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Data released today has revealed more than 4 in 10 smokers still smoke in the presence of children.
The data, from a Cancer Council Victoria survey, shows that 56% of regular smokers do not smoke around children while 33% reported smoking less when around children.
Alarmingly, almost 1 in 10 smokers do not alter their smoking behaviour at all when they are around children.
The data also reveals that 11% of regular smokers either usually or always smoke inside the home, despite a child living there.
The results of the survey come on the same day Quit is launching a hard-hitting new campaign reminding smokers of impact their smoking has not only on them, but also their children.
The campaign, titled 'Cigarettes are eating you and your kids alive, hits television screens in Victoria from this weekend and features graphic images to highlight the health consequences of exposing children to second-hand smoke.
Executive Director of Quit, Ms Fiona Sharkie said the data released underlined the importance of running the campaign given how especially vulnerable children are to second-hand smoke.
"When you smoke around kids you are exposing them to thousands of chemicals that are, as this campaign illustrates, eating them alive."
"Cigarette smoke contains poisons like cyanide and carbon monoxide that trigger severe health problems in children, including ear infections, asthma, and deadly pneumonia. Cigarette smoke is linked to low birth weight and doubles the risk of SIDS."
The figures also reveal that 82% of Victorian smokers who live with a child under the age of 18 reported that they always or usually smoke outside.
"It is fantastic that so many smokers make the effort to ensure their homes are smokefree. By reducing the exposure of children to situations where smoking occurs, we can 'denormalise' smoking and help prevent our kids from becoming future smokers," said Ms Sharkie.
The research also looked at the reasons given by current smokers, who do not smoke at all or who smoke less when around children, as to why they change their smoking behaviour when around children.
The majority of smokers said that they did not want to expose children to smoke (85%) with wanting to set a good example was the second highest reason (50%).
Nearly 10% of smokers admitted the reason their behaviour changed is they were not allowed to smoke around children.
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Player InformationFlames Home > Cross Country Home > Cross Country Roster > Roster Detail
Will TempletonClass: Sophomore
Height: 5-6
Previous School: Hardin Valley Academy
Hometown: Knoxville, Tenn.
Cross Country Personal Bests
Oct. 12, 2012 – Royal Cross Country Challenge
Charlotte, N.C.
Nov. 9, 2012 - NCAA Southeast Regional Championship
Charlotte, N.C.
Big South Cross Country Championship (8K)
2012 (Rock Hill, S.C.): 7th place, 25:10.14 (All-Big South)
NCAA Southeast Regional Championship (10K)
2012 (Charlotte, N.C.): 94th place, 32:18.69
2013 Outdoor Track & Field (Fr.)
• Big South Presidential Honor Roll
• Did not compete in any races and was redshirted
2012-13 Indoor Track & Field (Fr.)
• Did not compete in any races and was redshirted
2012 Cross Country (Fr.)
• Earned All-Big South recognition by finishing seventh at the conference meet and second to teammate Ngetich Kipchirchir among Big South freshmen
• Ran an 8K personal-best time of 24:39.9 to place 10th at the Royal Cross Country Challenge
• Liberty's No. 5 finisher and 94th place overall at the NCAA Division I Southeast Regional Championship in a 10K time of 32:18.69
• Graduated from Hardin Valley Academy
• Won back-to-back Tennessee Class AAA state cross country titles in 2010 and 2011
• Helped his team win its first state cross country championship in 2010
• Top track times included 9:25.84 (3,200) and 15:27.65 (5K)
• Son of Norman and Wendy Templeton
• Aviation major
• Birthday is Jan. 5

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Although tax season is over, tax questions arise year round. Mr. MomonDealz is an experienced accountant and will be answering questions sent to me at firstname.lastname@example.com with the subject line "Ask an accountant".
In 2010 I won an all expense paid trip as a prize for winning a contest. The company immediately asked for my social security number for the purposes of taxes. I expected I would be responsible for taxes on the value of the trip (I think it was $1,800.00.) In February of this year I contacted the company to see if they were sending me a 1099-Misc so I could file my taxes. They said they were going to send the form by the end of February, but I never received the forms. I needed my tax return funds, so I went ahead and filed my taxes without their information. If they claimed my trip on their taxes for 2010, is it likely that the IRS will see that I didn't claim the trip and come after me tacking on interest?
Technicallly you should have reported the fair market value of the trip ($1800) as other income not subject to self-employment tax. The IRS guidelines state that if you knowingly receive income in any form, you are required to report it in the year it was received even if you do receive a 1099.
*Please keep in mind this post is for informational purposes only and answers given are very general. Many things depend on individual circumstances. Please contact your personal accountant or financial advisor for your particular situation.
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On September 24th 2011 NASA announced that the lunar surface would now be a designated "no-fly" zone. To whom exactly were they making this announcement? And just in case you think your friendly neighborhood truth researcher has finally popped her cork, here's the post with the official NASA news briefing: http://alternativenewsreport.net/2011/09/24/nasa-no-fly-zones-moon/
Urban legends linger whenever there may be a morsel of truth hidden somewhere therein. The lingering urban legend of renegade SS Nazi military officers colonizing both Antarctica and the moon has been around on the web for decades.
Early this year in January of 2011, after reading the online lore for years and years, I finally decided to explore the lingering "urban legend" on the internet that renegade Nazi SS and high ranking military officials fled Germany and established an underground colony in Antarctica in the late 1930s and early 1940s as the war was winding down. I wrote a series of essays on this topic which are linked below:
The Mother of All WWII Era Legends: Nazi UFO Flying Saucer Technology Acquired From An Off-World Advanced Civilization
Mother of All Urban Legends, Parts 1 – 4:
Crashed UFO Disc Found At Bottom of Baltic Sea
This story has been around on the internet since the very earliest days of the world wide web in 1994. Unsavory Neo-Nazi characters like Supriem D. Rockefeller have embellished the lingering legend with his tall tales of being a high ranking member of the Temple of Set cult [ several US military men have been either a member of this sect or have been members of the Church of Satan, not a comforting thought ] and frequently traveling to the moon from an underground Nazi base in Antarctica on a UFO that he described as the "sport model." Oddly, Bob Lazar also described a "sport model" UFO in his testimony as a former contract worker for Area 51 in the late 1980s.
The lines between urban myth and fact have long since blurred into mush regarding the topic of UFOs and secret military technology, thanks to a literal army of disinformation men hired by the CIA, newly formed in 1947, to make sure the truth on this issue was fully obfuscated from public view. Author Jim Marrs has outlined the lengths to which the CIA went to coverup the truth about highly advanced extra-terrestrial civilizations who have been monitoring our world for ages in his popular book "Alien Agenda."
But the truth, like an aggravating splinter, has a way of working itself to the surface over the decades. Just as the CIA deployed small armies of disinformation men to spew lies, half-truths, ridicule and misleading non-stories on UFOs into the public media in the 1950s, 60s [even into the 1970s], as the last decade of the 20th century arrived, even larger armies of determined truth researchers converged into an aggregate force online, which began "outing" the submerged 50 year old UFO cover-up, one blog post at a time. By this time more than 50 trillion American tax dollars had been surreptitiously siphoned off the top of the federal budget annually, mysteriously funding a plethora of ongoing illegal and criminal "Black Ops."
These funds were stolen out of the annual USA budget and they account for a large portion of "where the money went" through the years, resulting in staggering federal deficits that now threaten the financial health of the nation for the next 100 years. These funds were misused by unauthorized and highly malevolent joint military projects [ i.e. Dulce, Area 51 ] between off-world aliens and our own US military, used to achieve new and undreamed of American military technologies that are so heinous [ i.e. HAARP] that they could turn our own nation into a worldwide fascist superstate soon, if not confronted by American taxpayers and brought to justice.
Due to the efforts of determined truth researchers all over the world, the public outcry for "Disclosure" began to ring in the ears of federal officials by the late 1990s, many of whom had experienced UFO sightings themselves.
In the spring of 2001 Dr. Stephen Greer invited a panel of witnesses to give their testimony to the American public regarding the reality of UFOS, secret military technologies acquired from off-world aliens, and the horrific reality of UFO abductions. The public outcry for "Disclosure" became an ongoing roar that summer. Just when it seemed that public pressure on the federal government was finally going to yield some truthful results, 9-11 arrived.
The attention of an outraged and grieving nation was now immediately diverted from the call for "UFO Disclosure" to the question of how to deal with the Twin Towers attacks and who to go after. Voila. Problem solved. The secret ruling elites had killed two birds with one stone, and effectively silenced the roar of American and European voices for UFO disclosure, while advancing t heir war agenda in one sweeping gesture. As horrendous as such a thesis seems, I watched it all unfold and I stand by my claims. The thorn in the side of the American psyche regarding the truth about UFOs continues to burn and swell. We are confronted with strange news stories every month which point to an ongoing generational cover-up so colossal it staggers the mind.
I present below new videos which present a story which is not new by any means, but which now has been given new life in the 21st century by dazzling animation and sweeping renderings of Nazi / SS inhabited lunar vistas that would turn the head of the late Stanley Kubrick. If even any tiny portion of this fictionalized tale, "Iron Sky," is in fact true, then the American people have been on the receiving end of the biggest lie and military cover-up in world history.
It's easy to laugh off the movie below as nothing more than "pop culture" and outrageously entertaining science fiction. Truth researchers know that one of the many ways the NWO elites "test" the receptivity of populations to certain facts, is to the present those facts as fiction in pop culture media and motion pictures. This has been shown time and again. Remember, it's always the "unimaginable" that takes one by surprise, when parts of it are shown to be factual over time. Our own military leaders who may still be sitting on such state secrets, if they are true, are legally and morally liable to the nation. They need to come forward and disclose what they know about secret US military collusion with off-world advanced civilizations, and how far back such collusion goes. They have been using our tax receipts to do this for more than 50 years. It's way past time for "Disclosure."
Chase Kyla Hunter, author, All Nibiru 247, Alternative News Report, Photonic Portal 2037 on 11.08.2011
"Iron Sky" Movie, The Videos:
Watch the full movie "Iron Sky" in HD here.
See also http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dn0CME8WJh8&feature=related
Read my related 2009 report which includes extensive information about Supriem David Rockefeller in: "Where Is James Bond When You Need Him?"
Related articles
- Mass Sightings of UFO Fleets Increasing, New UFO Sightings Pouring Onto YouTube (alternativenewsreport.net)
- Two Witness UFO near Texas Lake (ufos.about.com)
- Mass UFO Sightings On the Rise in 2011 (photonicportal.wordpress.com)
- Top 20 Most Popular Posts This Fall on Photonic Portal (photonicportal.net)
- Ufos Seen in China (socyberty.com)
- Remarkable UFO Footage From Sweden, Recorded in 2010 (photonicportal.wordpress.com)
- Did A UFO Crash Into The Atlantic Ocean This Summer? (photonicportal.wordpress.com)


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Life According to Ireland Baldwin
When Amber Heard emerges from a midnight swim in the 2011 movie adaptation of Hunter S. Thompson's The Rum Diary—all tawny skin, gleaming blond hair, cherry-red lips—she renders Johnny Depp's character instantly spellbound. "Why," he mutters after she disappears, "did she have to happen?"
Today, as the 27-year-old slides into a chair at a Manhattan restaurant, whispering, "This place is so business lunch," it's clear why Depp was smitten offscreen as well (the pair are now dating). She's simply that stunning, even cloaked in an army jacket, her hair now an in-transition ombré after dying it brown for her role opposite Liam Hemsworth in the recent thriller Paranoia.
Wool and angora cape, $4,395, cotton poplin blouse, $825, both, Chloé, similar styles at Chloé, NYC. Skirt by Hermès, $8,500, at Hermès stores nationwide, call 800-441-4488 or visit hermes.com. Boots by Versace, at select Versace boutiques nationwide, call 888-721-7219. Her own bracelet.
In conversation, Heard proves to be both whip smart and headstrong—a combination that propelled her from her native Austin at the age of 17, when she dropped out of Catholic school to model in New York ("I was hungry for stimulation," she says. "I wanted to see new things and learn everything I could") before moving to Los Angeles and landing her debut film role, in the 2004 football drama Friday Night Lights, a year later. Since then, the classic-vinyl-loving, '68 Mustang–driving, self-proclaimed bookworm has carved out a career encompassing cool-cred cult favorites (Pineapple Express), a stylish but short-lived TV show (2011's The Playboy Club), and a slew of horror films (including All the Boys Love Mandy Lane, a 2006 festival-hit slasher flick that will finally be released this month). In October, she'll appear as a beauty-queen double agent in Robert Rodriguez's pulpy adventure Machete Kills—which also features the previously unimaginable pairing of Antonio Banderas and Lady Gaga—and early next year, she'll star as a drug-pushing assassin in Luc Besson's Three Days to Kill.
Coat, boots by Versace, call 888-721-7219. Silk dress by Emilio Pucci, at Emilio Pucci Boutique (NYC). Pants by Jil Sander Navy, at Jil Sander stores nationwide.
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THE GREY GATSBY survived a stewards' inquiry to keep the Betfred Dante Stakes in North Yorkshire – but there are doubts as to whether the three-year-old will be Derby bound.
Twelve months after Libertarian sprang a 33-1 surprise in the leading Epsom trial for Middleham trainers Elaine and Karl Burke, Kevin Ryan's colt swept away from Arod to land the Group 2 mile-and-a-quarter contest once again for the county.
The Sutton Bank trainer had to keep his fingers crossed, as the stewards deliberated after his charge hung across the track inside the final furlong and forced some of his rivals wide.
But The Grey Gatsby had three-quarters of a length on Arod at the finish and the placings were left unaltered.
The odds-on favourite True Story was being pushed along before The Grey Gatsby, with former champion jockey Ryan Moore in the saddle, veered off his straight line and the Godolphin colt had to settle for third.
The Hambleton handler's three-year-old doesn't have an entry for the Epsom Classic next month and the trainer conceded that a trip to Chantilly for the Prix du Jockey Club – held over ten furlongs – could be the more likely destination.
"He's in the French Derby," Ryan said. "We will go away, let it all sink in and make a decision in the next 24 hours. I was delighted with him.
"The great thing about him was he hadn't gone ten yards and he was asleep. Ryan (Moore) wasn't having to fight him and the horse was switched off.
"When they turned in and started to turn it on he was still in his comfort zone. I thought 'if he gets the trip he is going to take a lot of beating'.
"He has gone well. He's quite a fast horse but I am a great believer that a really top class mile and a half horse has to have speed."
Asked whether the result was a surprise to him, the trainer added: "It's not a shock. He's always been a horse we have held in high regard and now I'm thinking about how I won with him over six furlongs last year.
"I think he will be an even better horse on better ground than this. The ground was quite holding but good horses seem to get away with it.
"I definitely don't think he will be going to Epsom. I don't think the track will suit him but I don't want to make a decision like that just now."
Moore, who received a two day careless riding ban following the contest, believes the Derby should not be considered for The Grey Gatsby.
He said: "It rode a good gallop. I travelled lovely in third, but I was in front too early. When he got to the front he hung right. That is as far as he wants to go."


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The ultimate value of social business may not be in the areas of customer engagement and employee knowledge management and collaboration. Those things certainly have tremendous and clearly demonstrable benefits, but the greatest opportunity in the years ahead may be in the social enablement and modernization of enterprise applications.
So far, though, this area has gotten little attention. That will probably change; Gartner predicts that as early as 2015, 20% of enterprises that employ social media beyond marketing will lead their industries in revenue growth. I believe that the value will derive primarily from what I'd term "social automation."
Many enterprise applications are legacy tools that remain vital to running core operations. They often automate key business transactions such as managing flight bookings at an airline, transferring funds at a bank or distributing financial aid at a government agency. And many of them have been modernized, so that they are accessible via browsers, mobile devices and the cloud. Today, they are being enhanced and modernized anew, this time for social computing. (See my column on charting a four-phase adoption cycle for this.)
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In today's Gazette: A man has admitted raping a woman at a music festival. Paul Gigg, 30, of Chinook, Highwoods, Colchester, attacked the woman, who was aged 20, at the Kiss Weekender dance music event in Great Yarmouth.
* A teenager responsible for a two hour stand-off with police was arrested after officers threw a stun grenade into his flat.
The man, 18, had locked himself in the flat in Circular Road South, Colchester, and armed officers in riot vans had been called after reports of a disturbance.
* Community heroes have been recognised in the New Year's Honours list.
Amongst those receiving honours is Alan Millam, who became an MBE for his work for disabled adults, and university professor Mala Rao, from Earls Colne, who was honoured for services to public health.
* Motorbike mad David Petts is gearing up for an 8,000 mile ride from London to Shanghai.
David, 22, of Delamere Road, Colchester, and pal Jonathan Ferguson will go through Europe, Russia and Kazakhstan before reaching China five weeks later.
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Mr. Adnan Oktar explains the roots of the hatred the bigots feel for women
Many thanks to Allah that in Turkey and the Islamic world a Muslim youth with sound mind has been raised. They are vivacious. While thinking over and examining why have Muslims fallen into such a situation, we encounter some very painful facts. Note all that disgrace now!
They claim that our Prophet (saas) said the following and thus slander him:
What does it say here? "Do the opposite of whatever a woman says ." For instance you will ask, "What shall we eat today?" The lady says, for instance, rice. You will go and say, "No, lets cook something else." For instance, you want to go somewhere the lady says, "Let's go to our parents." But you have to say, "No, I changed my mind; we are not going anywhere."
Half of the world is women. Half of the Muslims are women. Have you now started to understand the reason of the hatred bigots feel for women?
"Abidance to women is regret." That is to say, if you obey any of their words, you will feel regret. For instance a lady says, "Do not go out, it is cold today." A sound-minded Muslim lady says this. You know that these insulting words are also being said about Hazrat Aisha (ra), Hazrat Fatima (ra), Hazrat Mary (ra). That is to say, for all women with no exception.
"Just as how Allah leaves women behind, you also leave them behind." They mean, "....leave them behind" in all walks of life. For instance ,while walking they make the lady walk behind them because they consider ladies as unworthy. The fact is however, they need to keep them before their very eyes and watch over them. But they make them come behind, because they don't see them precious.
"One of out of ninety nine women are in paradise while the rest are in hell." Now how many women are there in Turkey? The population of Turkey is 70 million. 35 million of whom are women. Then, according to this hadith, at least 34 million of them are in hell. But this is not the case for men. Their abode is paradise! What they think is wrong with ladies?
"If a woman divorces her husband, the smell of paradise to that woman becomes haram." For instance let us say that her husband is immoral, a swindler, a dishonorable man. A bigot, a fool . He assumes a negative attitude towards Allah and the blessed values. No matter what the husband does, they tell the woman not to divorce; that she must not divorce. If she divorces, notice that the provision is clear. She can in no way divorce. Can a man divorce? Yes, in any case. As much he likes. Why would a lady be together with an immoral man? Why on earth should she?
"Do not consult women. Oppose them. Contradict them, since contradicting women brings blessings." Then how come she became your sweetheart? Why did you fall in love with her? Why do you feel profound love for her?
"Whoever obeys women, Allah throws him into hell face down." For instance his wife asks him to go out into the garden. The man answers, "You dimwit, you fool. ."
"Do not teach women how to write." That is to say, leave them ignorant. That is why they also do not want to send them to school. They also ban them from going out. They keep them away from windows facing the street. The fact is however, it is men who commit adultery, because if a man and a woman have intercourse and they both agree to do it, they are both adulterers, but they only call the woman an "adulterer". They call her a "prostitute". The fact is however, the man also becomes a prostitute.
"It is a fact that a woman appears in the form of a satan and leaves in the form of a satan."
"Those things making prayer invalid: black dogs, donkeys and women." For instance , a woman passes by; your prayer becomes invalid. If a chicken passes by, it is valid. The same in the case of a horse, an elephant or even a hyena. A white dog also does not render the prayer invalid. Or a grey dog. It must be a black dog. A mule also does not render the prayer invalid; a pig and a woman. They are all of the same kind. If you introduce this as "Islam", people would hesitate to embrace Islam. That is why we say bigotry and radicalismis a great evil.
"Leave women hungry as long as not giving harm to them, and leave them without clothes as long as you do not go to extremes. Because when women feel fully satiated and wear beautiful clothes, there is nothing more loveable for them than going out." That means to say, they will become furious. The woman is left at home in a desperate situation. No clothes. She sits at ऀhome. She cannot go out. According to the bigots this is the most reliable way.
"A woman has eight attributes. In her aspiration for apparel, she resembles a monkey." they say. "She is a dog because she does not consent to become poor. She is a snake because of her arrogance towards her husband or other people." "She is a scorpion because she dismisses people day and night." "She is a mouse because she sells the goods in her house." "She is a fox because she plots against men, she is a sheep because she abides by her husband." Do you see that scene! They sincerely believe in this. That is why they feel so much hatred for women. Such information is the root of the hatred felt against women by the radicals.
"The religion and wisdom of women is deficient." They say, without exception, they are both deficient in wisdom and their piousness. That is to say, according to them, this holds true also for our mothers Hazrat Aisha (ra), Hazrat Fatima (ra) and all others. And they sincerely believe in this. They believe like a provision.
"The majority of the people of hell are women." They indeed say that only 1 percent of women can go to paradise and the remaining 99 percent are in hell. According to them, women must be beaten harshly, insulted, humiliated. Also they must follow you behind while walking, tell them that they are deficient, never give them any assignment anywhere and do the opposite of whatever they say. In this state, they simply kill the women. You kill them in the spiritual sense. They annihilate them. This is an intense resolution for murder. How do you marry a being that you despise, loathe, consider to be base so much?! How do you live in the very same house?! That is why they can also not look into their faces. They do not consider to be human beings.
Bigotry is a horrible system. That is why Allah has brought the Islamic world into such a situation. That is why such misery is experienced. Ataturk did not take measures for no reason, you see. He did so because he was aware of all that.
"Hazrat Aisha (ra) relates: " Our Prophet (saas) visited the women of Al Ansar during one of their weddings. They were singing." They were entertaining, they were singing. That means that singing is a beautiful thing.
"Hazrat Aisha (ra) made one of the women from the Al Ansar marry. OurProphet (saas) said: "O Aisha, don't you have anyone playing tambourine and singing? Because Al Ansar likes entertainment." Notice that they are enjoying themselves, singing. They like entertainment. They use the means of their time. They have tambourine of that time and they are using it.
When our Prophet (saas) visited somewhere in Madina, he heard the young ladies singing and playing tambourine. "We are the girls of ibn Najar. How pleasing a neighbor is Muhammad (ra)." These are the lyrics of the song, Insha'Allah.
"Upon this our Prophet (saas) said: 'Allah knows that I love you all.'"
Abdullah ibn Omar (ra) related- "The ladies of the people of paradise sang in tones of voice that nobody ever heard before." There are also beautiful songs in paradise.
"Abu Kadada (r.a.) said: I have hair extending to my shoulders. Can I comb it? Our Prophet (saas) said? "Yes, take good care of it." The hair of our Prophet's (saas) companions were always long, extending down to their shoulders. Cutting the hair is something that people adopted later. The fact is however, our Prophet (saas) very rarely cut his hair, during the hajj. Normally his hair was long.
"A man who dyed his hair with henna passed by our Prophet (saas). He said, 'How nice this is.'" He encouraged dyeing the hair. He did not want white hair. " Later another man who dyed his hair with henna and ketene hair dye passed by. Our Prophet (saas) said, "This is even better." A black that is dominant over red. Dark brown, blackish brown, insha'Allah. That is to say, black.
Our Prophet (saas) related, "What dyes white hair best is henna and ketene." Dark brown that is obtained by mixing red and black hair dye. Dark brown dye. That is black hair dye.
" Keep your children equal in your donations." That is to say, if you give a gift to one of them, then give the same one to another, says our Prophet (saas). Our Prophet said, "If I had to keep superior one of them, I would keep the girls above." He said he loved girls more.
"Our Prophet (saas) led the ummah in prayer although his granddaughter Umama born from his daughter Zaynab was on his shoulders. When he made sajda, he left the kid and when he stood up, he took the kid on his shoulder again."
Buhari Wude, Abu Dawud, the women and men in the time of our Prophet (saas) performed ablution from the very same bowl.
(In response to the mail, at last we listened to the lecture that we had been waiting for so long. As women, we were reading these alleged hadith that bigots suggested and although we love our religion so much, we were having doubts. We have now learned that all these are wrong.)
This would, Allah forbid, simply be insulting our Prophet (saas). Such words would be rejecting our Prophet (saas). Our Prophet (saas) was a treasure of mercy, the most beautiful of the world. He was a man of moral perfection, a man of love. He was in love with his wives, a person full of love. He had a fervent love of Allah. He loved kids, women. He said that Allah made him love three things- one; pious women, two; prayer, three; beautiful fragrances. Our Prophet (saas) used to smell beautifully. Bigots stink like corpse- they have the disgusting smell of a dead body. If you describe such a prophet to them, you would simply, Allah forbid, be insulting our Prophet (saas).
A woman and a man are both lower selves. They are souls. They are both beings that come into being by Allah's breathing into them. Consequently they have both the very same rights. A woman divorces as she wishes, if she considers him to be abnormal and insincere. If he is far removed from faith and religion, she divorces him. Even if she does not divorce, their marriage becomes legally invalid.
I gave away myself to Allah and Islam. In my opinion, there is no other person in this world who leads the life I have. There is no one who have so many people who love him and who have attained everything that he aspired for. Allah makes me be in contact with the best of everything. He gives me power, energy, joy, happiness, alhamdulillah. He defeats my foes and makes my friends blessed, alhamdulillah.
The bigots will remain alone everywhere
Bigotry, insincerity, lovelessness and mercilessness have come to an end. When the name of Mahdi is mentioned, they want everyone to shut up. Why are you afraid? People are dismissed from their jobs, their schools because they advocate our Prophet (saas) and Allah. Their circle of friends leaves them because they side with Allah and His messenger.2012-04-01 13:55:52


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Very pleased that McCullin has been nominated for Best Documentary and Outstanding Debut at the 2013 BAFTA Film awards. After great reviews across the board and the BBC's Mark Kermode's film of the week, it's been a great start to 2013. Keeping fingers crossed for 10th Feb….
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The Blues, um, blew a slew of open net chances Tuesday night, but overcame all the near misses to Steen-roll the Kings 2-1 in overtime and take a 1-0 series lead against a team that treated them like a particularly hairy dust bunny last year.
And although the game didn't make it to a second overtime, if it had there would not have been a shootout. This is the playoffs after all, and that kind of nonsense doesn't belong here.
Which is too bad. Following a horrendous 4-9 shootout record in 2011-2012, the Blues were 5-1 in shootouts this season. The Blues might not have made the playoffs at all without their stellar record in shootouts.
Now let me add a disclaimer: Unlike some hockey purists, we love shootouts. Or at least, I love shootouts. If you sat through five periods of scoreless hockey during the Blues' 1-0 double overtime loss in game seven of the 1996 Western Conference Semifinals, you should love shootouts.
Shootouts are great. They allow the game to be settled by pure skill, rather than, say, a referee inexplicably ignoring one penalty and calling another.
Despite their appeal, shootouts admittedly are a strange way to decide a winner. They're nothing like the actual sport itself, just a tiny little component of it. It's like, after 80 minutes of playing a sport, we'll just decide the winner based on one arbitrary facet of that sport.
Which got us thinking, what if other sports settled ties the way the NHL did? The result is JSF's Top 7: NHL Overtime Shootout Equivalents. These are in no particular order, but have been organized by sport.
7. Home Run Derby
This one is a no-brainer, which is why I thought of it – because it took absolutely no brains. How much more ridiculous is this than adding a second wild card? Answer: Not much more ridiculous. Perhaps Mark McGwire said it best: "Do you want to know the terrifying truth, or do you want to see me sock a few dingers!"
Not to mention, if this had been in place in 1998, the Cardinals would be 12-time world champs.
6. Between Innings Warm-Up
Not quite the crowd-pleaser, but why not take something the typically intertwined with lollygagging and horsing around and simply turn up the heat? Easy grounders tossed softly by the first baseman are now each an intense, pressure-packed moment. Miss just one and go home a loser. Screw up the "around the horn" at the end? Better luck next time.
5. One-On-One Tackling Drills
One running back, one linebacker, and two pylons equals six parts excitement. Both men start on the ground lying on their backs facing the opposite way. The whistle blows, and it's tackle or be tackled, or something like that.
Ball carrying, head smashing, cleats: All the components of America's pastime are there, just in a very condensed form, like Ovaltine.
4. NFL Combine Olympics
What the hell, they show like a month of this crap on NFL Network, and somebody apparently watches it. Basically, the teams' two best athletes compete in the 40-yard dash, bench press, vertical jump, broad jump, shuttle run, and something known as the three cone drill. The athlete that wins the most events wins the game, while the loser's fraternity relinquishes control of the Greek Council.
3. Coming Out Contest
This one is pretty straightforward. The team with the most players not already revealed to be homosexual that openly come out of the closet during the overtime period wins. For one thing, it's topical. But it's also got real staying power. Learning the sexual orientation of athletes will certainly never get old. Never. Never ever. Just like no one will ever get tired of hearing how Jared lost 245 pounds by eating at Subway and traversing a flight of stairs. And this would be a way to incentivize the three major American professional sports to get on board with this emerging trend. Not to mention the potential for attracting new fans with loads of discretionary income.
Yes, it's just like the game you played as a kid, minus the oil-slicked driveway and your Mom yelling at you to come in and eat supper. Competitors are encouraged to get as creative as they like. Granny-style free throws and behind the backboard shots replace boring old jump shots. I'm envisioning something like this.
1. Slam Dunk Contest (With Judges)
From 1987-1988, nothing quite captured the public's attention like the NBA's slam dunk contest during All-Star weekend. Why not bring this back from the dead and breathe new life into it by using it to decide games? Of course, just like it's always been, the judging is completely arbitrary, often biased, and includes celebrity guests. Which would only add to the excitement and publicity it would generate. Can you imagine losing game seven of the Western Conference Finals on degree of difficulty points?
Honorable Mention: Free Throw Contest
Sure, this idea has been thrown around before. But our version has a twist: Each team must use the worst free throw percentage shooter on its roster. This could be really quick, or it could go on forever if neither guy is able to make a free throw with the game on the line. Think Shaq vs. Dwight Howard. Alternatively, the away team's shooter could compete against a randomly selected video of one of the home team's players that was previously recorded.


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Clairton turns attention toward next goal — reaching 63 straight wins
Ever since Clairton won the 2011 PIAA Class A championship game against Southern Columbia, the only number on the team's mind has been 60.
It was hard to escape. After that 35-19 victory at Hersheypark Stadium, the Bears had established a new WPIAL record with 47 consecutive victories and needed 13 to break the state record set by Central Bucks West from 1997-2000.
Mission accomplished.
Clairton (13-0) capped off its District 7 schedule with a 58-21 romp over Sto-Rox in the WPIAL Class A championship game at Heinz Field and quickly donned 'Bout Dat 60 shirts signifying the school's impressive accomplishment. But after all the excitement of getting to this point, the Bears may need a little more motivation to avoid a letdown as they head into Friday's 7 p.m. game against District 5 champion Berlin-Brothersvalley (11-1) at Golden Eagle Stadium in Somerset in the PIAA quarterfinals.
"We're just going to stress the streak and keep stressing this until we lose," Clairton senior quarterback Armani Ford said. "We just have to go hard, never slacking, and just go to work."
To that end, 63 has become the new 60.
Clairton's senior class only has one loss in its four years, a 15-8 defeat at Laurel in the first game of their freshmen year. It may seem like an eternity, but the players have consistently used that loss for motivation.
So far, it has worked. Over the last four years the Bears are 60-1 with four WPIAL and three state championships to their credit. Now the players want to finish off their careers with a fourth PIAA Class A title, and the only way to do that is to extend their winning streak to 63 games.
"We're not going to worry too much about that record," Clairton senior receiver Terrish Webb said. "We're just going to focus on getting to a state championship game by game."
If Clairton has shown one thing in its run to the last three state titles it's that the team is able to immediately put the WPIAL finals into the rearview mirror and switch its view ahead to the next goal on the horizon. In the last three seasons, the Bears have played the District 5 champion and have not allowed a point in their three victories while rolling up an aggregate score of 142-0.
To illustrate just how dominant the Bears have been against District 5, consider that last season's 44-0 win against North Star was closest of the three games. The closest a District 5 champion has been to Clairton in any of its previous five state playoff appearances since 2000 was in 2006 when it beat Meyersdale, 32-14, before losing to District 10 champion West Middlesex in the semifinals.
That was also the only time the Bears have allowed a point to a District 5 team. They will enter the game with a 224 minute, 2 second shutout streak against District 5 opponents since Meyersdale scored with 8:02 remaining in the first half.
"They've been the best team in the state for the last three or four years, so we have our hands full," Berlin-Brothersvalley coach Doug Paul said. "They have at least three and maybe upwards of five Division I football players, so we definitely have our work cut out for us."
Keith Barnes is a staff writer for Trib Total Media. He can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com or 412-664-9161, ext. 1977.


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From biddy basketball to high-school varsity, he was a point guard. Not fast afoot -- absolutely no pun intended -- but quick. Quick of movement and quick of mind.
Even in childhood, Blake Leeper understood his limitations, but also his advantages. Lacking nimbleness on the court, he'd learned to use anticipation, especially when it came to playing defense and setting up the steal. He could deal on the break and hit a shot.
And, without calling a timeout, he had the rare ability to bring a game to a complete halt. Without even trying.
"One of my legs would pop off," said Leeper, 24, a double amputee since he was four years old. "Mid-stride, the prosthetic would just pop right off. The kids I grew up with were used to it happening. First time it happened, though, it freaked 'em out. It really freaked out the parents.
"At the beginning of season, the refs would stop the game, grab the ball and wait till I'd go pick up my leg and re-attach it. It got to the point where my father (Billy) went to the referees and said, "Look, guys, you can't stop the game every time Blake's leg falls off. Keep playing. He'll get his leg, put it back in place and get going.' "
Leeper has gotten going faster than just about any man on the planet, disabled or no. With curved, flexible, "blade"-style prosthetics built for sprinting – a sport he only tried a few years ago on his high school track in Kingsport, Tenn. – Leeper recently returned to the Olympic Training Center in Chula Vista with four medals and a world record from the World Championships of Paralympic sports in Lyon, France.
The record came as anchor of the U.S.'s gold-medal 4 x 100 relay team. Leeper took silver medals in his three individual events – the 100, 200 and 400 meters – events he plans to run in Rio de Janeiro in 2016. Whether it's in the Olympic Games or the Paralympics that follow, only time and times will tell.
Leeper's dedicated himself to running in the "able-bodied" Olympics, same as Oscar Pistorius of South Africa did. To do so, Leeper left his pre-med track at the University of Tennessee just 35 hours short of graduation, moving to San Diego to live at the OTC and train with former Olympic gold-medalist Joaquim Cruz.
Along with him, though, he brought the voice in his head. His father's.
"When my dad told the refs to "'Let the game play on,' that was a huge step for me," said Leeper. "When I was nine, 10 years old, my dad said, 'People are going to feel sorry for you. There will be times in your life where people won't want to make you do that extra run, where they'll let you stand on sideline. When they do, I want you to keep pushing forward. You never give up.'
"At the time I was like, 'Dad, what are you talking about?' But I realized in time that I had to set my own limits, my own expectations, my own goals."
Goals change. Drastically.
Born and raised in northeast Tennessee, Blake Leeper came into this world without fibulas, but with a huge support group of family. His mother, nurse Edith Peeler, said there's a video of her son at "eight or nine months old" holding onto a walker that his uncle Reggie fashioned from a child-sized plastic shopping cart. Blake would load his toys into the basket and pretty much take them wherever he wanted.
"If there was a single day in Blake's life where he felt exasperated about it," said Billy Leeper, "he never told me."
Leeper was confined to a wheelchair for only a few weeks after his surgery. Fitted with prosthetics while in elementary school, he initially found them uncomfortable and constantly tried to take them off.
"I couldn't sit Indian-style like the other kids, and I wasn't as fast as the others," he said. "As a child, that's tough to comprehend, being different. But as I got older, I realized that's what I am as a person."
As soon as he saw older brother Kris on the basketball court outside the Leeper home, Blake insisted that he get to play, too. Eventually, he took up baseball as well, playing second base and right field. He even did some catching, playing with his artificial legs and bracing himself by keeping his non-glove hand on the ground.
When he headed just down the road to Knoxville and U-T, Leeper went with the idea of becoming a physics teacher or somehow applying both his athletic and scientific bent to the further development of prosthetics. But he'd also seen the televised races with Pistorius -- the so-called "Blade Runner" – and single-leg amputee Jerome Singleton of the U.S. sprinting on curved, carbon-fiber legs at the Paralympics in Beijing.
The Challenged Athletes Foundation provided Leeper with his own set of "Cheetah" blades, which cost $30,000, double that or more if designed for above-the-knee amputees. Because of his background in basketball and baseball, Leeper adapted much quicker than most to the apparatus that forces the wearer to a forward lean, the most difficult part being just to stand in place.
"It was insane," said Leeper, recalling his first dash down his high-school track in 2009. "I could tell, just by the way the wind was hitting my face, I'd never gone so fast in my life."
Just to see how fast, he and his family drove to the multiple-sport Endeavor Games for disabled athletes at Edmond, Okla. In his first-ever race out of starting blocks, Leeper won the 100 meters over a field that included sprinters who'd run in Beijing.
"Two weeks later, he's telling us he was invited to run in Brazil," said Edith. "I said, "You're going where?"
Enter Cruz. Representing his native Brazil in the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles, the tall, lanky Cruz won the gold medal at 800 meters, beating the legendary Sebastian Coe of Great Britain in the process. At the time, Cruz resided and trained in the track-and-field mecca of Eugene, Ore., but severe hay fever made it impossible for him to remain there.
He found a less difficult environment in San Diego, whose beaches and climate felt to him like an American version of his homeland. Immediately after taking the silver medal at the 1988 Olympics in Seoul, Cruz moved to San Diego for good.
Since his retirement from competition in 1997, Cruz has coached both able-bodied and disabled athletes, beginning to work out of the Olympic Training Center in 2005. With his experience and Brazilian background, Cruz was chosen to guide three American athletes at one of several international events serving as preamble to the 2016 Olympics and Paralympics in Rio.
One of the athletes, a newcomer named Leeper, was unknown to Cruz. And vice versa.
"We land in Brazil and people are swarming to (Cruz)," said Leeper. "I'm like, "Who's is this guy? Why is everybody taking his picture?" Because he's so humble, I had no idea that he was, like, a Michael Jordan of Brazil.
"I get to the hotel and look up "Joaquim Cruz" on the computer. My jaw drops. I'm in Brazil with track-and-field royalty."
Cruz, who'd just been told by U.S. Paralympic officials to "watch" the 18-year-old Leeper on his first trip overseas, likewise had no clue about what sort of talent he'd brought with him to Brazil.
"Before the first race, he asks "What do you got for me?" " said Cruz. "I don't know anything about him and he's asking me for strategy? I couldn't say anything. All I could think to say was, "Be yourself. Run!"
Genius. Leeper placed second and third in his two events, impressing Cruz enough that the coach recommended him for the Olympic Training Center.
"He and other coaches explained to me that this, coming here, was once-in-a-lifetime," said Leeper. "I was two semesters from my degree. I saw the end of the tunnel. But this opportunity was such a small window.
"So I go back and tell my folks, "I'm dropping out of school to go to California and train.' My mom was crying, going bonkers, saying "You have to stay in school. But this was something I had to do. So I left everything to do this. I had to make this work. Failure's not an option."
Still a veritable novice at the sport, Leeper suddenly was surrounded by the sort of resources available to America's top athletes at the Chula Vista complex: the training and weight facilities, the availability of sports psychologists and nutritionists, the regular work with Cruz and life with fellow athletes who are physically challenged.
"And no sympathy," said Leeper. "We have tons of Paralympians who come in in wheelchairs, prosthetic legs, cerebral palsy, visually impaired. No excuses allowed. If you're blind, you find your way around OTC like a normal person. But if you need help, we will help."
In the time he's been training in South County, Leeper's time in the 100 has dropped from 11.9 to 10.9. The only double-amputee on the U.S. quartet in Lyon, Leeper crossed the finish line in a world record time of 40.75, blowing away the field.
Not long after returning from France, Leeper resumed taking classes at Southwestern College, but he also began going around to local high schools to enlighten kids about the extraordinary abilities of the disabled. For such visits, he makes a point of wearing shorts to better display his prosthetics, showing how he can switch out the ones he uses for walking for the blades he uses for flying.
There's definitely a future in motivational-speaking for the effervescent and eloquent Leeper. But a recent session with students at High Tech High left him both impressed and taken aback.
At first, the kids were shy, not wanting to ask a stupid question. Trying to prompt them, the teacher began asking questions of Leeper, and soon the natural curiosity began to flow freely in the room.
"Whatever was on their mind, they asked," said Leeper. "It got pretty far out of the box, but it was cool. One kid asked me, "Have we gotten there yet, man, where the human leg can grow back? He was serious.
"I looked at him and said, "No, they haven't gotten there. YET.'"


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Confusion results when conferences change this much
Published: Sunday, June 16, 2013 at 6:01 a.m.
Last Modified: Saturday, June 15, 2013 at 9:51 p.m.
It was one of those sports conversations we've had a million times sitting at the breakfast table in the old house in St. Augustine. This, that and the other. Finally, my father looked at me and asked the question he had been sitting on.
"Pat, can you do me a favor?" he asked.
Dad has been struggling lately, wracked with grief over the loss of my mom and dealing with the pain of cancer in his hip and spine. So I was ready for just about anything.
"Can you make me a sheet that tells me which teams are in what conferences now?"
It would have been easier if he had asked me to carry him on my back to the store or put a new roof on the house.
"I'll get back to you," he said.
Now, I consider myself pretty knowledgeable when it comes to college football. But there has been so much change in the last three-plus years that I hesitated when I started to write down the conferences and which teams are now in them.
It was about four years ago that I started writing about how "The Revolution" was coming and we were about to see a major shift in the college landscape. But nobody could have seen it changing so drastically.
So I started Googling and writing and Googling and writing, and by the time I was finished my sheet of paper looked like my scorecard from Florida's 15-inning win over Nebraska in softball earlier this month. There were arrows and numbers and ampersands (although I'm not sure why), and when I picked it up the next day it made no sense to me.
But here goes anyway.
Dad, you know the SEC. It's the same 14 teams that it has been since, well, last year. It's probably going to stay that way until, uh, until it doesn't.
The ACC has 14 teams now because it added Syracuse and Pittsburgh, who were supposed to join next year but worked it out with the Big East to join this year. And, no, the ACC didn't get rid of its silly names for the divisions. Syracuse is in the Atlantic Division, and Pitt is in the Coastal. Yes, I'm aware that the Atlantic Ocean had a coast. I was just there last Sunday.
The ACC also includes Notre Dame, but not really. The Irish will play ACC teams but remain independent.
Next year, the ACC will go to 15 teams that can play for the title when it adds Louisville. This is Louisville's last season in the Big East, which is no longer the Big East in football. There are so many teams in the basketball Big East that the conference could invade Canada. But I want to stick to football here.
The Big East's football schools formed what is called the American Athletic Conference, which gets a BCS bowl berth. In addition to Louisville, SMU, Temple, Cincinnati, UConn, Houston, Memphis, UCF and USF make up the AAC. Rutgers is in there, too, but will bolt for the Big Ten next year. East Carolina, Tulane and Tulsa join in 2014 and Navy the year after.
Rutgers and Maryland will both join the Big Ten next year. They saw the ACC as a sinking ship. Maryland has had to drop sports because of financial concerns, and Rutgers is the biggest mess in college sports. Nice additions, huh?
That will give the Big Ten 15 teams if you count Johns Hopkins, which is a member for lacrosse only. No, I didn't know that either until I got on my laptop.
The Big 12 has 10 teams with the additions of TCU and West Virginia last year. It is 1,485 miles from Lubbock, Texas, where Big 12 member Texas Tech is located, to Morgantown, West Va.
Neither math nor geography are big in the Big 12.
The Pac-12 has been pretty stable since adding Colorado and Utah a couple of years ago. I bet you didn't know there are five other schools who play in the Pac-12 in sports other than football. Don't try to wrap your mind around that or it will give you a headache.
I hope I cleared some of this up for you, dad, although I doubt I did. I'll bring you a spread sheet next time I come over but know you'll have to tear it up after this football season ends.
So now that we have this straight (kind of), we can turn our attention to the first weekend of the college football season where we have three huge SEC-ACC battles. Alabama and Virginia Tech play in Atlanta, Georgia is at Clemson and North Carolina is at South Carolina.
Those are big battles for supremacy in the two conferences.
At least they are for now.
Someday we may look back at them as conference games.
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According to the World Health Organization (WHO), depression is one of the most disabling disorders in the world. It affects nearly 121 million people worldwide. Roughly 25% of women and 10% of men will experience depression at some point in their lifetime. In addition to its widespread prevalence, depression appears to be present in family members, sometimes from generation to generation. It also has a high relapse rate. Depression can often occur in association with other medical disorders such as diabetes, cardiovascular disease, chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia, and in association with other psychiatric disorders such as anxiety disorders, eating disorders, and substance abuse. In particular, depression in women can also occur during and after pregnancy, and at times of hormonal change (e.g., menopause). Depression that goes untreated can lead to social, professional, financial and personal (e.g., marital) difficulties including academic problems, and career and financial difficulties. At its worst, depression may lead to suicidal ideation and even death by suicide - which is estimated to result in about 850,000 deaths per year worldwide. Many individuals with depression have never been diagnosed, let alone treated. Moreover, in those individuals who are treated, it is estimated that up to 30% receive antidepressant treatment that is insufficient to fully address the symptoms of the depressive episode. In addition, antidepressant treatment is rarely continued long enough after recovery to prevent relapse or recurrence of future depressive episodes.
The precise causes of depression for the most part remain unknown. However, the current thinking is that depression is a hereditary imbalance of one or more brain chemicals called neurotransmitters. Depression may also be associated with current or early life stress. Both the genetic and environmental factors may cause specific changes in brain neurotransmitters such as serotonin, nor-epinephrine, or dopamine that could possibly explain some of the physical and psychological symptoms of depression.
The mainstay treatment for depression includes antidepressant medication and several forms of talk therapy. Both treatment approaches are relatively safe and effective, and are currently available for most forms of depressive disorder. Many clinicians believe that a combination of pharmacotherapy and psychotherapy is the most adequate treatment of depression. Antidepressant medications such as the class of serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) or mixed serotonin / nor-epinephrine reuptake inhibitors (SNRIs), or psychotherapy with cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) will often give relief to most patients with depression. Antidepressant medications can also be used to prevent recurrent episodes of depression in individuals who suffer from recurrent depressive disorders.
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Riad So Cheap So Chic
Riad Medina Azahara is a nice and relaxing B&B placed in the medina of Marrakech a few minutes walking only from the main square Jemaa el Fnaa and the
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Nearest bus station is only 10 minutes away or 5 minutes by taxi as well as to the train station.
If you are arriving from the bus stop at Place de Foucauld, cross these gardens and enter Djemaa El Fna Square, keeping the Maroc post office on your right, keep walking through the square and don't take any side streets. Keeping the terraced cafes on your right and the orange juice stands on your left, keep walking straight between these, pass the Chez Chegrouni Restaurant on your right. Keep on going straight and the road narrows and has an undercover walkway, which is the start of Derb Debachi. When the undercover finishes, turn left at the second street on your left, Derb Moulay Abdelkader, it is signposted . This street has an undercover of vines, follow this briefly and take the first right, follow this for about 50m and take the first on your left. The Riad our house is about 20metres on the right hand side of this street, number 38 clearly marked on the front door.
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SAINT LEO, Fla. – Saint Leo Head Tennis Coach James Bryce has announced the addition of Jacobo Gonzalez-Tarrio to the men's tennis roster. Joining the Lions in January, Jacobo will be immediate member of the Lions' lineup as they enter the 2012 spring championship season.
"Jacobo is going to add more depth to our squad this semester," said Bryce. "I am looking forward to watching him compete and succeed both in the classroom and on the court. He's the only Spanish player on the squad, but will fit in well with other nationalities on the team. He is eager to get to work and help make this another milestone year for the men's team."
Jacobo, a native of Barcelona, Spain, joins the Lions from Escola Avenc University. The incoming freshman ranked as high as 1,821 in the world for and ranked in the top-200 in the Spanish men's rankings.
A Sport Business major, Jacobo will add to an already deep lineup which features multiple All-Sunshine State Conference achievers.
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KINGSLAND, Ga. - After 24 years, Camden County Sheriff Bill Smith was voted out as the county's top cop.
In Tuesday's Republican primary, challenger Tommy Gregory, a lieutenant with the Kingsland Police Department, won 53 percent of the vote.
Smith had been under fire for allegations of misusing seized drug money as well as paying inmates for labor, including work on private property. His office was investigated by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation and is currently the subject of a federal grand jury probe.
Smith called the allegations false and said they were being used as political mudslinging by his opponent.
Gregory told Channel 4 that he felt the voters had spoken.
"They want a sheriff they can be proud of, and that's one of things I ran on in my campaign and promised to do the right things for the right reasons. They put their trust in me and I feel that's what won this race," Gregory said.
There is no Democrat in the race, but the winner is expected to face independent candidate Rich Gamble in November.
Gamble, a former Navy investigator, lost a race against Smith in 2004.
The Camden County primary ballot also featured contests for clerk of superior court, tax commissioner and three county commission seats.
Clerk of Court Susan Waldron won reelection over two opponents.
Voters returned incumbents Steve Berry and David Rainer to Camden commission, but no candidate got the needed 50 percent in the three-way race for district 1, so it appears to be headed for an Aug. 5 runoff.
In state Senate seat covering Brantley, Camden, Charlton and Glynn counties, incumbent Jeff Chapman survived a primary challenge by Terry Carter. There is not Democrat in the race, so Chapman will serve another four-year term.
Southeast Georgia state Reps. Roger Lane and Mark Hatfield easily won over their Republican opponents. Lane has no opposition in November, but Hatfield will face Democrat Jaki Johnson for the district 177 seat.
Democratic U.S. Senate Hopefuls Go To Runoff The top race statewide was the five-way Democratic primary for U.S. Senate. Five members of the U.S. House also are facing primary challenges. Dozens of state legislative seats are also up for grabs.
The race for the U.S. Senate pits two political veterans -- DeKalb County Chief Executive Officer Vernon Jones and former state lawmaker Jim Martin -- against three political newcomers. Dale Cardwell, Rand Knight and Josh Lanier are each making their first bid for elected office.
Jones and Martin are expected to meet in a runoff in a bid to challenge Republican Sen. Saxby Chambliss in November.
Jones and Martin led in the five-way race, but since neither was able to top the 50 percent of the vote needed to claim the nomination outright.
With 99 percent of precincts reporting, Jones had roughly 41 percent to Martin's 34 percent and will meet in the Aug. 5 runoff.
5 Incumbents Beat Back Challengers For U.S. House Five congressional incumbents easily routed challengers Tuesday after light turnout in Georgia's party primaries.
Veteran Rep. John Lewis of Atlanta fought and won his first Democratic primary challenge in 16 years and will return unopposed to Congress.
Republican U.S. Rep. Paul Broun in northeast Georgia defeated a well-funded rival backed by the state GOP establishment.
Democratic U.S. Rep. Jim Marshall crushed a Macon teacher in central Georgia. Rep. David Scott also defeated a Democratic primary challenger. Broun, Marshall and Scott will face rivals from the opposite party in November.
Broun's commanding victory over Barry Fleming comes 11 months after Broun eked out victory in a runoff against a state senator considered being the GOP front-runner for the seat left open by the death of U.S. Rep. Charlie Norwood.
With 99 percent of precincts reporting, Broun led Fleming, an attorney and high-ranking state legislator, 71 percent to 29 percent.
Democratic U.S. Rep. John Barrow easily defeated state Sen. Regina Thomas in the 12th congressional district in eastern Georgia. Barrow, who had the support of presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama, was leading with 76 percent of the vote to Thomas' 24 percent, with about 96 percent of precincts reporting.
John Stone, a former congressional aide from Augusta, won a three-way GOP primary in that district.
In Atlanta's 5th congressional district, the incumbent Lewis led with 68 percent with 52 percent of precincts reporting.
The Rev. Markel Hutchins and state Rep. "Able" Mable Thomas had argued that Lewis, a national civil rights icon, is out of touch with the needs in his district.
Rep. Jack Kingston, incumbent in coastal Georgia's 1st congressional district, had no Republican challenger, but will face Democrat Bill Gillespie in November.
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A while back Dallas Voice received a visit from some folks at NBC 5, who interviewed Publisher Robert Moore and Senior Editor Tammye Nash about the newspaper's role in the LGBT community.
To be perfectly honest, no one around here was quite sure what the segment was for, but thanks to a tip from Rafael McDonnell at Resource Center Dallas, now we know: It'll be part of a program called Spotlight, which airs at 11:30 a.m. Sunday on Channel 5. On Spotlight, "North Texas correspondents come together in order to spin narratives from real-life stories involving persons who contribute to their community," according to the NBC 5 website.
We also found a site dedicated to the show, where they've posted several of the segments about the LGBT community. In addition to Dallas Voice, there are segments on Youth First Texas, transgender Dallas Police Officer Deborah Grabowski, a Haltom City lesbian couple that adopted a child; the Dallas Diablos; three LGBT-affirming churches in Oak Cliff; gay filmmaker Marlon T. Riggs; and LULAC #4871 President Jesse Garcia.
We know, it seems like a lot, but each segment is only a few minutes long, and they're all well done.
Major kudos to NBC 5 for putting these together, but you don't have to wait till Sunday to see them. We've posted all of the segments, in the same order they're listed above, after the jump.


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Kovacevic: Nutting correct to seek answers
On Sept. 7, 2007, Bob Nutting fired Dave Littlefield after five failed seasons as the Pirates' general manager. But he didn't make that call rolling out of bed. He'd spent months asking questions of people inside and outside the organization. He even dragged Littlefield by the ear to Latin America to explain the mess he'd made of operations there.
If you think Nutting isn't asking similar questions now, amid a second consecutive epic collapse, trust me that you're mistaken.
He absolutely is.
Right now.
But let's start with this: Contrary to all the caricatures of Nutting out there, the man is an intensely involved — though hardly interfering — owner. He's at the PNC Park offices more often than not. He's at most home games, plus several on the road and others involving the minor-league affiliates.
Put another way, he's no more or less involved than Art Rooney II or Mario Lemieux.
Nutting doesn't spend as much money as fans would like. But the notion that he doesn't care, based on my firsthand impressions, is flat-out false.
He does care.
He doesn't like what he sees.
And I won't be surprised in the slightest if he takes action once this season ends.
Here are the three main issues being examined, from the best of what I'm able to discern:
1. The draft
No, not the collapse itself, but its likely underpinning.
The Pirates have gotten rave reviews for the major league-high $52 million they've poured into the draft the past five years under Neal Huntington and scouting director Greg Smith. But what seldom gets raised is how little has been reaped.
Yes, Pedro Alvarez is moving toward expectations, and Gerrit Cole and Jameson Taillon are elite pitching prospects. But all three were taken among the top two overall choices, and each cost more than $6 million to sign. Those are called can't-miss picks for a reason.
But where are the rest?
Where's Tony Sanchez, No. 4 overall in 2009?
He was undeservedly promoted to Triple-A this year, then batted .233 with no pop. He's 24.
Where are the picks from rounds 2-5?
Top performer out of that group to date: Jordy Mercer.
Where are all those seven-figure late-rounders?
I sought input from Jim Callis, editor of Baseball America and the sport's preeminent draft expert, about the Pirates' five-year draft output. (Latin America is separate.) He called the core of Cole, Taillon and a couple others "very good," then added, "Considering they outspent everyone on draft bonuses during the five-year life of the previous labor agreement, you'd hope they'd have more depth or big-league contributions."
Yes, you would.
Don't underestimate how much this means to the owner.
2. The development
It takes neither a trained baseball eye nor advanced metrics to see that the Pirates' prospects have lacked in fundamentals under Huntington and farm director Kyle Stark. We've seen it for five years, and I've heard complaints about it from major league coaches just as long.
From slide-steps to stealing to bunting to baserunning to strike-zone recognition, these players have arrived in Pittsburgh glaringly unprepared.
I could fill the sports section with examples, or I could simply share what a farm director for another National League team told me Tuesday: "What the Pirates are doing down there is deplorable."
That sentiment is echoed broadly across the industry.
3. The free agents
However sharp Nutting's baseball acumen might be, few would dispute his knowledge of running a business. And throwing away $15.25 million last winter on Erik Bedard, Nate McLouth, Clint Barmes and Rod Barajas isn't the kind of thing he'll miss. Or appreciate.
And don't make me bring up Aki Iwamura, Ramon Vazquez, Ryan Church, Eric Hinske, Lyle Overbay, Matt Diaz …
A team such as the Pirates simply can't afford to flush away a quarter of the payroll.
What will Nutting do about it all?
This is what he told Trib Total Media last weekend about front-office job security: "My approach has always been to fully support the team we have in place, and when it's time to make a change, we make a change."
It's genuinely too early to predict such change. It's crazy, but even after these miserable two months, the Pirates remain one winning streak away from transforming 2012 into a triumph.
At the same time, I don't see Nutting analyzing it like that. It's not his style. The collapse is a symptom. He'll seek causes.
I believe Frank Coonelly and Clint Hurdle will be retained, though both have questions of their own to answer. Coonelly has done well on the business end, his main focus, but maybe it's time to relinquish the baseball end. Hurdle is the unique personality who has twice guided the team to rare heights, but he'll have to make the case he can avert a third collapse.
Huntington, Smith and Stark should face the hardest questions, based on all of the above.
Among those: What did Smith and Stark do to earn promotions to assistant GM last winter?
The answers better be good.


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Whatever happened to the Near-Field Communication (NFC) revolution? Promising a cashless society where we'd pay for just about everything will a tap (or swipe) of our NFC-enabled mobile gadgets, the dream is just that. And that's despite the fact that companies increasingly see mobile commerce as an important component of their business strategies.
Of course, NFC offers a lot more than a new way to buy Frappuccinos at Starbucks. Windows 8.1 will showcase one intriguing NFC feature: tap-to-pair printing. Rather than trying to locate the correct printer on your work network, you'll simply tap a Windows 8.1 device against an NFC-ready enterprise printer and start printing, says Microsoft.
To enable this feature, you'll need to attach an NFC tag to your existing printers. Who knows, maybe printing will prove to be NFC's killer -- if kinda boring -- app.
Microsoft Courts Businesses With Windows 8.1 Reveal
Microsoft To Bundle Office In Windows 8.1 Tablets
Windows 8: Microsoft Makes 6 Big Bets
Windows 8.1: Thanks For Listening, Microsoft
Windows 8.1 Restores Start Button, With Twist
Windows Phone Primed To Surge, Canalys Says
Microsoft's Influence Fading Fast: Gartner
Windows 8 Adoption Hits New Low
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AN ill man who was thought to have possibly been in the Poole area has been found.
Graham Woodley, who has a brain tumour, was believed to have travelled to Dorset.
He went missing from his home in Romsey, Hampshire, at 6pm on Friday.
Mr Woodley did not take his medication for seizures with him.
Police confirmed that he had been found safe and well.


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>Gears and Wears>Training vs. Racing Shoe..
Hey Gang..
How many if you wear a separate shoe for most of your training miles, then go to something lighter or different for races and speedwork?
And if you do... whats the rotation look like?
I wear a lighter shoe for races up to 10km and sometimes for tempo runs or intervals, depending on how beat up my legs are feeling. Just because it's fun I have no illusions that it makes me run faster.
My rotation is Mizuno Nirvana for training or longer races, and the Elixir for speedier stuff.
Saucony Kinvara, Skechers Go Run Ride, NB 1600, and soon Fastwitch 6+ Type-A5
Feeling the growl again
LIghtweight trainers for bulk miles and ultra races. "5k flats" for intervals, most tempos, and all races through marathon.
"If you want to be a bad a$s, then do what a bad a$s does. There's your pep talk for today. Go Run." -- Slo_Hand
I am spaniel - Crusher of Treadmills
I wear lightweight, minimal trainers for everything.
Typically New Balance's Minimus Road. When there's less gravel on the road (i.e., not winter), I run in Inov8 Bare-X 200s.
My trail shoes are more substantial, though.
"When a person trains once, nothing happens. When a person forces himself to do a thing a hundred or a thousand times, then he certainly has developed in more ways than physical. Is it raining? That doesn't matter. Am I tired? That doesn't matter, either. Then willpower will be no problem." Emil Zatopek
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I prefer more minimalist shoes, but I have one foot that doesn't agree. So, I mix them up daily and have a couple of pairs of my favorites.
Saucony Grid Type A5 (favorite road racing shoe)
Saucony Kinvara 3 (ultra go-to, even tho they squish my toes)
NB WT/MT 00 Minimus Trail (favorite everything shoe)
NB WT/MT 1010 Minimus Trail (might be my new ultra shoe)
SoftStar Run Amoc Dash with leather sole (favorite minimal shoe)
pace sera, sera
Current rotation includes:
Saucony Mirage 2
Saucony Kinvara 2
Nike Lunar Montreal
Saucony Type A5
In some cases more than one of each.
Runners run.
Lightweight trainers for most runs and flats of some sort for all races.
XC - ASICS Hyperspeed XC
10K and below - Mizuno Wave Universe or Brooks T7,T6 or Puma FAAS 250
Longer than 10K - ASICS Gel Tarther
I overpronate and usually do better in a shoe with a bit of stability. The lighter shoes may have no effect (except psychologically), but even the mental boost of 'you're wearing your fast shoes, you're going to go fast' is worth it to me when I have a big goal in mind.
Plus, I figure I'm putting the mileage in on one shoe or another, so it's not like it's much more expensive to rotate through 3/4 pairs of shoes which I replace rarely than to rotate through 1/2 pairs of shoes that I have to replace constantly.
Everyday trainer: Mizuno Inspire
Tempos/HMs: Mizuno Elixir
Intervals/shorter races: Mizuno Musha
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Goal race: NYCRUNS Haunted Island 10K 10/25
Usually a 3-shoe mix in rotation: a couple "conventional" trainers and something lighter and lower-drop. I may bias to the latter for intervals, but I usually just use whoever's up that day.
For races up to 10k, I'm using Adidas Rockets. Above that, my lighter/lower-drop shoes get the nod.
Mizuno Wave Rider 15
Brooks PureCadence
"I want you to pray as if everything depends on it, but I want you to prepare yourself as if everything depends on you."
-- Dick LeBeau
I normally have a rotation of 3 shoes:
Normal everyday runs: Asics DS Trainers
Speedwork, tempos, races over 10k: Asics DS Racers
Races 10k and under: Saucony Grid Type A5
I've been running everything in the DS Racers for the last couple of months, though, because I retired the Trainers and was lazy about replacing them (just ordered a new pair at last).
Brooks Launch (two active pairs) -- Long Runs, Easy Runs, and Hills.
Saucony Kinvara 3 -- Tempo Runs and Intervals.
Cheap ASICS from JCP -- Recovery Runs.
Saucony A4s (old pair) -- Speedwork.
Saucony A4s (new pair) -- Races.
Same here, except my lightweight trainers are technically flats (Saucony Fastwitch 4). For road marathon and under it's Saucony Type A2. Yeah, both no longer made, alas.
levitation specialist
Training and racing:
Newton Distance(2 pairs in rotation, one half mileage and the other newish)
Offroad and bad weather:
Newton Momentum Terra
The Terras are definately heavier and I had to wear them daily in Dec due to ice on the paved trails that hadn't melted. The first time I put on my lighter Distance shoes, like instant speed vs effort! I was amazed! When my higher mileage Distance shoes get retired,I think I might go with the Lady Issac so that I continue to train more frequently in a heavier shoe. It definately had it's benefits just in the month I was forced to wear heavier trainers day in & day out.
No more marathons
Used to have different shoes for training vs. racing then found the Brooks Green Silence and use those for everything from 5K to marathon. Have one pair used only for races.
Boston 2014 - a 33 year journey
Lordy, I hope there are tapes.
He's a leaker!


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