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Day 3 of the Collegiate 7's Head 2 Head Championship concluded yesterday with the Texas Longhorns pulling off a come from behind win over Boston College. The Eagles were far in the lead, holding 90 percent of the vote at one point, before voters pushed Texas ahead and into the second round. Texas and Boston College never met in the Collegiate Rugby Championship, but Texas advanced further by making it to the Cup quarterfinals while BC lost in the Challenger quarters. The Longhorns move on to match up against Cal in the second round. Today's head to head features Central Washington University against the Oklahoma Sooners. The Wildcats hold a decent lead at the moment with 67 percent of the vote compared to Oklahoma's 33. The winner of today's match up will move on to face Notre Dame. To vote for who you think should win, visit http://rugbyh2h.com/. Users can view highlights of both teams' performances in the CRC and by voting become eligible to win one of 15 prizes. |


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Gulf Coast and East Coast Flyover: April 12, 1998
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Great Zoom out of New York, NY: Battery Park
Using data from different spacecraft and some powerful computer technology, visualizers at the Goddard Space Flight Center present you with a collection of American cities in a way you have never seen them before. Starting with our camera high above the Earth, we rush in towards the surface at what would be an impossible speed for any known vehicle. Passing though layers of atmosphere, the colors of our destinations shimmer with their own unique characteristics, and suddenly we find ourselves fl
Students Cook Up a Unique Dining Experience
Lenoir Dining is an educational program at Ole Miss that teaches students how to run a restaurant. Executive Chef Lee Craven instructs culinary labs and management courses in which he teaches students to plan, purchase, and execute menus and facilities maintenance for the student-operated restaurant. Video by Mary Stanton and Erin Parsons.
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Published: April 11, 2012 at 9:31 am
TUCSON — The Arizona Republican Party is spending big on attacks on former Gabrielle Giffords aide Ron Barber in the 8th Congressional District special election.
Federal Election Commission records show the state GOP spent $47,000 on mailers and automated phone calls attacking Barber.
The mailer accuses the Democrat of working to pass policies that hurt the economy and families, including cuts to Medicare.
Barber spokesman Rodd McLeod tells the Arizona Daily Star that the claims are not true. He says Barber has pledged to support Medicare and fight against cuts in benefits for seniors.
Giffords resigned in January to focus on her recovery from a January 2011 shooting.
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Celebrating its tenth anniversary of making music in Beijing, the International Festival Chorus continues its annual tradition of a fundraising outdoor madrigals performance in the Garden of the British Ambassador's Residence in Beijing.
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PublicationsInternational Activity Report 2011EthiopiaIn 2011, responding to the nutritional crisis in the Horn of Africa,and providing people living in remote areas with access to healthcare were the focuses of Doctors Without Borders/Medécins Sans Frontières (MSF) activities in Ethiopia. In the border areas close to Somalia, MSF massively scaled up its activities in response to the dire nutritional situation. Drought, a collapsed health system and violent conflict in Somalia saw more than 120,000 refugees arrive in camps in Ethiopia's Liben zone. Services in two existing camps were expanded and three new camps were established to meet the huge needs. At the peak of the crisis in July, 3,000 refugees were crossing the border at Dolo Ado every day. MSF set up a medical screening unit at the refugee reception point. When refugees reached the camps, the team provided basic healthcare and nutritional support. For those who could not make it on their own, staff used all means, including donkey carts, to get people to medical facilities. Over the course of the year, tens of thousands of children were enrolled in nutrition programs, which were run in partnership with the government of Ethiopia, the UNHCR and other organizations. Overall, MSF admitted more than 31,600 children to nutrition programs in the camps, vaccinated over 53,000 people against measles and held more than 61,000 consultations. By the end of the year, the mortality rate had returned to normal levels, although tens of thousands of refugees remained in camps, requiring humanitarian assistance.
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The following is a brief history of how the largest oil reserves in Iran were discovered. This does not include every possible detail. Please refer to the sources listed below in order to get more details.
William Knox D'Arcy was born in England on the 11th of October, 1849. He was the son of a local solicitor, studied law as a youngster, and then moved to Australia with his family. There he joined his father's new law business and waited for opportunity to knock.
San Quentin State Prison is California's oldest prison. It was opened in 1852 after being built by the same prisoners who were going to populate it. Hundreds of inmates have had their necks broken by hanging or, worse, painfully killed in a Hyrdogen Cyanide gas chamber. Inmates on death row would try to commit suicide but all of them failed, thwarted by the all-knowing surveillance systems in place, except one, William Kogut.
William Kogut was brought to San Quentin State prison for the murder of Mayme Guthrie, a lady who ran a rooming house/gaming house/brothel. The motivation for the murder is not known but it was speculated that he killed her because of her alleged immoral ways. He mostly kept to himself and guards would notice him occasionally playing solitaire with a deck of cards that was provided to him by the prison. Nothing seemed amiss or strange about an inmate playing cards. After all, what was he going to do? Get a paper cut?
The guards remained confident that nothing was amiss until October 9th, 1930, when a large explosion was heard in Kogut's cell. The guards ran over to his cell and found only Kogut's dead body sprawled on the floor and a note,
"Do not blame my death on anyone, because I fixed everything myself. I never give up as long as I am living and have a chance, but this is the end."
After further investigation, It turned out that Kogut was never playing solitaire with his pack of cards. He was secretly cutting out the red hearts and diamond shapes and hiding them. He would then take those shapes to his room. Back in the 1930s, the red dye used on the pack of cards was made from nitrocellulose, an explosive chemical made from nitrate and cellulose. Kogut took off a hollow leg from his bed and stuffed all the hearts and diamonds cut outs into the bottom. Next he filled the hollow leg up with water from cell's sink or toilet. Nitrocellulose reacts with water to create explosive energy. He then clogged up both ends of the make shift pipebomb and left it sitting there by the heating vents to speed up the reaction. After a little while, the bomb, the cell and Kogut all exploded, thus, ending his prison and death sentence.
Some believe that Kogut acted out of remorse for his murderous act. Others believe that he was merely trying to die on his own terms and was too arrogant to let any one else kill him. Whatever his reasons, he definitely chose a very clever and unique way to get the results that he was looking for.
Maybe he was an ancestor of MacGyver?
Mongolia's Bao Xishun is no longer the world's tallest man. His title has been replaced by Leonid Stadnyk who stands tall at 8ft 5 inches. That makes him 8 inches taller than Bao Xishun. He may be taller han Bao Xishun but has he saved any choking dolphins lately?
Leonid Stadnyk did not come forward earlier because he hates his height and doesn't even look in the mirror. He believes that his height is "God's biggest punishment for me". Despite persistent attempts by the Guinness Book of Records to officially measure him over the last three years, Stadnyk had always refused until he met London growth expert, Professor Michael Besser.
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An Incorruptible is a person whose body is supernaturally being protected by a paranormal force usually after death. Incorruptible bodies have been found mostly by the Catholic Church but they also exist in Hindu, Buddhist and Muslim religions.
Here is a list of some famous incorruptibles:
And this is what she looks like today:
She appears to be in the exact condition that she was on the day that she died even after being buried in a damp grave for over 100 years. She was originally exhumed in 1909 because she had become eligible for sainthood. Despite not being embalmed, she remains in near perfect condition. Elaborate hoax? Natural preservation? Miracle Water? or Divine Intervention?
Unfortunately, the church has not allowed for any independent tests to prove the authenticity of the body. Skeptics have noticed a wax layer on the body and face and this could show that her decomposed features may have been "repaired". However, a Doctor Comte was asked to examine the body in 1925 and he stated,
"What struck me during this examination, of course, was the state of perfect preservation of the skeleton, the fibrous tissues of the muscles (still supple and firm), of the ligaments, and of the skin, and above all the totally unexpected state of the liver after 46 years. One would have thought that this organ, which is basically soft and inclined to crumble, would have decomposed very rapidly or would have hardened to a chalky consistency. Yet, when it was cut it was soft and almost normal in consistency. I pointed this out to those present, remarking that this did not seem to be a natural phenomenon."
In 2002, members of his monastery exhumed Itigelov's body and were surprised to find that he was remarkably preserved. Some Buddhists believe that he asked to be exhumed because he knew that his body would have been preserved. Now the body sits in his original monastery and still shows no sign of decomposing.
Although Itigilov's body was never embalmed or mummified, it is said that his corpse still bleeds if punctured. The Buddhist monks approach him as a living person and shake hands with him. Some devotees even claim that Itigilov is still alive, only immersed in a hibernation- or nirvana-like state. "Buddhists say that only the most advanced masters can fall into some particular condition before death and purify themselves so that his dead body could not decay" [2]. Some scientists explain the state of Itigilov's body by abnormal quantities of bromine discovered in tissues and muscles.
On 23 April 2003, the Buddhist conference recognized the body of Dashi-Dorzho Itigilov as one of the sacred Buddhist objects of Russia. At that time, they laid the foundation stone for a temple entitled Itigel Khambyn ordon and consecrated to Dashi-Dorzho Itigilov. As of 2005, Itigilov's body was kept outdoors, in contact with other people, without preserving any temperature or humidity regimens.
Catherine of Bologna
Catherine was both on September 8, 1413 and died March 9th, 1463. She was a talented artist and writer and claimed to have seen several visions of Mary, God and Satan. She was exhumed 18 days after her death after multiple reports of miracles around her grave. Her apparently unembalmed body is still on display in the chapel of Poor Clares in Bologna.
For more stories about Catholic Incorruptibles, you may wish to purchase the following book. The book is fairly one sided since it is written by a person who believes that there is irrefutable proof of the authenticity of all the Incorruptibles.
The Chewing Sticks
The Toothbrush first appeared around 3500 BC and was used by Egyptians and Babylonians. People often chewed on one end of the stick until the fibers of the wood formed a brush which was then used to clean the teeth. These chewing sticks were the ancestors of the Miswak toothbrushes which are used the same way as the primitive chewing sticks but are made from the branches of the Salvadora persica tree. The Salvadora persica branches have healing and antiseptic qualities. Miswak is still used today and is considered by many to be superior to modern tooth brushes (study comparing miswak and toothbrushes). The use of Miswak is especially popular amongst Muslim communities and can be purchased at most Indian, Pakistani or Arab stores.
Other forms of early toothbrushes were strips of linen (used by ancient Greeks), bird feathers, animal bones, and porcupine quills but none were as effective as another early ancestor of the modern toothbrush, boar bristles on a bamboo stick.
The Modern Tooth Brush
During the period 1498-1600, Chinese "dentists" would pluck the hairs off of cold climate pigs and paste them on bamboo sticks or animal bones. These were then used just like a modern manual toothbrush to clean their teeth. Meanwhile, Europeans were still using the ancient Greek way of brushing their teeth; They were dipping linen cloth or sponges dipped in sulfur oils and salt solutions and rubbing away all the tooth grime. Then came William Addis, who introduced the Chinese way of brushing to England in 1780.
The idea of the bristle bone tooth brush came to William Addis while in prison. Boredom and necessity drove Addis to take a bone left behind from his dinner and bristles that he borrowed from a guard and combine them to create a tool to clean his teeth. It was a far better alternate to a dirty cloth with soot and salt. After his release, William Addis became the first person to mass produce modern toothbrushes. The Addis version of the toothbrush used cow tail hair drilled and tied on to cow bones. It was a success! His company still exists today but they have moved away from using bones as the toothbrush handle. Later versions of the European toothbrushes used horse hair instead of boar hair because it was softer.
Bone and Boar Bristle Toothbrush:
Napolean Bonaparte's horse hair toothbrush:
Patent number 18,653 marked the first toothbrush patent in the United States of America. It was registered by an entrepreneur, H. N. Wadsworth, in 1857. Mass production of tooth brushes began in 1885 and dental hygiene enthusiasts sighed a fresh breath of relief.
The World Wars
When first world war began, the need for soup bones far outweighed the need for brush handles. Once again, necessity was a catalyst that helped create Celluloid handles. Soup bones everywhere breathed a soupy sigh of relief. Molds were created in the shape of brush handles and celluloid was poured in and cooled. At this point, brush makers either dipped bristles into liquid celluloid or drilled holes into solid celluloid handles and then stapled them in.
The next evolution of the toothbrush took place in 1938 when nylon bristles were used instead of animal hair. A company called DuPont de Nemours introduced the first toothbrushes with nylon bristles. These were much more comfortable than boar hair. Boars, vegetarians, Muslim people and Jewish people (who don't consume animal or pork products) breathed a sigh of relief. The first such toothbrush was called Dr. West's Miracle-Tuft Toothbrush.
DuPont de Nemours used the World Wars to their advantage and used a support-the-troops war marketing campaign. Your American Duty is to brush your teeth so you can win the war.
Brushing teeth regularly became popular in the United States after US soldiers returned home and brought with them their strict habits of brushing their teeth. People were influenced by the actions of these US soldiers and brushing teeth finally became mainstream.
Late Modern Brushes
An electric toothbrush was invented in 1939 in Switzerland and it came out for public consumption in the 1960s. Broxodent, the electric toothbrush by Squibb, came out and was marketed for the "overly-vigorous type of toothbrushers".
Dr.Scott was also another early pioneer of the electric toothbrush:
There exist over 3000 toothbrush patents today.
Oral-B is the current leading toothbrush creator and they have a wide variety of electric and manual brushes with the latest one being the Oral-B 9100.
The Oral-B Triumph 9100 with SmartGuide wirelessly transmits a map of your mouth to an LCD display. It monitors how many times you have brushed certain quadrants of your teeth and lets you know where you have yet to brush or which areas still need more work. Once your mouth is perfectly clean, it signals you to stop brushing.
Another type of toothbrush, Tooth Tunes, hums songs and tunes silently into your ear while you brush. The music stops after two minutes, the dentist recommended time for brushing teeth.
What does the future hold for toothbrushes? Will they go extinct and get replaced by something completely new or will they continue to innovate and get better? How much better can tooth brushes get any way?


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It is a world heritage, a Buddhist image of the left of the great statue of Buddha of Todai-ji Temple of Nara. In Todai-ji Temple, a bell temple founded at (733 years), the young grass foot of a mountain for Tenbyo era five years is considered to be the origin, and a principal idol has Vairocana known as "a great statue of Buddha of Nara". | |
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Stocks ticked up on Monday as investors played it safe on the day before Americans choose their president and as Greece headed into two key votes to secure further rescue funds.
According to early calculations, the Dow Jones industrial average was up 19.28 points, or 0.15 percent, at 13,112.44. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index was up 3.05 points, or 0.22 percent, at 1,417.25. The Nasdaq Composite Index was up 17.53 points, or 0.59 percent, at 2,999.66.
Some investors see the U.S. election as a hurdle to get through so markets can turn attention to the "fiscal cliff" budget battle. The world's biggest economy faces the possibility of $600 billion in automatic spending cuts and tax hikes, should Congress not reach a deal to mitigate its effects.
Opinion polls show the race between President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney remains neck-and-neck at the start of the last day of campaigning, and the uncertainty over the outcome left financial markets jittery.
There is a possibility that the election will be too close to call in a number of states. A delayed result could roil markets as it did in the protracted 2000 election battle.
"Given this huge event is so close, now it just makes sense to wait," said Jack Ablin, chief investment officer of Harris Private Bank in Chicago.
Delegates at a G20 meeting this weekend in Mexico City pressed the United States to act decisively on tax and spending issues.
Safe-haven bids pushed the U.S. dollar up about 0.2 percent to two-month highs against a basket of major currencies and German two-year government bond yields dropped below zero for the first time in two months on safety demand.
Demand for low-risk assets pushed the price of the benchmark U.S. 10-year Treasury note up 10/32 with a yield of 1.688 percent, down 3 basis points from late on Friday.
The general view on Wall Street is that if Obama wins a second term in the White House, both U.S. economic growth and interest rates will stay low, which would favor owning bonds over stocks.
On the other hand, if Romney becomes the 47th U.S. President, Wall Street reckons his polices will boost corporate profits and lift stock markets to new highs.
In commodity markets, Brent crude oil turned higher, erasing early losses. December Brent futures last traded up $2.32 at $108.00 a barrel after being bogged down earlier by a strong dollar and a drop in demand in the wake of Sandy, the deadly storm that pummeled the U.S. Northeast a week ago.
U.S. December crude oil futures rose 79 cents to settle at $85.65 a barrel, and then extended the gains after the close - jumping more than $1 to $85.88 in post-settlement trading.
Sandy disrupted the distribution of gasoline and left millions without power in the region.
In line with the broader market's caution, gold gained about 0.4 percent to $1,684.20 an ounce after Friday's drop of 2 percent.
While monitoring the outcome of the tight race for the White House, investors were mindful of the leadership transition in China and the votes in Greece to secure fresh rescue funds.
It was expected that Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras' coalition will muster enough support on Wednesday to win a vote on structural reforms and a follow-up vote on Sunday on an austerity budget for 2013.
These fiscal reforms are critical for the debt-laden nation to receive more financial aid from lenders from an International Monetary Fund and European Union bailout that has been on hold since the summer.
"Without the additional funds, the country would be put back on the path toward an exit from the euro," said Karl Schamotta, senior strategist at Western Union Business Solutions in Calgary.
On Thursday, China's ruling Communist party will begin the 18th congress in its history with the culmination a week later in the expected selection of Xi Jinping to succeed President Hu Jintao.
Despite worries about these global political developments, AbbVie Inc. raised $14.7 billion in a record-size dollar-denominated bond issue, according to IFR, a unit of Thomson Reuters. AbbVie will house Abbott Laboratories' proprietary pharmaceuticals business as a part of its plan to split into two.
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I home my machine, the axis get set to x=0, y=12, z=3 (cutter to the far left, back, and up). This allows for easiest access to the table for placement/clamping of stock.
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Under the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (JJDP) Act of 2002, the State of Indiana is awarded Title II Formula funds. ICJI is the designated state agency to administer the Title II Formula Grant.
The Indiana Juvenile Justice State Advisory Group (JJSAG) is the advisory body recognized by Congress to establish priorities for OJJDP funding. JJSAG makes recommendations to the ICJI Board of Trustees regarding funding under the Title II Formula Grant Program. Click here to view list of current JJSAG members.
Each state is required under the JJDP Act to prepare a Three-Year Comprehensive Plan to set funding priorities and levels. Indiana's Three-Year Delinquency Prevention & Systems Improvement Plan outlines the types of programs and initiatives the JJSAG and ICJI Board of Trustees included as funding priorities for the state. View the 2012-2014 three-year plan.
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HOUSTON (ICIS news)--US President George Bush signed a law on Wednesday aimed at stopping the deterioration of the nation's housing market.
The housing industry is a key downstream consuming sector for chemicals and chemicals-based products such as roofing materials, adhesives, insulation, siding, paints and coatings, synthetic materials, polyvinyl chloride (PVC) pipes and a broad range of other construction materials.
The US housing market remains in a multi-year slump. In May, an index that measures house prices for 10 major US cities fell by a record 16.9%, according to the Standard & Poor's (S&P)/Case-Shiller Index.
The index's 20-city statistic fell by a record 15.8%.
The new housing law attempts to encourage house sales by providing a temporary tax credits to first-time house buyers.
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The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) said the legislation should end the housing downturn and strengthen the finance system.
"This milestone bill contains several provisions to get home buyers back into the marketplace, stop the slide in home prices, provide a lifeline to borrowers facing foreclosure, improve mortgage liquidity and bolster confidence in Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac," according to a statement by Sandy Dunn, NAHB president.
Richard Gaylord, president of the National Association of Realtors, said the law should stabilise the market.
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by Brandon Clay / @peachstatehoops
Odyssey Sims and Bria Hartley faced off on Sims' home floor in December as Baylor won 66-61 over Connecticut. Hartley didn't lick her wounds, rebounding with a solid performance on the road, as she helped Connecticut to a win over Chelsea Gray's Duke team 61-45 on January 30.
Here is an in-depth look at all three:
Chelsea Gray, 5-10, PG, Duke
Strengths: Assist-to-turnover ratio, long range shooting, free-throw percentage, supreme floor vision
Areas To Improve: Field goal percentage
Evaluation: Gray is a special passer. She's a bigger guard with an innate ability to hit the open player. Her 1.8-1 assist-to-turnover is an indicator of that. So is the fact that four other Blue Devils besides Gray average double figures. Her efficiency from beyond the three-point line is impressive as she is hitting at a 41 percent clip so far. The numbers match our evaluation from her as prep but now she's doing it nightly versus the nation's best for a roster that lacks a signature wing scorer. In late-game situations, the California native can keep the ball in her hands because she is shooting a cool 84 percent from the free-throw line. If she can get her field-goal percentage up into the high-40s (currently at 43 percent), she'll be able to make a strong case as a possible top-five selection in the 2014 WNBA Draft.
Key Game Remaining: February 24 vs Miami – Gray will be asked to help Duke contain two potential WNBA first-round picks this spring in Shenise Johnson and Riquna Williams in a battle for ACC supremacy.
Bria Hartley, 5-8, PG, Connecticut
Strengths: Consistency, field goal percentage
Areas To Improve: Three-point percentage
Evaluation: Hartley was charged with the task of leading the nation's most successful program over the past decade into the post-Maya Moore era. The steady point guard from New York has done just that starting every game to date while averaging 33 minutes a contest. She's contributed offensively with 14 points per and a stellar 49 percent from the field. All the while keeping her teammates involved with a solid 1.5-1 assist-to-turnover ratio. Her three-point percentage is an area for off-season work as she's at 34 percent right now. The Huskies will need her to make open looks down the stretch if they want to make it to the Final Four in Denver.
Key Game Remaining: February 27 vs Notre Dame – Hartley will go head-to-head with junior class point guard Skylar Diggins in the last regular-season game for the Huskies.
Odyssey Sims, 5-7, PG, Baylor
Strengths: Overall shooting percentage (three-point and free throw), on ball defender
Areas To Improve: Pull-up game
Evaluation: Sims' play this season has been one for the books. Sure she plays alongside Brittney Griner, the probable No. 1 pick in the 2013 WNBA Draft, but Sims is a main cog on a Bears team that is 27-0 to start the season. The Lone Star State general has started 25 of those and is averaging almost 15 points a night. A left-handed guard, Sims is shooting the ball well with 40 percent from the three-point line and 83 percent from the charity stripe. Her quick hands have helped her on the defensive end posting 3.3 steals a game, a number that has her ranked 11th nationally.
Key Game Remaining: February 27 at Texas A&M – Sims will see a multitude of A&M guards which is never easy to deal with especially with the game on the road in College Station.
by Brandon Clay / @peachstatehoops
Skylar Diggins from Notre Dame and Baylor's Brittney Griner squared off a week ago. Currently the No. 1 team in the country, Baylor came away with the 94-81 win in large part to Griner's 32-point, 14-rebound performance while playing all 40 minutes. Diggins more than held her own for an Irish team that was No. 2 going into the contest with 27 points in 36 minutes but struggled against pressure finishing with 7 turnovers. Meanwhile, Elena Delle Donne out of Delaware has been outstanding early this season leading the Hens to their first ever national top-25 ranking. Her signature performance so far is dropping 40 points and snatching 12 boards en route to a road victory over then No. 11 Penn State.
Here's a look at their play so far this season:
Elena Delle Donne, 6-5, PF, Delaware
Strengths: Field goal percentage, long range shooting, clutch offensive player
Areas To Improve: Defending her position
Evaluation: Originally the consensus No. 1 prep prospect in the Class of 2008, Delle Donne signed with UConn before reversing course going into her freshman season choosing to go to school close to home. She sat out the '08-09 season. Her game has not regressed in the least bit playing in the Colonial Athletic Association as opposed to the Big East. We see her skill set as comparable to Dirk Nowitzki (Dallas Mavericks). Delle Donne can score the ball inside or outside and routinely makes tough shots off one leg like the 2011 NBA Finals MVP does. She has been nothing short of spectacular through the first seven games of the season averaging 29 points a game in 32 minutes while shooting an incredible 58 percent from both the field and the three-point line. Like Los Angeles Sparks star Candace Parker was in the 2008 Draft, Delle Donne is a redshirt junior meaning that she could enter this year's WNBA Draft if she chose to do so. Ironically, the Sparks won the Draft Lottery last month and the Delaware product would appear to be a lock to be taken with the first overall selection.
Upcoming Key Games: December 11 at Wake Forest, December 19 at Providence, December 29 vs Maryland
Skylar Diggins, 5-8, PG, Notre Dame
Strengths: Ability to create for teammates, capable scorer at the point, competitor
Areas To Improve: Three-point percentage
Evaluation: A left-handed point guard, Diggins has emerged as arguably the best floor general in the country regardless of class. She has shown that she can distribute the ball with 43 assists to 24 turnovers giving her a solid assist-to-turnover ratio of almost 2. At the same time, she is averaging just shy of 18 points a night while shooting 52 percent from the field. That's an unusually high rate for a guard at any level especially for one who, like Diggins, has already faced three teams ranked in the pre-season top 25 (Baylor, Duke, Southern California). Going forward, her three-point percentage will need to improve into the mid to high 30s. Right now, it's hovering around 28 percent. That said, she was on the USA Basketball World University Games team this summer and from the first day of the trials in late May, Diggins was able to separate herself from the other point guards on the roster with her energetic play.
Upcoming Key Games: December 10 at Purdue, December 18 vs Kentucky
Brittney Griner, 6-8, C, Baylor
Strengths: Shot changer and blocker, rebounds both in and out of her area, finishes around the rim
Areas To Improve: Passing out of the double team, 12-15 foot jumper
Evaluation: Simply put, Griner is the most dominant player in the college game today. She was good enough to workout with the USA Senior National team in Las Vegas and appears to be a frontrunner for a spot on the 2012 Olympic team. In a lot of ways with her height and instinct on both ends, Griner is a one-of-a-kind post player. She's improved her game each season and has gotten off to a blazing start this year averaging 24 points, 11 rebounds and 5 blocks per game. She's shooting 63 percent from the floor and more importantly, almost 73 percent from the free-throw line which allows Baylor coach Kim Mulkey to keep her on the floor in late game situations. Barring injury or illness, pencil Griner in as the No. 1 overall pick in the 2013 Draft regardless of whether Delle Donne returns or not.
Upcoming Key Games: December 11 vs St. John's, December 18 vs UConn
WNBA Prospect Watch provides readers with a heads up on the nation's top collegiate players. This installment focuses on the four seniors who we project as the first four picks in next April's Draft.
Even with the NBA lockout threatening to cancel a good portion if not all of the regular season, there is still plenty of heat in Miami with Shenise Johnson and Riquna Williams sharing the same backcourt for the Hurricanes. Two '10-11 All-Americans in Nneka Ogwumike from Stanford and Shekinna Stricklen out of Tennessee round out the four prospects.
The four are no stranger to each other's games with all four having participated in the USA Basketball World University Games trials in late May. We won't have to wait long to see if one of them emerges as Miami matches up with Tennessee in Knoxville on November 15. Ogwumike joins the fray with a marquee match-up on her home floor with Stricklen in Palo Alto on December 20.
Here's a breakdown on each of their games:
Shenise Johnson, 5-11, SG, Miami
Strengths: Versatile, great offensive skill
Areas To Improve: Three-point consistency, killer offensive instinct
Evaluation: Big guard with a tremendous skill set this early in her career. Very different than most elite players. Has a similar game to Joe Johnson (Atlanta Hawks)—elite level skill, not an elite level athlete but very good in that regard. Can shoot the outside jumper. Shot 49 percent from the field while knocking down 35 percent of her three-point attempts in '10-11. Has a slick handle, likes to be on the ball. Can play some secondary point guard. Also see her potentially as a next level kid for misdirection into isolation sets at 15 feet. Strong enough to catch and make a play from there. Also grabbed just over 8 rebounds a game as well.
Nneka Ogwumike, 6-2, PF, Stanford
Strengths: Activity level, knack for finding the basketball
Areas to Improve: Mid-range jumper, ball handling on the perimeter
Evaluation: Willing to mix it up in the lane, solid overall game. Lacks a specific skill that makes her an immediate cornerstone prospect but gets the job done on the floor. Good build, active on both ends. Will defend both 3- and 4-players. Is a 4 on the offensive end. Likes to catch and drive to her right hand to finish. If she shows that she can hit the intermediate jumper (15-18), her stock increases. She shot 57 percent from the field as a junior but only went 2-9 on three-point attempts and had 39 assists to 47 turnovers.
Shekinna Stricklen, 6-1, SG, Tennessee
Strengths: Polished skill set, shooting range & accuracy
Areas to Improve: Increasing activity level, becoming a willing scorer
Evaluation: Real size on the wing, a WNBA build. Frame/build similar to Alex Montgomery (New York Liberty/Georgia Tech). Really likes to move the ball, handle it up top. Was a more willing scorer at the high school level. Circumstances have turned her into a lead guard at the college level. Will handle going in either direction, can put in into second gear to get into the lane. Smooth, not explosive off the dribble. Percentage wise, Stricklen is the best shooter on the list with 49 percent from the field and 39 percent from the three-point line. That's an amazing feat considering that she scored less than 13 points a game last season to go with 7 rebounds.
Riquna Williams, 5-8, G, Miami
Strengths: Instant offense, can score from anywhere on the floor, willing to take crucial shots
Areas to Improve: Shot selection and efficiency, defensive intensity
Evaluation: A big-time scorer, averaged over 21 points a game as a junior. She's one of those players whose game translates better to the WNBA than a USA Basketball setting where we saw her in late May. Can create her own shot off the catch or off the bounce. Has real range out to the 23-foot mark, unafraid to let it go. Offensive ability similar to Cappie Pondexter (New York Liberty/Rutgers) at the same point in her career. Can get to the third level quickly off penetration, great body control in the air and finishes with contact. Only shot 40 percent from the field on 632 attempts, almost 150 more than her teammate Johnson. OK defensively, tendency to play straight up and gamble in passing lanes.


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Relief fund set up for the 122 Bar
July 10th, 2012 by tristan baurickThe Bainbridge Island Downtown Association has established a relief fund for the employees and families of The 122 Bar and Restaurant.
The bar was gutted by fire on Monday morning.
Relief fund contributions can be made at the Winslow branch of Columbia Bank.
Funds will be collected until the end of August and then distributed in September.
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South African schools' responses to pregnant girls and young parents: a study of some Durban and Cape Town secondary schools
Title: | South African schools' responses to pregnant girls and young parents: a study of some Durban and Cape Town secondary schools |
Author: | Bhana, Deevia; Clowes, Lindsay; Morrell, Robert; Shefer, Tamara |
Abstract: | Since the promulgation of the South African Schools Act in 1996 it has become illegal to exclude pregnant girls from school. Influenced by feminist research, policy has sought to assist pregnant girls and young parents to continue and complete their schooling on the understanding that having children often terminates school-going limiting future employment and work opportunities. This paper seeks to examine how the new policy has been understood and implemented. We focus on the views and experiences of principals and teachers as they are the authorities at school with the responsibility for ensuring that the policy is implemented. The paper draws on qualitative data collected by a larger study on being and becoming a parent at diverse group of schools in Kwazulu-Natal and the Western Cape. In the paper we investigate the extent to which schools' responses to pregnancy and parenting reflect and/or reproduce normative gender roles and practices with respect to schooling and parenting in contemporary South Africa. We show also that despite familiar stereotypes about young parents and pregnancy, both teachers and principals take their pastoral responsibilities seriously. They do care and do try to help. But many teachers were judgemental and moralistic particularly in response to young girls. |
Subject: | Schools Pregnancy Young parents Teachers South African Schools Act, no. 84 (1996) |
Citation: | Bhana, D., Clowes, L., Morrell, R. & Shefer, T. (2008). Pregnant girls and young parents in South African schools. Agenda, 22(76): 78-89. DOI 10.1080/10130950.2008.9674935 |
Rights: | Copyright Unisa Press and Taylor & Francis. This is the author final version. |
Type: | Article |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10566/151 |
DOI: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10130950.2008.9674935 |
Date: | 2008 |
Peer reviewed: | Yes |
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Wednesday, 11 December 2013
Lapland Games
Here's a Christmas Knit pattern design for agency Cai and Kyn's HoHoHo Journal of Christmas Creativity and upcoming exhibition at Breese Little Gallery from 17th December. It was quite a fun challenge coming up with something simple enough to work well with the knit template, akin to pixel art really. I chose to stand on the shoulders of the Atari giants and reworked the graphics from the 80's Winter Games with speed skating Santa and conniving elf. See larger images on the site here.
Monday, 9 December 2013
Baltimore Tetris
Here's a recent cover editorial for the The Baltimore Sun (as seen in The Wire!) for their annual look at the Top 100 Workplaces in the city. The building blocks of the brief were to reference the arcade classic Tetris, work in the Baltimore skyline and give the image a metallic awards-y sheen. It all pieced together quite nicely in the end. See a larger detail on the website here.
Friday, 6 December 2013
Camber via Venice
Here are a few pics from recent escapades taken from the canals of Venice to the chalets of Pontin's, Camber Sands. In October we spent a lovely week in Italy getting agreeably lost in the stunning maze of hustling alleys and bustling waterways that make up Venice before moving on to the relative calm of Lake Garda in Sirmione and Desenzano. Naturally we were forced to consume many amazing pasta dishes and copious Negronis for our sins.
In November it was the End Of An Era for All Tomorrow's Parties British holiday camp music festivals. The last ever two of which were held at Pontin's, Camber Sands over consecutive weekends and we attended both for the craic. As usual there was a great, eclectic mix of bands and ATP stalwarts including Mogwai, Shellac, Television, Loop, Haxan Cloak and Har Mar. The last night saw attendees wearing black tie evening dress to commemorate. Adios Pontin's!
In November it was the End Of An Era for All Tomorrow's Parties British holiday camp music festivals. The last ever two of which were held at Pontin's, Camber Sands over consecutive weekends and we attended both for the craic. As usual there was a great, eclectic mix of bands and ATP stalwarts including Mogwai, Shellac, Television, Loop, Haxan Cloak and Har Mar. The last night saw attendees wearing black tie evening dress to commemorate. Adios Pontin's!
I Didn't Mean To Call You A Meatloaf Jack!
This year's Serco Prize for Illustration had the largely open theme of London stories from any source, fiction or non-fiction. I had to go with my gut and choose a classic London set film and personal, childhood-traumatising favourite, An American Werewolf In London (1981). It also happens to feature a couple of gory set-pieces based around London Transport so that seemed to fit the bill. Appropriately enough, in the same week I designed the poster we had a special studio double-bill screening of An American Werewolf In London and They Live! projected on a photographic studio infinity wall to eerie effect (photo: Alex Dobbin). You can see my other entries for the Serco Prize over the years on my site here.
Wednesday, 20 November 2013
Setting The Pilocene
Here's a fun commission for BBC Focus Magazine, well, as much fun as you can have depicting impending environmental catastrophe anyway. The feature looks at how rising man-made carbon dioxide emissions are returning the Earth's climate to the kind of prehistoric conditions not seen since the Pilocene epoch when the wooly mammoths used to hang out. The time-spanning montage was built around a nice bit of wooly mammoth stock and the commission included an illustrated pie chart and short animation for the iPad edition. See more of this and other BBC Focus work on my site here.
Tuesday, 12 November 2013
Pep Talk
Here's a recent footie themed portrait for a UEFA Champions Matchday Magazine profile on Pep Guardiola. Back of the net! etc.
Friday, 1 November 2013
Here's my cover illustration for this year's Boatshow International guide to all the mega-yacht action in Fort Lauderdale. See more work for Showboat magazine here.
Thursday, 17 October 2013
Financial Crisis In Pictures
Here are a series of illustrations for The Economist's recent weekly Schools Brief breakdown of the financial crisis. I had to create each of these with very quick turnarounds and in two different formats, a tricky super-narrow landscape print version and a more forgiving rectangular online version. The copy was quite heavy on the technical financial jargon (deleveraging anyone?) so it was a fun challenge to come up with visual ways to represent the main thrust of each feature and keep a consistent look and feel. More Economist work on the main site here.
Tuesday, 15 October 2013
Doc Rocket
Here's a Rocketeer inspired cover illustration for Canada's The Medical Post looking at how doctors boost their income. Probably not by wearing rocket-propelled backpacks but what the hey. See more work for The Medical Post on my folio site here.
Tuesday, 8 October 2013
Quantum Questing
Here's my lastest illustration for Nature magazine on the tricky subject of quantum physics. The article looked at the latest attempts by a group of physicists to reinvent quantum theory and this seafaring image popped to mind recalling earlier expeditions into the unknown.
Doing a bit of blog catch-up today after a lengthy period of silencio. I've been busy working away on a new animation project amidst the regular illustration commissions so time has been scarce. Will report on all that soon. In the meantime here are a few pics from a recent weekend away in the Wye Valley, Herefordshire. My wife and I spent the last few days of Summer in a lovely 1950s Stirling caravan that went by the name of Elsie. Toured the local area visiting Ross-on-Wye, Ledbury, Hay-on-Wye and Symonds Yat by day and relaxed with Elsie, a stunning view and a cosy campfire by night.
Wednesday, 11 September 2013
Thursday, 22 August 2013
Only God Forgives
Here's my entry for the latest Little White Lies creative brief to design a poster for Nicolas Winding Refn's hypnotic, neon and gore drenched Only God Forgives. I settled on a design splicing the pulped face of Ryan Gosling with his inner Thai demon rendered in the primary palette of the film. The director himself is judging the entries, all of which you can see here, so (severed) fingers crossed. You can see the design and original sketch in greater detail on my site here.
Thursday, 15 August 2013
One Another
I was recently asked to dust off my graphic design skills and create a brand new logo for production company One Another Films. The brief was to come up with a design that conveyed the idea of a positive interaction between an individual and another to create something new. I worked through a few logo concepts to present and this simple, clean, overlapping letter design was chosen. The next step was to produce a logo animation fit for a cinema screen which was great fun to do. Ahhh...takes me back to the golden age of Cannon Films, Orion Pictures and Carolco. You can view the work, with some of the early concepts, on my main site here along with my full motion folio.
Tuesday, 6 August 2013
Microsoft City
Here's a recent editorial illustration spread for PC Pro magazine for an article asking the question 'Can Mircosoft Survive?'. The image depicts the still thriving Mircosoft-opolis surrounded by an encroaching wasteland of recent failed enterprises piling up at the (Bill) Gates. No? Ok.
Thursday, 25 July 2013
Claude Debussy's Life In Miniature
Debussy's music was groundbreaking and radical for the time and his personal life proved equally unconventional so I focused on those aspects for the narrative. His was also the era of the Impressionists and, even though he disapproved of any association, I thought a modern and colourful painterly approach was appropriate mixed in with an inky brush pen style for the drawn portraits. The beautiful composition Claire de Lune was chosen for the piece and all was in place. It was put together in After Effects with a single unbroken 3D camera move and was a real joy to make, hope you enjoy.
Monday, 22 July 2013
Life Begins
For my 40th we popped down to Bridport in Dorset to see The Wedding Present play on their Seaside Tour at the fantastic Electric Palace. The weather was playing ball that weekend so we toured the Jurassic Coast visiting West Bay, Portland Bill and Lyme Regis while munching on some ace seafood at the Crabhouse Cafe on the Fleet.
In between those two trips we had a joint birthday do at Dalston's Cafe Oto and a lot of fun was had, if my hazy memory serves! Here's a souped-up tractor flyer invite I designed for the bash. The second illustration features an Icelandic food highlight, and our staple diet at the festival, the delicious hot dogs of Baejarins Bestu. Their jogging sausage-dude logo formed the basis of this birthday card design I made for Liz. Now, on with this 40 lark, harumph.
Friday, 19 July 2013
Hot Hot Hot
It's hot in the city so I thought I'd commemorate the good weather with a couple of drawings of the amazing melting man, Emil from the classic Robocop, as potent toxic waste strips his flesh to the bone. 'Don't tzatch me maaannn!'. Enjoy the weekend!
Thursday, 18 July 2013
Here's a futuristic illustration for Car & Driver Magazine looking at the rise of the autonomous automobile for their science non-fiction column. Just sit back and let the car drive you. Can I get a Johnny Cab from Total Recall for mine please?
Wednesday, 17 July 2013
ABRSM Flute & Clarinet
I've been plenty busy this year with ongoing work for ABRSM, the UK's largest music education publisher. First out of the gate in 2013 are the covers for the Flute and Clarinet Exam Pieces, both part of a complete design and illustration rebrand of all their exam publications, art directed by Kate Benjamin. More to come soon.
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Sri Lanka: Caritas provides artificial limbs for war disabled
Little Vathani celebrated her eighth birthday a few months ago in Visvamadhu, a village in war-torn northern Sri Lanka. The next morning, her village was attacked by aerial bombardment and artillery. The terrified girl was running through the paddy fields when she was hit by a shell, which blew her leg away.Sri Lanka: Feeding 12,800 people 3 times a day
By Dolores Bachmann, Caritas Emergency Response Team Leader, Colombo, Sri Lanka
Caritas is providing much needed food and other assistance to the many displaced in Vavuniya and Jaffna in northern Sri Lanka.
More than 188,000 people have now crossed into government-controlled areas and are in camps in Vavuniya , Jaffna and Trincomalee. Up to 1,700 injured people have been transferred to various hospitals in Mannar, Trincomalee, Anuradhapura, Colombo.
Caritas is providing food for over 7,000 people in seven camps in Jaffna Diocese and some 12,500 in Manic Farm Zone 1 in the Diocese of Mannar. The planning, procurement and logistical challenges of providing food for so many are daunting and requires collaboration with the authorities, UN agencies and other NGOs working in the area.
Injured Caritas Vanni director moved to Colombo
Fr. Vasanthaseelan, sustanied serious injuries in shelling on Thursday 23rd April, in Valaignarmadam area and his left leg was amputed and needed further urgent medical treatment.
We have received the informationl that Fr. Vasanthaseelan has been transferred today to Colombo General Hospital for further medical treatment.
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Fear reaching terrifying proportions in Sri Lanka
Representatives of four non-governmental organizations yesterday called on the United Nations to speak out on the situation in northern Sri Lanka and urged the Security Council to take up the matter under the concept of "responsibility to protect".
Speaking at a Headquarters press conference where they discussed the situation in and around the "no-fire zone" in northern Sri Lanka -– where Government forces are poised to overrun positions held by rebel fighters of the Liberation of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) -– were Joseph Cornelius Donnelly of Caritas Internationalis; Anna Neistat of Human Rights Watch; Robert Templer of the International Crisis Group; and Nimmi Gowrinathan of Operation USA. James Traub of the Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect was available to answer questions. The press conference was sponsored by the Permanent Mission of Denmark to the United Nations.
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Sri Lankan baby born with sharpnel wound
Thankfully this story has a happy ending.
Her mother was wounded in the tummy when still carrying Baby S on 2 March. She went into labour a few days later and the beautiful Baby S was born last week.
Health staff noticed that the child had a shell piece in her left thigh. The newborn underwent a small surgery immediately after her birth before her first feed and is doing well.
Amdist the death and destruction, one good news story maybe can make people realise the madness of war.
(Real names, dates, and locations have been concealed to safeguard all involved.)
Stop the human tragedy in Vanni! Say bishops.
The Bishop of Jaffna and clergy from the Jaffna peninsula, are holding a hunger strike to draw attention to the thousands of men, women and children caught up in fighting in north eastern Sri Lanka.
A fierce battle, between the security forces of the Government of Sri Lanka and The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) has left an estimated 250,000 people trapped in a pocket of land in the Vanni.
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Introducing the first blind Tamil lawyer
We'd like to share this happy news.
Atputharajah is a blind boy. He came to Caritas Sri Lanka's branch in Jaffna in the north for educational assistance with his mother in 1999. They are from a very poor family.
Fr.Jeyakumar's brother Jeevan helped his education from then till his graduation through Hudec- Caritas Jaffna.
Atputharajah is the first blind Tamil lawyer in Sri Lanka. He got the highest (more than 80 marks) in one of his subjects and receiving an award too.
We are so proud of him and so happy to share his success in life with all the supporters of Caritas.
Fr.Jeyakumar and staff
HUDEC Caritas Jaffna
Happy Birthday Caritas Sri Lanka
Caritas Internationalis Secretary General Lesley-Anne Knight today opened the Caritas Trade Fair and Exhibition in Sri Lanka's capital city Colombo, with the country's Minister for Science and Technology, Professor Thissa Vitharana.
The fair, which is being held in the city's Vihara Maha Devi Park, is part of Caritas Sri Lanka's 40th anniversary celebrations. More than 80 stalls showcased a range of handicrafts, agricultural produce and food and drink products from throughout Sri Lanka, many of them from Caritas-sponsored income generation projects that were set up after the devastating tsunami that hit the island in December 2004.
The two-day event was a unique opportunity for small entrepreneurs to bring their produce into the city and sell directly to the public and local retailers. The opening ceremony was also attended by the Archbishop of Colombo Dr Oswald Gomis, the Director of Caritas Sri Lanka Fr Damian Fernando, plus bishops, priests, directors and staff representing Caritas Sri Lanka's 13 Diocesan centres.
40th anniversary celebration of Caritas Sri Lanka
Colombo 4th December 2008
Speech by Dr Lesley-Anne Knight
Secretary General of Caritas Internationalis
It is an enormous pleasure to be at the birthday party of one of the Caritas family. Caritas in Sri Lanka is a highly reputable, much loved member of the global Caritas confederation and on behalf of our President Cardinal Oscar Rodriguez and all of the other 161 Caritas members, I congratulate you all and thank you for the privilege of sharing this special 40th year moment.
Caritas, all our Caritas members, at parish, diocesan and national level, make up Caritas Internationalis. We are at the heart of the Church's mission, a sign of love that God has for the whole of humanity; a mission so beautifully expressed too by SEDEC as "Journeying together for a just society". Our belonging to Caritas Internationalis also has significance for our mission… Our very name, Caritas Internationalis, means "the love between nations".
As Caritas Sri Lanka marks its 40th anniversary, it is also a time to mark the enormous successes and celebrate with thanksgiving the graces of God, and above all the dedication of the Sri Lankan Bishops who have made Caritas and the cause of justice and peace the "opus proprium" of our Church in Sri Lanka. I congratulate our Sri Lankan Bishops, together with your priests and people for your leadership, vision and pastoral care.
But for Caritas Sri Lanka a 40th anniversary is also a time to look forward, to renewal and new beginnings. We are at the heart of the Church's mission to love and serve the poor and the Church too in this is called periodically to renewal, into a deeper knowledge of her identity, faithful to what is given in the gospels but also faithful to enter further into this mystery. Caritas Sri Lanka is 40 years old in the year of St Paul. And we remember how St Paul summoned the Church to open herself and so become a better image of our Lord in whom "there is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for we are all one in Christ…" (Galatians 3,28)
Our Church in Sri Lanka and Caritas understand well that call in a multi-faith society torn by sorrow and strife… and joins too as a member of the world-wide Caritas family to face the challenges of our global world.
Whether we are talking about financial upheavals and economic recession, global warming and climate change, migration of whole communities and human trafficking, armed conflict or natural disasters, there is a global dimension that makes it impossible for humanity to escape its collective responsibilities.
As Caritas people we need to be constantly asking ourselves how we can be faithful to what we have received from the gospels and the tradition of our Church, and at the same time faithful to the gifts and opportunities that God offers in this new world in which humanity is bound together more closely than ever before. We will need to face the challenges of our changing climate, a new economic dynamism, the urgent cries for peace. And we will need to do so walking the road together "journeying always towards a more just society." In the words of Pope Paul VI in Populorum Progressio, "We must walk the road together, united in hearts and minds."
Caritas Sri Lanka has a key role to play in response to these new challenges, with renewed energy and commitment in the human response to God's love. It is at the service of the Church's response, not just to the suffering and injustices of a world economy that brings plenty to some and destitution and violence to others. Caritas is an expression of what the Church is as the sign and sacrament of "the unity of the entire human race." (Lumen Gentium 1)
Let us as Caritas people embody the love and outreach of God himself to those in need, regardless of who they are, and what is their faith, if any.
I would like to end with a personal reflection of my experience as I have visited Caritas programmes with my husband Mark over the past few days here with you in Sri Lanka. There is a well-known writer of English literature, Oscar Wilde, who said: " Where there is sorrow, there is holy ground." You have certainly in this beautiful land your share of sorrow. But our experience has been one of love, hope, compassion, creativity, initiative, forgiveness and community lived in joy. And all of that too makes me say this is surely holy ground.
My thanks and congratulations to Fr Damian Fernando the Director of Caritas Sri Lanka, to the staff and all who have made Caritas Sri Lanka. Happy 40th Birthday!


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Congressman Morgan Griffith (R-VA) released the following statement today after receiving the news that former Ninth District Congressman William C. Wampler Sr. had died:
"I am deeply saddened to learn of the passing of former Ninth District Congressman William Wampler, 'The Bald Eagle of the Cumberlands.' Bill was a good friend and a courageous public servant. My thoughts and prayers go out to his wife, Lee; his children; friends; and loved ones. May God give them comfort during this difficult time."
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The 26-year-old actress had got cold feet earlier about shooting the love making scene, and had blown off a string of meetings and flights because she freaked out about mocking her public image."Lindsay was a great sport. She was poking fun at herself, and she really got into it and seemed to enjoy it," the source said.
The source also said that the two stars with Hollywood's most infamous off-screen reputations even "shared some playful pillow talk during shooting."
"They were joking that they've both had a lot of issues over the past couple of years," the source added.
At one point while filming the horror spoof, Lohan got scared and turned to Sheen.
"Lindsay was scared by a sound effect, and actually jumped into Charlie's arms. But everything went smoothly and surprisingly on schedule," the source said.
According to Huff Post, Lohan and Sheen's roles in the film are reportedly brief and it widely assumed that the characters they play will get brutally murdered, as is the custom of the Scary Movie franchise, which spoofs the Scream franchise.
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The Civic for Civic Engagement offers students the opportunity to continue their work outside of the classroom through Civic Engagement Housing that is combined with a CBL course. This housing offers opportunities for students to integrate civic responsibility into their residential life. The goal of the program is for students to work in teams with community partners to maintain existing campus community programs that will enhance the citizenship of students and meet specific needs in the community. Communities are theme-based and will incorporate existing programs and partnerships.
Please note that the housing available are within suites located in Hulett Hall and are a year long commitment. If you are planning on going abroad in either the fall or spring semester, you should not apply or find an alternate student to apply with you.
Civic Engagement Housing Application along with any required documents should be submitted online by Monday, March 4th, 12noon.
Required Application Documents:
Online Application
Faculty/Staff Recommendation: From a SLU faculty or staff member who can speak to your maturity, leadership potential and commitment. You may also have the individual email the letter directly to the Center for Civic Engagement.
Local Community Agency Recommendation: From a local (Canton and surrounding area) community member who you have worked closely with who can speak to your maturity, leadership potential and commitment to community issues. You may also have this individual email the letter directly to the Center for Civic Engagement.
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Civic Engagement Vision Statement: a brief essay (250 words) that describes your Civic Engagement Vision. Your statement should speak to the population you are interested in working with and how you would enhance the current programming. Please be sure to provide specific examples and describe how you will implement such ideas. Also, speak to how you will balance your academic and personal commitments to fulfill 40 service hours which is required as part of the housing commitment.
Interviews will be conducted the week of March 5-8
Decisions will be made and announced by Friday, March 8
For more information, please contact the Center for Civic Engagement or x5095.


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