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Over in the Star-Ledger, Andy McCullough has a dispiriting but useful article about the Mets and Jon Niese. McCullough writes: "A season ago, when the Mets listened to offers for Niese, the pitcher might not have been considered worth a sizable offer. A young starter needs to show 'consistency for… Read More →
What would you say if I told you the Mets had a player who premiered at 23, put up an OPS just under .800, and followed it with two straight seasons of over .900 OPS, heading into his age 26 season? You'd be pretty excited about him, right? Well, consider… Read More →
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Nancy Newhall: A Literacy of Images
20 Sep, 2008 - 25 Jan, 2009
As a writer, curator and photographer, Nancy Newhall, played an important role in promoting photography as a fine art. Newhall worked closely with well-known photographers such as Ansel Adams, Paul Strand, Helen Levitt and Edward Weston. Using her skills as designer, editor and collaborator, she helped shape the concept of the modern photographic book. A Literacy of Images celebrates the 100th anniversary of her birth, exhibiting her photographs (many for the first time) and the work of her circle of friends.

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POLICE have issued CCTV images of a suspect after a man tried to kiss a woman against her will in Nelson.
The incident happened in the subway near Hibson Road at around 2.30pm on Friday, November 2, when the 30-year-old victim was approached by a man who asked her for a cigarette.
The man then tried to kiss her twice against her will before walking off towards Nelson.
He is described as white, of medium build, about 5ft 5ins tall with blue eyes and short ginger hair.
He was wearing jeans and a blue Sergio Tacchini top with a light-coloured horizontal stripe across the chest area.
Sergeant Chris Valentine said: "This was a very unpleasant incident for the woman involved and I am keen to speak with the man on CCTV, if anybody recognises him I would ask them to come forward."
Information: contact police on 101 or Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.


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Thanks to Mathieu Mirano's Fall 2013 collection at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week, our wardrobes will be decorated with nudes and fur!
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While all of you were hitting the snooze button for an extra five minutes of beauty sleep last Monday morning, I was up bright an early for Mathieu Mirano's presentation. I'm usually not a morning person, but I have to admit, I was beyond excited to get up for this occasion.
I had the privilege of being blown away by his spring collection back in September, so I couldn't wait to see what I was in store for this time around.
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Instead of animated colors and long gowns, this time he opted for a more relaxed style in just three colors: Nude, black and gold. The collection consisted of fitted skirts, pants, and long dresses. Fur dominated; the majority of the models were wrapped in fuzzy black or nude plush. We're also totally loving the little black ankle boot trend—whether covered in sparkles, made of smooth, buttery leather, they added the perfect finishing touch to each outfit.
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Sure, Bitchin' Kitchen host Nadia G. sizzles in the kitchen. But did you know she's got a mean playlist, too? (And the musical taste of several rock gods, plus three unicorns, combined?)
This Saturday at 7pm ET, your mistress of the kitchen is taking over SIRIUS Satellite Radio's Faction station (on channel 28), and hitting hard with a menu of tasty tracks. Be sure to tune in for fresh favorites and a head-bangin' good time.
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A resolution calling on the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights to recognize human rights to access needed medicines was passed by at a meeting of African Human Rights organizations in Abuja, Nigeria, on November 10.
The resolution on access to medicines was adopted by the NGO Forum meeting in Abuja, Nigeria, on the occasion of the 44th Ordinary Session of the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights. The NGO forum is composed of approximately 100 human rights organizations in Africa with observer status before the commission. The resolution will now be transmitted to the African Commission for consideration in its biannual meeting taking place this week.
The resolution adopted by the Forum calls on the African Commission to recognize "access to needed medicines as a fundamental component of the right to health and clarify[ ] the state obligations in this regard." It specifically calls on the Commission to recognize duties to respect, protect and fulfill rights to access to medicines, including by taking "full advantage of all flexibilities in the WTO Agreement on Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property that promote access to affordable medicines."
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The suspected serial rapist linked by DNA to three sexual attacks on strangers — one of whom was a 13-year-old girl — also has close ties to some of the state's high-profile Democratic politicos.
When William Costello was arrested in Bayfield on Nov. 5, he was volunteering to drop off yard signs at a Durango campaign office and was driving the car of a top political strategist, police records show.
Those who know Costello, 47, paint a picture of a successful real estate broker and dedicated father, someone trusted in the upper echelons of the community who gave no outward sign he could have committed such dark crimes.
Prosecutors have charged him with multiple counts of sexual assault, kidnapping and impersonating a police officer, according to affidavits released Monday.
The news astounded many respected members of the community, said former Gov. Dick Lamm, whose son befriended Costello when they attended Denver's East High School together.
Lamm said that Costello had "slipped out of our lives" recently and that he last saw Costello at a birthday party for Lamm's grandson three years ago.
"It just makes you shake your head," Lamm said. "He was the kind of guy that mothers would be so pleased to see their daughters walk off with on a date. He was tied in with some very prominent Colorado names who mentored him. We are in shock around here."
Lamm said Costello, as a young man, always seemed to be a go-getter, smart and articulate.
Costello doesn't appear to have been politically active beyond volunteering on Democratic campaigns. Relatives and associates say he had been in custody disputes with the mother of his 6-year-old son and has been in a 2½ -year-long relationship with his current girlfriend.
No one who spoke to The Denver Post on Tuesday said they knew Costello to be aggressive or disrespectful toward women or — as is alleged in one affidavit — to carry a handgun.
It was go-to Democratic political consultant Mike Stratton's new SUV that Costello was driving when the Bayfield Marshals and the FBI pulled him over the morning of Nov. 5.
Stratton, working from Pueblo, had dispatched Costello on a delivery run, he said. The SUV was impounded. Stratton was told there were "serious charges" against Costello but didn't learn the details of the allegations until the affidavits were released.
"I'm just astounded, disgusted and saddened for his family. I don't even have words for this," said Stratton, who has known Costello "off and on over the years."
The first time any law enforcement agency got to know Costello was July 30 in the parking lot of a Denver King Soopers. He allegedly assaulted an anti-abortion petitioner by shoving the man off his bike and breaking his hip after Costello "shouted obscenities" and "said he believes in abortion," according to the affidavit.
Costello told authorities he grabbed a clipboard from the man so as not to be struck with it and the 69-year-old man fell. Costello faces a felony second-degree assault charge in that case.
Katie's Law, which took effect late last year, requires police to take DNA samples from anyone charged with — not necessarily convicted of — a felony. Costello's DNA matched samples found on the bodies and panties of sex assault victims in the three attacks dating back to 2008.
While many highly publicized serial rapes are committed by drifters and people with criminal records, Denver District Attorney Mitch Morrissey said there's no standard profile for that type of sexual predator.
Morrissey was speaking generally — not about Costello's case in particular.
"They used to say there's the typical serial sex offender or serial murderer — that's just not true," Morrissey said. "Where DNA really, really makes its biggest impact is in stranger attacks. That's the thing about Katie's Law. It gets people into the database quickly."
As of Monday, the Colorado Bureau of Investigation had recorded 75,007 DNA samples from individuals charged with felonies since Katie's Law took effect. Those samples yielded 398 hits on unsolved cases, according to the agency's statistics.
Morrissey said Costello's is the most significant case possibly solved by the law. His spokeswoman on Tuesday withheld Costello's booking photo so other jurisdictions can see whether the pattern in the three Denver cases matches any other unsolved rapes.
In affidavits, the two women say they were lured into a Mercedes-Benz sedan and described their attacker as a middle-aged, medium-build bald man wearing a baseball cap.
In the 2010 and 2011 attacks, he allegedly impersonated a police officer, threatening to arrest one woman unless she had sex with him.
In the first of Costello's alleged attacks — on March 22, 2008 — he's accused of luring a 13-year-old runaway into his car, driving to a secluded spot and raping her.
The girl told police there was a 2-year-old boy in the backseat.
Costello's mother learned of the charges against her son through the media Monday. The allegations don't match up with the "kind, creative and generous" man Gayle Costello knows. She said he suffered no abuse during his childhood.
She noted he has been stressed about the custody issues and the death of his father two years ago, with whom he was very close.
"We are all aghast. A mother could not ask for a more wonderful son," said Gayle Costello, whose family's roots in Colorado date back seven generations. "We love him very much. We support him no matter what. And we're very sorry if he harmed anyone."
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ATI's Avivo Platform - H.264 Decode and Transcode Acceleration on R5xxby Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/20/2005 10:44 AM EST
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spinportal - Wednesday, August 27, 2008 - linkThe missing line that connects all the dots here is a beefy home video media server that transcodes & streams to all your uPnP / mobile-wireless devices, such as the PS3, Wii, XBox360, PSP, iPhone, wifi enabled phones, wifi Archos, laptops, etc.
ATI/AMD has dropped the ball. They tossed their home entertainment chip (Xileon - All-In-Wonder) group, so it doesn't appear they want in this space. They aborted the whole transcode deal after X1000. Is Hollywood (and possibly Cable co's) putting on the pressure?
Now if transcoding multiple streams by a media server with Nvidia cards make it easy to feed a whole house load of people / devices wirelessly (draft-n 2.0 with dual-band), imagine the next reaction for big media would be to squash it. They don't want people having huge collections of movies, be it in h.264, XVID, or WMV format on some multi-terabyte home server (there are some nice single purpose living-room jukebox multi-media players like TOMACRO or TVIX that can access wireless file-servers as well, or stand-alone DIVX DVD players with USB connectivity - to a external USB HDD e.g. cheap 500GB+ storage) which can pump video on demand out. It can then inch out into the SlingBox territory where you can serve out to the net; which TVersity, Orb, etc. others can do, but security and lock-down is for the more technically inclined.
The better the transcoder, the better the bit-rate per stream, and then if that target is reached, the transcoder PC can crunch out even more streams. Most media servers are so-so at the 480p level, much less acceptable quality at 720p or dare tread on 1080p content with decent frame rates; and wireless-n would strain to get even one 720p stream going on a home network. The bandwidth is just not there. But what's to stop some indie service to blast Hulu and YouTube like sites with VOD services? Is NetFlix or ComCast or TimeWarner going to be able to put such powerful transcoder cards to task so they can bring real VOD library to the masses? The state of the art today for the consumer is rather toy-like, and I bet Hollywood would rather it stay that way.
Will this bring cable TV to a true a-la-carte vision were VOD servers rule the day where time schedules will end (TV Guides will be revamped to a library style navigation) and can serve up to any wireless device in your house through the STB / (future) hub? Send a upstream request for a PSP client to get a movie, and the cable company downstreams the best specific format; or a SD-TV in the bedroom via an XBox360 for junior, or the HD-TV in the livingroom, all crunched out by the big iron video servers behind the scenes at the cable co. home base using Nvidia cards (or maybe a few 9500Ms in SLI mode and optimized for CUDA to perform local transcode on the STB?) This second scenario is more likely, where control is under Hollywood's management.
If you were able to download raw TS off a DVR to a PC, the genie would be out of the bottle. Take the raw file, crunch to an acceptable compressed codec, then transcode as needed. Why showcase all your DVD boxes on a shelf? Just have a 2 TB+ SAN with a media server and a wireless-g/n gigabit router to serve all your wireless devices (and quite affordable if you know what you're doing but poor quality). The next step is to have complete transcodes done for your device to take with you on the go and out of wired/wireless range without a middleman approach of using a PC to manage the file drop to a media card. Just pick what you want to store locally on the PVP device instead of stream for later. Imagine that done 10x faster. Imagine 10x the amount of devices you can serve in the house. Your bedroom media hub, the living room media hub, the kids XBox360/PS3/Wii, the kids PSP, your Archos for the transmit commute, your iPhone (for those bathroom breaks - you wouldn't drive and watch your iPhone would you?), a laptop or two, an eeePC in the kitchen for streaming the Food Network, etc. Devices are getting smaller, mobile, and multi-function, yet there needs to be that mainstay PC to be the workhorse video transcoder. Reply
jccapture - Thursday, September 22, 2005 - linkWill this accept Component inputs (R G B) not just composite? The article talks about video capture. Reply
prokaryote21 - Tuesday, September 20, 2005 - linkIntel viiv... hmmm roman numerals for "6" "4" or am I playing the part of captain obvious here? Reply
anselhelm - Thursday, September 22, 2005 - linkIt doesn't mean 64 (it could mean 6-4, but it seems unlikely.) The Inquirer presented that idea initially, but they told us it's "Vyve" (that's my phoenetic way of saying "VIIV" in case some person tries to say it like the French "vive") and is probably more to do with the fact that it's one generation after Pentium 4. Plus, you've got the fact that VIIV sounds like alive. It's more likely to have something to do with Visualisation than the fact that it's 64-bit enabled.
Of course, I (and everyone else) could be wrong here. Reply
nserra - Wednesday, September 21, 2005 - linkV could also mean Virtualization
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wcpaul - Tuesday, September 20, 2005 - linkThe whole software situation for capturing and watching TV on a PC today is a disaster.
With my Radeon 8500DV, I can capture virtually lossless MPEG at 15Mbs and view TV without a home theater app taking over the whole screen. There is NOT ONE solution today that lists exactly what capture parameters (bitrate, GOP structure, etc.) can be set and NOT ONE which shows a lightweight viewing/capture app.
Nvidia cards have "VIVO" but there is no mention anywhere of the specs (hardware encode=??, bitrate=??, ADC= ?? bit) and no mention of software or even whether a WDM driver exists for encoding. Not one reviewer has touched it. Nice going Nvidia.
The Theater 550 cards have great hardware specs but don't come with any useable software. (The app from craig-tv.com might support it soon and that should help.)
ATI should take today's announcement and shove it where their software manager's heads are. It is useless to the very people who most need the solution.
By the way, Nvidia MUST charge for their decoder. A visible company like that would be sued bigtime for distributing a standalone MPEG encoder or decoder without paying MPLA the royalty. The deinterlacing IS revolutionary but it does not play 1080i at all for me in WMP10 and required an enormous amount of hacking to work with other apps (Moonlight-Elecard demuxer was needed).
Leper Messiah - Wednesday, September 21, 2005 - linkHaving had the same exact GPU (AIW 8500DV, now modded with a 9800pro heatsink and running 320/300) I must say that while the intergration is nice, the ATi theater chip in that thing sucks in comparison to now. Picture is very grainy, and artifacts like mad on full screen...
Hm. I'm suprised that they didn't include chipset as a part of the deal... Reply
AnnoyedGrunt - Tuesday, September 20, 2005 - linkFirst, NV must PAY ROYALTIES for the decoder, but that does not mean they must CHARGE for it. When they advertise it as features of the card, a valid assumption would be that the price of the decoder is already included in the cost of the card. I think NV was able to pull a fast one with the PureVideo fiasco, and I hope that in the future they are more clear about what exactly you get with the video card and what exactly you must pay extra for.
Second, while I haven't had an NV card since my GF3 Ti200 @home, I will say that both my 9700pro and X800XL are nowhere near as stable as my GF3 was. In CoD, my 9700pro would crash frequently in a couple specific locations and in WoW my X800XL frequenly has screen corruption, fails to Alt-tab to the desktop (leaves the game, but doesn't make it back to the desktop and just sits there with a blank screen), and I get VPU recovery problems in WoW as well. Furthermore, in CAD work (specifically Pro/Engineer, which is not a very stable program itself) the ATI cards have many OpenGL driver problems. So, while the ATI drivers may be close in quality to NV's (and quite possibly better in some ways), in my experience they don't quite match up. However, in general the ATI offerings are "good enough" for home use.
Third, I really think that the video industry has a long way to go before any of these features become mainstream. I would really like to be able to plug an HD antenna into my computer somehow, and get local HD broadcasts that I could then record, but it seems like there is no real "product" for doing that. Maybe this ATI effort will give enough people hardware that the software will follow.
-D'oh! Reply
KeithP - Tuesday, September 20, 2005 - linkI am not real familar with the different codecs involved but why don't they allow you to capture and encode in H.264 instead of doing MPEG-2 capture and forcing a conversion? Is that just too CPU intensive? Reply
TheInvincibleMustard - Tuesday, September 20, 2005 - linkI'm curious if there's anything mentioned in the platform about DRM-enabled content protection over digital outputs, as is going to be required with Vista for next-gen hi-def movies. Reply
ViRGE - Tuesday, September 20, 2005 - linkHexus has confirmed Avivo platforms will be HDCP/HDMI compliant. Reply
ViRGE - Tuesday, September 20, 2005 - linkDidn't ATI already promiss this feature last time? When they launched the X800, they advertised accelerated encoding/decoding of MPEG1, 2, and 4; and right now all they've actually done is decode acceleration of 1 and 2, with no sort of encode acceleration to be seen. I'm really getting leery of all these video features that fail to materialize. Reply
MrJim - Tuesday, September 20, 2005 - linkWith my Radeon 9800 i can accelerate divx when i use the divx player, thats mpeg4 for me. But im looking forward to better support in the hardware. Reply
ViRGE - Tuesday, September 20, 2005 - linkThat's not decode acceleration, that's simply a form of deblocking where the Divx codec doesn't deblock the video then passes it to the 9800 to deblock(and I use the term loosely because the Divx codec itself does a better job, IMHO). Reply
mongoosesRawesome - Tuesday, September 20, 2005 - linknvidia has really aggrivated me with their purevideo. they tout purevideo as a feature of their graphics cards, but in order to enable it, you have to pay them 20 dollars for their purevideo software. after paying 400 dollars for a graphics card, i expect the features listed for the graphics card to be included in drivers. i think anandtech and other hardware review sites need to be more explicit about how purevideo is only enabled after purchasing extra software from NVIDIA.
while I haven't been as impressed with ATI's video game performance as of late, WMV9 acceleration is included in their drivers all the way back to my 9800 Pro, a feature NVIDIA wasn't able to deliver with their AGP 6800 series cards, and only available after paying them for extra software on newer cards. Reply
Rock Hydra - Tuesday, September 20, 2005 - linkI agree. That pissed me off when I found out about having to buy additional software. Maybe a 3rd party has come up with a way to enable the abilities of purevideo. Even better, for free. /crosses fingers Reply
Jep4444 - Tuesday, September 20, 2005 - linkATI drivers work fine for games, ive never had one game fail to run on me through two Radeon cards(ill admit the drives for the Rage sucked as i couldnt get quite a few games to run on that thing)
I'm curious what Intels reaction to this since it treads into the same territory as Viiv, i think ATI should try to strategically place themselves together if they want Avivo to suceed to its full potential Reply
Myph - Tuesday, September 20, 2005 - linkOnly thing really holding me back from going ATI, I just can't trust that their drivers are going to work for ALL games, all the time. Reply
photai - Tuesday, September 20, 2005 - linkmaybe you should consider how it performs as well. I think it is important too. Reply
Griswold - Tuesday, September 20, 2005 - linkHumbug. Their drives have no more problems with brand new games than nvidias. Reply
Pythias - Tuesday, September 20, 2005 - linkI've no more problems with Ati drivers than I do nvidias. Who gives a rat's sack about branding? Neither chipset is ever clearly and decisively the winner in the performance arena. Just pick one that suits you, and call off the holy war. :| Reply
erinlegault - Tuesday, September 20, 2005 - linkThere is absolutely nothing wrong with ATI's driver's, especially, since they started releasing monthly updates. When new games come out, nvidia has just as much trouble with drivers as ATI and updates are issued accordingly. Reply


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Balanced Gators top Knights
Published: Tuesday, February 19, 2013 at 11:15 p.m.
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ORLANDO — Four different players turned in multiple-hit efforts to lead No. 13 Florida (3-1) to a 5-3 victory over UCF (2-2) in front of a record crowd of 3,678 fans on Tuesday night at Jay Bergman Field.
Redshirt sophomore Zack Powers continued his torrid start by going 3-for-4 with his third home run in the past two games and senior Vickash Ramjit (2-for-5) belted his first homer of the season and scored twice.
The Gators' top two hitters in the lineup were a combined 5-for-10 (.500), as freshman Richie Martin had a career-high three hits and freshman Harrison Bader went 2-for-5.
Freshman left-hander Parker Danciu (2-0) worked 3 1/3 innings, scattering five hits and yielding two runs, to earn the win, while sophomore Johnny Magliozzi retired all five Knights he faced to record his second save.
With the victory, UF coach Kevin O'Sullivan improved to 5-2 against UCF, including a 2-1 mark against the Knights in Orlando.
The Gators begin an eight-game homestand at McKethan Stadium tonight at 7 p.m. by hosting Georgia Southern (2-1).
Shafer (0-0, 6.75) will be on the mound against Eagle freshman left-hander Evan Challenger (0-0, 0.00).
GSU opened its campaign by taking two of three games from Georgia.
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The Grant County Lady Braves started their match Sept. 29 against the Henry County Wildcats with a cheer led by Gwen MacAdams.
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Teens-4-Christ (IPA /ʃɪt/ Audio (U.S)) is a monolingual, forum-based project operated by Christians, for Christians. The web forums are run by Randy Ross, who is the leader of a cult which worships Raptor Jesus. However, Raptor Jesus does not answer their prayers because they don't like gays.
edit History
In the beginning, the Earth was without form, and void. Then Randy Ross said, Let there be forums. And there were forums.
Randy was inspired to create the Teens-4-Christ forum after what he believed to be a vision from God. This was in fact a delusion triggered by a severely traumatic incident from one of his previous lives.
Afterwards, He created some ground rules. These would be known as the Ten Commandments. Randy Ross follows ALL of these. This is the reason he is respected in the community, and hated everywhere else.
- Now, 6000 years on, Randy Ross is still with us, making the world a
worsebetter place.
edit The Ten Commandments
- 1. Thou shalt not have the name of the Lord in thy name. Or thy maketh Raptor Jesus sad.
- 2. Thou must be under 18. If thou art over 18 thou cannot be paedo'd.
- 3. Thou art subject to the will of Raptor Jesus. This forum is owned and operated by Raptor Jesus. Any message that thou posteth on this forum becometh the intellectual property of Raptor Jesus and may be used as Raptor Jesus seeth fit.
- 4. Thou art merely privileged to participate on this forum. Raptor Jesus may delete thy account for any reason. Or no reason at all.
- 5. Thou art responsible for checking thy commandments. Raptor Jesus changes them randomly.
- 6. Thou shalt not solicit. Only Raptor Jesus is allowed to paedophile.
- 7. Thou shalt not perform copypastas. Copypastas are the mark of /b/.
- 8. Thou shalt not support any other Jesii.
- 9. Thou shalt not promote worldly media.
- 10. Thou shalt not post links without checking with Raptor Jesus. It
may beis pr0n.
- 11. Thou shalt not post pictures without telling Raptor Jesus. Raptor Jesus wants the pr0n for himself.
- 12. Thou shalt conform to the appearance of evil. Anyone may be watching. Especially Raptor Jesus.
- 13. Thou shalt only use the words of Raptor Jesus when posting Scripture. Thou shalt not quote Oscar Wilde.
- 14. Raptor Jesus is always right.
- 16. Thou shalt treat each member with respect. Or thou shalt be told to fuck off.
- 17. Thou shalt not debate. Or we will call you gay.
- 18. Thou shalt love one another. And Raptor Jesus. Especially Raptor Jesus.
- 19. Thou shalt let the words of your mouth and the meditations of our hearts be acceptable unto Randy Ross. This means that thy message must be racist and homophobic. If thy message is not racist and homophobic thou shalt be sent to Hell.
- 20. There are ten commandments. See Commandment 14.
- 21. Raptor Jesus is Raptor Jesus.
edit Enemies
Over the years Teens-4-Christ has garnered a large amount of enemies. Most of them are oblivious to the existence of T4C itself. They include:


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A collection of 50 poems written by Debra Ann Beach. This is Debra's 2nd book of poetry "from the heart and soul". These poems are written concerning life, love, loss, relationships, family, and the many ups and downs we all face at one time or another. Whether deeply felt, understood or experienced,inspirational or otherwise, this collection is sure to pull at your heart strings. From the author of "Love & Other Matters ~ Poetry from the Heart & Soul" this is "Seasons of Change". Included with this collection of poems are some of Debra Beach's photographic art images in black and white.
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A MAN fell approximately 40ft from a cliff at Hengistbury Head this afternoon.
Emergency services rushed to the beauty spot shortly after 12noon following reports of the incident at the beauty spot.
A spokesperson for South Western Ambulance Service confirmed it was called at 12.08pm and that the man had been airlifted to Southampton General Hospital.
"We were called at 12.08pm. A male in his 40's had fallen and sustained a chest injury," she added.
"He was conscious and complained of shoulder and rib pain. He had possibly fallen from up to 40ft."
She said crews requested the assistance of Portland Coastguard and a helicopter was sent to take the man to hospital.
Dorset Police said it was called at 12.09pm and officers could be seen on the beach liaising with paramedics and coastguard staff.
The helicopter left the scene with the casualty shortly after 1pm.
A large mound of fallen rock and debris lay at the bottom of the cliff, but Bournemouth Borough Council said this was not related to the incident.


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Castleford proved nigh-on unstoppable as they crushed a shell-shocked Warrington 40-6 to move up to second in the First Utility Super League.
The Tigers have been the surprise packages this season and they proved their place in the upper reaches of the table was no fluke as a much-changed side brushed past last season's Grand Final runners-up for their eighth win of the season - just one fewer than they managed in the entirety of last term.
Michael Shenton scored a hat-trick of tries, James Clare added two, while there were further scores for Jamie Ellis and Richard Owen, with Marc Sneyd adding the extras to six of his seven conversion attempts.
Warrington, whose only score came through Michael Monaghan's converted try, have now lost five of their opening 10 matches.
Leeds produced a clinical second-half performance to break Salford's resistance and go top of the table with a 32-4 victory.
A much-changed Salford side had the better of an error-strewn first half and were unfortunate not to go into the break ahead.
The Rhinos scored the first try of the afternoon early on through Kevin Sinfield and, even though their line was broken on a number of occasions, they limited Salford to an unconverted Logan Tomkins try to take a 6-4 lead.
Leeds then clicked in attack in the second period, scoring brilliant long-range tries through Zak Hardaker and Ben Jones-Bishop either side of a Rob Burrow score.
Ryan Hall took his try tally for the season into double figures and Tom Briscoe touched down in the corner late on to add gloss to the result.
Wigan made it a memorable Easter period with a convincing 15-try demolition of bottom club Bradford Bulls.
The Super League champions made it two wins in three days following their Good Friday victory over St Helens with another dominating display in an 84-6 win - the same scoreline they had won by at Hull KR on Easter Monday 2013 - with Ryan Hampshire collecting a personal tally of 24 points
Hampshire ran in two tries in the opening 25 minutes as the Warriors touched down eight times in the first period, before running in a further seven tries in the second.
Widnes recovered from their Good Friday derby-day blip by recording their first ever home victory over St Helens in the Super League era.
Denis Betts' side were humbled 44-6 by Warrington a few days ago but that was soon forgotten as the Vikings bounced back in style, running in seven tries against Nathan Brown's men to clinch a 40-26 win.
Huddersfield registered their first home win of the season with a 36-16 win over Wakefield.
The Wildcats played well in patches but a superb performance from full-back Jarrod Sammut could not prevent them from suffering a sixth successive defeat.
Winless London proved to be the perfect opponent for Hull as they got back on track following their derby loss with a 40-4 win at the KC Stadium.
Cut down with 46 seconds left of a bruising clash against Hull KR on Thursday, Hull would surely have been glad to see the Broncos, now on zero points after 10 games, head to east Yorkshire.
And the afternoon proved to be the ideal recovery tonic for Lee Radford and his men as the relegation-haunted capital club shipped seven tries en route to their latest defeat.
Hull KR were unable to build on the derby victory, as they went down 37-24 at Catalan.
Elliott Whitehead and Michael Oldfield scored two tries apiece as the Dragons won their fourth consecutive game in league and cup.
Rovers prop Justin Poore was taken from the field with a serious-looking knee injury to compound the visitors' misery.


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Dragon arrived at the orbiting station early Wednesday morning
SpaceX's Dragon capsule successfully made it to the International Space Station (ISS) early this morning, where it will unload nearly 1,000 pounds of cargo for the next few weeks.
The unmanned Dragon capsule
set off toward the ISS Sunday night
, and arrived at the orbiting station early Wednesday morning. Astronauts on the ISS used a robot arm to securely latch the Dragon to the space station about 250 miles above the Pacific, just west of Baja California.
"Looks like we've tamed the Dragon," said Sunita Williams, ISS commander. "We're happy she's on board with us."
The Dragon's hatch will be opened tomorrow, where astronauts will begin unloading the cargo inside. Right now, Dragon contains 882 pounds of scientific experiments, groceries, clothes and other items. The capsule will return to Earth with twice as much cargo.
This week's venture to the ISS marks
Dragon's second journey to the ISS
. It originally made a test flight back in May of this year, but this particular trip marks the first official cargo run as part of a $1.6 billion contract with NASA. This contract locks SpaceX in to 12 total cargo runs to the ISS through 2015.
While today's linkup at the ISS was a successful one, the entire trip wasn't perfect. A prototype communications satellite aboard SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket (which launched Dragon to the ISS) was sent into the wrong orbit due to one of the Falcon 9s' Merlin engines shutting down early during Sunday night's launch. Orbcomm, the company that owns the prototype OG2 satellite, said it was "deposited into a lower-than-intended orbit." The company is now analyzing whether the satellite can use its onboard propulsion system to adjust its orbit.
Aside from that malfunction, all went well for
the SpaceX mission
. Dragon is due to return to Earth near the end of October, after all cargo is unloaded and reloaded.
SpaceX, a private space transport company from California, stepped in as America's new form of transportation to the ISS after NASA retired its space shuttle fleet throughout 2011. This retirement left American astronauts with no way to get to the ISS, except onboard a Russian Soyuz rocket -- which has become pretty pricey.
It was clear that the U.S. needed a new way to send supplies to and from the ISS, and SpaceX was happy to provide its Dragon capsule and Falcon 9 rocket.
Dragon is set to make its next cargo run for the NASA contact in January 2013.
SpaceX is also working on a Dragon capsule that can be manned by astronauts, and hopes to send the first manned Dragon to the ISS between 2015 and 2017.
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Date: 24 February 2011 12:38
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Forwarded from H-Buddhism.
Dear List Members,
Please be informed of my recent publication: Buddhavacana: A Pali
Reader. You may order it directly from the publisher, Pariyatti
Bhikkhu Bodhi explains the scope of the Reader as follows:
``Glenn Wallis has compiled a comprehensive Pali reader intended to
enable the earnest student to move directly into reading the Pali
Nikayas. Wallis's purpose is not to explain the rules and structure of
Pali grammar. The book presupposes that the student has already
acquired an adequate grasp of the grammar?for which I recommend Lily
De Silva's A Pali Primer?and wants to learn to read the texts
themselves. Hence the format of the book is quite simple. After a
short introduction explaining his approach, Wallis presents each
section according to a fixed pattern. There is a sutta, usually fairly
short; blank pages where the student can write down their own
rendering; a word by word guide to the sutta, with brief grammatical
annotations; and at the end of the whole book, polished translations
by Wallis himself of all the suttas offered for study. Those students
who require fuller grammatical explanations may find that this
approach demands a greater intuitive capacity for understanding a
foreign language than they are endowed with. But those who have this
intuitive gift will find that by the time they complete this book,
they will be able to read virtually any sutta in the Nikayas.''
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WETHERBY Racecourse has been forced to abandon tomorrow's jumps meeting due to cold snap.
The majority of sporting events in the region have fallen foul of the wintry weather over the weekend, and the race meeting joined the lengthy list of postponements after an inspection yesterday morning.
The track was covered in snow and still frozen, with the two-day forecast offering no cause for optimism.
Clerk of the course Jonjo Sanderson said: "The snow is not going to shift and there is more on its way. It was a fairly easy decision and there was no point in prolonging the agony."
York Knavesmire Harriers were forced to cancel their annual Brass Monkey Half-marathon yesterday as parts of the course were unfit.
All games in rugby union's Northern Divisions were called off, while there were no amateur rugby league games played in the Pennine League.
Football was also badly affected, with a whiteout in the Evo-Stik League, the Northern Counties East League, the York Minster Engineering League and the newitts.com Beckett League.


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BASINGSTOKE'S Aldworth Table Tennis Club maintained top spot in British Table Tennis League Division Four, after two more wins in their latest outing in the competition.
This puts them in a great position going into the final round of games in London on March 15 and 16, as they look to secure promotion to Division Three.
For round three of the competition, Aldworth's hopes were dealt a blow when they lost top player Daniel McTiernan to injury.
Captain Patrick Garlick stepped in at number four, which meant Ed Slot, Zac Dowling and Steve Murgatroyd all moved up a place in the team.
The Basingstoke team's first game was against local rivals Kingfisher from Reading.
Slot took two wins for Aldworth against Kingfisher's Andy Misseldine and former Sussex and Glamorgan cricketer Keith Newell.
Zac Dowling put on a terrific display to defeat Misseldine and Reading's third player Sanga Quamina.
Steve Murgatroyd took the decisive win, beating Kingfisher number four Eric Van Looy 3-2, which took the pressure off the remaining games which all went the way of Kingfisher, but the Basingstoke side ran out 5-3 winners.
Aldworth's second match of the day was against Rowhedge from Colchester.
Dowling struggled in the opening game against Rowhedge's top player Rik James and was defeated in three sets, but Slot levelled the match at 1-1 with a solid win over the Essex side's number two, James Denyer.
Things started to look a bit shaky as Garlick lost his match to Greg Green and, with Aldworth 2-1 down and needing to win four of the remaining five matches, they faced an uphill battle.
The pressure was also on them, as title rivals Horsham had won both of their games to take over pole position.
Murgatroyd steadied the ship with a comfortable win against Rowhedge's number four Gary Cattermole to tie the match, before Slot played another superb attacking game to defeat James 3-0.
The Basingstoke side extended their lead to 4-2, after Dowling came out on top in a tight four-set battle with Green.
Murgatroyd slipped to defeat so everything was riding on the final game between team captain Garlick and Cattermole.
This was a rollercoaster game, as Garlick twice went a set up, only to be pegged back.
The match was decided with a fifth and final set, and with the scores locked at 9-9, the Aldworth captain came up with two unreturned serves to seal the most dramatic of victories. This ensured Aldworth would go into the final weekend top of the table.
After the match, Garlick said: "It was a fantastic team performance all round this weekend.
"Obviously losing your best player is a big blow, but the whole team rallied to get the two wins and we're very happy to now be in with a real shot at the title.
"I think special praise has to go to Ed Slot for his four wins without dropping a set after being moved up to number one. Also young Zac Dowling for three wins at number two."


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MSUFCU Kickoff Kids Contest
Is your child a BIG Spartan football fan? If so, submit your child's name in the
MSUFCU Kickoff Kids Contest! Two kids (ages 6-11) are randomly selected to join the Spartans on the sidelines at each home MSU football game and run onto the field to pick up the kicking tee after each kickoff!
Each winner receives:
• Two tickets to the game (to be used by the parents/guardians)
• An MSU football jersey
• A sideline pass for the Kickoff Kid
• Parking pass
Parents/Guardians, simply complete the contest entry form below. MSUFCU will contact the winners' parents/guardians five (5) business days before the home MSU football game at which he or she is selected to be an MSUFCU Kickoff Kid. Children/Parents do not need to be MSUFCU members to win. View the 2017 MSU Football Schedule.
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Official Contest Guidelines
SWEEPSTAKES DESCRIPTION: The 2017 MSUFCU Kickoff Kids Sweepstakes (the "Sweepstakes") begins on August 1, 2017 (12:00 a.m. ET) and ends on November 10, 2017 (11:59 p.m. ET) (the "Sweepstakes Period"). Two (2) winners will be selected for each of the seven (7) Michigan State University ("MSU") 2017 home football games to have their child (ages 6–11) participate as a "Kickoff Kid" at that game.
SPONSOR: Michigan State University Athletics, Jenison Field House, East Lansing, MI 48824.
ADMINISTRATOR: MSU Federal Credit Union, 3777 West Road, East Lansing, MI 48823.
ELIGIBILITY: Sweepstakes open only to legal residents of the State of Michigan who must be eighteen (18) years of age or older and are parents and/or legal guardians of a child between the ages of 6 and 11 at the time of entry. Employees, directors, officers, trustees and agents, and their respective immediate families (spouses and siblings, parents and children and their spouses) and household members of the Michigan State University Athletics Department, its divisions, advertising and promotion agencies (collectively the "Sweepstakes Entities") are not eligible. MSUFCU employees, board members, and their families are not eligible to participate. Void where prohibited.
AGREEMENT TO THE OFFICIAL RULES: By participating in the Sweepstakes, each entrant fully and unconditionally agrees to and accepts these Official Rules and the decisions of the Sponsor and the Administrator, which are final and binding in all matters related to the Sweepstakes.
HOW TO ENTER: To enter, eligible parent/legal guardians must complete an Official Entry Form, available during the Sweepstakes Period at either www.msuspartans.com or www.msufcu.org/kickoffkids (the "Websites") and submit the Official Entry Form as directed prior to 11:59 p.m. ET on November 10, 2017. Limit: One (1) entry per person. Multiple entrants are not permitted to share the same email address. In the event more than the stated allowable entries is received from any one person or email address, the first entry processed will be considered the only valid entry received. Any attempt by an entrant to obtain more than the stated number of entries by using multiple or different email addresses or identities will void that entrant's entries and that entrant may be disqualified. In the event of a dispute, entries will be deemed made by the authorized account holder of the email address submitted at the time of entry. The authorized account holder is the natural person who is assigned to the email address by an internet access provider, online service provider, or other organization that is responsible for assigning email addresses or the domain associated with the submitted email address. Any potential winner may be required to show proof of being the authorized account holder. Use of any automated system to participate is prohibited and will result in disqualification.
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Setting the stage:
The Timberwolves are back in action in meaningful, regular season games! The world is a better place, right? We know what this team did over the course of the offseason and we know what the final roster looks like now. Finally, now you know what the Timberpups.com preview is going to look like. We're thinking about previewing the week ahead every Sunday/Monday vs. doing a preview for every single game. While we will look to continue last season's co-authoring of previews with blogs from the opposition from time to time, this is where we have netted out … for now at least. (That's quite a bit of waffling in case you couldn't connect the dots.)
It looks like the final roster is set, now that the Wolves have cut Jeffers and Brown, and are apparently willing to eat the remaining money on Chris Johnson's contract (thanks again Kahn!). Congrats to the guys that were on the cusp and wound up making the team!
Just got an email from a source: Chris Johnson officially let go by #Twolves. They eat the $900,000 or so.
— Darren Wolfson (@DarrenWolfson) October 26, 2013
Let's look ahead to this coming week! Week 1 of the regular season has the Pups home for the first two games of the season before going on the road to the World's Most Famous Arena. In what may be the biggest surprise, the season opener is NOT against the Kings, who we seem to have opened up against for the past ten seasons. Here is a quick rundown of the week ahead, along with some thoughts and predictions.
Game 1: Wednesday, 10/30, 7pm – Orlando Magic @ Timberwolves (TV: FS North)
The Magic are not going to be very good this season, this much is known. However, they do have an intriguing backcourt rotation that might give the Wolves a little bit of trouble. Between Jameer Nelson, Victor Oladipo, and Arron Afflalo, the Wolves guards might need to get ready for a physical game. However, there is nothing on the front line that compares to Kevin Love and Nikola Pekovic.
Opponent to watch:
Victor Oladipo – No surprise here, we get to watch the player Flip was rumored to be enamored with going into the 2013 draft. (I will not write any more about this … I will not write any more about this!) We'll see how much run Oladipo gets in his debut and it will be interesting to see how he can defend against someone like Kevin Martin, who I imagine will be running around in circles trying to lose and confuse the rookie.
This should be a relatively easy "W" for the Pups, with the home crowd amped for the season opener and an inferior opponent on paper. Final score: Timberwolves 104, Magic 88
Game 2: Friday, 11/1, 7pm – Oklahoma City Thunder @ Timberwolves (TV: FS North)
The Wolves catch a little bit of a break here with the OKC Thunder coming to town. Why? For one, Russell Westbrook's injury will be keeping him out of the lineup for a while. Second, the Thunder open up on Wednesday night in Utah, so Friday's game in Minnesota will be the end of short road trip for the team before heading back to Oklahoma for their home opener on Sunday. There is some potential here to jump on an opponent that is looking ahead (and likely coming off an opening night win against the Jazz).
Opponent to watch:
Kevin Durant – Does this even need to be said? A top three talent in the league and he will likely be hoisting up 25 shots a night without Westbrook. Let's hope he isn't 'en fuego' in Minnesota. While you will all be rooting for the Wolves, take a second to enjoy Durant's game.
For the reasons mentioned above, I'm going to give this one to the Wolves as well. With or without the star players, the games against OKC always seem to be highly entertaining. Get your popcorn ready! Final score: Timberwolves 108, Thunder 102
Game 3: Sunday, 11/3, 6:30pm – Timberwolves @ New York Knicks (TV: FSN Plus)
The Pups' first road game of the season takes them to Madison Square Garden to face the Knicks. I decided to not buy tickets to this game and will enjoy it from the couch. I really do not think the Knicks are going to be very good … at all. However, they will enter this game with two full days rest, having not played since Thursday night.
Opponent to watch:
Andreas Bargnani – I'm interested in seeing how Bargnani meshes with the Knicks. The team's big offseason deal made the team that much worse defensively and this might lead to a Mike Woodson meltdown at any point. For the record, I really do not think the Knicks are going to be very good. Did I mention this already?
I am a big believer in teams coming off of rest, but the Wolves aren't playing on back to back nights. So even with the extra rest, I think Minnesota has a lot more talent than New York and will pull this one out. Would I be shocked to see the Pups drop this one? Not at all. However, until they lose, I'm going to predict all W's. Final score: Timberwolves 105, Knicks 91
It is good to be back in the saddle of another Timberwolves' season! What are you most excited for as the season gets underway? I really want to see Rubio make the leap this season and climb his way up the ranks of NBA point guards. The team needs this to happen in order to become legitimate contenders somewhere down the line.
"Playoffs? Playoffs?!?!?" Yes Jim, the Pups begin their quest to get back the playoffs and I see a sharp 3-0 start!
Let's go Wolves!


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Gabriel James Diltz - April 22, 2010
Gabriel James Diltz, two months, 28-days-old, of Farnam passed away Sunday, April 18, 2010, at his home in Farnam.
Diltz was born Jan. 21, 2010, at Cozad, infant son of Boatie Keith Diltz and Amanda Elizabeth (Henry) Diltz.
He was preceded in death by: his grandfathers—Earl Diltz and Russell Wilcox; great-grandfather, Denzel-Green; great-grandmother, Dorothy Harrison; great-grandfather, Charles Henry Sr; great-great-grandmother and grandfather, Hansjosten; great-great-grandfather, Raymond Terrell.
Survivors include: his parents, Boatie and Amanda of Farnam; a brother, Landon Keith Diltz of Farnam; sister, Samantha Marie Diltz of Farnam; grandparents—Jeff and Dawn Osborn, Gaylene Green, Mark Smith and Charles Henry, Jr.; great-grandparents—Bobbi Widick, Francis and Amber Osborn, Dennis and Kathy Willis and Roy Harrison; great-great-grandmother, Dorothy Terrell; aunts—Nova (Kasino) Moore, Tsan (Eric) Rydell and Sehoya Diltz; uncles—Pete (Sara) Diltz, Gary (Aamanda) Diltz, Brian (Amy) Schroeder, Jacob Osborn, Richard Simons, Christopher Simons, Chuck Henry III, and Nickk Vance; numerous cousins.
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The air is warm, the water warmer. The roll of the ocean is gentle. I float on the surface, face down, watching the pastel world of a Florida coral reef. Below us moves a phantasmagoria of life: schools of sergeant majors; an orange-spotted filefish, lips puckered as though searching for a kiss; electric blue parrotfish; a slack-jawed barracuda, as shiny as polished silver. More than 50 yellowtail snappers--powder blue sprites, yellow striped, with deeply forked yellow tails--gather around me, then vanish into the rhythmic world of purple sea fans. Perfectly choreographed, the fans sway to the pulse of the sea.
As a naturalist, I have explored and written about the Everglades for the past 16 years. Now I am learning to appreciate how the health of the reef tract--a 220-mile-long, semicontinuous necklace of coral reefs that arcs along the Florida Keys from the state's southern tip out beyond the Dry Tortugas--is entwined with the Everglades, the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea. In 1997, for example, federal researchers found that disease on Florida's coral reefs had increased nearly threefold. The disease may be linked not only to the draining of the Everglades and our own infatuation with the Keys, but to polluted runoff from nearby and distant lands. That understanding led to a gathering in October of federal officials from agencies with activities that likely affect the reefs. "I've never seen so many heads of agencies sitting in one room focused on one issue," scientist Gene Shinn of the U.S. Geological Survey told The Miami Herald.
"The Florida reef tract is downstream from everything," says biologist Steven Miller of the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. Yet here, 6 miles off the east coast of Key Largo, where he has taken me to see the reefs, even the water is a dazzling turquoise green. I see nothing that indicates this reef is under siege.
Miller's more educated eyes see trouble, however. We watch a pair of three spot damselfish, 4-inch-long herbivores that create algae farms. First, they scrape a patch of coral. Then, over time, the fish feed on algae that grow on the damaged coral, and large numbers of the fish can destroy patches of coral. Damselfish populations were formerly held in check by predatory fish such as groupers and snappers. Says Miller, "Habitat destruction and overfishing have set in motion a population explosion of damselfish." And three spot damselfish have shifted from branching coral to more sensitive coral heads as disease has wiped out much of the elkhorn and stag- horn coral formations.
Trouble or not, the scene is still a visual feast, and I wonder why the Florida barrier reef tract, third largest in the world, is not an underwater national park. Yellowstone, our first national park, supports 60 species of mammals, 6 reptiles, 4 amphibians and 300 species of birds, most of them migratory. On the other hand, the biodiversity of Florida's reefs and neighboring habitats is astonishing, on a par with a tropical rain forest. The list conservatively includes 500 species of fish, many large, most colorful; 5 species of sea turtles; 62 species of hard coral; 1,320 species of mollusks, mostly snails and clams; and between 500 and 700 species of sponges. And new species are still being discovered in Florida reef waters.
I quickly learn from Miller and others that in order to understand the problems facing the reefs, one must understand the nature of the reefs themselves. I'm not alone. Everyone on the Keys concerned about the subject--from dive-shop owners to tourists--is learning basic coral biology in order to comprehend what they can do to save the resource.
Reefs thrive on the shallow edge of tropical seas, most often off the eastern shore of continents where warm water currents brush the coast. Cold water kills reef-building coral, which is made up of colonies of tiny, jellyfishlike polyps. Each polyp--there may be billions in a large reef--absorbs calcium from the water and secretes a hard limestone skeleton. At night the polyps extend sticky, stinging tentacles from their skeletons to capture and consume small floating animals called zooplankton.
Low on the reef's food chain are algae, plantlike organisms that convert sunlight to food. Some live on coral skeletons. One type in particular, zooxanthellae, lives inside the tissue of the polyps. There the algae make up about half the weight of each fleshy polyp and are responsible for the beautiful color of coral.
Coral is the foundation of the reef community, providing the three-dimensional structure where fish and invertebrates live and feed. Some coral species are hard. Some are soft. Some branched. Some unbranched. Whatever the firmness and shape, every coral has a two-stage life cycle: the free-swimming larva and the stationary polyp. The larva is carried by currents, often far from the parent reef. If a larva settles on a hard, clean, silt-free bottom it may survive to become part of a reef. If not, it dies. Once the larva has landed, the coral never moves again.
The ocean currents that sweep through the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico converge along the west coast of Cuba to form the Florida Current, the birth of the Gulf Stream. "Florida's reef tract exists at the behest of the Gulf Stream," says biologist John Ogden, director of the Florida Institute of Oceanography. As the Florida Current flows past the Keys, larvae of all manners of life--from coral to fish--are deposited offshore. Baby lobsters, for example, drift from the Caribbean into Florida waters, where virtually all adult lobsters of legal size are caught each year. "Florida's lobster harvest, like the presence of the reef itself, is sustained by the greater Caribbean," says Ogden.
Present Florida reefs began developing about 6,000 years ago, after glacial melt water flooded the southern extension of North America's continental shelf. Although the reefs follow the curve of the Florida Keys, the largest reefs are off the upper and lower Keys. Historically, the reefs off the middle Keys have been affected by Florida Bay. The bay's waters pour through wide passes and bathe coral with water that at various times of the year is either too hot, too cold, too silty or too salty to promote vigorous growth.
One night in 1977, for example, a cold front chilled Florida Bay to 54 degrees Fahrenheit. Cold water flowing out of the bay killed branching coral all the way out to the Dry Tortugas. In recent years, increased salinity in Florida Bay has been linked to seagrass die-offs, which are a likely source of nourishment for massive algal blooms. The greater salt content is the result of increased use of water on land to accommodate farming and housing developments. That means less water flowing through the Everglades into Florida Bay. Driven by tidal cycles and the wind, the soup-thick blooms have moved eastward, out across the reefs. Studies suggest that bay sediment and algal blooms may have killed some of the already stressed coral colonies off the middle Keys.
Snorkeling near the northern end of the reef tract, I lift my head to listen to biologist Miller, who counts a flotilla of 36 fishing boats in the waters beyond us. He points out that visitation--whether by fishing boats, jet skis, snorkelers or divers--is one of the many problems that plague this lush and sensitive tropical community.
The waters are too accessible for their own good. The Keys' 175 marinas harbor more than 22,000 registered boats. Nearly all boats with outboard engines continuously deposit oil in the water. Although the reef tract is the third largest in the world, it is by far the most widely used. By comparison, Australia's Great Barrier Reef, which is 10 times larger, hosts about one-tenth the visitors. More than a million divers and snorkelers visited Florida's reefs in 1997. Anchors chip away at the reefs, and feet inadvertantly damage coral by bumping against it. Some people have gouged their initials into coral; others have removed living animals for home aquariums, and spearfishers have depleted the stock of large reef fish.
The islands are themselves the remains of a 100,000-year-old reef tract that became exposed to air when the level of the world's oceans dropped during the last Ice Age. The weathered limestone is a spider's web of fissures and cracks. When the islands' 80,000 year-round residents and four million annual tourists flush the toilet, wastewater goes to sewage treatment plants, septic tanks, cesspools or injection wells deep below the surface. "It doesn't matter where you store sewage," says biologist Miller. "There is strong evidence that sewage leaks into near-shore waters and growing concern that the sewage may eventually wash over the coral reef."
Nutrient-rich wastewater favors the growth of algal mats, which smother coral and renders visibility to ten or so feet, little better than a London fog. "Twenty years ago, we used to have days when underwater visibility was 70 feet down," says Joy Tatgenhorst, an environmental educator at the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary. "When blue water from the Gulf Stream swept over the reef, you could see 100 feet. Now, 30- or 40-foot visibility is the best we get off the central Keys."
Also clouding the sea is warm water from a nuclear power plant on Biscayne Bay that has killed coral more than a mile away and runoff from construction sites on the Keys that washes directly into the water and out across the reefs.
Pesticides and fertilizers from Central America, dust from the west coast of Africa and silt from the mouth of the Mississippi River reach the reefs by the same looping currents that transport coral and lobster larvae. In the summer of 1993, floodwaters from the Mississippi River lowered the salinity in Keys waters on the Atlantic side approximately 40 percent.
Through my snorkeling mask, I see a 5-foot-long barracuda in a coral canyon. Beyond it swims a score of brightly colored fish, possible meals for the impressive predator. A school of parrotfish cruises past. Several pause to bite off bits of coral, producing a dull chipping sound, audible underwater. These gaudy-colored fish crush coral (usually dead), digest the algae and then expel a white cloud of coral sand. A large parrotfish--they grow up to 2 feet long--may release more than a ton of sand every year. Much of the lovely white sand beaches of the Florida Keys is nothing more than fish poop.
According to Rob Bleser, owner of Quiescence Dive Shop on Key Largo, last year's El Niño winds frequently changed direction and washed beach sand back out to sea. Today, so much sand has been pushed offshore and suspended in the water that visibility is reduced. But male parrotfish are such an otherworldly shade of blue that they still shine through the sandy water 30 feet away from me.
El Niño events have increased over the past few decades. The good news is that they are accompanied by light hurricane seasons--the major natural threat to coral reefs. But they also bring a rise in summer water temperatures off the Keys. Whenever coral is stressed by a change in temperature or salinity that exceeds its threshold, it expels its colorful zooxanthellae. What is left is the bone-white frame of the coral, a condition known as coral bleaching. Although coral may survive the loss of its algae, almost all growth and reproduction stops until the algae recover.
If the chemistry and temperature of the water are unsuitable for a long time, corals are replaced by sponges and algae. Bleaching was first recorded in Florida waters in 1980 and intensified in 1983 and 1987. In 1990, bleaching was more severe off the Florida Keys. It was even worse in 1997. Because bleaching appeared during the two warmest decades of the twentieth century, many scientists blame its appearance on recent changes in worldwide weather patterns.
Bleaching is just one of many afflictions that kill coral. Black-band disease, caused by several kinds of blue-green algae that appears as a dark ring around the coral, was first reported in Florida in 1973. The deleterious algae invade coral that has already been damaged, and the disease has become common in areas of human activity. And there are a host of signs of other diseases, some of which so far are symptoms without known causes: red-band disease, yellow-band disease, white pox, rapid wasting disease, patchy necrosis, white plague type 1, white plague type 2 and sea fan fungal disease, a terrestrial pathogen that reaches the reefs in runoff, perhaps from the Everglades.
Some scientists believe that the increased amount of ultraviolet light from the depletion of the stratospheric ozone layer negatively affects coral. Others disagree. While scientists hotly debate the nature of coral disease, no one doubts that the reefs are in trouble, most likely from multiple stresses.
Coral is not the only species that is ailing. In 1983, the black-spined sea urchin all but disappeared from Caribbean reefs, including Florida's, the victim of an unknown waterborne pathogen. The queen conch--the large, edible snail with the flared pink lip that, outside the Keys, is most often associated with home aquariums, has yet to come back from overharvesting. There were major fish die-offs in Florida's reefs in 1980 and again in 1997.
The fate of Florida's coral reefs, however, is not "all gloom and doom," asserts Miller. In 1960, Florida set aside the world's first underwater park, John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park. In 1975, Congress designated the nation's second national marine sanctuary off Key Largo. Six years later, the Looe Key National Marine Sanctuary protected a popular reef off Big Pine Key. In 1990, prompted by the grounding of three large ships on the coral reefs, Congress created the 2,800-square-nautical mile Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary. Portions of the sanctuary were set aside as reserves, wildlife management areas and for research. Channels have been marked in the shallows to protect seagrass beds from propellers, and moorings have been set to tie boats to, which eliminates anchor damage on the reef.
Johnny Peacock, 44, a boat captain at Quiescence Dive Shop and a native of the Florida Keys, says "I'm not in favor of governmental intrusion that isn't necessary. This was necessary." When Peacock was a boy, everyone exploited the reefs. "My granddaddy butchered turtles for Tavernier restaurants. I still remember the turtles grunting and groaning and all the blood. When I was 10, I dreamed of killing turtles. I begged my granddaddy to let me do it. Now, its socially unacceptable. We've come a long way down here. And we still have a ways to go."
Vermont writer Ted Levin last wrote for National Wildlife about Florida's Everglades.
NWF Priority: Everglades Conservation
The health of Florida's coral reefs relies in large part on the health of the Everglades. The vast "river of grass" drains into Florida Bay and mixes with salt water from the Gulf of Mexico. Some of that mixture then washes out over the reefs. So much of the Everglades' water is now diverted for flood control and agricultural and urban development that the salinity of Florida Bay has increased. The saltier water has been linked to a chain of events that has resulted in massive algal blooms. The blooms may contribute to coral-killing diseases and other reef problems.
NWF and the Florida Wildlife Federation, an NWF affiliate, are working together to promote ongoing restoration of the Everglades watershed, as well as focusing on conservation of the Western Everglades. These efforts ultimately will benefit Florida's coral reefs.


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Fund Development Director - PA Coalition Against Domestic Violence
Written by Lindsay McDaniel NNEDV
The Pennsylvania Coalition Against Domestic Violence (PCADV) has an opening for the position of Fund Development Director. This position will work with the Executive Director, the Management Team and the Board of Directors in implementing a long and short range plan. The Fund Development Director should work to stabilize and diversify funding resources by planning, organizing, and coordinating all ongoing and special funding events and activities for the organization.
Position requires a Bachelor's Degree and a minimum of 5 years experience in non-profit fund development and or related experience, preferred. Experience in proposal development. Demonstrated ability to manage time, evaluate progress, and adjust activities to complete work within established time frames. Excellent communication skills, written and verbal, with particular ability to represent the organization's purpose and interest. Willingness and ability to travel locally, statewide and nationally; some overnight travel required.
The full job description can be viewed at: http://www.pcadv.org/About-Us/Employment/
PCADV offers competitive salaries and an excellent benefits package
Qualified candidates should forward resumes with cover letters to:
Human Resources
3605 Vartan Way, Suite 101
Harrisburg, PA 17110
Or Fax: (717) 671-8149


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12th Annual Inter-American Human Rights Moot Court Competition
May 20-25
9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Every year the Academy on Human Rights and Humanitarian Law welcomes students from all over the world to participate in one of the only trilingual (English, Spanish, Portuguese) moot court competitions based on the Inter-American human rights legal system. Students argue the merits of a hypothetical case based on a cutting-edge topic currently being debated within the system. During the week-long event, over 150 students will participate in oral round sessions judged by local and international attorneys. In addition, they will visit local and international institutions, such as the U.S. Congress and Supreme Court, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, as well as well-known NGOs such as Human Rights Watch and CEJIL. Students will also network with WCL faculty, local human rights attorneys, and members of the diplomatic corps and other long-time supporters of the Competition during various events planned for the week. The week culminates with the highly anticipated and well-attended Final Round. All events are open to the public.
Sponsored by the Academy on Human Rights and Humanitarian Law


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UNC claims ACC regular season championship
Posted May 17, 2013
Updated May 18, 2013
Chapel Hill, N.C. — A six-run eighth inning propelled No. 2 North Carolina (47-7, 21-6 ACC) to its first ACC Regular Season Championship since 1990 Friday night as the Tar Heels downed No. 7 Virginia (44-9, 21-8 ACC), 8-5.
Trailing 5-2 entering the bottom of the eighth inning the Tar Heels were facing an uphill battle as Virginia entered the contest 37-0 when leading after seven innings and had closer Kyle Crockett on the mound.
After a fly out put one out on the board, Brian Holberton hit a ball that short-hopped the shortstop as the junior reached first base on an error.
Highlights: No. 2 UNC grabs win over UVA, regular season title
Michael Russell then turned on a Crockett offering and sent it into the left center field gap for a RBI triple as the Tar Heels pulled within two at 5-3.
A hit by pitch would put runners on the corners for Mike Zolk who laced a pitch to right center that one-hopped the wall. Russell would walk home to score and Cody Stubbs raced around from first to tie the contest at 5-5 before Zolk slid around the tag at third for his first triple of the season.
Parks Jordan would work a full count before drawing a walk to put runners at the corners once again, this time forChaz Frank.
The senior outfielder lined a ball past the third baseman and into right field to push the Tar Heels in front, 6-5.
Carolina would not stop there as Landon Lassiter dropped an offering from reliever Josh Sborz down the right field line to add another run ahead of a Colin Moran RBI fielder's choice. The run batted in for Moran was his 80th of the season as the junior third baseman joined Marshall Hubbard (2004) and Scott Johnson (1985) as the only Tar Heels to reach the RBI plateau.
Freshman closer Trent Thornton came on for the top half of the ninth inning and struck out all three Cavaliers he faced to earn his sixth save of the year.
Sophomore right-hander Chris McCue improved to 6-0 on the year as he kept the Tar Heels in the contest by allowing one run over 2.1 innings of work out of the bullpen.
Carolina fell behind 3-0 after three and a half innings of action Friday night as Mike Papi doubled in a run in the third inning against starter Benton Moss and the Cavaliers used a Brandon Downes solo home run followed by a Kenny Towns RBI single in the fourth.
Zolk came through with his first big hit of the night in the bottom of the fourth when he doubled off the right field wall scoring Michael Russell who singled and Cody Stubbs who walked with two outs in the frame.
A solo home run off the bat of Mike Papi opened the fifth inning for Virginia before the Cavaliers used a Reed Gragnani sacrifice fly in the eighth to add to their lead before the furious comeback by the Tar Heels in the bottom half of the frame.
Michael Russell finished the night a perfect 4-for-4 at the plate with two runs scored and a RBI, while Landon Lassiter contributed three hits and a RBI. Zolk matched a career high with four RBIs in the win for the Tar Heels.
The win assures the Tar Heels of the top spot in next week's ACC Tournament as Carolina claimed their fifth ACC Coastal Division title since 2006 and first ACC Regular Season crown since 1990.


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Smoke from brush fire closes portion of I-75
Published: Monday, April 1, 2013 at 8:35 a.m.
Last Modified: Monday, April 1, 2013 at 8:35 a.m.
NAPLES, Fla. — The Florida Highway Patrol has closed a portion of Interstate 75 known as Alligator Alley and State Road 29 in Collier County due to smoke and fog.
Troopers closed the highways early Monday.
I-75 is closed in both directions between Mile Marker 101 in Collier County and Mile Marker in Broward County. Also in Collier County, officials have closed State Road 29 between U.S. 41 and Oil Well Road.
The Naples Daily News reports a brush fire in Big Cypress National Preserve has added to the poor visibility.
There was no word when the roads would reopen.
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