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Each year, the Our World-Underwater Scholarship Society (OWUSS) awards three Rolex Scholarships to young people who are considering a career in an underwater-related discipline. Each scholar recipient spends a year working alongside current leaders in underwater fields. As a sponsor of the Scholarship Society, the PADI organization congratulates the 2012 recipients: Australasian Scholar – Yoland Bosiger "The underwater world means everything to me. I have been immersed in it all my life and frankly I don't know how I would survive without it."Growing up on a sailing boat and circumnavigating the world until she was eight years old, Yoland Bosiger got an early taste for the wonders of the ocean, travel and adventure. In her last year of high school she did my first ever scuba dive and was hooked immediately. The following year Bosiger began working on a local dive boat, during which time she received the PADI Divemaster rating and was responsible for supervising the daily running of the vessel, conducting marine talks, snorkel tours and guiding divers. Bosiger also became heavily interested in photography and was given responsibility for all underwater photography on the boat.Her strong connection with the marine environment lead her to peruse a combined Bachelor of Science (Marine Biology) and Bachelor of Laws degree at James Cook University (JCU). Bosiger threw herself into learning as much as she possibly could about marine conservation and ecology, whilst maintaining her passion for diving and adventure. While at the University, Bosiger was Dive Officer of the JCU Dive Club and organized dive trips, social events and guided divers. She also volunteered for the Minke Whale project and Eye to Eye Minke Whale Encounters where she taught marine ecology to American university students.Throughout her degree, she gained practical field experience by helping PhD students with their research, including recently travelling to Fiji to help monitor the effect of Marine Protected Areas on herbivorous fishes. Additionally, volunteering has taken her to South Africa, where she assisted students at the South African Marine Predator Lab, and to Manaus, Brazil where she conducted research at the National Institute for Research in the Amazon.Since beginning her Bachelor of Laws degree, Bosiger regularly volunteered at the Environmental Defenders Office, a community legal center dedicated to protecting the environment. As a volunteer and legal placement student, she was involved in writing submissions for the reform of shipping regulations to protect the Great Barrier Reef, drafting development appeals and educating community members about environmental law. In 2010, Bosiger was also employed by the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies to examine treaties that apply to marine resources in the Coral Triangle region.After finishing her undergraduate degree Bosiger began an Honors project in marine fish behavior, during which time she learned to quantify fish behavior, catch fish, and run laboratory experiments. She recently received a first-class honors and is recipient of the Queensland Environmental Law Association Prize for the highest results in the subject Environmental Law. North American Scholar – Megan Cook "I'm a scientific extrovert and eager to explore, learn, and communicate about the underwater world." Megan Cook, 25, was raised in Boise, Idaho, USA more than 805 kilometres/500 miles from the nearest ocean. Growing up in an athletic, water-loving family, she developed a zest for adventure and respect and curiosity about the natural world long before the ocean came into her life. An inspired first-grade teacher first fostered Cook's ocean interest with crayon-scribbled current patterns, marine life stories and shell math. As other kids made "grown up plans" to become firefighters, business leaders, or sports stars, Cook knew she and the sea were meant to be together. At age 16, Cook was selected as the top international ambassador of a young women's leadership organization. Traveling nearly 160,934 kilometres/100,000 miles worldwide, Cook gained confidence as a spokeswoman and presenter and broadened her goals for the scale of impacts she hopes to make in the world. This experience will also prove invaluable to her scholarship year as she is already an old pro at napping during layovers on awkward airport benches.Cook graduated Magna cum Laude in 2009 from Oregon State University with a Bachelor of Science in Biology, a minor in Chemistry, and an option in Marine Biology. During college she edited The Catalyst, a journal promoting undergraduate research, and walked onto two Division-I sports teams: rowing and equestrian polo. Initially scuba certified in an Idaho freshwater reservoir, Cook bubbled her way to further confidence with a PADI Advanced Open Water Diver, PADI Rescue Diver, Drysuit Diver and AAUS Scientific Diver certifications. Then Cook eventually became a PADI Divemaster. Eager to explore more of the ocean, Cook became an international scholar on exchange to James Cook University in Townsville, Queensland, Australia. Upon her return, she enrolled with Sea Education Association, studying in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, USA and later sailing a tall-ship research vessel from Tahiti to Hawaii. She worked in the reef fish ecology lab of Dr. Mark Hixon and spent a research season diving in the Bahamas to quantify the impacts of the Indo-Pacific lionfish invasion on native predators and communities. After earning her degree, Cook relocated to Hawaii to work as a freediver on NOAA's Marine Debris Team throughout the Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument. Her desire to make a positive contribution to the underwater world led her to work on the state's aquatic invasive species team and as a trainer for the University of Hawaii Scientific Diving program and a community reporting network for coral disease and bleaching outbreaks.The science and exploration of the ocean fascinate Cook, as does the communication of this knowledge. A scientific extrovert, Cook seeks opportunities to foster bridges between research, media, conservation, industry and exploration. She is especially interested in large-scale ocean issues such as marine debris and invasive species management because of the variety of stakeholders who can be involved in seeking solutions. Cook has received recognition in university-wide and regional symposia, for most outstanding presentation and best seminar for ecology and marine biology. She seeks to explore photography and video documentaries as communication tools during her scholarship year. She believes the ocean is anxious to tell her story, and public awareness is the first step to creating change. Cook hopes to work with diverse groups to further understand and better communicate the wonder, vitality, and drastic changes alive in today's underwater world in accessible, innovative ways. Cook is humbled and enlivened to be spending this year among this prestigious network of underwater leaders and looking forward to learning absolutely everything she can absorb. European Scholar – Oscar Svensson"I am honored to be selected as the 2012 European Rolex Scholar and look forward to experiencing the variety of the underwater world, knowing that I will learn much from the people I meet along the way."
Oscar Svensson, 24, was born on the west coast of Sweden but was raised in the middle of the country far from the sea for the first years of his life. Fortunately his family spent every summer at the coast and when he was ten years old they finally moved there and had the sea within walking distance. From the very start Svensson loved water, and spent as much time as possible during the short Swedish summers snorkeling. This led to his interest in marine life from a very early age. At the age of thirteen he took his first dive course at the local club and loved every minute of it. For high school he moved to the small town of Lysekil which is a center for marine biology in Sweden and started his education in the marine sciences.
Svensson has continued on the marine path with courses in Marine Biology at the University of Gothenburg, but currently he is a final year undergraduate student in Biotechnology with the aim of combining these two paths. One of the things that led him to the field of biotechnology is his interest in the use of algae for production of bio fuels, an environmentally friendly energy source with great potential. He has been involved in a nationwide students' organization between all the universities offering education in biotechnology in Sweden with the aim to further collaboration between all schools to promote this science to society.
In diving he has continued his education and is currently a PADI Master Scuba Diver Trainer and has worked as an instructor both in Sweden and on live-aboards in Thailand. During his courses he tries to introduce people to the underwater world and the life to be found there to further their awareness of the marine environment. A 2°C/ 35.6°F dive at home is just as much fun as a tropical dive abroad; both have great beauty and things to discover. With 650 dives under his belt he knows there is still a lot to learn and just recently completed a Technical Diving Basic Skills course as a first step into technical diving. Apart from diving he has a background in swimming and various martial arts. He also enjoys nature above the surface in the form of hiking and snowboarding with friends.
Through the scholarship Svensson hopes to learn more about the exploration of the sea and how can we move forward in a responsible way. He also wants to know more about how to convey the knowledge gained to a wider public so that they see the value of the marine environment, because what we value we want to protect.
To read more about the 2012 recipients or to find out more about the OWUSS, visit www.owuscholarship.org.
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Teen Mom 2 Recap: Faded Love
March 12, 2013 05:43 AM by Donna W. Martin
This week's episode of Teen Mom 2 was full of more drama. Corey was confused and unsure of what he wanted, as usual! Jenelle started smoking again, surprise, surprise. Chelsea's been given moving orders and Kailyn is still fighting with Jo over Vee being around Isaac. Take the jump to see what happened.
Leah ended her relationship with Jeremy because she couldn't ignore her feelings for Corey. Jeremy came over and moved the rest of his belongings out of her house. Then he called Corey and went to his house to talk.
Jeremy asked Corey flat out what the f*ck was going on. He said he had all his sh*t in his truck and nowhere to go. And he said he was sick of seeing Leah cry.
Corey told Jeremy him and Leah had decided to go to counseling to see if they could get on good terms and see where it went from there. Jeremy said he didn't want to see things go good for six months and then get bad again. Then he told Corey that Leah was in love with both of them.
Corey said that was what scared him. He didn't want it to be the same situation with her and Jeremy as it was with her and Robbie. Jeremy said he didn't want to see the girls get hurt and he didn't want to see Leah get hurt.
Corey said he didn't want to move ahead with things and then Leah and the girls lose Jeremy. But Jeremy told him he couldn't stay around and wait while she went to counseling with her ex-husband. More than anything, Corey said he didn't want to force things.
Later, Jeremy called Leah and told her that he had gone to see Corey and that he was confused about his feelings. Leah wanted to know if Corey was serious about things so she called him and asked if he was ready to take the next step. He said he didn't know but then said they would do it. She asked him what he hoped to get out of counseling and he said he didn't know.
He talked to Leah about Jeremy stopping by and admitted he was confused. She told him another guy was fighting more for his family than he was. He said yeah, I'm a piece of sh*t. Leah told him she wasn't going to feel sorry for him and then he burped really loud into the phone. That was all she could and said she was getting off the phone. That was the end of their conversation. Corey's not sounding too serious, huh?
Later, Leah struggled with the fact that she can't seem to get over Corey and she feels bad for dragging Jeremy through this. She went out with her friend Kayla and they talked about it. Leah admitted that she kind of regretted breaking things off with Jeremy.
Jeremy keeps texting her to see how she's doing and to tell her he misses her. Leah feels like she made a big mistake choosing Corey over Jeremy.
Later, she met up with Corey to exchange the girls. She told Corey they needed to talk because she could tell he wasn't very serious about things. Corey said he was confused because Jeremy came by. Leah was surprised and said so Jeremy butts in and changes your mind about your family? Then she tells him she wants a family, she wants to raise her girls in church, and she wants a husband…and she thinks she has found that with someone else. So she decides she's going to help Corey with his confusion and calls it quits for him. It's about time, Leah!!
Jenelle hasn't seen her mom or Jace since she got off probation. She started smoking again, but hopes to keep it under control this time. And she's glad she has Kieffer back in her life.
Later that day, she talked to Kieffer and told him she had missed him. They both said they have changed since they were together before. He has been to prison and she has been on probation and in rehab. She said she wants to be back together but she wants to know that things have changed. She told him they could spend time together and see how things have changed. Then he grabbed her and kissed her.
Jenelle has been falling behind in school. She has a job online selling advertising but she's been feeling insecure and wants a big change. What does she want? She wants to get a boob job.
She scheduled a consultation with a plastic surgeon about the boob job. But before she went, she talked to Kieffer about it. He said he wasn't a fan of plastic surgery and liked her body just the way it was. He even told her he would miss her real boobs because he was attached to them but whatever made her happy would make him happy.
Later, Jenelle went to the consultation and decided she was going to go through with the procedure. But she wanted to talk to her mom about it first. So she went to see Barbara and Jace, finally. She talked to Barbara about the boob job. Barbara told her she thought it was a bad idea because it was a radical surgery and she would be putting something foreign into her body. Jenelle told her she was going to have it done regardless of what anyone else thought, and that it would take six weeks to heal.
Chelsea went to see her mom and to talk to her about what happened with Adam. Her mom was surprised that she'd hooked up with Adam especially since her birth control fell out and Adam didn't use a condom. Later, Chelsea went to the doctor to talk about birth control options. She decided to go with Mirena again.
She's still adjusting to being a fulltime student but Aubree has settled in at daycare and is doing really good. Later that day, Laura came over and Chelsea talked to her about getting Mirena again…no more babies and no accidents.
Later, Chelsea's dad, Randy texted her and told her she would have to move out of her new house because the owner was moving back to town and wanted the house back. Chelsea was upset and talked to Laura. Randy told Chelsea the owner could do this because it was in the lease.
Chelsea called her dad to talk about it. He told her they would have to look for another place or she could move back to where she was before. Chelsea said she didn't want to go back there. Randy said he would look for a place.
Chelsea, Aubree, and Laura left the house. Chelsea was upset and frustrated that nothing ever goes right for her. She talked about how Adam has it easy and never has to worry about anything because he lives with his parents.
Meanwhile, Aubree is in the back seat trying to console Chelsea by telling her not to cry and asking if she's happy.
Things have been going great between Kailyn and Javi. Kailyn is going back to court with Jo because she doesn't want Vee around Isaac. Plus she wants to get more time with him because Jo leaves him with his parents too much.
Later, Jo called Kailyn to tell her he was moving to New Jersey to be closer to his job. It just so happens he will be closer to Vee too. Jo told her the drop off point to exchange Isaac would still be at his mom and dad's house. Kailyn told him she wouldn't make the drive to his new place because it would be too far. But Jo assured her the drop off point would be in the same place. Kailyn asked Jo if Vee was moving in with him and he said he didn't know.
Before the custody mediation hearing, Jo missed a scheduled visitation with Isaac. He said it was because he didn't have time due to the move. But Chelsea found out otherwise on Twitter. He was actually hanging with his boys and Vee.
Later, Jo and Kailyn went to the mediation hearing. An hour later, Kailyn left angry because nothing was resolved and no changes were made to the custody agreement.
Right after court, Jo called Vee. He told her nothing was resolved and that it was a complete waste of time. He told her Kailyn said he doesn't spend enough time with Isaac when he has him for visitation and that his girlfriend drinks and smokes weed.
Kailyn went home and talked to Javi about the hearing. She said the magistrate told them he couldn't help at this point and that it would have to go to trial before a judge. And in the meantime, they needed to go to family therapy and co-parenting classes.
And get this. Kailyn told Javi that right after court, Vee tweeted, "Yes I drink, yes I smoke, didn't know my life was a crime." Then she told Javi that Jo needed to say something to Vee. Javi said Jo doesn't care or he would have already changed the situation.
What did you think of this week's episode? Do you think Leah will get back with Jeremy? Will Jenelle and Kieffer work things out? Where do you think Chelsea will move to? And do you think Kailyn and Jo are headed for a custody trial? Post a comment and tell us what you think is going to happen.
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March 12th, 2013 at 9:34 am
Wrong! When Jo missed the Thursday visitation with his son, it WAS because he was busy. The pics that he posted on twitter were from the subsequent weekend — that's why Kailyn was complaining that since Jo didn't have a Thursday he should have asked for a Friday, but instead was partying with his friends on Friday. Of course, Kailyn doesn't mention that even if Jo had asked for the Friday, she would not have given it to him. She's a HYPOCRITE. She blames Jo for having Vee around but sees no problem with Javi being around all day? I'm not surprised the court hearing went badly for her — her demands are ridiculous.

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In this photo taken by Mohave Electric Cooperative employee Fred Fischer, a DC-10 air tanker dropping fire retardant flies over the co-op's lines at the Dean Peak Fire. (Courtesy)
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KINGMAN - More than 350 people attended a community meeting Wednesday night to hear an update on the Dean Peak Fire.
"No structures have burned and nobody's been injured," said Gary Watson, chairman of the Mohave County Board of Supervisors, a comment that generated applause from an audience that voiced its appreciation of the firefighting efforts made to date.
About 500 firefighters from around the West work 16-hour days, aided by helicopters, bulldozers, several engines and water tenders.
The community of Kingman is in "no danger whatsoever" of the fire reaching the city, said Kevin Bailey, the public information officer for the Northern Arizona Incident Management Team.
More than 25 agencies from local, state and the federal government are involved in battling the blaze, which had burned roughly seven square miles of the Hualapai Mountains east of Kingman as of Wednesday.
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Strong, erratic monsoon winds and thick, dry vegetation have hampered efforts to fight the blaze.
Firefighters have used infrared imaging taken from an airplane at night, which shows the scope of the fire and its intensity.
Wickham said firefighters are able to see where the fire is burning and in which direction its headed, which allows them to establish "trigger points" that call for evacuations.
"It's like drawing a line in the sand," he said.
The southeastern portion of the fire is "looking good," he said, and firefighters are building firebreaks. They can't fight the fire on the line due to extremely rugged terrain.
"Our primary objective is public and firefighter safety," he said.
While firefighters are focused on providing shelter protection, Wickham said previous fire breaks - areas of the forest that have been thinned out to help slow down or stop a fire - were built by the Bureau of Land Management several years ago around the Pinion Pines and Pine Lakes subdivisions.
That work, he said, probably saved a few structures and also allowed firefighters to get a foothold.
"We're happy to see people taking the time to put in fire breaks," he said.
Both subdivisions are relatively safe from the fire, thanks in part to burnout operations crews conducted late Tuesday night, he said.
The wildcard is the monsoon season.
"The winds are really a threat," he said. "They can blow from any direction and tonight we're looking for an easterly wind."
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"The community has been very gracious with their donations," he said. "We've gotten so much we don't know what to do with it all.
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Two hotshot crews are mopping up around Pinion Pines, which was saved from the fire during a "crucial" Tuesday night. A small threat still exists.
The roughly 200 families - some homeowners opted to stay on the mountain - that have evacuated might be able to return home in a day or two. While the fire might not be burning near the subdivisions, crews continue to look for hot spots to ensure it doesn't reignite.
The vegetation is extremely dry and the fire could flare up at any time.
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Part of the work firefighters will perform as the fire abates is improvements and extensions to fire breaks, which will mitigate the threat in future fires.
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Amy Van Dyken-Rouen may not be paralyzed, will transfer to Craig Hospital for rehab after ATV crash
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. - Colorado Olympic-gold medal swimmer Amy Van Dyken-Rouen may not be paralyzed after an ATV crash.
After the crash, Van Dyken-Rouen's family told Swimming World Magazine, "Amy's spinal cord was completely severed at the T11 vertebrae, but, miraculously, a broken vertebrae stopped within millimeters of rupturing her aorta, and she did not suffer any head trauma."
Van Dyken-Rouen tweeted Thursday morning that she was told her spinal cord was severed, but she got an MRI to confirm.
"Either way, I'm here which is amazing," Van Dyken-Rouen tweeted.
She tweeted that the MRI took 5.5 hours.
"Was in MRI until 4:00am today (started at 11:30pm) did whole spine and brain, and so far, so good. Yes, I have a brain! LOL #BabySteps," Van Dyken-Rouen wrote on Twitter.
Van Dyken-Rouen's husband, former Broncos punter Tom Rouen, told our partners at the Denver Post, the family does not know if Amy will be paralyzed.
"We're not sure yet," Rouen said. "We're going to take it day by day. Whatever challenges come up, we'll meet them and address."
Van Dyken-Rouen tweeted Wednesday that she is coming to back to Colorado to do her rehabilitation work at Craig Hospital.
"I'll be doing my rehab at #CragiHospital in Denver. Taking @angel_medflight there. I'll video it all 4 U2 C," Van Dyken-Rouen wrote.
Van Dyken-Rouen said she may need one more surgery before she leaves Arizona. In the meantime, she's been tweeting photos and messages to fans and friends since Sunday.
"Hello everyone. I cannot express how much your love and support are helping me. #blessyouall…," Van Dyken-Rouen wrote Wednesday. "Just thinking out loud..Now I will get really good seats at @Dbacks and other favorite sports teams. #awesome #bringMyOwnChair #goodParking2"
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"You hear this term, 'severed spine,' that she's not going to walk again, but there's actually a reasonably good chance that she'll be able to walk again," said Dr. Venu Akuthota, a professor of physical medicine and rehabilitation at University of Colorado Hospital. "Usually, they do have some degree of nerve functions, so they do have some muscles that they can use. They often can walk again using some aides; they might have to have a brace or crutches or other devices."
He described the step-by-step process she'll likely have to endure to be able to use her legs again.
"Before you even get to the stage of learning to walk, you have to learn to transfer from a bed to a wheelchair and then you have to learn how to transfer from that sitting position to a standing position," said Akuthota. "I think being an athlete's going to help her quite a bit because she'll have the perseverance to really stay with the rehabilitation. She'll know what it takes to go to a limit and then beyond."
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The Indians forced extra innings and took a two-run lead in the 11th, but couldn't finish the job against Arizona. They've lost four straight games.
PHOENIX, Ariz. – Marc Rzepczynski takes the blame. All of it.
The last two games his teams have played at Chase Field have lasted 30 innings and 11 hours of four minutes. By the way, they lost both times.
Tuesday night and early Wednesday morning, the Indians lost to Arizona, 9-8, in 14 innings. On April 3, 2013, Rzpeczynski's St. Louis Cardinals lost to the Diamondbacks, 10-9, in 16 innings.
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Katherine Kersten's bizarre plot to kill your dog: A moral history
Minnesotans woke up to the stark news Sunday that Katherine Kersten wanted them to kill their dogs.
Consider a recent study by Richard Topolski of Georgia Regents University and his colleagues, which appeared in the journal Anthrozoos. Researchers asked respondents which they would save from a runaway bus: a dog (their own pet or someone else's) or a human being. The conclusions were remarkable: Forty percent of respondents, including 46 percent of women, said they would save their dog over a foreign tourist.
A recent paper by Richard Topolski at George Regents University and colleagues, published in the journal Anthrozoös, demonstrates this human involvement with pets to a startling extent. Participants in the study were told a hypothetical scenario in which a bus is hurtling out of control, bearing down on a dog and a human. Which do you save? With responses from more than 500 people, the answer was that it depended: What kind of human and what kind of dog?Everyone would save a sibling, grandparent or close friend rather than a strange dog. But when people considered their own dog versus people less connected with them--a distant cousin or a hometown stranger--votes in favor of saving the dog came rolling in. And an astonishing 40% of respondents, including 46% of women, voted to save their dog over a foreign tourist. This makes Parisians' treatment of American tourists look good in comparison.
So, then, the most important question for human beings to ask is how we teach ourselves to "extend our humaneness to other human beings."Or, to pose the question within the framework of the dog-stranger question: How do we convince people to save a human being they do not know rather than the dog they do know and love?There is only one way.We need to teach -- as we did throughout American history until the 1960s -- that human beings are created in God's image and animals are not. That is the only compelling reason to save a human being you don't love before the dog you do love.
Nearly all respondents reported they would save a sibling or best friend instead of a strange dog. But when asked to choose between their own dog and people less familiar to them -- a distant cousin or hometown stranger -- an astounding number chose the dog.Would Americans have answered this question differently in the past? Most likely, yes. WhyThe answer lies embedded in words that used to be our nation's common creed. Our founders held it self-evidently true that "all men" -- unlike other animals -- "are created equal" and "are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights," including "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness."The founders believed that human beings have a unique dignity and an elevated status over all other animals, because they are made in the image of God and are capable of choosing between good and evil. Our nation's political system is founded on this view of human beings' unique moral status.
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November 4, 1997
PULLMAN, Wash. -- The Washington State women's soccer squad battles the top two teams in the Pacific-10 Conference this week in Los Angeles during its final two matches of the 1997 season.
The Cougars (7-9-0 / 2-5-0 Pac-10) look to shake their current four-game losing streak Friday, Nov. 7 against second place USC (14-3-1 / 5-2-0 Pac-10) in a 2 p.m. match played at El Camino College instead of the Los Angeles Coliseum. Then Sunday, Nov. 9, WSU squares off with conference leader UCLA (15-2-0, 7-0-0 Pac-10), ranked 17th by Soccer America.
"We're soul searching for some answers," said WSU head coach Lisa Gozley. "We're not responding to the call of the competition. We fell short of our goals (this season), but we have an opportunity this weekend to do something for ourselves. We have to play for our pride and put a positive spin on things."
The task is not easy as the Cougars, who have been held scoreless their last four outings, face two of the premier scoring teams in the West. The Trojans (3.06 goals per match) and Bruins (2.71 gpm) are ranked fourth and seventh respectively in team scoring in the region.
The Cougars have lost both meetings with USC, including last year's 3-1 loss at San Luis Obispo, Calif. Kim Clark, the Trojans' leading scorer, ranks tenth nationally in assists with 15. "USC is still a young team, but they have plenty of speed and dangerous players up top," said Gozley. The Trojans suffered their only home defeat last week to Arizona State by a 3-2 margin.
UCLA has also won the last two matches with the Cougars, both by shutout. WSU won the first meeting in 1993, a 4-2 overtime decision in Los Angeles. In 1994, the two teams played to a 0-0 tie (first ever for WSU) while at a tournament in Albuquerque, N.M. "UCLA is loaded with talent," said Gozley. "We have to go in there and have one of our best games."
"And they have one of the most prolific goal scorers in the country in Traci Arkenberg," Gozley added. "I've watched that kid flat out beat us for two years. Not on anything we did wrong, but on her ability." With 19 goals (seven game winners) and eight assists, Arkenberg tops the Pac-10 in scoring. Her 46 points place her 15th nationally.
Three Dot Notes - During the 1995 season the Cougars were held scoreless in five straight matches (still the longest streak in WSU history)...the fifth match of that streak was a 1-0 overtime loss at No. 17 UCLA...the following match, a 2-1 loss at USC, was the final defeat in a school-record six-game losing streak...this fall the Cougars have attempted 33 corner kicks, a record low (56 in 1995)...opponents have taken 94 corner kicks.


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The Madras High Court today restrained Zee News and News Nation channels from telecasting any news linking India cricket captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni with the Indian Premier League (IPL) betting/fixing scam.
The interim order, effective for two weeks, was passed by Justice S Tamilvanan on a defamation suit filed by Mahendra Singh Dhoni claiming Rs 100 crore damages from the Zee Media Corporation for allegedly telecasting "malicious" news that he was involved in betting, spot and match fixing of IPL matches.
"I am of the view that there is a prima facie case and the balance of convenience is also in favour of the plaintiff. Hence interim injection granted for a period of two weeks," the judge said in his order after perusing Dhoni's affidavit.
He issued notice to defendants Zee Media Corporation Limited, Zee News Editor and Business Head Sudhir Chaudary, IPS officer G Sampath Kumar (who initially probed the IPL betting scam) and News Nation network private limited.
Dhoni, in his suit, submitted that the defendants had been carrying highly defamatory, scandalous and libellous false reports and statements since February 11, 2014.
The first and second defendants Zee Media Corporation Limited (Zee News) and Sudhir Chaudary, Editor and Business Head of Zee News Channel, Essel Studios, Noida, Uttar Pradesh, in collusion with the third defendant IPS officer G Sampath Kumar have been telecasting and broadcasting and posting in their websites false reports insinuating that Dhoni was involved in illegal activities of betting, match fixing and spot fixing.
Similarly, defendant no.4, News Nation network private limited (News National channel) Noida, UP, joined the tirade against Dhoni and later on went to the extent of stating that Dhoni was summoned by the Tamil Nadu police, which was also utterly false, the affidavit stated.
He charged that actions were done with an intention to project Dhoni as an object of hate and ridicule to the general public. The general public, especially IPL fans of Chennai Superkings in Chennai, have been negatively influenced by the malicious false reports, it claimed.
The sole agenda of the defendants was somehow to malign and destroy the reputation of the plaintiff in the eyes of the millions of his fans and cricket lovers all over the world.
Plaintiff has filed the suit because his fundamental right and personal rights had been breached by the telecast and broadcast of the malicious news.
He sought a permanent injunction restraining the defendants, their associations, sister concerns, agents, officers,


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In fact, we could probably spend all day talking about the life-saving advances in science and medicine that have taken place in the last four decades: beta and calcium channel blockers and ace-inhibitors to fight hypertension; the unlocking of the DNA code, with a resulting revolution in biotechnology and genetic engineering; the advent of large scale clinical trials; the pursuit of landmark epidemiological studies like the Framingham study; increasing awareness about the dangers of cholesterol; chemotherapies to fight cancer; new generations of antibiotics and psychotropic drugs. The list goes on and on.
All of this was happening within the framework of Medicare, which was enacted in 1965.
That's just some of the good news about improvements in health care over the past four decades. Now let's talk about the bad news. Certainly we continue to face major health challenges such as hypertension, cancer, infectious diseases and other maladies. But equally serious is the problem of costs.
Spending on health care has soared over the last forty years, from $27 billion in 1960 – a little over five percent of the nation's GDP – to more than one trillion dollars in 1998, or nearly five percent of GDP. And it will keep going up.
The bite it takes out of the federal budget – largely in the form of Medicare and Medicaid payments – has grown from a paltry $5 billion in 1965 – the year Medicare was passed – to more than $370 billion today. Altogether, health-related expenditures consume more than twenty-one percent of the federal budget. Compare that with four percent in 1965.
It is interesting to note that in 1964 the debate over Medicare centered on how well the government could forecast future costs. In a long-range estimate, the total expense for 1990 was projected to be $10 billion. Actually it was $110 billion, eleven times as much! And eight years later, in 1998, the Medicare bill nearly doubled, to $216 billion.
With spending rising so quickly – and budgetary pressures intensifying — politicians have moved just as quickly to assign blame – generally, as far from their corridors of power as possible. In the 1970s and 1980s, when healthcare costs were accelerating at a double-digit rate, physicians and hospitals were the targets. How many times did we hear about doctors ordering unnecessary tests and charging exorbitant fees, or hospitals with staggering daily rates?
Today, the pharmaceutical industry is the bogeyman, just as it was 40 years ago. Some of the polemics haven't really changed. Once again, we hear that prices are too high and even that the industry is too prosperous.
Certainly, it cannot be denied that spending on prescription drugs in the U.S. has increased, particularly in recent years. In 1998, it exceeded $90 billion. Still, it is important to note that eighty percent of this growth has nothing to do with price – it is primarily a result of the increasing number of prescriptions being written, more new products coming to the market, and more older people needing medicines.


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Wayne County sheriff's deputies have arrested a 6-foot-5, 270-pound rapist and attempted murderer in the same hospital where he escaped from custody 30 hours earlier.
The sheriff's department says 45-year-old Willie Wright was at Harper Hospital for treatment Tuesday when he broke free of deputies guarding him despite their use of pepper spray.
Sheriff's spokeswoman Paula Bridges says a hospital staffer spotted Wright on Wednesday and stalled him until guards and deputies could capture him.
Bridges says the arrest went without incident.
Wright is awaiting sentencing for kidnapping and raping his ex-girlfriend, then shooting her in the head as she tried to flee.
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This is a great time of your life! Just think about it. You're
growing up and have some independence to try new things. Now's the time! Here's
our list of top things to do while you're a teen.
1. Do Something for the First Time
Learn to knit. Play a musical instrument. Discover a new
language. Have fun exploring something new!
2. Do Random Acts of Kindness
Whether it's adding a dime into an expired meter or picking
up a bottle on the sidewalk and putting it into the recycling bin, you'll be surprised
how good you can feel from doing simple, nice things for people without expecting
anything in return. It's great to help someone out and put a smile on his or her
face ☺.
3. Appreciate Your Good Health
We sometimes take our good health for granted, but at a moment's
notice, it can be turned upside down. Give thanks for your good health and honor
and respect its needs. Eat well-balanced meals, take time for physical activity
and protect your skin with SPF.
4. Deposit Money into Your Bank Account and Keep It
Now is the time to start managing your money right and to
start saving your money. Avoid spending money on things you don't really need and
instead set a goal for how you will spend your money on something important. The
rewards of accomplishing your goal, coupled with the rewards of seeing that sum
in the bank, are worth the hard work.
5. Road Trip to a New Place
This is the time in your life where you can feed your interest
to explore the world. After all, it's so much fun to experience a road trip complete
with singing, exploring and bonding with family and friends.
6. Spend Personal Time With Your Grandparents
There's definitely something to that expression, "with age
comes wisdom." Your grandparents have many experiences they can share with you.
Learn from them! Ask them what they were like at your age or what accomplishments
they're proud to share. Perhaps you can find out new information about your parents
simply by asking your grandparents what they were like when they were your age.
Or ask your grandparents when and how they met. Enjoy learning about your family
and you may just have new stories to pass along.
7. Conquer a Fear
Demonstrate your courage and attempt to conquer a fear. Milk
a cow, ride a roller coaster, hold a snake at the zoo, give a speech in front of
a crowd or stand up to someone. You'll find yourself feeling more light, free and
8. Learn to Drive a Stick Shift
Once you get your driver's license, ask your parents to help
teach you how to drive a stick shift. You will develop a new skill and be able to
drive any car. Additionally, if you're confident in your skills, consider purchasing
a car with a manual transmission. It will be less expensive than the same car with
an automatic transmission, and you will save money on gas. Not to mention it's a
great way to impress others!
9. Travel Abroad
Nothing expands your universe than experiencing a different
country's culture. Get fully immersed and eat the local food, see the sights and
talk to the people. You may find you appreciate home more than ever or that you
want to explore even more!
10. Take a Chance
You never know what will happen unless you try it. Take a
chance and seek out a new adventure. Ask someone to dance. Try your luck at a carnival
game. Get up and sing karaoke. Chances are you'll be happy you gave it a try!
11. Take Responsibility for Yourself
Demonstrate your maturity and gets things done. Do your homework,
do your own laundry, and clean your room. In addition, take responsibility for your
actions. If you break something, you should pay to replace it or if you say something
that hurts someone, you should apologize. Now's the time to show you can be independent.
12. Stand Up for Yourself and Others
Be brave and confident! You have values and an opinion that
matters. Stand up for your beliefs. Also, if you see someone hurting another person
or treating them poorly, stand up and take action to make it stop. Stick with a
group of friends and don't let them control the situation. If needed, seek help
from a trusted adult.
13. Have the Courage to be Vulnerable
Embrace your vulnerability. We all have flaws and we need
to be forgiving. Be fearless. Admit your faults. Forgive the insensitive, the hurtful,
and the selfish.
Ready? Set! Go! Start checking these off and capture your
experiences to share with others. Share how it made you feel and how it changed
you. Have fun!
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text: The Hundreds keeps their art initiative going by launching a dope capsule collaboration with LA-based artist James Jean. The set will include skateboard decks, a bucket hat and a 5-panel camp cap customized with Jean's artistic vision. Now they'll have something cool to go with the new L.A. office. We'll keep you posted on when and how you can get one of thee pieces.


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Album Summary
- Albert Buttigieg (Bass Baritone)
- Alfred Camilleri (Baritone)
- Brian Cefai (Tenor)
- Anita Saliba (Soprano)
- Charles Vella Zarb (Tenor)
- Connie Zerafa (Mezzo Soprano)
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Composer, teacher and church musician Paolino Vassallo was the first Maltese to move consciously away from the dominating Italian influence on Maltese music. After local studies, he left in 1875 for Paris, then at the height of French Romanticism, where he remained for ten years and continued his studies mainly with Ernest Guiraud and Jules Massenet. His later work, as a result, exhibits a Gallic line of elegance, grace and verbalization in its harmonic structure and mystical feeling that is even more evident in his non-sacred works. On his return to Malta in 1885, Vassallo founded in Valletta his extremely successful Music Institute, which offered comprehensive courses ranging from basics to advanced compositional and orchestral techniques. He was one of the most important figures in modern Maltese musical history and succeeded in revitalizing church music. Evidence shows he probably starting working on the Grande Mass while still in France, and its first Maltese performance was given on December 23, 1889. The underlying spirit of the work is the poly choral masses of the late Renaissance period. A listener cannot but feel the composer 's endeavor to use his musical talent to create a work that is beautiful, dignified, grandiose and full of religious feeling, music that is a fit offering to God.
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Henze: Chamber Music Vol 2 / Ensemble Villa Musica
Bennett: Orchestral Works Vol 1 / Hickox, et al
Cherubini: Requiem, Marche funebre; Beethoven: Elegiac Song
Bossi: Musica Nuziale / Bissi, Macinanti, Sinatra, Mancini
Gram: Orchestral Works Vol 1 / Aeschbacher, South Jutland SO
Erik Bach: Orchestral Works / Bo Holten, Aarhus SO
Vaughan Williams: Piano Concerto; Foulds: Dynamic Tryptich
Hoddinott: Dives and Lazarus, Viola Concertino, etc
Works DetailsVassallo, Paolino : Grande Mass
- Performers: Albert Buttigieg (Bass Baritone); Alfred Camilleri (Baritone); Brian Cefai (Tenor); Anita Saliba (Soprano); Charles Vella Zarb (Tenor); Connie Zerafa (Mezzo Soprano)
- Conductor: Dion Buhagiar
- Ensemble: Collegium Musicum
- Running Time: 48 min. 16 sec.
- Period Time: Modern
- Form: Choral
- Written: 1889
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Patricia Levenson of Wheeling is the new chairwoman of the Ohio County Republican Party, and she sees the position as an opportunity to help mold the next generation of political leadership.
"I saw the caliber of those stepping forward for the open positions (on the board), and the motivation they had," she said. "I saw there was an opportunity to help move our party forward. We want to give our community real choices, become more visible and give the voting public more options. They should have freedom of choice, rather than a single direction.
"I became excited about the youthful faces in front of me and thought I had the experience to develop leadership for the future," she added. "My mission is to develop leadership in the coming years that can step in and carry on."
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Levenson succeeds Elgine McArdle, who stepped down as chairwoman of the county GOP in January. Levenson was named chairwoman last week by the Ohio County GOP's Executive Committee after five new members of the committee were selected to fill open positions.
Chosen to serve on the executive committee were Susan Oglinsky Cookman, Desiree Lyonette, Jeff Rogers, Andy Thalman and Bob Luchetti Jr., and all will serve until the November 2014 general election. Other members of the board are Vice Chairman Charles Schlegel, Sally Wells Ezell, Greta Swan, Sam Kasley, Doris Kasley and Jake Altmeyer.
Levenson previously served on the county GOP executive committee, and her position now needs to be filled. She noted that as chairwoman, she wants members of the committee to be more visible in the community.
"I want members to attend council and commission meetings and various board meetings," Levenson said. "They will listen, and then they will form an opinion and let the community know what it is. That's what a party is all about. It's not about just sitting and having a nice social hour once a month."
If the community presently doesn't know the Republican Party's thoughts on local issues "it's our own fault," Levenson said.
"If you are on the executive committee, you have to be willing to step forward and carry that mission - or you don't belong on that committee," she said.
Levenson lives in Wheeling with her husband, Robert Levenson. In 2012, she ran for the office of Ohio County commissioner, and in 2010 she sought the congressional seat representing West Virginia's 1st District. The Levensons currently operate Prosperity Partners and are actively involved in revitalizing distressed properties in Wheeling. They have been married for 45 years and have three adult sons and three grandchildren.


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Refresh it? It used to do that to me. I just had to re-draw it or w/e its called..
Im having a problem with roads staying on the map in the Map Menu. Im using CC-3 version 3.42. Can anyone help me with this?
I have not been able to contact tech support.
Refresh it? It used to do that to me. I just had to re-draw it or w/e its called..
I'm not exactly sure what help you need, but if you haven't heard back from CC3/Profantasy tech support, usually it's because it is the weekend. If you still need help, try the Profantasy forums: http://forums.profantasy.com
The folks at Profantasy (as well as a size-ably large and experienced user community) frequent that place almost daily.
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When Uncle Scrooge creator Carl Barks was coaxed out of retirement in 1969 to do more stories for Western Publishing, he managed to produce twenty-four Junior Woodchucks tales in pencil-script form that Western assigned to other artists to complete. It is no secret that many Barks fans feel the original published versions of these tales fall far short of what could have been had Barks been able to do the final artwork himself. Imagine, Donald's famous nephews, Huey, Dewey, and Louie, in wilderness adventures with Donald and Scrooge! But the stories' quality could have been so much more.
Fortunately, twenty-three of Barks' pencil scripts survived, and Another Rainbow reproduced twenty-one in Set VI of the hardbound Carl Barks Library (now out of print). Unfortunately, these pencil scripts were still too rough to be successfully presented In four-color comic books and albums. Would these formats be stuck with the uninspired Western versions of these final regular comic book stories written by the legendary Duck Man?
Not if Daan Jippes, an acknowledged modern master of the Disney ducks, could help it. And help it he did, in 1992, when he began redrawing these stories from Barks' pencils for Holland's Disney comics publisher, Oberon (today Sanoma), in a style uncannily faithful to the Barks idiom. The response from modern readers to Daan's efforts indicates that he has succeeded admirably in revitalizing these tales for today's discriminating Barks fans.
The project has taken quite some time for Daan, a meticulous craftsman, to complete; as of this publication, the last few redraws are just now appearing in Europe. But you can enjoy them in North America, too. Gemstone Publishing's Donald Duck Family: The Daan Jippes Collection Vol. 1, a new $8.99 trade paperback on sale now, gets the benefit of Daan's earnest toil by presenting his first five Woodchuck "revitalizations" in their original Dutch publication order! Grab them while you can.
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Spotlight On: Rose Tarlow
- Location: Los Angeles, California
- Website: rosetarlow.com
Store History
- Founded: 1974
- Founded by: Rose Tarlow
- Headquarters: Los Angeles
R. Tarlow Antiques opened on the secluded and sun-dappled Melrose Place in Los Angeles in 1976. For those lucky enough to find it, the shop was a sanctuary of impeccable antiques and eclectic pieces chosen from the most exclusive sources. Each item had a charm and a textured story that seemed to flow from the proprietor herself.
"Fresh, clean, contemporary furniture and art mixed with wonderful old pieces — and a very definite edge of eccentricity," sounds like the description of the best of Apartment Therapy's House Tours. It's not. It's actually decorating doyenne Rose Tarlow's philosophy of interior design. Tarlow's showroom, Rose Tarlow Melrose House, is the setting for tonight's Blog Out Loud event.
Rose Tarlow got her start in 1976 with the opening of her antique shop on Melrose Avenue. At the time, with the focus on modern design, opening a shop dedicated to old school antiques seemed like a move destined for failure. Now, almost thirty-five years later, Tarlow's got the last laugh. Today, she's renowned for her modern reproductions of antique items with English, French and Asian influences, including furniture, wall coverings, fabrics, accessories and scented candles. But, although antiques form the backbone of her business, there's nothing antique about the way she thinks about design or her constantly evolving style — part California casual, part European traditional, always comfortable and never staid. Many of her design philosophies are ones we live by:
- A home should reflect the people who live there.
- I have always had an aversion to the concepts of "in style" and "out of style".
- To continue to change is an imperative in life and in design.
- It's the mix — of style, of material — that's important.
- Everything you live with should be wonderful. Not expensive, just wonderful.
- Enjoy the process of decorating.
To see her showroom for yourself and join the conversation 9/21/2010 see Blog Out Loud.
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2 More No Strings Attached Clips Make Fun Of Hungover, Naked Ashton Kutcher
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No Strings Attached is about what happens when Natalie Portman forces Ashton Kutcher to have frequent, consequence free sex with her. If this were real life, the movie would be over in 5 minutes. Shed ask him to enter into this arrangement, hed say absolutely, and then wed see they lived happily ever after as a title card right before the credits rolled. You cant sell tickets to a five minute movie, so eventually hell get hung up on her and want more than just sex, or at least thats how the trailers seem to indicate itll work.
Theres no sign of that however, in the following two new clips from No Strings. Think of these as the a little something for the ladies version of the movies marketing. Last week we had a little something for the dudes in the form of two clips here which seemed tailor made to allow viewers the fantasy of pretending Natalie Portman was their girlfriend. In these clips, its Ashtons turn to sit around in his underwear and make out with random women. Oh hey, that random woman is Lake Bell! Remember when she was going to be famous for like five minutes. Shame that never happened.
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No Strings Attached arrives in theaters January 21st. For more information visit the No Strings page in our Blend Film Database.
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Calif. ballot could be crowded with tax-hike plans
SACRAMENTO, Calif. It appears increasingly likely that Gov. Jerry Brown will have competition in November when he asks California voters to raise taxes as a way to stabilize the state's perpetually out-of-balance budget.
On Monday, proponents of two other proposed tax initiatives pledged that they will have enough money to get their initiatives on the ballot and declined to back down despite entreaties from the Democratic governor.
Each of the three tax campaigns has influential backers that have been politically aligned in the past, a dynamic that could complicate the campaigns by splitting the donor base, dividing grass-roots support and confusing voters. Each also would dedicate at least some of the extra revenue to public education.
Molly Munger, a wealthy attorney and civil rights advocate from Los Angeles, outlined her proposal in Sacramento to a supportive crowd at a statewide meeting of the California Parent Teacher Association. The PTA helped draft the initiative, which would increase income taxes on a sliding scale and raise $10 billion annually for 12 years.
"We are going to get this on the ballot and we are going to win, because we're prepared to not only get it on the ballot, but be sure that it has a very strong campaign behind it," Munger told reporters after her speech.
The political novice, who is the daughter of billionaire Berkshire Hathaway partner Charles Munger, a partner of Warren Buffett, said she is prepared to fund a multimillion-dollar signature-gathering campaign on her own. She already has contributed $800,000 to the initiative.
Munger's brother, Charles Munger Jr., is a frequent donor to California Republican causes and has already given his name and money to a measure on the November ballot that would bar unions from collecting dues from members' paychecks, dramatically limiting their ability to fund political campaigns.
Molly Munger acknowledged their divergent political views.
"He isn't the first deep pocket that I would go for, let me just put it that way," she said.
Also Monday, supporters of a so-called millionaires' tax said they were ready to hit the streets with a signature-gathering effort for their own proposal, which would raise income taxes on those who make more than $1 million a year.
Brown has warned repeatedly that a general election ballot containing too many similar-sounding tax initiatives could jeopardize the success of all of them. His political allies have tried to persuade those behind the competing initiatives to unify behind their measures.
Each of the competing groups said Monday that they believe more than one tax measure could be successful at the ballot and that polls show there could even be enthusiasm for all three. Steven Glazer, a spokesman for Brown, called that "a fanciful notion."
The governor has displayed political might by raising nearly $2.2 million for his campaign, but the other groups appear unlikely to succumb at this point.
Supporters of the millionaires' tax include the California Federation of Teachers, the Courage Campaign and the California Nurses Association. On Monday, they held a conference call with reporters to say they are not backing down.
"We're the one measure that doesn't put an additional burden on the back of middle-class and working-class families," campaign chairman Anthony Thigpen said.
Supporters expect to raise the $2 million they will need to get the initiative on this year's general election ballot, then another $8 million to $10 million for the campaign, Thigpen said.
He said that although he and other members of the coalition have met with Brown, he did not directly ask them to back off. Brown's spokesman, Glazer, said it should be clear to everyone that Brown does not want competing tax measures on the ballot in November.


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Event diary
19 October 2009 13:58
Young show jumpers and their parents have given the thumbs up for the new 65cm Trailblazers classes. With categories for 12 years and under, plus 16 years and under, the smaller height classes are the latest addition to Trailblazers' national show jumping series sponsored by South Essex Insurance Brokers (SEIB). Sisters Corinne, aged 11, and Morag Molyneux, 9, were among the first to take up the 65cm challenge during the recent Trailblazers show at Osbaldeston, Lancashire. Corinne rode Boing to win the 65cm class, while Morag put up a good performance on her novice pony, Cuillan."The ponies are all-rounders rather than show jumpers," said the girls' mum Liz Molyneux. "Boing is just 12hh and Cuillan is only a four year old, so jumping 65cm was perfect for them to build confidence."Having two 65cm classes to jump in, over two different courses, meant we had a good day out. Trailblazers is so friendly and you know you'll get a well-built track to jump."
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Foster Twp. recycling center opens
A new recycling center on Wyoming Avenue in Foster Township opened informally, and residents of the township and Freeland have started dropping off materials weekdays between 7 a.m. and 2:30 p.m.
Residents can deliver plastic bottles, newsprint, aluminum and tin cans, glass and cardboard boxes. They are asked to flatten the boxes so they take up less space.
Already, the two Dumpsters inside the new building are filling up, so the township plans to purchase or rent larger containers.
Volunteers also are being sought so the center can remain open every other Saturday.
A state grant of approximately $125,000 helped pay to build the center.
While Freeland residents had recyclables collected at their curbs until this year, driving to the center to drop off recyclables reduced their garbage collection fee.
The annual fee decreased to $195 from $240 when Freeland entered a five-year contract with Kreitzer Sanitation of Orwigsburg to collect garbage.
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Western students host massage-a-thon for charity
Published on Wednesday, December 03, 2008
Western Technical College Massage Therapy students are holding a three-and-a-half-hour Massage-a-Thon on Tuesday, Dec. 9, from 4:30-8:00 p.m. in room 129 of the Coleman Center, 304 6th St. N., La Crosse.
Walk-ins are welcome any time during the event. Cost is $5 for a 15-minute massage, and proceeds will be given to the La Crosse Community Thanksgiving Dinner to help defray costs incurred this past Thanksgiving.
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On the final day of the TJs DJs/Ozone Awards weekend an altercation took place during the 2008 Awards between Houston rappers Mike Jones and Trae the Truth. HipHopDX was on hand to witness the aftermath between the rappers who apparently have had tension for quite some time. As artists and media congregated in the press area, a commotion broke out and by the time everyone made it to the hallway, Jones was being pulled back while security rushed to the scene.
Shortly afterwards, Jones appeared on Houston's 102 JAMZ to discuss the incident.
"It just really was a publicity stunt," Jones explained. "Everybody seen that it was the perfect time to do this. They don't have to pay for advertisements and promotion so he did that. Dude came and shook my hand and I guess he's mad because I call myself the president - because I am the president of H-Town, I run this city."
Jones then went on to explain exactly what happened between he and Trae.
"After we shook hands and had words, he went his way and I went my way. Next thing I know he snuck up behind me and tried to swing at me."
The incident called for higher security inside and outside the venue but there was no other incidents at the Ozone Awards. As for Jones and Trae, this issue doesn't seem to be dying anytime soon.
"I ain't about to give nobody no fame, no publicity, no nothing. It's going to get handled in the streets."


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The Court of Appeal reviewing the case of JN Dairies -v- Johal Dairies (originally heard during an 8 day high court trial in March 2009) has unanimously found in favour of JN Dairies, rejecting Johal's Appeal and request for a re-trial alleging that the judge had "closed his mind" to their case. Johal's complaints against the trial judge were found to be without "substance".
The original judgment in March 2009 ruled that Johal Dairies had acted unlawfully by paying an illegal immigrant £40,000 to steal confidential invoices from his former employer, JN Dairies, which were then used to negotiate prices with JN Dairies' customers. Burges Salmon has advised JN Dairies since being instructed to prepare for the 2009 trial. "This has been a lengthy and challenging case. We are pleased that it has now reached its final conclusion and that JN Dairies can now resume business as usual," comments William Neville, partner at Burges Salmon. For further information go to: www.jndairies.com
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You've surely heard of open-source software, but did you know there's also something called "open-source hardware"?
Open-source hardware refers to the sharing of information about hardware design and function. It's a way to crowdsource the creation of a product or a device and benefit from the shared wisdom of the group.
One New York-based company, called Bug Labs, offers a modular, open-source platform that innovators can use to build complete, FCC-certified, wireless electronic prototypes in hours for less than $2,000.
The company says that the ability to create new devices not only changes the economics of hardware innovation for consumers, but also has the potential to solve problems plaguing industries like energy and health care. Smart meters for home automation and devices that allow for remote patient care are a few examples.
Peter Semmelhack, CEO of Bug Labs, says the Bug System offers integrated hardware, software and cloud-based solutions that allow customers to leverage the collective power of real-time, connected devices to generate faster and more insightful business decisions and make their product innovation a reality.
Semmelhack gives us a few reasons thatopen source can foster better innovation.
Accessibility — Open-source hardware allows your platform to be more accessible to your consumers. Open-source consumers have more knowledge of the product and more independence in how they use it.
Innovation — Open-source hardware is available for others to modify, remanufacture and redistribute. This allows for improvements to the design of the original product, while creating more possibilities for new products.
Succeed or fail faster — Open-source hardware allows you to bring your product to market in less time for less money. Information on how to develop open-source products is more accessible, which drives competition, in turn driving down cost.
Broad investment — Open-source hardware products are developed and invested in by a large community, not just a select few, so consumers have an incentive to work with a product. For example, in a platform-based system such as Bug Labs, our developer community can create "daughter" products leading to more sales of the original Bug Labs platform.
Collaboration — The open-source movement is fundamentally collaborative in nature, meaning that you are exposed to an increase in ideas, encouragement, inspiration and opportunities for innovation. Open-source lets your imagination run wild, while offering access to technical support from the open-source community. OpenHardwareSummit


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This revised Norton Critical Edition brings together twenty-three of Hawthorne's tales in all their psychological and moral complexity. The Second Edition adds the early biographical sketch Mrs. Hutchinson as well as two tales, The Wives of the Dead and Dr. Heidegger's Experiment. Each tale is accompanied by explanatory annotations. The Author on His Work contains the prefaces Hawthorne wrote for the three collections of tales published during his lifetime-The Old Manse, Twice-Told Tales, and The Snow Image. Also included are pertinent selections from his American Notebooks and relevant letters to, among others, Sophia Peabody, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and Margaret Fuller. Criticism offers important contemporary assessments of Hawthorne's tales by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Edgar Allan Poe, Margaret Fuller (new to the Second Edition), James Russell Lowell, Herman Melville, and Henry James. Modern criticism is well represented by twelve essays-four of them new to the Second Edition-on the tales' central issues. Contributors include Jorge Louis Borges, J. Hillis Miller, Judith Fetterley, Nina Baym, Leo Marx, and Martin Bidney, among others. A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included.
Table of Contents
|p. ix
|Preface to Second Edition
|p. xiii
|The Texts of the Tales
|My Kinsman, Major Molineux
|p. 3
|Roger Malvin's Burial
|p. 19
|The Gentle Boy
|p. 36
|The Wives of the Dead
|p. 62
|Mrs. Hutchinson
|p. 67
|The Haunted Mind
|p. 73
|The Gray Champion
|p. 77
|Young Goodman Brown
|p. 84
|p. 96
|The Ambitious Guest
|p. 103
|The May-Pole of Merry Mount
|p. 110
|The Minister's Black Veil
|p. 120
|The Man of Adamant
|p. 131
|Dr. Heidegger's Experiment
|p. 137
|Endicott and the Red Cross
|p. 146
|The Birthmark
|p. 152
|The Celestial Rail-road
|p. 166
|Earth's Holocaust
|p. 181
|The Artist of the Beautiful
|p. 198
|Drowne's Wooden Image
|p. 218
|Rappaccini's Daughter
|p. 228
|Ethan Brand
|p. 254
|p. 267
|A Note on the Text
|Textual Variants
|p. 286
|Hawthorne's Revisions of "The Gentle Boy"
|p. 288
|The Author on His Work
|p. 293
|The Old Manse
|p. 295
|Preface to the 1851 Edition of Twice-told Tales
|p. 317
|Preface to the Snow-Image
|p. 321
|p. 323
|To Elizabeth C. Hathorne, March 13, 1821
|p. 324
|To H. W. Longfellow, June 4, 1837
|p. 325
|To H. W. Longfellow, June 19, 1837
|p. 328
|To H. W. Longfellow, January 12, 1839
|p. 328
|To Sophia Peabody, October 4, 1840
|p. 330
|To G. S. Hillard, July 16, 1841
|p. 332
|To Margaret Fuller, August 25, 1842
|p. 332
|To Margaret Fuller, February 1, 1843
|p. 334
|To E. A. Duyckinck, July 1, 1845
|p. 336
|To E. A. Duyckinck, April 15, 1846
|p. 336
|To R. W. Griswold, December 15, 1851
|p. 338
|To James T. Fields, April 13, 1854
|p. 339
|From the American Notebooks
|p. 340
|Early Criticism
|p. 357
|Hawthorne's Twice-told Tales
|p. 359
|[Twice-told Tales, Second Edition]
|p. 362
|Tale-Writing-Nathaniel Hawthorne
|p. 363
|[Hawthorne's Mosses from an Old Manse]
|p. 367
|Hawthorne and His Mosses
|p. 370
|Early Writings
|p. 385
|Modern Criticism
|p. 393
|Hawthorne as Poet
|p. 395
|Hawthorne and the Puritan Revolution of 1776
|p. 409
|The Logic of Compulsion
|p. 418
|Visible Sanctity and Specter Evidence: The Moral World of Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown"
|p. 429
|Nathaniel Hawthorne
|p. 446
|The Self Outside Itself: "Wakefield" and "The Ambitious Guest"
|p. 458
|Defacing It: Hawthorne and History
|p. 464
|Hawthorne's "The Birthmark": Science as Religion
|p. 477
|Women Beware Science: "The Birthmark"
|p. 484
|[The Tales of the Manse Period]
|p. 494
|["Ethan Brand"]
|p. 499
|Fire, Flutter, Fall, and Scatter: A Structure in the Epiphanies of Hawthorne's Tales
|p. 507
|Nathaniel Hawthorne: A Chronology
|p. 525
|Selected Bibliography
|p. 529
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Great White Hype
|Release Date: May 03, 1996
|Running Time: 90 mins.
|MPAA Rating: R
|Box Office: $7,829,733.00
|Genre: Comedy, Sports
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Summary:Meet Reverend Fred Sultan. He's a flamboyant con man, hustler, and consummate promoter who rules over the modern-day Sodom and Gomorrah better known as Las Vegas. His kingdom is the realm of the fistic arts... the sweet science... the carnival of carnage... the ballet of blood. Boxing. But despite his hustling and financial wizardry, Sultan's Vegas fiefdom is fading. Boxing attendance is dwindling, along with public interest. The problem, according to Sultan, is that people are tired of paying money to see 'brothers' beating up 'brothers'. Sultan's solution: find a white contender to face the undefeated heavyweight champ, James "The Grim Reaper" Roper. Sultan finds his Great White Hope in a ... Full Summary >>


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LOS ANGELES—A decapitated body was discovered at the Kaiser Permanente Medical Center parking garage at around 3:00 p.m. Monday, December 3.
According to Lt. Ron Izuka of the Culver City Police, the body was discovered in a bushy area by a local pedestrian.
Authorities have concluded that the cause of death appears to be suicide.
No further information regarding the identity of the man has been released to the public.
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42nd Street Mitts–Concept
Last weekend was spent visiting family and involved a lot of crisscrossing of the territory from New Jersey to Long Island.
Happily, I wasn't driving so I got a lot of car knitting done!
On one of our crossings we popped out of the Lincoln Tunnel and ended up on 42nd Street.
On a Saturday evening.
In the middle of a bunch of cars and tourists.
On the bright side (aside from the fact that I wasn't driving) the heavy traffic gave us plenty of time to enjoy the sights, sounds, and (ahem) smells of The City.
One of the sights that caught my eye was a woman wearing a very cute pair of cream colored arm warmers. The arms was just ribbing, but there was a black snowflake motif at the wrist.
We were moving so slowly that I probably had time to take a picture, but I didn't think of it.
Heck, we were moving so slowly that I probably had time to jump out of the car, chase her down, take several pictures, and get back to the car before they'd gone to far. But I didn't because jumping out of the car would have stressed everyone out.
So I just have my memory and imagination to recreate them!
As you can see from my sketch (and my drawing skills leave a lot to be desired!) I've probably embellished them a little bit.
Since I'm basically designing the arm warmers from scratch, some swatching is in order.
After flipping through all my stitch dictionaries, I found the image of a snowflake motif that I liked on page 89 of The Ultimate Knitting Book from Vogue Knitting.
My swatch is quite pleasant, although not quite what I had in mind, and I thought I'd go for it. (I think the snowflake on the lady's mitts was thinner. More a a line snowflake with dots around it.)
But as I settled down recreate the chart an issue presented itself.
My swatch didn't look like the knitted sample in the book despite the fact that I'd followed the accompanying chart.
This required two charts.
First I recreated the chart that appears in the book and that matches my swatch.
Then I created a chart based on the knitted sample in the book.
As you can see, the centers are rather different. Both motifs are 15 sts wide, but the first one is 19 rows tall while the second is 15 rows tall.
This discrepancy is going to set my designing back, but that is one of the reasons we swatch.
My next step will be working a swatch of the second motif so I can have a better idea of which one I prefer.
Go For It
In the mean time, this is probably enough information for other experienced knitters to run with the idea. Everyone else will have to wait until I've knit at least one mitt so I have good numbers for you!
This is what I have so far:
Yarn: Ella Rae Classic Wool (black and white or colors of your selection)
Needles: US7
Gauge: I'm calling it 5.5 sts/inch, but it's unclear. I worked a 19 stitch swatch and it's about 3 1/2″ wide.
I'm thinking a motif on both the top and the bottom of the wrist so the yarn travels around the mitt. I'm thinking 40 sts for the motif section.
40 sts at 5.5 sts/inch should give you a 7″ circumference, which will fit my wee wrists.
I'm planning arm warmers, so I want them to reach up my forearm, which would mean casting on 56 sts for a 10″ circumference. Then gradually decreasing down to 40.
Maybe. It's a work in progress.


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The 45th Anniversary Alumni Homecoming Weekend drew alumni and friends from across Canada back to campus for a full weekend of activities. Events included faculty receptions, guest lectures, award presentations, a scotch tasting, the Faculty Artists and Friends concert, a 60s fashion show, a non-fire bonfire and, of course, the Dine and Dance. Here are a few photos from the weekend.
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Our Custom Series Ukuleles highlights our emphasis on tone and exquisite Asian workmanship. Each ukulele is made from the finest tonewoods, both exotic and traditional, that delivers distinct tonal characteristic from each tonewood combination. As ukulele is getting popular both to hobbyists and performing musicians, we have been looking for an ideal pickup system that will give justice to our ukuleles, one that is responsive, dependable, and amplifies only a loud, clear, and unadulterated tone. Nothing best fits our Custom Series Ukuleles other than the Mi-Si Acoustic Trio Uke System.
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If you want an all-in-one package, go with the MISI. All the way. If you want to have a bit more natural (but "thuddy") sound but headache over "oh shoot, I forgot my preamp. Now my sound is going to suck." – go with the K&K. I had a K&K big spot. For what I do, the MISI blew it out of the water and up on the cliff.
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The amateur star of Hong Kong Slut, Colette, may have been born in China, but now she's a Jersey gal. She has varied interests, from French films to Jazz music to modern literature. However, what is most interesting to us porn fans is that she swings both ways. She says she likes tall emo guys and curvy chicks. You'll see her with some ladies who fit the bill, but the dudes don't really meet her criteria.
It has been ages since the last update to HongKongSlut and you only get 44 videos. Some are split into parts and they're not necessarily posted in order, but this isn't that big of a deal since each part is in itself a full sex scene. These days all the movies are available in a great-quality Windows Media format. The site has several useful features, like content tags, an advanced search, the option to save your favorite scenes and the ability to comment on everything.
Colette performs solo in some interesting shoots. For example, she dresses up like a French maid and uses an empty bottle as a dildo. You also see her cover herself in brightly colored marshmallow fluff and then roll around in cereal. Some of her lesbian encounters also involve WAM fun. One chick gets her all wet with tomato sauce and adds some pasta to make her into a messy Chinese-Italian dish.
She has strapon sex with several chicks, like Roxanne, although foxy Roxy is more angular than voluptuous, which Colette says she likes. Our Hong Kong hottie also does it with dudes, including the producer of the site, Logan. There's lots of group sex with multiple women and/or a couple of men too.
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