarkable behaviour: they follow, over more than 10 orders of magnitude, the power-law function:The parameters C and P are energy dependent, but similar for all mesons produced at the same collision energy. This scaling resembles that expected in the statistical description of hadron production: the parameter P plays the role of a temperature and the normalisation constant C is analogous to the system volume. The fundamental difference is, however, in the form of the distribution function. In order to reproduce the experimental results and preserve the basic structure of the statistical approach the Boltzmann factor e^(-E/T) appearing in standard statistical mechanics has to be substituted by a power-law factor (E/Lambda)^(-P).
- Open and hidden charm production in heavy ion collisions at ultrarelativistic energies (2001)
- We consider the production of the open charm and J/psi mesons in heavy ion collisions at BNL RHIC. We discuss several recently developed pictures for J/psi production and argue that a measurement at RHIC energies is crucial for disentangling these di erent descriptions.
- J / psi suppression and enhancement in Au + Au collisions at the BNL RHIC (2001)
- We consider the production of the J/psi mesons in heavy ion collisions at RHIC energies in the statistical coalescence model with an exact (canonical ensemble) charm conservation. The cc quark pairs are assumed to be created in the primary hard parton collisions, but the formation of the open and hidden charm particles takes place at the hadronization stage and follows the prescription of statistical mechanics. The dependence of the J/psi production on both the number of nucleon participants and the collision energy is studied. The model predicts the J/psi suppression for low energies, whereas at the highest RHIC energy the model reveals the J/psi enhancement.
- Chemical freeze-out parameters at RHIC from microscopic model calculations (2001)
- The relaxation of hot nuclear matter to an equilibrated state in the central zone of heavy-ion collisions at energies from AGS to RHIC is studied within the microscopic UrQMD model. It is found that the system reaches the (quasi)equilibrium stage for the period of 10-15 fm/c. Within this time the matter in the cell expands nearly isentropically with the entropy to baryon ratio S/A = 150 - 170. Thermodynamic characteristics of the system at AGS and at SPS energies at the endpoints of this stage are very close to the parameters of chemical and thermal freeze-out extracted from the thermal fit to experimental data. Predictions are made for the full RHIC energy square root s = 200$ AGeV. The formation of a resonance-rich state at RHIC energies is discussed.
- Charm estimate from the dilepton spectra in nuclear collisions (2001)
- A validity of a recent estimate of an upper limit of charm production in central Pb+Pb collisions at 158 AGeV is critically discussed. Within a simple model we study properties of the background subtraction procedure used for an extraction of the charm signal from the analysis of dilepton spectra. We demonstrate that a production asymmetry between positively and negatively charged background muons and a large multiplicity of signal pairs leads to biased results. Therefore the applicability of this procedure for the analysis of nucleus-nucleus data should be reconsidered before final conclusions on the upper limit estimate of charm production could be drawn.


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Your body requires a little more protein during pregnancy, and this is easily provided by a healthy varied vegetarian diet. However, take extra care to ensure you have an adequate intake of two nutrients that are particularly important during pregnancy - iron and calcium. Here are some tasty vegetarian recipes to inspire you.
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Spanish omelette with Peppadew peppersMany women become anxious about eating eggs in pregnancy. If the eggs are well cooked they are perfectly safe to eat. This omelette is finished under the grill, ensuring the egg is thoroughly cooked.
Serves two
1 medium potato, peeled and diced
1 tbsp olive oil
1 small red onion, halved then finely sliced
1 small red pepper, sliced
4 hot Peppadew peppers, sliced
4 large eggs
50g mature Cheddar cheese, grated
Steam the potato pieces until nearly tender and drain. Heat the oil in a large non-stick frying pan and cook the onion over a gentle heat for 5-10 minutes until it is browned and soft.
Add the red pepper and Peppadew peppers and cook for a few minutes, stirring well. Add the drained potatoes and stir into the vegetable mixture.
Meanwhile, beat the eggs with some black pepper and two tablespoons of water. Pour the eggs over the vegetables and cook over a low heat without stirring. If you have a lid to cover the pan, it will speed up the cooking process slightly. When the eggs are set (this may take 5-10 minutes) sprinkle over the cheese and place under a preheated grill. Cook until the cheese is bubbling and brown.
Cut the omelette in half and serve with a green salad.
Spinach and feta filo pieSpinach is an excellent source of vitamin A. This Greek-inspired dish contains feta cheese which is naturally salty, so no extra salt is needed, just a grating of nutmeg and some black pepper. The pie freezes well and can be warmed in a hot oven to regain its crispiness.
Makes 6-8 slices
2 eggs
1 large onion, finely chopped
1kg fresh or frozen spinach
225g feta cheese, cut into cubes
Black pepper
300g filo pastry
Oil spray
Preheat the oven to 190 degrees C / gas mark 5.
Wash and boil or steam the spinach briefly until cooked. Squeeze them dry and chop roughly. Mix the spinach with the feta cheese and onion. Beat the eggs and stir into the mixture. Season well with black pepper and grated nutmeg.
Spray some sheets of filo pastry lightly with olive oil. Arrange four or five sheets over the base of a 25cm pie dish, allowing them to hang over the edge.
Spoon in the spinach and cheese filling. Fold the sheets into the middle of the dish and add the remaining filo pastry on top, also sprayed lightly with oil.
Bake for 35-40 minutes until golden and crispy. Cool for a few minutes before serving.
Root vegetable crumbleYou can use your favourite root vegetables for this recipe. Carrots and sweet potatoes are good sources of vitamin A, and you can choose between parsnips, turnips and swede – or use them all. Pumpkin seeds are a great source of zinc and selenium, though you can substitute other seeds if you prefer.
Serves four
For the vegetable filling:
2 medium carrots
1 small sweet potato
2 small or 1 large parsnip
2 small turnips
2 medium potatoes
Vegetable stock powder (e.g. Marigold low salt)
1 tbsp tomato puree
1 tbsp ground coriander
For the crumble topping:
3 slices wholemeal or granary bread
50g walnuts, roughly chopped
50g pumpkin seeds
1tbsp chopped fresh thyme or 1 tsp dried thyme
Preheat the oven to 180 degrees C / gas mark 4.
Peel or scrub all the vegetables and cut into cubes of around 1-2 cm. Place in a large ovenproof casserole dish. Make up 600ml vegetable stock with water and add the tomato puree and coriander. Pour over the vegetables until they are just covered, adding more or less depending on your mixture.
Cook in the oven for 45 minutes. Remove from the oven and test to see if the vegetables are nearly tender. If they are, drain off 2-3 tbsp of liquid.
Place the bread in a blender or food processor and whiz to produce fine crumbs. Mix the breadcrumbs with the seeds, thyme and nuts and spoon on top of the vegetables. Smooth out a little with the back of a spoon and return to the oven for another 15-20 minutes until the crumble mixture has become crispy and lightly browned. Serve at once with a salad of green leaves or some French beans.
Variation: Omit the nuts or seeds and sprinkle over 100g grated cheese instead.
Spaghetti with butternut squash and pine nutsThis recipe makes an easy vegetarian supper. Pine nuts are a fantastic source of vitamin E, and the squash contains lots of vitamin A. The easiest way to cook squash with minimal preparation is to cut it in half, scoop out the seeds and bake it in the oven or cook in the microwave. No peeling required!
Serves three
1 medium butternut squash, washed, halved lengthwise and seeds removed
40g rocket leaves
75g - 100g wholemeal spaghetti per person
75g pine nuts
1 clove garlic, crushed
2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
Black pepper
Grated Parmesan cheese, to serve
Place the squash in a microwave oven and cook on high for about 10 minutes until the flesh is soft (800W microwave, lower powered models will need longer cooking time).
Meanwhile cook the spaghetti according to the instructions on the packet. Mix the rocket, garlic and olive oil together in a bowl.
Lightly toast the pine nuts until just browned. When the squash is cooked, scoop out the flesh with a spoon and mix into the rocket and garlic.
Drain the pasta and stir in the squash mixture, sprinkle over the toasted pine nuts and serve at once with grated Parmesan.
Variation: non-vegetarian friends might like a little chopped crispy bacon sprinkled on top.
Aubergine dip (melitsanosalata)If you like to snack on dips, try this healthy Greek aubergine version. Carrot and celery sticks will keep in an airtight container in the fridge for a day or two. Prepare them in advance for a nutritious alternative to crisps and tortilla chips.
Makes six starter-sized portions
2 large aubergines
2 tbsp olive oil
1 clove crushed garlic
1 tbsp red or white wine vinegar
2 tbsp Greek yogurt
2 tbsp reduced-fat mayonnaise
Black pepper
Preheat the oven to 200 degrees C /gas mark 6.
Wrap the aubergines in foil and bake them in the oven for 20-30 minutes until soft.
Peel and mash the cooled aubergine pulp with the olive oil, garlic and vinegar. Stir in the yogurt and mayonnaise and season with black pepper.
Chill well before serving. Serve with raw sliced carrots, celery and peppers.
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- We're going to need a new state dinosaur. Luckily, there's one we could use. I hope the Leg attacks this Very Serious Problem asap.
- Zimbabwe's opposition will join in a coalition government in an effort to improve the desparate situation there. Over 3,000 people have died of cholera in the past few months, and more than 60,000 have been infected.
- Finally bowing to reality, Zimbabwe has given up on its currency. Mugabe's government will allow commerce to be conducted in foreign currency. Seems like they might've picked up on the point that if you have to print a $100 trillion note, you have a tiny inflation issue. Seven million Zimbabweans are in a state of food insecurity.
- Rwandan police and army troops attacked protesters in the country's two camps for Congolese refugees. The protesters were angry about the arrest of Laurent Nkunda. Apparently armies pitching their around refugee camps is the new black in refugee protection.
- Big surprise: the ICG has issued a Conflict Risk Alert for the D.R. Congo.
- In what could be a huge test case for future claims involving the activities of pharmeceutical companies in sub-Saharan Africa, a U.S. appeals court has ruled that the families of Nigerian children killed during their participation in drug trials by Pfizer can sue for damages in U.S. courts. Pfizer claims that the victims in Nigeria died because of the outbreak of meningitis for which they were testing treatments. It will be very interesting to see what happens with this case. One of the dirty open secrets of the world pharmeceutical manufacturing industry is the running of risky drug trials without solid controls on African subjects. Global pharmeceutical manufacturers have also been known to steal traditional healing methods using plants from African healers without any acknowledgement of their international property rights. I have no idea what the facts of the case are, but it would be nice if it prompted a discussion of a broad problem that takes advantage of uneducated people who may not realize that their health is being put at risk.


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AND NOTHING ELSE. Now that you've got that mental image, here's the money quote.
I remember when I was inducted into the Hall of Fame and they gave me my Hall of Fame yellow blazer. I wore it for two straight days. Finally my wife was in bed and said she wanted to make love but that I had to take the coat off. I refused and kept the blazer on because I wanted to perform like a Hall of Famer on the field and off."
Marking the first time anything that yellow has gotten laid since Lewis and Gilbert in Revenge of the Nerds.
Oh, and keep in mind that Irvin was inducted into the HOF about a month after being accused of sexual assault at a Florida hotel. So it's not like his libido was suffering for a lack of the jacket.
Michael Irvin tells all about his NFL Hall of Fame jacket [Chicago Tribune]
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In Girl Scouts, girls discover the fun, friendship and power of girls together. Through a myriad of enriching experiences, such as field trips, skill-building clinics, cultural exchanges, environmental stewardship and camping, girls grow courageous and strong. Girl Scouting helps girls develop their full individual potential; relate to others with increasing understanding, skill and respect; develop values to guide their actions; provide the foundation for sound decision-making; and contribute to the improvement of society through their abilities, leadership skills, and cooperation with others.
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Professor M. Wynn Thomas and Dr John Pikoulis at the friends Annual Meeting 2015
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Chair: Ion ThomasVice-Chair: Bethan GwanasSecretary: Ian Lloyd HughesMembers of the Steering Committee: Marian DelythMeinir Pierce JonesDyfrig DaviesThe Friends of the Welsh Books Council was established in 1995 and are going from strength to strength, holding annual meetings at which some of our foremost writers are guest speakers. To date, Jan Morris, Emyr Humphreys and the late R. S. Thomas have been discussing their work and the influences on their creative writing.
Professor M. Wynn Thomas presenting a gift to R. S. Thomas during the first General Meeting of the Friends, April 1997.
Honorary Presidents
Three of Wales's most prominent authors have been presented with the title of Honorary Presidents of the Friends of the Welsh Books Council, namely Emyr Humphreys, Jan Morris and Islwyn Ffowc Elis. It was with great sadness that the Friends note the death of Islwyn Ffowc Elis in January 2004.
The contribution of all three to the literatures of Wales has been immeasurable. Islwyn Ffowc Elis was regarded as a pioneering Welsh-language novelist and was also known for his contribution as a literary critic. Emyr Humphreys also came into prominence as a young novelist, developing later as a poet and prolific television dramatist. Jan Morris became internationally recognised for her travel writing but has also produced numerous volumes that deal specifically with Wales.
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'The Books Council is not just an invaluable instrument for the distribution and understanding of books in both the language of Wales: it is a declaration that the nation really does care about that fundamental of civilized life, the written word.'Jan Morris
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For February 20, 2013 – Defense questions investigation in Oscar Pistorius case; China's military denies hacking allegations and blizzard forecast for the Plains ...
• Defense questions investigation in Oscar Pistorius case: "The shape of prosecutors' case against Oscar Pistorius began to come into focus Wednesday as they argued the Olympian charged with killing his girlfriend, model Reeva Steenkamp, should be denied bail because he might disappear if released from jail."
• China's military denies hacking allegations: "Definitely no computer hacking, according to China's military, which said Wednesday that it is not engaged in cyber attacks of any sort."
• Marco Rubio, White House in war of words over immigration meetings: "The temperature's rising between Sen. Marco Rubio and the White House over immigration reform. And it got to the point Tuesday that President Barack Obama picked up the phone."
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Norr Paper Towel Holder / 739 nok
Designed by Ditte Buus Nielsen
Norr Paper Towel Holder has a simple and Nordic look that will look beautiful in any kitchen. The edge at the base keeps the paper from unravelling, and the leather strap is both charming and practical, making it easy to move around.
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"That thing you have always needed. An overlooked object at a flea market that sparks your imagination. An interesting function that can be incorporated into alternative contexts." As a designer, Ditte Buus Nielsen is inspired by this sort of scenarios, and she prefers to work with her new ideas and products from start to finish. Ditte Buus Nielsen has an MSc in industrial design from Aalborg University. Along with the functional aspect, simple expressions that are drafted on paper and translated into miniature mock-ups are what trigger Ditte's creative mind.


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The Standing Stones of Calanais
I'm Philip Graham, Public Engagement Manager at RCAHMS, responsible for letting people know about our work and for encouraging people to use our unique resources through an expanding series of lectures, group visits and tours, training and induction sessions, and events like Doors Open Day. A major part of my job is responsibility for our social media channels Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Flickr so I get to work with the amazing range of images that we hold in our collections and on a daily basis share what we're doing with the rest of the world.
Although I trained as an architect at the University of Edinburgh my job enables me to immerse myself in the whole spectrum of the built heritage, including archaeology and industry. The #MyArchaeology site I've chosen is the extraordinary Standing Stones of Calanais (or Callanish) in Lewis, part of a landscape dating back 5,000 years.
I was lucky enough to visit Calanais as part of a Heritage Lottery Fund project I worked on a few years ago called Recording Your Heritage Online which worked with community groups across the country to share their information and images with us to make them more widely available; now through MyCanmore people can upload their images and information directly into our website. The project also worked with the Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland to produce four books in their popular series of Illustrated Architectural Guides.
Our aerial view shows the full extent of the stone circle. At the heart of this cross-shaped setting stands a solitary monolith 4.8m high with lines of smaller stones radiating south, east and west and an 83m avenue running from the north. Surrounded by the stone circle is a chambered tomb.
The stones are nicely depicted in this sketch drawn in July 1866 by GR Mackarness who was an antiquarian and the Vicar of Ilam in Derbyshire, taken from the book 'Views in Scotland'.
The fact that no one definitively knows what the purpose of this site was adds to its mystery. Some have argued that it was built for ritual or astronomical reasons, and you may have some ideas of your own!
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The Canadian Wildlife Federation's mission is to conserve and inspire the conservation of Canada's wildlife and habitats for the use and enjoyment of all.
The Canadian Wildlife Federation conducts its activities through a cooperative approach – working with people, corporations, non-government organizations, and governments to inspire collaboration in achieving wildlife conservation. We will use the best available science-based information to develop our policies, programs and communications. CWF prides itself in being accountable and transparent in fulfilling our mission.
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The Canadian Wildlife Federation believes in conserving Canada's wildlife and encourages the wise use of our natural resources. We believe in living sustainably for future generations. Canadians should be able to enjoy the outdoors for all it has to offer through gardening, hiking, fishing, canoeing, camping, bird watching, swimming, wildlife photography, and so much more.
Since our inception in 1962, we have worked diligently to foster this Canadian way of life. We deliver programs that encourage people to experience the great outdoors, learn about the wonders of nature and the trials it faces. We also challenge government and industry to improve legislation and practices that negatively impact wildlife and habitat. We conduct and sponsor scientific research to help better understand how we may help wildlife.
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To foster Canadians connection to wildlife, CWF has been at the forefront of wildlife-related conservation education for over 50 years. Through iconic programs such as Hinterland Who's Who and WILD Education, as well as unique programs such as WILD Family Nature Clubs and Wild About Gardening, we create opportunities to encourage people to participate in individual conservation actions. Our education programs are designed to fit with formal curriculums and create experiential learning opportunities. Building on a positive connection with wildlife, these programs encourage Canadians of all ages, through their personal areas of interest to experience, enjoy and value nature.
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The foundation of CWF's conservation programming is based on finding solutions to ensure healthy wildlife populations. We focus our efforts on the challenges facing the most vulnerable species but will also respond to species not formally at-risk that require help. CWF's Endangered Species Program is the main source of non-government funding for species at-risk recovery in Canada. This work will keep abundant healthy wildlife populations at the heart of our Canadian identity.
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Wildlife and people all need a healthy habitat to live. CWF creates opportunities for people to take part in habitat conservation at the personal, community and landscape levels. Our highly regarded Backyard Habitat program helps people garden on their property with wildlife in mind. Drawing together local, provincial and national partners, we deliver unique community stewardship programs like Love Your Lake. Projects such as our land-use planning model for the western boreal forest – one of the largest areas covered by such a model in the world – influences landscape level development. This tiered approach compliments CWF's goal of connecting Canadians to nature by providing a range of opportunities for people to participate in habitat conservation.


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Penned in August 2007, this story appeared in our county humane society's newsletter and was written about a month after we adopted Riley and brought her home. We've now been together for five years.
By Riley Hoskins
Sometimes, it's funny how a newspaper can change your life. That's how mine took a turn for the better, paving the way for a forever family and permanent home.
|What about that scratch on my nose, Daddy?
They say I may have been abused as a puppy, but no one knows for sure. We don't even know for sure when my real birthday is, though that V-E-T says I'm currently about 2 years old. All I know for certain is that the mysterious chapter of my life ended one fateful day when I stumbled into a Center Grove neighborhood at the tail end of 2006.
Back then, I was cold, lonely, and so scared that I didn't even want to go around people – and everyone knows how much I love people! My typically shiny black coat was dirty, more gray than black, and I was tired and hungry and decided to take a break from wandering. There I was, standing in the road near a mailbox when she appeared. She was coming outside for her morning newspaper. Our eyes locked. Not trusting this stranger drawing close, I bolted. That didn't stop her, and before long I learned her name was Nancy. She put a warm bed with some food on her porch for me and slowly I started going there for food and shelter.
|The JCHS Adoption Photo from 2007
The next chapter began when Nancy took me to the Johnson County Humane Society. Soon came a foster dad – Josh. He was my go-between and took care of me for a few months. I liked it there, mostly because he had two other furry friends to play with. If I could play all day, I would be a happy dog. As much as I liked Josh's house, it still wasn't home. And all I wanted was a real home. Then it happened. Josh and I took a drive to the Golden Post Animal Kennel- a place I'd stayed before – for what I thought was a typical visit. But a new chapter was beginning, and for the first time, I was about to find my forever family.
Mommy and Daddy came into my life during that visit on June 25. They tell me a story of how it was usually Mommy who'd be looking for a puppy or older dog to bring home; he wasn't persuaded. I was different, they say. Browsing through newspaper ads in print and online one day, he stumbled across my picture and biography – much as Nancy had discovered me on the way to her newspaper that one morning. There was a connection immediately, mostly because of my shiny black coat and big, brown puppy eyes. He forwarded my good looks on to Mommy, and within a week our fates were intertwined.
He had never had a dog before, though everyone in his family had and he spent his childhood wishing to no avail. Pictures at home show that she had a dog growing up who looked just like me -but I have to say that I'm much better looking! We went home later that week when Josh took me to their house, and I could tell right away that these two would be the ones I'd always be able to play with, comfort, love and cherish.
So here we are, living in Greenwood. In my first weeks, I've done more with them than I can remember doing before. Have traveled to Michigan twice - a camping trip and to visit family there. We have the big, one-acre Four Paws Dog Park within our neighborhood and go there a couple times a week to run and play with friends. While they don't yet have a fence, I'm smart enough to know to stay inside the yard and not run off. I've been lost before, and don't want to go there again. Aside from that, jumping, licking, and trying to get the silvery gray cat named Shadow to like me. That's a work in progress.
|Shadow: With us from 2004-2012
(Ghostwritten by Michael and Susanne Hoskins)


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A study in the August 15 issue of the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine shows that the sleep patterns of older adults who live with and provide direct care during the night for a person with dementia are significantly worse than other older adults.
When sleep was measured objectively, and after adjusting for depressive symptoms, age, health condition and education, adults who take care of a person suffering from dementia took longer to fall sleep and had less total sleep than noncaregivers. Caregivers slept for an average of about 6.5 hours per night, which was about 33 minutes less than noncaregivers, and they took about 10 minutes longer to fall asleep. Caregiver sleep also was more variable from night-to-night, and caregivers reported lower subjective sleep quality, had higher scores of daytime sleepiness on the Epworth Sleepiness Scale and had higher depressive symptom scores.
"On average, caregivers only slept about six -and-a-half hours a night and took almost 23 minutes to fall asleep," said primary investigator Meredith Rowe, PhD, associate professor at the University of Florida. "Using the sleep diary data that subjects kept at the same time, however, depression was the primary determinant of poor sleep with depressed subjects reporting less time asleep and more wake time over the week."
According to Rowe, the most surprising finding of the study was that the caregiver group took a longer time to fall asleep, which is consistent with the greater worry and concern that caregivers may have. The researchers had expected the caregivers' main sleep problem to be more time awake in the middle of the night when the person with dementia needed supervision. The difference between groups was not significant, however, as both caregivers and noncaregivers had an average of more than 40 minutes of time awake during the night after initially falling asleep.
Sleep patterns were measured by actigraphy for three to seven nights for the 31 caregivers in the study, each of whom lived with and provided direct care to a person with dementia who had nighttime awakenings. Seven nights of data were collected by actigraphy for the 102 noncaregivers in a previous study on sleep in older adults who were relatively healthy, living in the community and not diagnosed with sleep disorders other than insomnia. In general, both groups were predominantly female, white and currently married. Ages ranged from 60 to 89 years for noncaregivers and 60 to 86 years for caregivers. The noncaregiver sample had a significantly greater level of education than the caregiver sample.
Other measurement tools used in the study included daily sleep diaries, the Epworth Sleepiness Scale and the Fatigue Severity Scale. Participants were also assessed for depressive symptoms.
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Minor League affiliates sitting pretty in first place
HOUSTON -- The Astros' rebuilding process appears to be coming along nicely at the Minor League level, where the club's top six Minor League affiliates entered play Wednesday all in first place in their respective divisions.
The Astros' combined Minor League record of 376-271 (.581) is tops among all 30 organizations in baseball. Last year, the Astros had the top combined winning percentage among domestic Minor League clubs.
"I think it's a good indication of what's coming," general manager Jeff Luhnow said. "You look at those teams and there's prospects on every single team up and down the system. It's hard to have that much success in the Minor Leagues, but our coaches have done a terrific job. Scouts are doing a good job, but it's mostly the players. They're playing well."
Triple-A Oklahoma City (68-50) led the Pacific Coast League South division by four games, thanks to a 12-game winning streak. Double-A Corpus Christi and Class A Lancaster both won the first half titles in their leagues, but the Hooks (27-18) were tied for first place in the Texas League South and the JetHawks (28-17) had a 4 1/2-game lead in the Cal League South in the second half.
Meanwhile, Class A Quad Cities (27-16) had a half-game lead in the Midwest League's Western Division, while short-season Tri-City (29-21) had the same lead in the New York-Penn League's Stedler Division. Rookie league Greeneville (29-15) led the Appalachian League's Western Division by four games.


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Alex Ovechkin Has Goal and Assist in Dynamo's 5-1 Win Over Neftekhimik
Note the extras from GoldenEye at top right. (Photo credit: dynamo.ru)
Monday was supposed to mark Alex Ovechkin's first meeting with 2012 first overall pick Nail Yakupov. When Dynamo Moscow hosted Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk, Yakupov instead had to endure an international fiasco last week and was held out of the line-up by Coach Vladimir Golubovich despite being reinstated over the weekend.
Meanwhile, the Russian machine had his best game yet in a blue and white jersey, notching his second goal of the KHL season and tallying an assist in Dynamo's 5-1 mollywhopping of Neftekhimik. Ovi had 5 shots in a season-low 14:44 ice time.
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Amsterdam Vallon
Synopsis: 1863. America was born in the streets. In this movie, we see Amsterdam Vallon returning to the Five Points of America to seek vengeance against the psychotic gangland kingpin Bill the Butcher who murdered his father years ago. With an eager pickpocket by his side and a whole new army, Vallon fights his way to seek vengeance on the Butcher and restore peace in the area.
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It's hard to tell who gets more disstressed -- you, the parents or your baby -- when infants cry excessively for at least more than two hours or more for no apparent reason. The cause of this unsettling behaviour is often attributed to infantile colic, described as an attack of crying and is thought to be associated with abdominal pain. In the local context, 'wind' is sometimes used interchangeably with colic.
It is common for colic to appear a few weeks after birth and then 'disappear' three or four months later. Although the repeated episodes of constant crying can be upsetting, experts do not believe colic to be harmful. Colic is also not a disease.
All babies cry, especially when they are hungry, hot, cold, tired, bored or uncomfortable in a wet or soiled diaper. Sudden crying can also be a result of an unexpected stimulation like a loud noise or flashing light.
However, if your baby is suffering from colic, he will usually display the following symptoms:
-- Inconsolable, intense crying for several hours at a stretch.
-- The crying usually occurs in the late afternoons and evenings.
-- Some infants may clench their fists and draw up their knees against their stomach, as if in pain or discomfort.
-- During these crying bouts, wind is sometimes expelled.
-- In general, if a baby cries more than three hours a day, three days (or more) a week for more than three weeks, but is otherwise healthy, feeds well and grows normally, he is considered to have colic.
Once your doctor has ruled out any medical cause for your baby's persistent crying, it will be helpful to learn some strategies to soothe your infant. The following pointers may be useful.
-- Offer the pacifier to your baby if it helps to soothe him.
-- Try burping your baby after a feed: hold him upright on your lap or against your shoulder (supporting head and neck), and gently rub his back until air is expelled.
-- Put baby in a stroller and go for a walk. Or else take him for a car ride. Some parents have found these methods helpful in calming a colicky baby.
-- Cuddle your baby!
-- Try a warm bath or gently massage his tummy with clockwise movements.
-- Sit baby slightly upright when breast or bottle-feeding to avoid him swallowing excess amounts of air -- which could lead to gassiness.
-- Reduce the level of noise, light and activity around baby. Passing him from one person to another may further increase his distress or discomfort.
-- Use infant colic drops to ease his tummy. Always check with your doctor first about usage.
-- Step away and seek help from your spouse or another family member if you find yourself getting increasingly agitated by baby's cries.
The cause of colic is still not known, but it affects both baby boys and girls, breastfed and formula-fed babies. Although not backed by convincing evidence, it has been suggested that colic could be due to these reasons:
-- An immature baby gut, leading to indigestion, wind or sensitivities towards substances in breast or formula milk.
-- An allergy or intolerance towards milk or lactose.
-- The baby swallowing large amounts of air when feeding or crying. The air gets trapped in the digestive system, causing abdominal discomfort.
-- Temperament of the baby.
It is important for parents to bear in mind that colic is a common phase many babies go through. It does not mean you are a bad mum or dad just because you can't seem to soothe your infant's frantic and incessant cries.
Parents-to-be should read up about colic. Should you then encounter colic after baby is born, you won't feel so stressed out and anxious. Most of the time, evening colic resolves itself by the time baby is three to four months old. So hand in there and work with your spouse to overcome this challenge!


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Labour leader David Shearer's position is on precarious ground and his rival David Cunliffe is refusing to endorse him after a change to Labour's rules which will mean a challenger will need only 14 caucus votes to mount a challenge next February.
In changes to Labour's rules at its conference today, the delegates made a surprise decision to allow 40 per cent of caucus to force a vote on the leadership in what is to be a regular confidence vote in the three months after an election. At other times, a majority vote is needed.
Mr Shearer will face his confidence vote on February 13 next year and the change means that only 14 of Labour's 34 caucus members can force a full vote on the leadership.
That would mean Labour's members and union affiliates voted - which could be enough to give the leadership to Mr Cunliffe.
Yesterday after the amendment was passed, Mr Cunliffe refused to rule out a challenge and would not say if he would support Mr Shearer next February.
Mr Cunliffe - who supported the amendment - said the leader did have his support but would not commit to endorsing him next February.
"I have not many any comment or decisions about what might happen next February because we don't know what's going to happen next year. We don't know what the future holds.".
Mr Shearer said he was confident he could get the 60 per cent of caucus support to retain the leadership. He would not rule out disciplining Mr Cunliffe for any disloyalty, but said Mr Cunliffe had committed to him last week "I can only take him at his word, on what he said last week."
Asked if he believed Mr Cunliffe was being disloyal, he repeated his claim that he would be leader in 2014.
He would not discuss whether he would discipline Mr Cunliffe if he was openly disloyal.
Mr Shearer said he did not believe his position was more precarious and was confident he would pass the confidence vote in February.
He said he did not know what the gap between himself and Mr Cunliffe was in last December's leadership contest because it was a closed ballot, but was confident caucus backed him.
"I am confident I will have the numbers next year to ensure I am the leader going into 2014 - I can guarantee that."
He said overall the changes made the party more democratic and transparent by giving members a greater say in how the party was run.
"It is one of those things the membership decides. When we started this process that was the whole point of the opening up of the party and you take what the membership decides and you run with it - that's the way it goes."
He said he did not intend to dwell on the leadership issue, preferring instead to "focus on what New Zealanders are really concerned about, which is jobs and the economy."
Mr Shearer did not vote on the amendment, citing conflict of interest.
Mr Cunliffe said he had voted in accordance with his local electorate committee's wishes but he did personally support it.
"I think it's logical as well. This is simply the threshold which allows the three tranches - the membership, the unions and caucus - to all participate should the need arise in future."
Other Labour MPs had opposed the amendment, including Maryan Street, Chris Hipkins, and Andrew Little while Lianne Dalziel supported it. Ms Street said it would effectively allow "a tyranny of 40 per cent" to overthrow a leader who had been elected by a majority of the party.


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It is another Monday and I am thinking back on last week and how busy it was.
My neighbor gave me some plants that they were splitting and today I will be planting a wheelbarrow full of peonies and irises. YAY!!! I love them both and can't wait to get them into the ground. Of course, first I need to take off all of the mulch and the landscaper's cloth (which I hate and will be putting in the shed- just in case I change my mind! lol)
My neighbor was kind enough to come over for an afternoon last week to walk around our yard and identify the trees and plants and shrubs we have. Though I may not keep everything, I won't dig anything up until at least spring so that I can see what it all looks like through every season- I would hate to get rid of something that looks lovely in the winter like the Red Twig Dogwood. (Don't I just sound like I know what I am talking about??? LOL)
Last Friday,I went on a school trip with Chloe and her class to the Denver Gem & Mineral Show. I could have stayed a lot longer and all I can say is that it was a good thing I had five girls to watch or I would have spent some serious money! I have never quite outgrown my little-girl love of rocks and sparkly things! The one photo here shows the girls panning for gold.
I also went to a library training at the elementary school; I will be volunteering in there one afternoon a week, starting this week. There is a real friendly bunch up there and I am looking forward to it. Even though I am always the "oldie"... lol Most school volunteers tend to be mothers/fathers of real little kids, very few seem to have older kids like I do. Oh well.
Chloe had her birthday sleepover on Friday night too. She and two friends went to the movies and then spent the night playing video games and watching movies. It's great to see her having fun and making friends.
Our sofa for the living room came and now all we are missing is the chair for the sitting room and the furniture is done. We have bought a couple of things for the walls and it is looking more homey every day! Now we just have to fill in the gaps; hang things on the wall, add the little finishing touches. Before long, we will be all settled. It feels so good here!
We got tickets for Canadian Thanksgiving for Holly & Ben, and things are all set.
Heidi is keeping busy with school and marching band; they play at their first football game this Friday and they have their first competition on Saturday. I can't wait to see how it all comes together, they have been working so hard!
Chloe has joined the band at school, and isn't enjoying it too much yet. She also joined the Bell Choir which she loves and I am looking forward to going to see that too. She goes to a sports club Monday before school, and French class Friday before school. We have yet to find her a barn to take riding lessons at, that has been a real job so far. But she still really wants to go and so we persevere!
Now that I write this stuff down, it doesn't seem like so much... lol!


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Sotirios (Athanassoulas) of Toronto
His Eminence Metropolitan Sotirios (Athanassoulas) of Toronto, and Exarch of All Canada is the Metropolitan Archbishop of the Holy Metropolis of Toronto, under the jurisdiction of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople.
The future metropolitan was born in 1936 to George and Anastasia Athanassoulas in Lepiana, Arta, Epirus, in northwestern Greece. After completing his basic education, he attended and graduated from the School of Theology of the University of Athens. He then entered the Universite de Montreal from which he graduated with a Master's degree in Theology. Metr. Sotirios speaks Greek, English, and French. As a layman he served as Dean of Students at Holy Cross School of Theology in Boston, Massachusetts.
On July 17, 1962, he was ordained a deacon. The following day he was ordained a priest and assigned to serve in Canada. On December 18, 1973, he was elected to the episcopate, and on January 27, 1974 he was consecrated Bishop of Toronto. From 1968 to 1996, he served as a member of the Archdiocesan Council of the Greek Archdiocese of North and South America. During 1996, he served as administrator of the archdiocese after the retirement of Abp. Iakovos (Coucouzis) and before the installation of his successor Abp. Spyridon (Papageorge).
On September 24, 1996, Bp. Sotirios was elevated to the rank of Metropolitan Archbishop of Toronto and Exarch of all Canada. During his episcopate as Bishop in Canada, the number of parishes in the metropolis increased from twenty-two to seventy-five. Additionally in 1993, the Convents of St. Kosmas of Aitolos in Ontario and the Virgin Mary of Consolation in Quebec were established. In 1998, the Toronto Orthodox Theological Academy was founded under his leadership.
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The Environmental Studies and Sciences Department is offering a repeat of last year's awesome Winter Sentinels course that you shouldn't miss if you want to make Ithaca in winter a pleasure rather than something to be endured!
Jason Hamilton's 3-credit Winter Session course, ENVS 210, will take you outside to experience the winter world with all your different senses, and help you gain an appreciation for the plants, mammals, birds, ecological indicators, and natural hazards to be found in the Finger Lakes. This year we'll focus on tracking, medicinal plants and fire. Class will meet - mostly OUTSIDE! - Monday thru Friday from 10 am to 3 pm, January 7 to 18. Open to all IC students. One more student is needed in order to run the course, so please contact Jason Hamilton at email@example.com for more information, and come explore the winter woods!
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Sophomore Tsubasa Endoh scored one goal and added two assists as the No. 13 Maryland men's soccer team defeated Duke 3-1 in front of a Ludwig Field record crowd of 8,397 Friday night.
The Terrapins (1-1-1, 1-0 ACC) fell behind early for the third time this season, but fought back with three second-half scores from Endoh, Helge Leikvang and Patrick Mullins to overcome the Blue Devils (1-1-1, 0-1 ACC).
Energized by a packed crowd, the Terps controlled the early going. Mullins almost opened the scoring in the 11th minute, but Duke goalkeeper Alex Long denied the Terrapin striker.
Maryland's best chance of the first half came in the 17th minute when freshman centerback Alex Crognale headed a Sunny Jane free kick off the right post.
In the 25th minute, Sean Davis capitalized on the Blue Devils only set piece opportunity of the half, putting a 25-yard free kick past goalkeeper Zack Steffen for his first goal of the season.
The Terps revved up the pressure in the second half with Endoh pulling the strings from the midfield. The sophomore drew the Terps even in the 55th minute with a left footed strike from just outside the box.
Endoh supplied the service on the go-ahead goal in the 64th minute, with Leikvang heading the ball past Long off a corner kick. The senior took advantage of his first start of the season, helping a young Terrapin backline with his composure in the midfield.
Mullins finished off the Blue Devils in the 66th minute, completing an offensive sequence that involved Endoh and sophomore Mikey Ambrose. It was the senior's second goal of the season.
"It was one of the great, magical nights in Maryland soccer history," head coach Sasho Cirovski said. "The support by the student body and all of the Maryland soccer community was just amazing. It's humbling and to see it continue to grow is a source of pride.
"I thought our team grew up a lot tonight. We played a full 90 minutes. We stayed positive and came out on fire in the second half. That's a very good Duke team and they are going to win a lot of games against some good teams."
The Terps return to action Sunday against VCU with kickoff scheduled for 7 p.m. at Ludwig Field.


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Saxophone Performance Workshop
June 26-30, 2017
Towne View Baptist Church, Kennesaw, GA
Download the workshop application here.
Join us for our annual saxophone workshop devoted to middle and high school saxophonists. This is a fun and intensive week of saxophone study that deals with all aspects of saxophone performance.
Students will perform in a large saxophone ensemble comprised of soprano through bass saxophones, work in smaller duets, trios, and quartets, and even attend sessions on jazz and improvisation.
The workshop is tailored to meet the individual needs of our participants of all levels. If you are an enthusiastic student of the saxophone and really love playing, then this is the event for you.
Instructors for the week are Robert Haley, Ravan Durr, Thomas Giles and Emma Haley. Their many decades of direct experience, both teaching and performing, will benefit every attendee and provide multiple insights into all facets of the instrument.
The cost of the workshop is $200 and can be paid in two installments. Enrollment is limited to 30 participants.
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Our Little Abi turned a month old today :) We celebrated simply, at home. We bought a cake and took pictures before we left for the relief center. We scheduled to have her ears pierced yesterday but postponed it the last minute. I felt we need to wait it out while the hospital is probably busy with the typhoon victims.
Pictures and development updates tomorrow! Stay tuned! :)


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Over 100 vehicles got a salt bath at Huguenot Memorial Park in Jacksonville, FL over Memorial Day Weekend when a car got stuck and blocked the only escape from rising tide. Somebody complained "they were not warned."
Not sure who could have possibly issued a warning that a vehicle might get stuck in the sand, or that the tide would return that day just as it had every day before, but in fairness I'd be pretty pissed if my truck got stuck in the ocean too.
Driving on the beach can be fun, though I'm not really sure why you'd want to re-create a Wal-Mart parking lot next to a perfectly good ocean.
Anyway, everybody was having a good old time when apparently some goofball got stuck in the exit and ruined a lot of people's weekends.
WBTW says the bottleneck had some beach goers stuck for up to three hours. News4Jax puts the vehicle count "in the hundreds," which is a lot of folks with oversand permits who don't know how to recover a sand-mired vehicle.
It seems that nobody was hurt, but some of these cars, trucks, and SUVs are going to be plagued with electrical gremlins and catastrophic rust for the rest of their lives.
Images: News4Jax, Lavinia Briley/Facebook


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This incredibly cute 5 year old actually reveals some basic things about logos and brands that never crossed my mind. When trying to distinguish your brand (cough, cough Jaguar, Puma, GreyHound), it's incredibly important to evoke an immediate, distinct reaction. In a world defined by split-second consumerism, are we undervaluing the importance of logos?
Watching this video reminded me of the passage in Walter Isaacson's Steve Jobs, in which Jobs painstakingly works with Paul Rand to develop a powerful logo for the NeXT computer. Jobs understood what a logo meant to the global community and the emotions it evokes upon a glance or a deep inspection.
When we set out to design something to be seen by the world, we have to remember what ties us all together – what makes us smile, what makes us cry. I believe a logo that can invoke an understanding of a company's culture is a vital asset to any successful company.
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If history is a guide, many investors will miss opportunities waiting for the stock market to crash while others will sell in panic when it finally does crater.
But such portfolio disasters need not happen if investors earnestly do let market history guide them.
The big picture, in other words, should help investors not sweat the small stuff.
To that end, Servo Wealth Management's big-picture principal, Eric Nelson, takes a look at historical bear markets and recoveries from 1926 till the present, offering lessons that should help investors have an easier time "sticking with [their] plan when everyone else is abandoning theirs," he writes in a client newsletter.
The first key lesson he draws is that there have been just five severe bear markets for U.S. stocks during this nearly century-long period (1929-32; 1937-41; 1973-74; 2000-02; 2008).
And given that two of them occurred since 2000, recency bias may be inducing greater investor pessimism than the evidence of bear markets' rarity supports.
A second lesson concerns the magnitude of declines. With one exception, the declines have tracked each other closely, ranging from losses of 32% to 38%. The 1929 market crash was the outlier, with total bear market losses of 64%, but investors should basically expect stock losses in the upper 30s.
By comparing the performance of the S&P 500 with a more diversified stock portfolio containing small and value stocks and with a balanced fund that composed of 65% diversified stocks and 35% 5-year bonds, Nelson can draw other conclusions about the magnitude of portfolio losses.
A small- and value-tilted stock portfolio will not protect investors in a bear-market crash; in three of the five periods, the diversified stock portfolio fared worse, in two it did better.
Only high-quality bonds blunted the bear market's bite.
"In most cases, the balanced index lost only about half the amount of the overall market and actually produced a reasonable gain during the 2000 decline," Nelson writes.
Lesson No. 3 for investors is that snapbacks are as violent and unexpected as the crashes.
"Average S&P 500 stock returns in the first few years following a bear market were 50% to 300% higher than their long-term averages of about 10% [a] year, offering a handsome reward for investors who stuck around to see them," he writes.
Here's where small and value-tilted portfolios really paid off. While in the most recent market recovery they have only outpaced the S&P 500 by 4% per year; in general they have distanced themselves from the S&P 500 by 8 to 13% in recovery periods.
And how long does it take investors to recoup bear market losses? Lesson No. 4 is that two to four years is the norm. Even amid the Great Depression, investors who held on were whole again by 1936 after the market bottomed in 1932.
Nelson spell out what these facts of market history should teach us. First, bear markets don't happen frequently enough for market timing. And the risk of stocks' significant declines is precisely what give them their return advantage over the long term.
Another takeaway is that bear markets are a gift to investors in their accumulation phase, allowing them to supercharge their portfolios when stocks are selling at depressed prices.
For income-dependent retirees, bear markets are to be managed rather than feared, by selling bonds and holding onto stocks to maintain cash flow until stock prices have recovered.
Nelson says the most important takeaway is the imperative of sticking with one's plan.
"Recoveries happen so dramatically and unexpectedly , missing even the first few months of a recovery can take years to recoup in more 'normal' market periods," he writes.
In other words, what you're holding counts for less than simply holding on.


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Argument recap: liability for failure to train on Brady?
At Wednesday's oral argument in Connick v. Thompson, the Court seemed dissatisfied with efforts by both advocates to articulate a training policy that could prevent single-incident liability for District Attorney's offices. [You can read my preview of the case here.]
Representing the Orleans Parish District Attorney's Office, Stuart K. Duncan emphasized that in holding the DA's Office liable for this single violation of Brady, the district court had created a "flawed exemption" from the rule requiring a history of violations for the imposition of failure-to-train liability. Thompson's comparison of his case to the single-incident liability hypothesized in Canton, Duncan argued, is inapposite; because prosecutors are trained professionals, it is inappropriate to compare a need for Brady training to a police department's duty to train its police officers on the use of deadly force. But Justices Ginsburg and Breyer challenged the premise that the violations at issue in Thompson's case could even qualify as a "single incident," noting that multiple attorneys may have been involved in suppressing multiple pieces of evidence.
Justice Kagan then pressed Duncan to provide an example of a situation in which a DA's Office might be liable for failure to train on Brady based on a single incident. Justice Kagan first hypothesized a situation in which random assignments sometimes place rookie prosecutors on complex cases, there is no training on Brady, there is a policy of only turning over what is legally required, and turning over extra information is punished within the office. Pressed from several directions to clarify his position, Duncan proposed a narrow rule that single-violation Brady liability is impossible unless the DA's Office either fails to provide training tools without which prosecutors cannot fulfill their constitutional obligations or has an explicit policy which flouts Brady.
Justice Scalia came to Duncan's aid, emphasizing the difference in the need to train police officers on guns and the need to train prosecutors on Brady. A significant portion of Duncan's argument centered on a discussion with Justice Breyer over the extent to which the DA's Office contests the instructions given to the jury at trial regarding single-incident liability; ultimately, Duncan explained that his quarrel was not with the specific jury instruction, but rather the legal theory behind it.
J. Gordon Cooney, arguing on behalf of James Thompson, accused the DA's Office of seeking to re-litigate the factual issue of whether a reasonable jury could have found that it had an insufficient Brady training policy. When Cooney attacked the DA's Office proposed per se rule, Justice Scalia countered by emphasizing the narrow application of that rule solely to Brady cases.
Justice Alito was the main player throughout Cooney's argument, constantly pressing Cooney to articulate precisely what training the DA's Office should have implemented. Justice Alito, joined by Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Scalia, seemed unsatisfied with Cooney's eventual answer that training should have included a statement of the importance of Brady and instruction on evaluating whether certain pieces of evidence must be produced. Though a series of hypotheticals, several Justices demonstrated their doubt that any amount of training could have prevented the violation. Justice Alito expressed his concern that Cooney's rule would require prosecutors to test every available piece of evidence for DNA to determine whether it might be exculpatory, and Chief Justice Roberts warned that Cooney would require very specific training on every possible constitutional violation a prosecutor might commit. Cooney answered that the rule is fundamentally more circumscribed, arguing that Brady violations are unique in that they are made in private with little chance of being discovered. Justice Ginsburg added that with a Miranda or a seizure violation, for example, it is known what was said or illegally seized.
Finally, Justices Kennedy and Alito expressed concern about the causation requirement. In their view, if the violation was made knowingly, then it is difficult to argue that it was caused by a failure to train by the DA's Office. Cooney countered that the jury had in fact found causation. Cooney further argued that the Brady violation was not intentional because the prosecutors did not know that the blood tested did not match Thompson's; rather, Cooney contended, the prosecutors' obligation was not to perform further tests, but simply to make the existence of the blood evidence available to Thompson's attorneys to pursue the possible discrepancy.
Recommended Citation: Jessica Fitts, Argument recap: liability for failure to train on Brady?, SCOTUSblog (Oct. 10, 2010, 10:38 AM), https://www.scotusblog.com/2010/10/argument-recap-liability-for-failure-to-train-on-brady/